JustEnoughDucks @ JustEnoughDucks @feddit.nl

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Ease of electronics.

It is more expensive and bulkier using those cells because you need boost converters instead of dirt cheap linear regulators to put a modern 3.3V MCU in there. With how cheap lithium cells are (and that they are rechargeable) nowadays, the power converters + the mechanical AAA housing is often more expensive than a lithium cell + charger

Hopefully we will switch over to sodium ion in the coming 5 years or so which are rechargeable, cheaper materials, higher charge cycle counts, and completely safe at the cost of also needing a boost converter. Maybe we will even start to shift more towards 1.8V MCUs. Sodium ion is better in nearly every way than alkaline while just having bad capacity compared to Li-ion.

"Critical" as in not really needed.

It is very bugged and constantly runs even if it isn't doing anything. It will also max out your disk IO for hours at a time with an HDD for larger game storage.

I have had it off for 1.5 years across 3 OS installs and have never had a problem with stuttering or shader related problems in that time. It is really not needed anymore for 95% of games since the Linux async solutions were merged.

Maybe if one uses severely out of date kernels it is critical

This seems like classic corporate backtracking when their customers spot a terrible, deliberate decision.

That being said, I am happy about it. I got my company to use it and finally got my girlfriend to use it and just recommended it to her brother. Would hate to have to try to find something else

Really? My girlfriend's A52 doesn't have this feature. That is part of why I bought my Xperia 5ii. Is it a new feature?

(After 3 years the battery is at 70% on mine because apparently Sony uses shitty as hell batteries and software drain glitches, while my girlfriend's A52 always charging to 100% lasts a day and a half with 3x the use, would not recommend)

That is a different usecase though. That is simply syncing local musical with a server.

I do that too because i have an SD card. Just use Syncthing for that. Much faster and less hassle. You can use any music player on your phone that you want, not just one that works with jellyfin.

If you aren't streaming music in real time for the majority of time, then do a phone sync, not a streaming server.

Ah The Duchy

Yeah, but as someone who had both bazzite and Opensuse MicroOS (Kalpa), it is even more of a long and painful process on that platform lol.

Immutable OS's are literally for people who specifically don't want to tinker. Everything via flatpack except a few system-level apps layered on the base image.

(Also they are for people who don't need document digital signing as Firefox and libre office can't access the modules via flatpak)

If people want specific apps and don't want to build them or use user space apps then it definitely isn't their best option. Just a different option.

I have very much enjoyed never even having to think about updating my system for months

What would I want to do?

• Cut down the 2 larger trees and 10 mini trees (originally hedges) that we marked for removal
• deep clean the house
• climb in the crawlspace and drill the pipe brackets I need to
• finally go weightlifting after months of no time or willpower
• play saxophone
• meditate
• go for a long run
• play with my dog and go adventuring for an hour or 2
• cook a new meal I haven't tried before
• watch a movie with my girlfriend
• take an edible
• play some games with the boys

What would I likely do?

• sleep
• mow the grass and rake leaves
• play rimworld
• watch Castle with my girlfriend
• eat leftovers

It's interesting the difference in what people think a collapsed civilization will look like.

Some people think we will "return to monke" where wilderness survival skills will be essential and people who have them will be the "main characters." That would probably be the easier and better future.

The more likely option will be technofeudalism where rich people have small, brutal armies and control localized power grids, farming operations, and politics with tech as mass migrations happen and wildlife becomes all but extinct outside of human cultivation. Survival skills won't matter when all land and food scarcity is controlled by a rich few with absolute control. The average survivalist will be wiped out with the first natural disaster or by the feudal lords with drones. Return to nature might only come after 50 years when chip supplies and power grids have dried up and fallen apart, but it would just as likely be mad-max as oil could likely still be used.

Who knows. Fascism might take over with how it is going now and solve the climate crisis with mass genocide and forcing green energy for all we know.

The thing about meshtastic is the walking distance range and limitation to text messages.

Though I don't know if it is possible to integrate a LoRAWAN concentrator with a nice collinear J-pole antenna to mount on the top of your house to move to a double digit range where it could be useful as a neighborhood mesh with multiple channels. (With the added benefit of using lorawan devices like pet trackers and things).

Still Lora smart (but local) home agriculture, water collection, etc... Is a really cool technology for large properties.

And ladies and gentlemen, that is part of the reason for the gender gap lol

MiniUSB is much more robust than microUSB. Those connectors would fail pretty quick while I have never even heard of miniUSB breaking. Fuck microUSB.

He also couldn't get hired at McDonalds for real.

They don't hire convicted felons IIRC.

At work we have ~10 people using remarkables and every one of them loves it. They just released a color version too. Extremely good for notetaking according to them. You can write and then OCR the writing, getting the benefits of pen and paper and digital.

Their entire list is odd choices except for the top 10 (even persona 5 is iffy as top 10 of all time)

They favor shooters and then place a game that had lost most of its audience in under a year as the best shooter other than doom 1 of all time.

I love helldivers, but it is a very niche game in comparison to so many others, even those on the list.

Not to mention KOTOR and DA:O as 94 and 95. Also prey is an extremely weird choice..

Can you cite a study?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJr49GU9yY

It seems like a very common misconception that is maybe somewhat correlated, but causality hasn't been found as far as I could find. Probably one of those things that are hawked by "wellness influencers" and "hack your life" youtubers without actual evidence.

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Kopia backup to secondary HDD

• Pictures (phone photos backed up to my server via immich)
• workspace (git repos, ECAD, MCAD, firmware, etc...)
• qmk layout
• Documents
• vim folder with bundles
• ebooks

KDE vaults stores on secondary HDD

Soon I will set up kopia to also back up every via SSH to my server and then small size essentials and important docs via google drive

I need to set server cloud backups too, but haven't had the time...

Easy, just let more convicted pedophile child rapists walk free after serving less than half of their already tiny sentence! Then put them in the Olympics representing your country! Just because he drugged her and "only hurt her a little" instead of holding her down.

/s context

I still have a 5 year old Jabra Elite Active 65t that is still trucking. I had a few glitches starting a year ago like the right earbud dropping in volume or it being stuck in a hung mode where they had to be completely depleted over a few weeks to reset them, they wouldn't even charge.

However, they still work fine and are super convenient with hear-through for office work compared to wired IEMs way better for all fitness activities too, just not as good for really listening to music.

Battery life is still 3-4 hours after 5 years not including the case recharge (the case battery has degraded significantly more than the earbuds themselves, probably due to the high quality VARTA cells in the earbuds)

I am going to wear them into the ground, but jabra is doing a stock sellout before their new version of buds come out, so I bought the €140 Jabra Elite 4s for €60 for when these bite the dust, but they seem to be going strong still.

I mean, the abrahamic religions seem to all try to create fascist states. Look at Israel as well as a few middle eastern fascist movements.

Then again, China has also satisfied a lot of the qualifications of fascism in the past century and they are mostly athiest IIRC.