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  • We're saying the same thing with different words. Your prespective it's "its's so great", mine is "it's gotten slowly better". I'm sick and tired of reading about some irrelevant technological breakthrough with +10% solar efficiency or +30% battery density in some laboratory every 2 weeks. Actual change comes in (very) low single digit percentages for efficency of panels per year (or similar for battery density). Not once in the last 30 years did we have an actual jump for stuff you can buy (within a short timeframe) that comes close to the hyperbole in these reports. The advancement in price can probably be attributed to scale of production most of all though. Who would buy

    why are you reading posts in a technology community? That seems self-destructive. Go actually look at that community maybe? Only the energy-pseudo-news in here is like that. The rest is mostly actual (relevant) news around technology and/or companies in that space. That's my ENTIRE POINT. Thanks for emphasizing it. It's not just that: renewable energy news has been like that for actual decades, no other field has this problem as far as I can tell.

  • All these news about in-development technologies in the renewable energy sector are causing real fatigue for me. This would be great news if it was commercialy viable, but it isn't. It never is. If all the news about amazing new battery technologies were viable, we'd have 10x the capacity by now with cells that have zero fire risk and last 10 million cycles. But it's always laboratory conditions.

    Gonna be honest, I kinda stopped paying attention to news like this, it's a flood of theoretical advancements. I care about it when I can buy it.

    That being said, obviosuly the state-of-the-art technology has made significant advancements in the last 10 years, but it's been incremental (it always is) and nowhere near the numbers that are thrown around in reports and articles like this.

  • I agree that the current state of laws is overkill by about an order of magnitude, and that's obviously bad.

    But you do need some amount of protection for works created. Imagine being a photographer, you can't make money. You make some nice photos, and how do you sell them? If you send a sample to someone, they can just print that and you can do nothing. There's no copyright after all. It isn't somthing you can protect legally, so you can't stop them or sue them for compensation. There's also a flip side from the corporate perspective: You might find employment as a full time photographer in places that need them, but what about all the companies that just need an occasional picture? You can't contract it out, because you have no way to negotiate anything if their work isn't protected, you can't even look at samples cause nobody would ever dare showing any or they might just be used.

  • Are you taking about patents? Cause a world without copyright doesn't sound very fun to me. Or anyone in a remotely creative job.

    Ever for patents: There's a reason innovations are protected literally anywhere in the world, but the durations being ever longer is a real problem (5 years would probably be fine). The basic concept is still just straight up necessary.

  • It highly depends on the job. Some companies run fully on Windows, no exceptions. There it obviously would not help. But many still either host various services on Linux, or buy hosting/cloud commuting that is Linux based. There it might even be necessary.

    It also depends on what you mean by "power user". I would generally advise you to look into the server side of things. In my work, there are zero Linux machines that have a GUI of any kind installed. t The 50 or so Linux machines are all administered through SSH and Shell.

  • I remember that Asus did this back in the day at least, not sure if they still do. But I remember having rss feeds for at least 2 of my motherboards in my reader, back when rss was actually widely used. It's been like 10-15 years though...

  • This is still not an ordinary failure by your definition of it being a single point that failed. It's was like half a dozen "things" that went wrong for that plane to get into the air without those bolts. From not putting them in, to missing inspections, missing cross-checks. Sounds extraordinary to me. Which is the whole point of why it's a deeper issue, showing systematic problems at Boeing and it's partners, and the FAA not doing it's job, too.

  • It's also numbers. YouTube has given creators tools to literally benchmark thumbnails. You can just see which one does better. The vast majority of people unfortunately are susceptible to the same patterns. In the end, you need people to click on your video or they can't watch it (which is the point here, to inform people). So here we are.

    For example, thumbnails with faces work much better than without (doesn't really matter what or who the face is). I find that monumentally stupid and weird, it just is what it is.

  • Ah so it's a linux problem when the gpu driver causes instability, cause NVidia is making a shitty and proprietary linux driver and the market share is too small to warrant putting more effort in. Linux doesn't have it's own fully-featured graphics driver, so that company has to come in and provide their own since linux can't supply it. And mistakes happen. Roughly the same logic.

    That's not linux fault. Neither is it Microsofts fault when a company selling a security product decides it has to run in kernel mode and then they don't properly test a release and just decide to yolo it.

  • Well there more than one solution, if you want it. First of all, podman actually works fine with docker compose files. There may be some adjustments needed in other places, because despite the claim of being "a drop in docker replacement", it just isn't (quite). So assuming you install docker compose (not docker), you can just "docker-compose up" (note the dash) and it should work. Should.

    Your can also just spin up a VM and install docker with compose in there, just for testing and/or running immich.

  • "Immich" might be a real option, I don't quite understand why you think it's overkill?

    I mean syncthing has been mentioned plenty, but of course Nextcloud also solves the problem. It's can't truly sync a folder, but it works fine for backing up photos and videos.

  • If you got your way, the vast majority of the Internet would disappear together with the advertising. The Internet runs on advertising. If it stops being viable, so does the Internet as a whole. How do you think all these free services are funded?

    The trick is to take the privacy violating and tracking part out of it. If you block ads, that doesn't matter. If a few tech savvy people do, it doesn't matter. If literally everyone does, it suddenly matters a lot.

    Of course they are working with one of the advertising giants, that's the point. That's who the solution is for. If none of them would accept it, it might as well not exist.

  • That is indeed US-specific. I'm in the EU, and here it's defined by when and how it's switched. Specifically, it is required to be tied to the brake pedal (i.e. then intention to brake) and/or the hand brake being pulled. It is not allowed to illuminate otherwise. But the exact specifics probably also vary by country here. That's why I emphasized that part.

    EDIT: There are actually deceleration values in some laws, possibly tied to regulation of EVs and the regenerative braking. Since that isn't necessarily tied to the brake pedal when silmulating engine braking, but can be adjusted in strength at will (it isn't tied to the mechanics of the drag of an idling engine as it would with an ICE). A quick google told me that the lights are allowed to come on at 0.7 m/s² and are required to come on at 1.3 m/s². This obviously implies that they are NOT allowed to come on below 0.7 m/s². This still applies only to (pure) EVs, as far as I can tell (not hybrids, and not ICE powered cars).