RubberElectrons

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

PiKVM?

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Not the cheapest, there's 17-4 and 18-8 before 304.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

I've set family up with a lorex system, setup was pretty straightforward and it works well. No monthly subscription fees rock.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Hey! I'm in my aunt's living room!

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Excellent news. Small steps to hopefully thread the needle with. Don't be discouraging, people, we need success and vigor.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Sorry, that's false. Is it potentially being co-opted as a distraction by those industries? Yes, in fact probably because of how scummy fossil fuel industries are.

That doesn't mean anyone is under the illusion that this is a replacement for renewables now. Grow up.

This is still, long term, research ave development which needs to be done.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

It's gonna be both. Only a simpleton would be worried others think that way.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Why not state it the way you did? Succinctly, I'd have said "we need the current renewables effort to continue, along with this great longer-term research". Bam, done.

Not "we need renewables now, not fusion in 30yrs" with the accompanying clown sounds.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

There are several other topologies with promise. But even a tokamak can use its first wall latent heat to turn the archaic steam turbine.

While I also have low expectations for plasma density in tokamaks, they're able to keep plasma at fusion temperatures for minutes at a time.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Yes. That's already being worked on, in forms other than just the tokamak as well.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

First point is not relevant, fusion has been chronically underfunded for far too long. The money being spent on fusion r&d is far less than the money going to renewables deployment, and you advocate cannabilizing even that???

I won't go down the list of how many technical contributions are coming out of fusion, just know that there are a lot, that help make both renewables and non-renewable more efficient. How do you switch tremendous amounts of current at extreme voltages, very quickly? The answer directly impacts overall efficiency of everything from EVs to micro & macro-grids. Usually it's a pick-two-of-the-three, but switch systems are being used to solve these exact issues, successfully.

As for why I'm hostile? Read the previous two paragraphs again, maybe something will jump out at you.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Works fine for me. I gotta stop after round 6 though.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Naps, or just passion for what I'm looking at. Women in tight rubber clothing makes me crazy.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Dude this is gold lmfao

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Man, it's gotta suck being this afraid of everyone.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

You're entitled to your incorrect opinion. I like mass transit for reasons like removing my need to pay attention for every second of a trip, for much reduced cost per mile, and for meeting/looking at interesting people.

Most people seem to agree. You can't move a coffee table on it (though I have, my apologies from a now-wisened teenager), but that's what stuff like car share services can step in on.

Who's denying you service, and why? The driver is way at the front of the train, what are you on about?

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Alright grumpy, calm down. I'll repeat the question: what happened? That's as much energy as I'm willing to give the weak crying.

Literally 1.7 billion rides on the NYC subway system in 2019, it seems to work great for us. I dress in weird shiny rubber clothes sometimes while going to a party or whatever, I get looks of curiosity or derision from other passengers sometimes, and I don't give a shit. Are you just that sensitive?

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Bro I'm upvoting this because of how hilariously sad this is 😂

Anyway, no biggie. Can't answer what happened, a simple question.

Don't come to big cities, we're gonna charge you to drive your lifted dangling nutz grocery getter below 59th st, and laugh our asses off at your limp open carry chicken pistol. Real men and women live here, with and for each other.

Stay in Idaho or whatever, enjoy your "I'm scaewed" life 😂

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Well... The internet was originally built on decentralized communications. We may have to transition more heavily to the darkweb, any attempts to block that would be an attack on freedom of speech.

Humanity seems to progress/regress in waves. We'll try to ride this out, and some of us will use ingenuity to make a taller ladder vs the govt's taller walls. They can never keep pace.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

I say dark web only in protection in transit of important/forbidden info.

I realize that was confusing, but yeah, any decentralized system should be applicable, just needs to add protecting the data while traveling, and who is looking at it.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Using a 3060 on Wayland, Ubuntu LTS. Some performance issues here and there, big problem I discovered is zoom screen sharing pretty much not working.

I login with my x session when I know I'll need to present something.

RubberElectrons , 3 months ago

Thanks, though it's not a big enough problem that I worry about it. My couple of games still work fine in either environment.

I look forward to when all of these getting pains are mitigated by time.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Forgot about the catchall, but the realPart+fakegarbgae@myDomain.com trick works great for filtering stuff.

E: on protonMail, that is.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Cool part is we've got a functional safety system like OSHA so everyone goes home with all their fingers and toes, and the EPA keeps the nearby creeks from getting contaminated.

Can't say the same for other countries, troubled and fucked up as our country is.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

You know how when you're the first to do something, you're also the first to make mistakes? Look at the Hanford site, for example. First place to ever process uranium and plutonium.

Imagine knowing the results of being careless, and being careless anyway, after the fact. 😂 What's wrong with you??

