I was comparing the numbers with France, Paris. Yes they get less sun, but it’s not a factor of two… still a lot of free energy, once the panels are installed. And given how cheap they have become… (Edit: I guess it’s more a question of whether they have the space to install panels in places where electricity infrastructure is already present.)
“closer to realistic” - technically, but 1 kW is just so much power, I find it hard to imagine.
Say I was streaming from my own home server instead (about 20W, which could serve more then just one user), and over a gigabit Ethernet switch (also about 20W) which could serve a 4k streams to 50 users, but let’s say it’s just me). Then I would use 0.04 kW of electricity for streaming? Maybe I’m streaming from my gaming PC (0.1 kW idle) and have a large inefficient monitor (another 0.1kW). Then it sums up to 0.24 kW. We’re still not close to 1 kW and I’m out of ideas.
Granted, you’ll have many more switches because this is the internet. But those won’t serve just a single user so the power per user is much smaller too. And netflix servers will use more power, but they are also much better optimized for streaming than my home server, and not 90% idle, shared by many users.
And what would you do if you weren’t streaming? Would you turn off your gaming PC and monitor? If not, we can’t really fully count their consumption. Maybe… ah, I’ve got it! You’re boiling water for coffee at the same time. Yes, that would be 1kW. All the time, while streaming, one cup of water after the other non-stop.
You could play nethack, I guess? Don’t wait until the new moon, or you’ll get a luck penalty!
Lifting waste disposal of windmill blades to the same level as atmospheric CO2 does seem like a bad-faith distraction.
The article talks about real problems, but problems that can be fixed within a generation. Atmospheric CO2, on the other hand, will screw up humanity (food production, etc.) for thousands of years, as far as we know without a way to undo.
It doesn’t do OCR. It just automatically cleans up the pages for archival or sharing. (I use it to archive my handwritten notes and sketches, so technically yes ;-)
FairScan to scan documents.
I started Earthsea many years ago, not sure why I never returned to it. More recently I found The Dispossessed, and found it absolutely brilliant.
Also, “The Word For World Is Forest”. It had a foreword, and I was thinking “okay, can we get to the story now?”, but there was a second foreword. I sighed and almost skipped it, but it said “written by the author”. And it was so perfectly written, and so interesting… I didn’t know it was possible to write that well! The book itself was great too, but the foreword… okay I’ll shut up now and go re-reading it.
As a pretty new user to PieFed (and Lemmy), I still find those combined feeds (“Communities”) confusing. It helped with discovery, but feels like I have been mass-subscribed and now need to unsubscribe each community individually. (I’m sure this is not the case and I just haven’t figured out how it works yet.)
In contrast, the cross-post feature (mentioned by sibling comments) was easy to understand, and looks like a great way to discover (and loosely connect) small related communities.
If you’re interested in human intelligence, don’t miss Joseph Henrich’s book, “The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter”.
It has a few fun examples where historical people follow seemingly absurd complex instructions/traditions that are actually beneficial, while nobody ever designed them or knows what they do. It puts logical thinking into perspective.
Telemetry is in Server -> General -> Allow Anonymous Usage Collection. When you opt-out, it also send a final message to the server that you’ve opted out. The the telemetry itself looks reasonable, I don’t mind sending it. It’s really just the dark pattern of opt-out vs of opt-in that bothers me.
The donate button is the heart in the bottom left menu (not visible in the settings). It’s unobtrusive. I wouldn’t bother to remove it, except the tooltip says that I have to pay to remove it - now it has to go. Asking for donations is fine, but asking for money to remove a button is disgusting.
I’ve set up Kavita for my e-books. Nice UI, looks promising, and I’ve added some books. I haven’t really used it yet, because half of this was just an excuse to try podman (instead of docker). I wanted to set it up to run as unprivileged user, without the docker daemon running as root. That wasn’t too hard, but it was definitely a few extra steps.
But something about Kavita didn’t sit well with me. Maybe I don’t self-host enough stuff to know what’s normal, but there is a donate button, which I don’t mind, but its tooltip says: “You can remove this button by subscribing to Kavita+.”
I’m donating to a few software projects already, and I have developed a substantial amount of free software myself. There is nothing wrong with asking for money. But what I cannot stand is when software running on my own device is intentionally acting against my interests. And this tooltip was very clear about not letting me do something that I might want to do.
So I checked the source code for more. I found another anti-pattern: telemetry is opt-out instead of opt-in. But that seems to be it, I didn’t find anything worse than that. So… fair I guess, if the author wants it that way. It’s still free software. It looks like I could delete all the Kavita+ stuff myself and re-build. Which I’m going to do if I keep using it. But this is now an extra step that prevents me from just using it, because I need to feel in control of what I run. Kind of self-inflicted, I guess…
More specifically, please don’t use PNG for photos. Just converting to JPEG should do the trick.
That’s a good article. Here is a related deep dive: Pineapples! (PDF)
Because the pineapple leaves close their stomata during the day they don’t have the benefits of evaporative cooling! Plants heat up and unless there is a breeze to move the heat out of the field they are prone to plant damage, fruit sunburn and “cooking” or “boiling”. Growth slows when temperatures exceed 36°C and stops at about 40°C.
I don’t know the details, but there is this beautiful Great Britain grid status page, and you can see the transfers to Ireland for the past year. If I’m reading this right they installed an absurd amount of wind (not enough, but getting close) and Ireland is currently importing.