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Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s who. I could write just about anything here, and it wouldn’t make a difference. As a matter of fact, I’m kinda curious to find or how much text can you dump in here. If you’re like really verbose, you could go on and on about any pointless .….[no more than this]

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Ok, but why though? How do you make money when the stock value is falling?

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Ever wondered why the cable breaks so easily? It’s because they use crappy materials. Oh, and it’s also ecological or something, which obviously has no impact on profit margins, right.

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The questionnaire should have check box options that allow you to pick more than one. What if you visit regularly, but only about once a month, and you login just to vote, but you don’t comment, and you’re doing so because of work, but not for entertainment etc.

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Manage multiple windows efficiently.

Alt + click to move and resize the windows exactly the way I want. Also, throwing windows into specific virtual desktops is smooth, efficient, fast and you can use keyboard shortcuts to jump straight to the point.

If someone knows a way to do this on my windows work computer, please please please tell me. Sluggish window management under Windows is driving me nuts.

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Tiling is nice, but you know what’s even nicer? Not having to aim for the corner of a window when you want to rescale it. Just click anywhere while holding alt and you can move and rescale quickly and efficiently. That’s what I’m looking for.

Another thing would be specific keyboard commands to doing specific window management tasks. It’s really nice when you can send this window to virtual desktop 3 or go to desktop 1 and do on with specific commands. Going to the next desk is just barely adequate. Dragging windows into different desktops is frustratingly slow.

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Can’t wait for the company to upgrade. In the meanwhile I’m stuck with 10.

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Thanks! That’s very nice.

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I think he should seriously consider buying Meta so that we can watch it crash and burn just like Xitter. Facebook is the cancer of the internet and it deserves to go too.

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Haven’t you heard the story about that one time when he literally unplugged a bunch of servers? He also had zero regards to the proper protocol for moving hardware like that.

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It was a good start. Elon should pull that same stunt with all the data centers he owns.

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How about we upgrade that to a thunderdome with chainsaws?

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Looks reasonably flat to me. I would have thought that photo was taken somewhere in the region between Gällivare and Sodankylä.

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I tried a bunch of Lemmy clients and they all have some issues; some annoying, some catastrophic. The interesting thing is that the pros and cons complement each other, which has lead me to use Bean as my primary client and lifoff as the secondary one.

Bean is good for browsing, reading, commenting etc. When you get a reply in a long thread 4 layers deep, it’s the time for Liftoff to shine.

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Is this also true outside America? You know, the kinds of places with unions, labor rights and laws that actually favor the employee?

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Can confirm. This is the way.

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What wasn’t reasoned in, can’t be reasoned out. Many people who suffer from conspiratorial thinking need help and support more than evidence and debate.

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Also, ammonium nitrate + gasoline = bad day.

I know a farmer who lived to tell the tale. He had a bunch of empty sacks, and he had piled them up and was ready to burn them. He poured some gasoline on them so that the fire would start easily. Unfortunately, he didn’t know that one of the sacks contained a little bit of ammonium nitrate, which happily combined with the gasoline and fire. Next, the mixture exploded, throwing burning gasoline everywhere.

After he managed to put the fires out he was taken to the hospital. Today, he still has some nasty burn marks on his skin, but he survived.

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Too bad the little clip mechanism at the end of the hose is always broken or very loose. There’s no other way than to stand in front of the tire and presses the end of the hose with my hand.

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Even better, we could also put cables above the train and connect them to an even bigger diesel generator located somewhere close to the railway. That would make the locomotive lighter and the energy production more efficient. Better yet, replace the diesel with uranium and you can easily power many trains.

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It’s worth the time and effort in a city, and even between two large cities that are relatively close to each other. Sadly, building and maintaining the system isn’t cheap, so we don’t do it in more remote locations.

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It’s true. Electrified rail lines do exist in a many places, but not quite everywhere. Since there are also non-electric lines, there’s also a time and a place for non-electric locomotives.

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Hydrogen technology is still in its infancy, so economies of scale aren’t helping very muc at this point. On top of that, the storage options are far from ideal, and not all hydrogen is green. Currently there are many obstacels, but hopefully hydrogen will find its place in the future.

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If the government has full monopoly on everything rail related, then connecting two places becomes a political question. It may not make economic sense, but in the big picture of an entire country and its internal politics it might be a sensible thing to do regardless.

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Distance doesn’t matter as long as the line connects two places that are important in the big picture.

Is there a way to convert radiation from atomic decay into energy directly, the same way we do sunlight with a solar cell? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Couldn’t we have a lead box lined with these radiation to electricity converters with a small amount of radioactive material in the center, and have an energy generating device that would last for thousands or even millions of years? Imagine putting the sun in a box lined with solar cells, but on a much smaller scale....

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Since they also rely on the radioactive decay, the power output isn’t constant. It will also decay as time goes on. Sure, it will stay hot (not to mention completely lethal) for a very long time, but that might not be enough for all applications.

Maybe it was enough to keep a lighthouse operational for decades, but eventually it won’t be enough for that. What do you do with an RTG like that? Instead of powering a large light with that, you could probably power a smaller light or a small water pump. After a few more decades, that small pump is once again too powerful for your legacy RTG, so you’ll have to settle for running a smaller pump or a street light with it. It’s going to take a very long time until you get to that point, so it’s highly likely that the RTG will be forgotten, abandoned or stolen by then.

Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...

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Oh really. I should probably try that again sometime. Usually I just choose not to roll the dice on gnome, and update through the terminal instead.

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It’s a really strange concept, but there are people who use ads to discover new products that solve specific problems they have. This method is just so flawed in so many ways, that I don’t even know where to begin. Obviously, it’s not the method I would use or recommend, but there really are people who do it this way.

