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Cihta
Cihta @ Cihta @lemmy.world
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I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

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  • Collecting data relevant to the app is ok and logical. It's collecting unrelated personal info I gave a problem with.

    And i can sympathize with you regarding users. I design control system interfaces and sometimes I go to extremes to make it good for idiots. And i still get calls at 7am, have to drop everything else and drive 40 miles just to point out the giant red ALARM text i specifically put there to make things easier. It's on the first fucking page!

    It's nice that remote access is easier now but some of these facility managers... i don't know who puts their pants on for them because they don't seem to be able to navigate treacherous logic and reason.

    I hope I didn't just quote your whole post, still trying to figure out boost hah

    • I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

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  • An app in itself isn't a bad thing.. it's the requirement that is wrong. Everything these days does seem to be geared around data mining and control. That well has to be getting awfully dry because it's getting worse and worse.

    You can't even use many products without having an app that needs to be connected online so it can read your contacts and searches and such. Sites are getting harder to use if you have a DNS ad blocker or VPN on. Not sure where it ends..

    • It took me 16 years to figure out why I hate a Journey song. What song did you hated until you figured out why?

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  • Unless you hate remixes, check out DJ Trashy's version of it. It's old-school breakbeat so be warned.

    Really his whole "Vocal Anthems" album is great. Basically high energy nostalgia.

    • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • Nuclear is great. A while back I came across a company that had developed a simple geothermal reactor (no pumps, cooling towers etc) that seemed neat but was probably just a VC bid.

    They supposedly had a goal of building some tests in Idaho or something. They should have deployed it in PR after that hurricane. Would have made a great test site.

    If course it's old tech.. I don't remember which one but a Japanese company developed something similar.. it was smaller than a typical Telco or isp pop is (or roughly 3x the size of your typical residential AC condenser) and could provide power for an entire community.

    Funny how that stuff never materalizes.

    Small scale modular reactors make perfect sense.. sorry I don't have any sources but you can search the above term and find all the pipe dreams i saw 10 years ago. Oil, gas, etc is just still too profitable.

    • Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury

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  • The media.. that made me think of old days but right now I'm watching some hurricane coverage that is obviously in a helicopter. And I'm thinking why..

    A large 6 rotor "drone" is cheap and can sustain a motor failure. Cheap compared to the camera it carries. You can have a fleet and maybe 2 cameras and just swap them out as needed. With gps the pilot just needs to tap on a touch screen, camera operator just has to get framing right, and the tech that maintains everything can be had at a poverty level wage.

    Oof, that wasn't positive. But I do wonder what they use now. We had wall to wall coverge of trump flying his old 757 to Atlanta and back and really hope that was drones. Sorry heli pilots. You are still cool, it's just expensive.