Opafi @ Opafi @feddit.de

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Last year I needed a new phone. The Xperia V (I think) just got released and seemed perfect... But in the end I decided against it because of their horrendous update roadmap and large phone sizes. I'm not going to buy a new phone every three years and I hate phones that can't be used with one hand - and despite doing a lot of things right, those two points are just not addressed by Sony. I want their compact range back and I want Fairphone levels of updates.

Meh, use latex and git. Then you won't have those stupid file names.

Tags on the other hand are the gift that keeps on giving.

git tag -a v0.999c -m "really the final draft this time, for sure"

Good. I hate bags that keep that precious garbage juice to themselves.

Same. The Linux setup there is a fucking mess though... AD authentication freezes login for a minute or so if you switch networks at the wrong moment, puppet keeps messing with the system and recently they installed clamav as a live malware scanner on all machines, making them eat batteries for breakfast and slowing down even menial tasks. If you have admin rights, they refuse to add your user to sudoers but instead create a new admin user (another indicator that they're just really coming from windows) which everybody just uses to add their original user to sudoers, which was a nice workaround but which they now noticed and want to prohibit via puppet or user rights or something. It's just such a mess. I mean, still leagues ahead of using windows, but a corporate environment really is a machine that transforms time and money into a terrible experience for everybody.

You know, the universe doesn't offer much beyond that ship called the Enterprise... What could they possibly do?

The on screen keyboard. Strategy games (civ and stellaris in my case). Desktop mode. Sometimes even 1st/3rd person view games when I'm not in the mood for gyro controls. Browsing (did you know you can usually "spin" your left touch pad iPod-style to scroll?). Stuff like that.

Maybe just go fuck yourself? Those people died trying to make this world a little bit more humane. What have you done with your life so far?

No touch pads? No deal. They're just that good.

You think Germans know how to joke?

This. Had to replace my trusted s10e. Picked the smallest I could get, which was an s23. It's too big.

I'm not sure if I'm convinced. Could you post a screenshot of a solved captcha to prove it?

^/s

Man, I'm just preaching to the choir here it seems, but yeah, Voyager as well.

Nice. So, I have an encfs folder on a cloud storage. Any way to use vaults to access it? Haven't even found a way to load existing folders that were set up with vaults, let alone using something else...

Well, I didn't know it, so I won't ignore this post! You can't tell me what to do!

Don't get the problem. Professor picks conference, grad student submits paper and professor's group pays the trip. Isn't that how it's done? I always enjoyed those conferences.

The channel in my example only needs to be opened with one month's pay, not 6 years worth. The same initial balance goes repeatedly goes back and forth across the channel as it is paid and spent.

You're assuming that all funds are spent every month. Like, January 31st the balance is 0. That won't work. I guess you'll just have to discuss with your employer how much you want to save vs how much you want to spend, just so they can fill the channel properly. Exactly what my employer's business is. You know what's great, too, about having a shared escrow with my employer that they put my money in? They know how much I spend. Not what people like. Easy to avoid though: just use a third arbitrator that manages the channel for that scenario. And bam, we're back with banks and PayPal. Lol, it's such a dumb system...

Ah, lightning... The dumbest idea ever to happen to bitcoin.

Those channels need to be filled with btc before they work. Who can do that? I certainly can't do that for 6 years in advance. I'm certain my employer can't do that for all his employees. You know what players can create large lightning channels? Banks! Why on earth would anyone who likes the idea of btc, with its promise of "your keys, your coins" suddenly go back to a banking system where an arbitrary third party service can just lock your funds because they dislike what you spend your money for? Lightning has been 10 years in the making but the idea hasn't been picked up and I'm certain it never will. Because not only does the current implementation and user experience suck hard but because it literally copies the banking system that btc came to fight, giving users an experience that has literally no advantage at all compared to PayPal or visa. 10 years and even you are still all "would" and "could" in how you describe it.

If your argument why pow crypto isn't energy hungry is that you don't even have to use pow crypto but can just rely on an entirely different tech tacked to it in order to reduce usage of the core tech, fine. I guess it still proves my point. Besides the issue that nobody uses that broken piece of crap, the issue of course remains that there's still no indication that it's less energy hungry per transaction than any banking system. Banks are good at one thing, which is managing money. If you think that they're intentionally wasting terawatthours of energy because of laziness or incompetence you're mistaken. Distributing it to the users won't cost less energy and I have no idea where that notion comes from.

Their math is nonsense because that document compares total energy consumption instead of consumption per transaction. That's like saying Lamborghinis are the most efficient cars on the road because their summed up fuel consumption is lower than that of all VWs or all Toyotas (or probably even all bicycles).

There.

/edit I just needed to come back to this comment because that document really makes me irrationally angry. It's not just that it doesn't compare energy consumption per transaction, it's also that especially btc is pretty much the worst offender when it comes to energy per transaction. It's not just that it consumes more energy if more transactions are scheduled... Once the blocks are full, the users spend horrendous fees to get their transactions through in time, meaning that suddenly it becomes economically viable to spend a lot more on mining to be the one to find the next block with all those precious transaction fees. Btc's energy footprint literally explodes once the blocks are at capacity - and at that point btc is still orders of magnitude away from visa or banks and their transaction volume. That problem is so bad that other cryptos have written their protocols to automatically increase block size once the volume increases or simply forked away from btc to allow bigger blocks (which was necessary because the miners have absolutely no incentive to increase the block size as it's obviously in their best interest to earn money with transaction fees). Proof of work crypto is literally the worst offender when it comes to energy efficiency, with high performance computing centres spending incomprehensible amounts of energy to solve the mathematical equivalent of Sudokus, just to be eligible to retrieve the next prize as the first solver of that puzzle with no gain for humanity from all that spent energy whatsoever. It's as if banks insisted on all transfers being brought to the next bank using a pick up truck that is only allowed to drive in first gear and at max rpm, just because.

And for what? Power to the people? Instead of a handful of banks, the important cryptos are now in the hands of a handful of miners, but without the consumer protection laws that banks have to follow. Great job.

A crypto mining company is your source for claims that crypto mining companies operate ethically?