I binged “The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor” yesterday, I found it kind of cute. I like that the MC is the goddamned god of war (figuratively). It reminds me of “7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!” the light novel series (Apparently there’s an anime of that one too but I’ve only read the LN), but it’s cute, the story of two kind autistic people trying to lizard-person their way into falling in love.
There’s this one and “let this soul rest in peace” or whatever, and I thought the latter was going to be more like the former. I’m finding this series really entertaining.
The two top ones host invidious, searx, and yacy on one and lotide (what I’m talking to you on) and matrix on the other, they both have Intel Atom D2550s. The bottom one has an Intel Core i5-4570TE, and hosts basically everything else including my reverse proxy server.
At some point I’d like to move to low-end ryzen embeddeds, because they are either as powerful or more powerful than anything I have and remain fanless, but one step at a time (and finding something that powerful that’s inexpensive and scavenged from a roadside sign is tough sometimes)
https://lotide.fbxl.net/api/stable/posts/165851/href
My whole empire, made almost entirely of parts scavenged from roadside signs. (not a single fan on the whole setup)
The obvious point being that if they’re not going to even run their own mail server, they won’t run their own fediverse server.
Isn’t electricity in Australia still something like 40 cents a kilowatt hour?
Apparently not too much solar power to drop the prices a bit.
“that’s the great part – you don’t!”
But Honestly, it’d be pretty damn cool. I wouldn’t be too surprised to find they don’t even run their own mail server though.
Holy moly, the orange box was the second game I ever activated on steam, way back in 2008, 16 years ago.
Protip: You can see when you bought different games by using the link https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/
Kind of a trip down memory lane, and a real reminder of how far the gaming industry has fallen. 2013 was just page after page of great games, 2014, still lots, and slowly it peters out until the last few years fit on one page on the screen. I bought games in the years before that, but many of them were just catching up with the banger years around 2013!
In Nantucket, shards of fiberglass covered the coast for miles after a blade exploded on an offshore windmill, leading to widespread ecological damage. Admittedly it isn’t a common event, but it does show the capacity for pollution from wind turbines:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/climate/wind-turbine-breaks-nantucket.html
The effects on the lifecycle of offshore wind on aquatic life including whales is a subject of ongoing research:
It’s known that there’s a major impact of wind turbines in general on birds, confirmed by several studies:
https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/
There is also a risk from operational fluids within the wind turbines, and part of the ongoing risk analysis of one wind farm was a scenario where 20,000 litres of dielectric fluid were released into the ocean:
https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/offshore-wind-spill-exercise-held-northeast-region
The nature of the ocean is such that there’s a potential to pollute a large amount of water and coastline, making the risks unique to offshore wind, where they would be much more localized in an onshore wind farm.
That being said, it is fair to point out that all forms of industrial scale electricity generation, no matter how “green”, will have a potential environmental impact simply by the nature of how massive such operations need to be, so the question is always about finding the least bad option rather than pretending there’s any one option that is perfectly positive for the environment.
To be honest though, offshore wind projects don’t make any sense in a free market. The cost per MW is significantly higher than the market can support, so the only way to have these things is to take money from someone else to pay the difference. For example, the average wholesale price of electricity in America in 2024 was between 30 and 60 dollars per Megawatt. The cost of offshore electricity is closer to 200 dollars per megawatt. The difference is made up with government grants (which aren’t free market) or by power companies charging customers using other forms of electricity more to cover the difference (which is only happening due to regulations and so isn’t really a free market mechanism)
This has occurred elsewhere too. In Ontario, many people applauded the massive increase in solar generation, but the price was that the electrical companies paid over 80 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity they then sold at wholesale for closer to 4 cents per kilowatt hour. The difference was paid for by a “global adjustment charge” which massively increased first retail consumers electric bills, and later when that was rescinded somewhat could as much as double the bills of industrial consumers and led to “global adjustment days” where industrial plants totally shut down for a day to avoid the charge.