I get the feeling the there’s a lot of overlap between the people who are tech savvy, privacy aware, use Linux and are on Lemmy. Therefore, there’s a pretty good chance that it’s going to be very hard to find ad clicking people in here, but you never know. If any of you are reading this: Hello. Please make an AMA. I have so many questions.

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You just need to write it smaller than the Wi-Fi wavelength (about 60 nm) and you should be fine. If someone wants to read it, they have to use smaller wavelengths (i.e. higher frequencies), which means there’s a good chance that they will be blocked by your walls.

Edit: c/2.4 GHz ≈ 125 mm I took the first value from Wikipedia, without thinking about it enough.

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Yeah, you’re right. Writing it smaller than 12.5 cm should do it, which is entirely reasonable.

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It’s all about the size. You can’t use an optical microscope to look at details smaller than the wavelength of visible light. You need an electron microscope for that. Similarly, a wifi camera can’t see details smaller that the wavelength.

If you made a camera that can see in 100 MHz radio waves, you could probably see mountains, rivers and houses, but anything smaller than 3 m would be nothing but blur.

New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease (scitechdaily.com)

Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed

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It’s like all the revolutionary battery technologies, computer storage technologies, fusion, cure for cancer, anything with graphene in it, cure for immune diseases and all that. People just love to write clickbait articles about this stuff.

Developing these ideas in the lab takes decades, and turning those ideas into actual products takes even more time. When you see articles about these topics, you can be pretty sure you’ll never hear about it again.

Edit: Just to be clear: technology is going forward all the time, but news articles tend to fucus on things that are interesting or fascianting, and extrapolate from there. The technologies that actually end up becoming widespread might not be interesting enough to write about.

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Before SSDs became widespread, the tech news would usually find a way to include an article about a revolutionary new storage technology that could store 100x more than a CD. Yes, that was a long time ago, and no, we didn’t hear from those technologies ever again.

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I was mainly thinking of all the countless articles I saw in various magazines in the 90s and 00s. It was pretty wild what people were thinking what storage of the future would look like. Then DVDs and higher capacity HDDs came along. In the end, they actually ended up having the capacity that the articles were speaking of. It’s just that the technology wasn’t quite so creative.

Also, we didn’t really replace the floppy disk with one of those revolutionary technologies the articles were talking about. Floppies simply died out when CD-RW and DVD-RW became good enough. Eventually those died out too when flash drives became cheap enough. There was a long list of candidates that were supposed to occupy that same space, but they just never became anything. Eventually cloud storage took over and by that it was far to late for any of those dead technologies to even try.

I recall seeing one Nokia phone that actually did have a tiny HDD inside it before flash memory became cheap enough. That could be considered one of the wild technologies that were supposed to take over the market, but never did. Turns out, CF and SD cards were so much better, so they ended up becoming the new standard. Once again, all the wild articles in the tech magazines did’t predict flash memory to dominate the market, because that just wasn’t click bait enough for the editor. Instead, wild quantum crystals and crazy experimental stuff like that was in the headlines all the time. Maybe all the incremental developments in DVDs, HDDs and flash memory just wasn’t sexy enough to write about.

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Oh, I’m not saying that development isn’t happening. I’m just saying that the articles you see on the magazines and papers tends to focus on wild technologies like grinding metals into nano particles and using that as a battery. Yes, New Scientis (or was it Scientific American… can’t remember) actually wrote about that stuff and predicted that cars of the future would use this energy source. Ideas like that get reported bacause they sound cool, while incremental upgrades to plain old lithium ion technology gets ignored by the tech magazines.

I’m really looking forward to seeing graphene and carbon nano tubes being used in various applications. Scaling up your production usually is the real problem though. Even if you’re able to produce a few micrograms of something in the lab doesn’t mean you can actually turn that into a commercial product. The transition from NiMH to Li-ion seemed like that for a while until one manufacgturer (was it Sony or Philips?) took the risk and started making those batteries in massive scale. Consumers loved that, and before long everyone started using this wonderful new technology. When someone takes that risk with graphene, we’ll probably start seeing it everywhere.

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Similarly large volumes of water should be given in kl, Ml, Gl etc. instead of m^3. Which one is bigger 2500000 m^3 or 790000 m^3? Count the zeros if you want and then tell me if using appropriate prefixes would have made it easier to tell the difference.

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In the meanwhile, EU legislation has gone from being so boring you would prefer to watch the grass grow to making headlines that make you smile.

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What about the people who watch paint dry? Surely the EU has their back covered too.

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Oh, places like Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc? Nothing but peace and love.

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Apple is a dongle manufacturer, but they also sell devices you can stick your dongle into.

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You’re not alone. Just check https://subredditstats.com/r/technology or any other sub you used to visit and you’ll see a clear drop in comments/day. After the APIcalypse, so many people just left and never came back.

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It’s the birthplace of all the quality memes after all. Reddit clearly saw that as more of an opportunity rather than a risk.

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Well, the site says it shouldn’t be used for serious purposes, but I would say it’s still safe to consider it semi-quantitative. If you see a drop like that, there really is a drop. What the exact value was before or after might not be that reliable, but it’s not even important in this case.

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They don’t call it the APIcalypse for nothing. Reddit got totally nuked and it hasn’t recovered.

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Every sub I cheked got totally nuked to oblivion. No wonder why people are complaining about the quality. Hardly anyone is there to comment or vote.

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Oh, that is a good point actually. However, drop in comments is probably also associated with a drop in quality posts and the number of people who upvote them.

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Sounds like an easy question. RIP RIF (and all the other apps), therefore Reddit is nolonger fun.

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Looks like he is literally asking for trouble with decisions like that. It’s just a matter of time until he manages to cause a major disaster.

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The ethernet cable goes to the computer, not the TV.

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