apprehensively_human @ apprehensively_human @lemmy.ca

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There's a tradeoff with CFL bulbs between longevity and instant action. The normal expectation for a light bulb is to have it at full brightness the moment you flip the switch, but the first CFL bulbs to market often took minutes to reach peak output. Longer if they were cold.

So to meet consumer expectations, manufacturers began designing bulbs that would, on ignition, damage themselves in order to reach peak output faster.

It's no wonder the CFL bulb failed as a product, you would either get a bulb that would never be bright enough when you needed it, or you got a bulb that would burn itself out just as quickly as any incandescent for twice the price.

I've been tempted to pick up World Brothers but the character/weapon customization kind of turned me off of trying it since it's so different from earlier EDF titles. I wonder if the sequel is going to be any different.

Smart move, unless you really know what you're doing and have redundancy. When I first made the switch from Lastpass to Bitwarden I had tried to host the vault myself instead of using the cloud version, which worked fine right up until the moment I had a server outage and lost access to all my passwords.

While this is true, the act erodes confidence between users and the platform. (Whatever confidence that still remains)

One of the downsides with really good energy efficient products is that they tend to take longer to do their task compared to the old quick and dirty models.

For example you can now buy high efficiency heat pump clothes dryers which can operate on 120v without a vent, but will take far longer to dry a load of laundry than your typical electric dryer. Uninformed people who buy the product are immediately disappointed with how long they take and will call it defective.

"If my gas furnace can heat my house in seconds and for pennies, why would I spend thousands on a lousy heat pump?"

Moving maximized windows to their own workspace seems like a really cool idea. Workspace management is one of the things I struggle with so I usually just end up with way too many tiled windows on a single screen when they could be moved around more efficiently.

This is problematic because if Plex suffers an outage (which has happened before) users are suddenly unable to sign in. Even if your media server is running fine, through no fault of your own your content becomes inaccessible.

Jellyfin does not have this issue because authentication is handled locally.

However, Plex has too many nice features so I'll be staying with them for the time being. Credits/intro skipping and Plexamp are a godsend, and the UI is in my opinion way better than what Jellyfin has.

I love that this 2 year old post is suddenly picking up steam from just a tiny amount of engagement.

Without an algorithm even old dead posts are given a second chance. Much like this bike I suppose, poetic.

If I'm already running Debian 12, is this something that I have to manually upgrade to or will the security fixes have come in through the repo?

RIP EDDB

Relevant XKCD

Yup. I've had an itch to play diablo 4 and now with rumours of starcraft 3 being developed I really want them to get their act together so I can support them again.

There was a bug with screen sharing sound on Linux (and maybe macOS as well?) for a LONG time, like years, before it was eventually fixed.

Wait, this was fixed? I haven't been bothering with screen sharing because I thought this was still an issue.

Source for the article

Not to mention Metal Gear Solid, Spyro the Dragon, Turok 2, and Gex: Enter the Gecko

Foolish pedestrians. Don't you realize that the outdoors are for cars? You shouldn't be allowed to exit your home unless you immediately enter an automobile.

I'm more excited than Jim Carrey in a house of mirrors.

If there was ever a better string of words to get me to watch a video

The only reason I could afford the 5% down payment for the place I just bought was because I lucked into buying a cheap foreclosure years ago and sharing the down payment and title with a roommate. When we sold last year the amount we made back in equity was enough to put towards a cheap little old house of my own while still holding on to some for long term savings.

Without that equity I would be stuck renting for the rest of my life.

I don’t understand the law of physics that says that when I take something out of the freezer and use some of it, there’s no longer space to put the (now smaller) thing back in?

This is like when you buy some sort of disassembled product in a box and then realize later that you need to return it. Suddenly the box has become smaller because not everything seems to fit back to where it was.