To be clear: I believe most people anywhere want to be safe, and do a good job. Their administrators and governmental reps are the pieces of dogshit, ccp included, that ignore safety and individuality. The US has serious problems too, but again, we have safety organizations with teeth here.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Now this is the good hearty science and technology I come around for. Good work!

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Yup, fuck your outdoor cats.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

No, sorry. We've unintentionally thrown so much of the world off balance by importing creatures that were never in certain places, that we must bear responsibility to bring things back to the balance they were at before we got there, particularly now that we know better.

If that's not possible, we'll do our best to get there. Where are the dodos, buddy? Keep your stupid cats indoors, and stop bothering the local ecosystem more than we already have.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

That you know of. I'm a bird lover, I've got my biases, admittedly. But no, cats seem to put a very heavy strain on the local bird population.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Enjoy getting trounced. It's obvious to everyone else.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Friend, cool it with the pedagogy. If one understands the idea of ecosystems at multiple scales, it follows implicitly that one understands the systems are inherently dynamic.

The point still stands: we've got to understand the environs we've rapidly destabilized and do something to limit our negative influence. Ergo: keeping stupid cats indoors helps the stressed systems by reducing the load caused by a bored apex predator.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

By the way, actually, an apex is also known as the summit or peak of a curve, which domestic cats can generally be considered as they are rarely (though not never) predated upon. Wasn't clear that you understood that, but now you do!

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

I'm glad you enjoy your opinion. It's not correct, but enjoy anyway!

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Here here.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Why are you proud of lacking empathy for other living creatures? Are you hollow inside? When will you become part of figuring out a balance, instead of being proud of the problem?

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Mate, we're old enough now to have to actually fix shit instead of waxing lyrical about our youth. Let's work together, and still have a laugh.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

It's gotta feel sad to realize the only way people pay attention to you is by saying stupid or bad things.

I don't think you actually believe this, and I hope your loneliness goes away in a way that's eventually positive for you.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Oh man, that's all you've got?? That hurts so much. Ouchie ouch ouch 😂

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Do you realize how many other places in the universe have birds and cats and whales? They're our only other companions in a cold, hard universe where so much can go wrong.

As such, I care a lot more about flora and fauna than mere human achievements and the problems that have resulted; while I'm proud of my species we also need to protect life in our respective little corners. That starts by not letting cats outdoors, and that's a fact.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Love airvpn, it unfortunately trips captchas a lot, and some sites outright block you. If you're seeing this up on a router, make a wifi network that's unprotected just for the sake of convenience.

But torrenting and everything critical, rocksteady.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

I know how to build a windmill out of busted car parts. If the jackals steal the windmill we've built.. how do they know what to keep an eye on? How much can they demand from it?

Ultimately, working against a community is failure. Not even the economic power of the US could break Afghanistan, or Vietnam, etc. Almost all of us want peace and stability.

Without a deep understanding of electronics and energy, the cobbled-together windmill will ultimately provide neither.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

I got time. Lay it on me.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

I also fell into the Mac ecosystem back when OSX 10.1 & 10.2 came out. A reliable system that was actually innovative and looked nice! Runs on Unix, similar to the rock solid freeBSD I'd been in the process of exploring! Difficult to hack, fast, easy to program!

Then the changes started. Someone put a fresh out of the box Mac on the internet, "if you can hack this machine, it's yours!". I think they popped it in about 30 minutes.

You couldn't get into certain areas of the OS any longer, by design of apple.

Before you know it, you have a sports car of a computer or phone, but it won't go where you want it to. That's why I refuse to get in.

All to say: android has some pretty rough edges, but with graphene or my preference CalyxOS, you have hardware that's fast, as secure as you decide you want it to be (with the added inconvenience that can add) and for less than you'd pay for your parent's gilded cage. If you'd like, a good counterpoint to your dad's "security" claim is the fact that Android code is fully visible for all to see.

If you'd like to maintain quality video/voice calls that are also fully encrypted in an open-source manner between Android and Apple, I've got my family using Signal messenger. Just to avoid that irritating 'blue/green bubble' discussion.

Good luck to you in your future endeavours, you don't have to win every fight, you only have so much energy. But do talk and research the points that matter to you, including being free to use the hardware you paid for as you personally deem fit.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

I work in many dusty, gritty places, machine shops included. I love my $60 watch, it's been to 4 continents and back for 12yrs now.

Slight chip in the edge of the crystal, some mild scratches too. I'm just happy to not contribute to the waste stream by buying one reliable item, and cherishing it even when it gets a bit beat up.

Do these kind of apple/google watches hold up? How hard is battery replacement?

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Correct. And that's what will follow. Not a fast process, but it'll happen.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Ooof fuck that.

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

L😂

RubberElectrons , 4 months ago

Yeah... You're probably right. They're still quite popular in foreign countries due to mechanical simplicity/robustness. In fact I've noted car rentals that are automatic tend to be a bit more expensive then manuals, which the locals use.

Regardless, do your thing and have fun.