IchNichtenLichten

IchNichtenLichten , 12 days ago

I'm not saying that won't happen but if it does Microsoft will be absolutely fucked as they got caught committing several million HIPAA violations, not to mention any exposure to classified material on government computers.

IchNichtenLichten , 12 days ago

You should read up on penalties for HIPAA violations, they don’t fuck around.

IchNichtenLichten , 12 days ago

No, you don’t understand, these guys are tech bros, they’re special, for reasons.

IchNichtenLichten , 12 days ago

It makes sense when you realize these people are abject fucking cowards that can’t leave the house without their emotional support firearm.

IchNichtenLichten , 12 days ago

It sounds like drivers still need to be compiled for ARM. I've been waiting for years now for Dymo to release one for their label printers so I can buy new computers.

IchNichtenLichten , 21 days ago

I wish this canard that fusion is right around the corner would die, we're nowhere near. Where are people like OP getting their information from?

IchNichtenLichten , 24 days ago

Spotify can die in a fire for all I care. Sail the high seas and if you like an artist buy physical releases/merch/tickets.

IchNichtenLichten , 24 days ago

you suggest they get $0?

They make more from what I suggested than they do from Spotify.

IchNichtenLichten , 24 days ago

I've seen quite a few download codes included with vinyl releases that have 24 bit wav/flac files available. Some will even offer 88.2/96kHz files.

You could argue that the quality difference isn't detectable between those and an MP3 rip of a CD though.

IchNichtenLichten , 23 days ago

Pirate what you want, but trying to spin the argument this way is just disingenuous.

I'm not following you. Spotify is notorious for paying out very little to artists, so therefore they don't deserve my business, fuck 'em.

Instead I like to support the artists directly.

As to your second point, I've never had a problem discovering new music.

IchNichtenLichten , 23 days ago

I don’t think you know what disingenuous means.

IchNichtenLichten , 28 days ago

My NAS and the *arr apps aren't getting out of hand.

IchNichtenLichten , 29 days ago

Nuclear bros hate this one simple trick.

IchNichtenLichten , 28 days ago

I love nuclear

I'm not trying to be a dick but could you explain why?

IchNichtenLichten , 28 days ago

I totally get that but that ship has sailed with renewables being way cheaper now.

IchNichtenLichten , 28 days ago

It has value in terms of research but I’ve seen no evidence that we’re even remotely close to hooking a fusion reactor up to a grid.

IchNichtenLichten , 28 days ago

Sure, I get that. My priorities are clean energy that is as cheap as possible and nuclear just can’t compete on cost.

IchNichtenLichten , 28 days ago

This isn’t true but I’m happy to be proved wrong.

IchNichtenLichten , 27 days ago

Literally every source I've come across has nuclear being massively more expensive than renewables + storage, at least in the West.

The market decides what to invest in in a capitalist economy and they will tend to go for the thing that makes them the most money in the shortest time possible and that's why new nuclear isn't happening much.

If you're advocating for public ownership of utilities so there's central planning and long term thinking instead of profit chasing, that's an interesting debate to have.

IchNichtenLichten , 27 days ago

You're linking to a pro-nuclear trade group.

Capital costs:

Nuclear: $6,695–7,547

Wind power: $1,718

Solar PV with storage: $1,748

Global levelized cost of generation (US$ per MWh):

Nuclear: 140–221

Wind: 24–75

PV: 24–96

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#

IchNichtenLichten , 27 days ago

How about we regulate all the other power sources as heavily as we regulate nuclear?

I can't believe I even have to mention this but you realize that nuclear power has safety issues that wind and solar do not? Hence the regulation.

And even leaving aside cost, what about other benefits?

Such as?

IchNichtenLichten , 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago)

They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.

I searched and I can't find any cases of such a reactor being deployed anywhere in the US.

"Microreactors for civilian use are currently in the earliest stages of development, with individual designs ranging in various stages of maturity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_microreactor

The reactor you're referring to doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

Weird.

IchNichtenLichten , 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago)

I'd say it's imaginary if they don't exist. Your claim that, "They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US." isn't really accurate, is it?

Edit: some context I was able to find:

"The US has approved a single design for a small, modular nuclear reactor developed by the company NuScale Power. The government's Idaho National Lab was working to help construct the first NuScale installation, the Carbon Free Power Project. Under the plan, the national lab would maintain a few of the first reactors at the site, and a number of nearby utilities would purchase power from the remaining ones.

