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  • I think very, very slightly warmer, for solar panels. The solar panel captures energy that’s hitting the earth and would otherwise partially heat it up, and to some degree reflect back into space.

    Since the energy would normally heat up, if you spend it doing refrigeration instead, it’ll ultimately produce the same amount of heat from energy losses - you can’t produce more energy than you have coming in. If I’m correct about that then, the only increase in warming you’d be getting would be from the small amount of light that would otherwise reflect into space, but was instead captured by the solar panel.

    No idea how this works out with wind turbines, since the wind has to be getting energy from somewhere and putting it somewhere, but no idea if it ends up dissipating as heat (from friction?).




  • AFAIK, unless that tree has signed commits in the history after the commit introducing the cursor files (or it’s otherwise verifiable, like having been linked by a member of their team), that’s not a smoking gun.

    I remember a meme that was shared a while ago, where somebody forked the Linux kernel on GitHub, made a joke commit under Linus’s details (which are NOT verified by design), and posted them around. I can’t find an instance of that right now, but here’s a somewhat similar example, where somebody put a fake backdoor in their fork and changed the url to the original repo, which lets them pretend the commit came from the original repo.

    I’d love to see a smoking gun to confirm those claims, but commiting as somebody else, with a fake time, and editing history aren’t that difficult - if they could remove the file from history, somebody else could add it to history.



  • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.detomemes@lemmy.worldAmusement
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    I think if you tried to spend hours in there the water would go cold, but it’s comfortable for, say, 20, 30, maybe 40 minutes, which is enough to read for a bit or watch an episode of a series. It’s indulgent, but it feels relaxing to shut yourself in the bathroom, go into a tub of hot water and relax isolated from the world outside.


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    That is kind of the issue - sure, there’s janky workarounds, using an outdated version of proprietary software to try to block parts of the system from working when you don’t want them to… But in the end, that’s just one problem of many, so I kinda just never came back to windows after the incident. I just responsibly regularly update my system, and probably have a better experience and lose less time just updating manually.


  • I most certainly don’t write faster than I type, and sending an email or a chat message certainly doesn’t take longer than finding something to write with and something to write on. There is a big factor of habit and lifestyle - I don’t usually write stuff down, so I don’t have prepared/assigned tools for that, but I use my computer a lot, so I do have software installed and tools/commands memorised.

    And, frankly, out of many possible options, plain text is something computers are really good at - there’s basically no risk of running out of space, it’s indexable and searchable, it’s editable, and it’s very universal.

    Things do get a bit more complex when you include formatting, and a lot more complicated when you start adding annotations or illustrations, or even just more freeform writing styles, but there’s still a major factor of habit - I don’t know what my note taking would look like if I had a habit of pen and paper, but I know I’m very comfortable with using tech for that, and it works great for me!


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    I do mind that it forces updates, in the sense that it decides when it’s going to start downloading them, even if I’m in the middle of things, and also it takes too long while blocking any ability to use the machine while installing. Let me pause the download without waiting an actual minute for the update screen to load, and figure out a way to install them without completely blocking my computer, dammit!










  • Literally the last two RSS items right now are about how splitting packages will require intervention for some users (plasma and Linux firmware).

    Maybe a nitpick, but the linux-firmware situation is different, it’s not about needing to install extra packages (they turned the existing package into a meta package or whatever it’s called), but about that coinciding with some changes that can break the upgrade process and require you to force uninstall a package before proceeding.

    But yeah, good point about plasma, the only differences I can even think of are that plasma is probably more popular, and definitely more important to have working.



  • But that’s not logarithmic, that sounds like some kind of inverse scale with the asymptote at 10, meaning 10 can never be reached because that would mean actual infinite speed.

    With a logarithmic scale, the speed is literally increasing exponentially, at every point, like getting 10 times faster for every point on the scale.

    So yeah, I think you made the very mistake you tried warning people about ;D