Teal @ Teal @lemm.ee

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This is so damn good! :)

Thanks LrdThndr, I’ll be looking into this setup. :)

That sounds pretty good. I’ll look into this, thank you!

I’m not going to create an account. What I will be doing is looking for an alternative setup that is simple and completely local or just go back to traditional led bulbs.

This is easy for me with just one room using Hue. I feel for those who have them for all or most lighting around their home.

If Mr. X is so confident in Neuralink he should be first in line.

For someone asking, then “apologizing”, for such ridiculous money grab figures to use Unity he should have taken off the Royal Oak (I believe it’s a steel double balance openworked ~$135,000 US).

Tribble body and Lo-Pan hands makes for an interesting character! :)

“Dillon! You son of a bitch!”

Agreed! Chief O’Brien is awesome but I skip any Keiko centric episodes. Thankfully there’s not too many.

“Death to the opposition!”

That’s true. I misunderstood what was being asked.

Yes, it’s possible to search for communities from various instances as your asking. Just tap the search icon 🔍 at the bottom. Type what you’re interested, Technology for example, and then underneath the search field tap Communities with technology.

This will display a list of communities with technology in the name from various instances.

That’s so sweet! A little tippy tap dance into a down and wag! 🐾💖

You’re correct and it’s yet to be shown if the alloy will work as hoped. My post was only to help show it’s not a misleading title.

It may not ever work properly as a rare earth metal replacement but nothing about the title promises that. Just that it could and it’s being worked on. Something to be hopeful for but that’s all for now.

I don’t think it’s misleading. Tetrataenite is made up of known, common, metals but the method to produce the same exact product as found from space has not been done yet.

If it’s accomplished then the US, and in turn rest of the world, can stop relying on China for rare earth metals. This new alloy can replace the magnetic rare earth material the world needs and if it happens will be a big step forward from relying on a sole country that’s readying to slow or possibly stop supplying in the coming years.

Also, creating this alloy would be cleaner and more environmentally friendly than current mining in Mongolia that’s poisoning the land.

Quoting from the article:

“Tetrataenite can mitigate those issues. Its base metals, iron and nickel, are two of the most abundant metals on earth. They’re the standard elements in stainless steel, for example. Both are cheaper and easier to extract from the earth than rare earths, with less severe environmental repercussions.

Tetrataenite might also allow producers to bypass a crucial processing stage required to purify the metals after they’re separated from other minerals at the mine. That step is done almost entirely in China, which controls 87 percent of worldwide rare-earth processing. China so dominates the mining and processing of rare earths that in 2018, the U.S. Congress ordered the Pentagon to stop purchasing neodymium magnets made in China. Last year, several U.S. senators proposed further legislation that would prevent any defense contractors from sourcing any rare earths from China by 2026.

If we are in a confrontation with Beijing, they can stop the supply,” says the Atlantic Council’s Ariel Cohen, who notes that the U.S. currently imports 95 percent of its rare-earth compounds and magnets. “The whole supply chain has to be beefed up in the U.S.,” he says. “So if overall the process [for tetrataenite] is economical and safer or environmentally better, then why not?”

Underscoring the stakes, the U.S. Department of Defense gave Mountain Pass a $35 million grant in 2022 so that it could begin processing rare earths in California, bypassing China completely. That’s in addition to $9.6 million the Pentagon provided in 2020 to bolster the mine’s output. MP Materials is also constructing a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, that it says will churn out enough permanent magnets laden with rare earths by 2025 to power 500,000 electric vehicle motors—a quantity that could power every new electric vehicle bought in the country.

One of their biggest obstacles is finding a way to deal with temperatures. At temperatures above several hundred degrees, iron and nickel atoms like to move around. (This is what lent meteoric iron its malleability, making it popular among earlier societies and dagger-wielding Egyptian pharaohs.) But as alloys of iron and nickel cool down, the atoms inside become less mobile, and therefore less likely to arrange themselves into the tetragonal structure that creates magnetic tetrataenite. Manufacturing the material on a large scale will require researchers to dramatically speed up how atoms of iron and nickel arrange themselves into that stable tetragonal structure and remain locked in place as the metals cool to ambient temperatures.

That’s only half the challenge. Permanent magnets made of rare earths must withstand high temperatures, sometimes above 300 degrees Fahrenheit in electric-vehicle motors, for instance. But heating tetrataenite to those levels breaks down the bonds between atoms, collapsing the tetragonal structure that gives the material its impressive magnetic properties.

The real challenge is not in making the tetragonal or getting the atoms arranged the way you want them, but keeping them in that state while you go about working in the real world,” Lograsso says.“

I’m a very light user but so far so good. My usage has been mostly browsing photos.

The official app is nice. It’s Instagram like in layout and works well for my uses.

I prefer a third-party app called Vernissage because photos are the main feature. You don’t see any titles, descriptions, votes, comments unless you tap into the photo. My one dislike is how the feed updates.

When you open the app and new photos are ready you’ll see a number in the top right but nothing new is displayed. In order to see new posts you need to pull down to refresh. This takes you to the top and then allows you to scroll down until you see the “You’re all caught up” notice. To me it would be nice for the new posts to load automatically. Not a huge deal but something I think about while using it.

Totally understandable, it’s a great app. Nice to know they gave a little extra to existing customers.

Some subscriptions are fine, I’m not against them completely, but the as you said the cost of this one is steep. For my use it’s not worth it but to some others it might be.

I was a Fantastical advocate until it went to subscription model. At the time I was working in a medical office with one of my tasks being scheduling. I heard a lot of people complaining about the stock calendar and I’d often bring up Fantastical and even gave a quick example if time allowed.

Once the subscription model took over I went right back to Apple Calendar.

Great info maegul, thanks!

Very cool! Great art and thoughtful descriptions!

I don’t think hashtags are much of a thing for Lemmy but if they do have a purpose here hopefully someone more knowledgeable will explain.