An example of green energy that could win in the free market running up against government would be hydroelectric. Some of the least expensive electricity in the first world such as Manitoba and Quebec Canada and Norway in Europe, comes from hydroelectric, and unlike solar or wind it can be created at a scale large enough to power an entire region. Moreover, it can be used as a base load which neither wind nor solar can. In many regions where it’s practical, lobbyists have ensured that spots that could have good hydroelectric are not allowed to be used for that purpose. There isn’t much money in successfully providing cheap power to millions of people.
I think I’ve played NFS1 the most, the original one for MS-DOS. The non-circular tracks felt like they were set up for the love of driving, and I really enjoyed driving those tracks without even worrying so much about winning the races.
You know, everyone’s getting pissed off at seeing these numbers but it is over many years.
They’ve already lost 20% of their buying power just in the last 4 years, and that’s if you go by the fake CP lie. Reality is you need food and shelter and transportation a lot more than you need a new smart phone (my phone is from before covid), so cost of living has gone up a lot more than it says for actual people.
It isn’t really the company’s fault that inflation went so high, but as a defense contractor they are one of the beneficiaries of The extreme government spending that led to the inflation. The fact that they’ve mismanaged themselves into Oblivion isn’t really material here, that’s entirely self-inflicted. Every time one of the Frontline workers tries to speak out they get assassinated…
It’s similar to hydroelectric – if it works and it’s cost effective, people will use it and consider it a privilege… Some green energy works really really well.
More coal for China to burn manufacturing disposable junk for us to buy!
The same paypal that thought they can fine you for TOS violations?
Deleted my account, nothing of value was lost.
The establishment media is destroying itself by breathlessly cheerleading every “beat” that turns out not to be true and not in any way mentioning that the numbers have been revised so heavily all year.
If they’re going to mindlessly read press releases, you might as well just read the press releases.
Came looking for plastic free-fall recipes, came away disappointed.
Absolutely, if you care about historical works you should make sure that you have a copy that you control.
A large portion of the things on my jellyfin are like that, because once they take away media ownership, and they can change or take away your stories at any time.
It’s really simple when you think about it, the taste of any fermentation is going to be the taste of what you put into it minus any of the sugars. Maple syrup is sugar and the liquid extract from a tree. So once you remove the sugar, all you have left is alcohol and the liquid extract from a tree.
It’s actually one of the reasons that I think my need made from honey turned out to be so lovely, is once you take the sugar out of honey what you’re left with is extract from flowers.
It wasn’t a terrible idea, but I tried to make maple syrup mead, and it tasted exactly like breaking a branch off of a tree and trying to suck it. Like, that green tree taste. Complete waste of some very expensive maple syrup.
A lot of fascists don’t realize they’re fascist.
Mussolini once said “Fascism can be better described as corporatism, the combination of state and corporate power”. Under fascism, everything and everyone is socialized under the state, and everything becomes a tool of the state. For this reason, some historians call fascism “State Socialism”, contrasting Hitler’s “Racial Socialism” or Marxism’s “Class Socialism”, each of which use a totalizing state to socialize everyone into one group. So a government official putting pressure on a corporation to silence speech the state doesn’t like is openly fascist, and many people think they want that sort of fascism.
In my book The Graysonian Ethic, I talk about why people think they want fascism(though they might call their fascism something different because they want to pretend they’re not calling for fascism) but they actually don’t:
“The truth is, everybody thinks that they want fascism because they imagine that fascism will do exactly what they want and nothing more. They look at all the groups of people that they do not like and they imagine that the fascists will go and clamp down on those people and then just stop. Reality is not so kind. Yes, the evil empire did go out and do reprehensible things to the group that they identified as causing the problem. Of course, you do not need to make any kind of choices to whether someone of that particular group caused any problems to realize that most people within any given group are not responsible for the actions of the few. Within any given group there are lots of people who are just trying to sit back and live their lives without hurting anyone. Despite that, this great evil empire went out and exterminated a people. They did not stop there though. To them, even amongst the people that they claimed to protect and try to save there were two sorts of people: those who supported the regime and those who did not. For many of those who supported the regime, they were given the means to gain tremendous wealth and power in a very short period of time. For those who did not, they had their livelihood stripped away, they were shunned, in some cases they joined the groups who faced extermination.”