With the price of renewables dropping precipitously, however, the project's economics have worsened. Some of the initial backers started pulling out of the project earlier in the decade, although the numbers continued to fluctuate in the ensuing years.

The final straw came on Wednesday, when NuScale and the primary utility partner, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, announced that the Carbon Free Power Project did not have enough utility partners at a planned checkpoint and, given that uncertainty, would be shut down. In a statement, the pair accepted that "it appears unlikely that the project will have enough subscription to continue toward deployment.""

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/first-planned-small-nuclear-reactor-plant-in-the-us-has-been-canceled/

IchNichtenLichten , 30 days ago

Not really sure how NuScale is relevant as that’s (or at least the project in the article is) utility-level power and not really the same thing.

They're both SMRs, right?

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

Is this clown trying to tank the company because he didn't get his payout?

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

To stick with your analogy, I got so annoyed at the gouging I figured out how to make my own drugs and now I deal a little on the side too.

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

I mean, what is an analogy anyway?

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winklepicker

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

A person of culture, I see.

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

I read that there's a huge backlog in the UK for new connections to the grid for solar farms because the infrastructure isn't there due to a lack of investment. Sounds like the other side of the same coin.

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

This is why infrastructure should be nationalized, this should've been started a long time ago but that would impact shareholders and we just can't have that, can we?

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

Presumably your asshole rep is dead against this kind of thing?

"The gas and electric markets in Texas are lightly regulated and highly competitive, which has pushed companies to deliver energy at the lowest possible cost. But it also means that many companies were ill-prepared when the mercury dropped. To save money, they had skimped on winterizing their equipment. As a result, gas lines across the state—which has about 23 percent of the country’s reserves—quite literally froze. The spot price of natural gas soared to 70-times what it would normally be in Minnesota, and gas utilities paid a hefty premium when they used the daily market to match demand."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/houston-based-utility-wants-minnesotans-to-pay-for-texas-deep-freeze-problems/?comments=1&comments-page=1

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

I just put it back on the stove on full heat for a minute to dry off the water.

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

"What is my purpose?"

"You are to behave exactly like every loser incel asshole on Reddit"

"Oh my god."

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

I'm still waiting for ARM compatible drivers for the Dymo label printers we use. It's been 4 years now.

Fuuuuuuuck Dymo.

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

Educate yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender#Non-binary_and_third_genders

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

As opposed to the dumbass comment that the mods removed?

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago

Let's see your evidence then, should be good for a laugh if nothing else.

IchNichtenLichten , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Evidence. Do you know what that is?

Here's some in case you're stuck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago

Do you have a source on Apple selling user data?

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago

Thanks for this. I did ask OP for a source on Apple selling user data. It sounds like you're saying that they don't.

There's always a rush to include Apple with the other big tech firms that certainly do harvest and sell user data, I guess some people just love to hate on Apple. I get popups on a fresh install of an Apple OS and on first launching certain apps that asks me outright if I want to send usage data to Apple. It's pretty upfront about this. Like you said, it's anonymized so it can't be used to target me with ads based on my browsing history. They also have the Private Relay feature on MacOS and Hide My Email, they didn't have to do that. There's also something called Advanced Data Protection that I haven't messed around with.

Detailed enough that some companies probably cross reference it with other tracking and are able to link the data they get from Apple to real people.

Do you haven't any evidence for this? I doubt that's something Apple would be happy about.

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The Rivian that was announced a few days ago has a nice feature, rear seats and the two front ones all fold flat so that it can fit a twin air mattress in the cabin. That seems a better solution than ... whatever the fuck this is.

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago

Is there any reason we haven't built a craft specifically to be slung out of the solar system as quickly as possible?

IIRC Voyager wasn't built for this, it's just a bonus that they're still semi operational.

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago

Interesting insight, thank you.

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago

Information on the heliopause is about the only useful thing we can get from something out that far. It turns out to be a lot more complex than we thought.

It seems to me that this would be worth a mission?

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

So you want a product made by some of the world's most talented engineers and designers, costing untold millions for dollars in R&D, but it should not be made by a corporation? How does that work?

IchNichtenLichten , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It's Vision OS, not MacOS. You can already install Linux on a Mac, as well as any ARM compatible OS through virtualization:

"Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices"

https://asahilinux.org/about/

What do you think would happen if you tried to install Linux or Windows on a Vision Pro? Assuming Apple was to open up the device, what would that look like?

IchNichtenLichten , 3 months ago

You'll get your refund eventually but first it will try and gaslight you that Air Canada is a woke mind virus before calling you an asshole and then stalking you.