Full advantage, of their hardware from 1996 /s
Maybe a slight exaggeration but I’m really tired of Linux phones that are charging flagship prices for mid grade hardware from 10 years ago. I don’t expect the latest chip by any means but fuckin come on.
I say this as a full time arch user of the past 10 years lol. I love linux and want kde mobile on my phone. I would just like one from this century is all
That seems to be the trend in the industry a lot for some reason at the moment. The shows that are just like complete garbage are getting season after season and the actual good shows that practically everyone is begging for another season of just die quietly.
I can’t help but feel like there is a slight tinge of irony because the main complaint I see against AI art is that it’s all based on Stolen work but this meme is also stolen work it is very unlikely that OP is the original artist that drew that.
Now i say slight because it’s obviously different just slapping some text over a screenshot vs ai training but it’s enough to make me smirk a little
Yes but there was always an official one even though it was complete dog shit garbage that didn’t matter to the average person that’s what they are going to use. They don’t care nor think about alternatives. It’s easy to forget what the masses think about especially in places like this.
But that’s not really the case with decentralized platforms there are a ton of different clients none of them are technically official and pretty much all of them is missing something it’s just a matter of what’s each one missing. And thats enough to kill usability for most average people
And while that’s nice, and i will try it. it just highlights another usability problem. Fragmentation, which client should I use? Will that continue to be maintained? Nope it died well time to switch to another one I guess. Lots of problems like that across all decentralized platforms not just lemmy
The problem is that the fediverse has genuine usability problems. Even from the perspective of a technical person. I am a sysadmin, and i self host a hilarious amount of things for no reason. Yet even i find the verse frustrating. Discoverability is near non existent, searching is hard, many instances just have duplicate content for popular topics, people don’t understand how federation works for the main feed so you get times where stuff like that instance that is only for women pops up on a bunch of different instances Main feed and you have to deal with all the “shutup man this isn’t for you!” And then of course there’s always the which one do I even make my account on and then even after you do select one there’s no guarantee it won’t shut down at some random point and you’ll be forced to migrate etc.
I’ve been on lemmy for a while and i still struggle to find content i want sometimes, but things like bluesky? It’s easy, i found what i wanted easily and the algorithm picked up on what i liked and what i didn’t and brought me more of what i wanted.
And the big problem with open source Alternatives and the fediverse is that instead of acknowledging that these are issues that need addressing and usability could be improved. They will instead tell you that it’s your fault and you should give up all of those nice interactions for the sake of being decentralized. It’s up to you to put in the effort to search every instance ever and find the content you want and bring it all together, it’s up to you to migrate as needed and deal with other things caused by the decentralization. I just want to find some nice art, talk about some interesting Tech stuff and avoid politics to relax. Bluesky and even to some degree reddit let’s me do this easily, lemmy makes it difficult.
The “this has been compressed 100 times” burn isn’t helping any
I’m not saying that they aren’t basically the antichrist. The problem is we need an actual good solution, just hard line telling people that this is evil so you should put in a shit ton of effort to not using it is just not realistic. It’s not going to sway people, i do use nebula and floatplane which i pay for. They have their own problems but they aren’t as bad as YouTube but more importantly they are usable.
It’s very sad that the people that have the skills necessary to actually make something open are always also just so Hardline head up their ass about self hosting everything. I can self-host plenty I have piped, immich, jellyfin, frontend replacements for pixiv, imgur and others as well as my own pastebin. I’m no stranger to self hosting but that doesn’t mean that I’m stupid enough to think that it’s a viable way to get rid of YouTube it’s just not
If i have to host my own instance and client to get usable results it’s a non starter for 99% the population. I do want better than YouTube in terms of open and privacy but not if the only possible trade is removing all sense of usability
So it can be unwatchable with buffering every 5 seconds at 360p?
Love me some alternative self host but every time I’ve ever tried any peertube instance the videos are unwatchable due to the painful slowness
Putting on raingear, while less miserable than not being in rain gear. Does not entirely save one from the annoyance and wetness of the rain. I did a LOT of biking in my teens in all conditions… I’m familiar with it lol
I mean for me it’s comfort, I don’t want to bike in the rain, or high heat, or snow… If you do then awesome that’s great. So instead i just reduced my car footprint. Drive a smart fortwo which is one of the least polluting cars on the road and you can fit 2-3 into a standard parking spot (depending on orientation)
i know I’m in the wrong place for this but I wish people would focus on just trying to make people realize that they don’t need so much car instead of fuck car entirely. It is much more likely to be a successful message in the long run and still beneficial
It’s not like it can’t happen, i also found porn very early on. I got addicted and it ruined my early sex life. Real women weren’t “exciting” anymore and I’d lost my sensitivity as well.
This is NOT the solution but it’s also not not an issue
This message summed up in a animation
Time to invest in solar panels and battery.
Just a quick correction it’s series that raises voltage, parallel raises amperage. It’s not that difficult to do this safely solar equipment is all made with safety in mind. For example it’s pretty rare that you should be working with raw wire especially any that is any type of live. The only time you will potentially be exposed to Raw wire is when you’re initially making mc4 connectors but they should not be plugged into anything while you’re doing that the panels will already come with their own mc4 connectors obviously you should fully make both ends of the cable before plugging them into anything.
Copper versus clad aluminum should not matter as long as you are using the correct size wire for the amount of amperage you expect to see, that’s the same issue you could run into with house wiring so it’s really no different than that the AWG sizes are standard and all come with load ratings. Regardless of the type of material it’s made of if your wire is getting any type of hot it’s a sign that you need a lower gauge wire it shouldn’t be getting notably warm under load much less hot
There is indeed some math to be done to make sure that whatever type of inverter you use will work with the solar panels and arrangements you plan on using. It’s some pretty basic math not particularly difficult, i do expect anyone doing DIY to do the bare minimum of reading the instructions. Don’t get me wrong there are some stupid people out there, like the people that leave one star comments on an Amazon product saying that the bottle is smaller than they thought even though the listing says the size of the bottle in the title and the description. However I am not going to base my general recommendations on that level of intelligence.
If you do some very basic reading, look over the description of the products which will also tell you what type of voltage they can take how many amps and usually any other considerations it’s pretty easy to put these things together correctly. And it’s fairly easy to put them together without ever actually having to interact with live voltage other than the final connection which if you really wanted to be ultra safe about you could simply do at night when there wouldn’t be any :) there’s countless information available that you can research beforehand if you’re ever nervous. Tons of great videos out there tons of great content on stuff like solarDIY forums etc
Grid tie i fully understand being regulated heavily but man i wish i could punch and then bury alive any officials that regulated offgrid self consumption. Like fuck off its basically just a larger version of those computer battery backups you can get at bestbuy lol. Or better it’s just a larger jackery battery and solar, they gonna fucking regulate those too? We can’t have people being self sufficient that would be just awful
The problem is that by the time I have said that to them it’s already to desktop. I cursed Myself by having an operating system that is fast and efficient and I also did not install 18 different applications that open at boot. So now I just feel left out from the group not waiting for my computer to finish booting :(