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And yet, it is still true. Renewables that work via environmental factors like wind and solar will always be reliant on something else to help store excess power, and those storage options are still very limited. Battery storage is taking off, but it is still nowhere near the level to run an entire city for an extended period of time like overnight.

We still need a base load option that's reliably available at any time and quickly scaleable to handle burst demand. That is currently handled by fossil fuels, and can be directly replaced via nuclear, essentially as a drop in nearly 1 for 1 replacement.

The problem with current battery tech, even the experimental stuff, is just the sheer capacity needed for something that can get close to powering a city through renewable gaps, like overnight for solar. It necessitates looking at alternate "battery" options outside of traditional battery tech. Battery storage can help extremely well for outages and instability, but providing a city amount of power for potentially 8-12 hours of renewable downtime is an entirely different story.

Things like pumped hydro storage, or solar heat batteries are good examples of alternatives. Your "battery" isn't storing electricity directly, but instead an energy form that you can then take back out later to generate electricity from. Unfortunately most of those also have specific requirements that aren't very universal, like most city-scale renewables.

The best is almost always going to be a combination of things, but that is rarely the cost effective option, and sadly that's what really matters with our current systems. Fossil fuel options are almost always the cheapest to build and operate, largely because they don't actually have to deal with their pollution.

I had been considering upgrading, my current 4 bay Synology is physically full and running out of storage space. Moving that to a larger Synology box and adding drives would be easiest, basically plug and play.

But now instead I'll probably just switch to a more traditional NAS instead. Run TrueNAS, or maybe give HexOS a look. If I'm going to have to convert from my current proprietary Synology filesystem anyway I might as well rebuild from scratch. As it is I've shifted all the services off the Synology and Docker to a dedicated Proxmox box.

I get so tired of these shit takes that obviously haven't put much thought into the topic based on the clear barely surface level perspective, but love to repeat the same talking points confidently.

1. It's a research reactor, it will be relatively small because it's not intended to provide a production power source.
2. It can operate 24 hours a day, independent of weather or most external variables.
3. Its power is variable and can handle varying loads on demand.

Most renewables like solar and wind cannot handle the second and third points well, of at all. And options that can like hydro and geothermal power are very location dependent.

You need to stop thinking of nuclear as an alternative to renewables and instead as the replacement for the fossil fuel plants that provide base power generation 24/7/365 like coal, gas, and the peaker plants.

Renewables alone do not solve modern societal power needs, but we can replace fossil fuels immediately with better options, like nuclear. As it is uranium power plants are extremely misunderstood by the public from decades of disinformation from the fossil fuel AND renewable industries and a fundamental misunderstanding of radioactivity by the public. Thorium specifically goes around that by removing the uranium Boogeyman, and meltdown risk. Most molten salt reactor designs operate on a Fail-Safe design principle that doesn't require power to continuously cool the fuel to prevent meltdown like most current uranium reactors do, instead requiring power to prevent that failsafe, often via an ice plug actively keeping the fuel in the system for operation.

I think they were saying the car software wouldn't add artificial distances to short trips, where it's more obvious. Not that the real world measurement is difficult or anything like that.

See, that's very true.. but he clearly is doing some shit on his own. The tariffs serve no useful purpose, not for political gain, or for the billionaires, it is actually bad for them. They're stuck trying to ride the wild and unplanned market volatility from the inconsistencies and rollbacks.

If anything, it seems like that's the shiny thing they're letting him focus on so he doesn't do other stupid shit that gets in the way of the actual plans.

I mean... I don't think it's exceptional for an American politician to want to see a prison setup for American detainees.

That assumes he didn't need all that to pay back Russian debts immediately.

I wouldn't be surprised if 20 years from now we find out that Trump money directly funded the continued Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Not a billionaire, that's for sure. Him being so sensitive about it and never wanting to appear less than that, proves it, and it's been the case for decades.

Got to admit, he's accomplished a shit ton in his first 100 days already, way more than basically any president in history.

He's doing a fantastic job of destroying the country in every single way simultaneously. Not just destroying the democracy directly, but all American influence and soft power worldwide. He has already managed to do more damage to America than any terrorist attacks ever could have imagined, in record time.

US Senators generally get what they want with these types of things, especially when they visit in person. They're direct representatives of the Legislative Branch of the US government, and have as much, if not more control than the Executive Branch (when they are actually doing their job).

Telling a Senator no, in person, generally isn't something you do unless you don't have another choice. Like if the person they want to talk to is actually dead but you have been saying they're alive.

There aren't many multiplayer games without loot boxes, limited time offers for real money, or pay to win mechanics anymore.

Fuck multiplayer. Been there, did that for years before it turned to shit.

Modern multiplayer games all just use gambling addiction tactics and FOMO to keep you coming back instead of providing a good experience.

I mean, he probably was if we go by what he supposedly stood for. But actually tending to that dichotomy with their shitty world view tends to break their brains.

When you find yourself on the other side from Big Bird, Mr. Rogers, and Captain America, you need to do some serious reevaluation.

A reminder that Fox News was/is actively against Mister Rogers and everything he stood for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lmR_357rA

It honestly like the most knowledgeable people are the worst to get useful information out of. They may think certain things are obvious, or link things together in a way that you don't, so you can't follow their internal thought process to fill in gaps.

I wish they'd do the same with me. Customer Support wears on your soul in a way most other jobs don't come anywhere near.

And technical support becomes this weird combination of accuracy for troubleshooting and diagnosis, combined with a client that lies to you (often they don't know they're lying, sometimes they do) about the issue or what their role is with the issue. Actually now that I think about it, seems a lot like medicine. House actually has a lot of parallels with technical support.

You haven't worked a customer service or support position before have you? Not everyone has the same explicit definitions for things. You don't know what they consider the "screen" on their device. I worked in retail repairing phones for over a decade and saw customers refer to "screen" for every different component of the touchscreen assembly. and sometimes things completely unrelated to the display or touch at all. And that doesn't even get into the possibility of language differences when we're talking in an online community like lemmy.

At a separate job handling insurance replacements and reimbursements, I had a customer one time argue when processing a replacement TV for their current one that wouldn't turn on. They were extremely insistent that it wasn't broken. It wouldn't turn on, but it wasn't broken. Their definition of "broken" only meant physical damage, something just not working at all wasn't broken. Hell, people still refer to the computer monitor as the computer, or the tower/box as the CPU.

We also don't know how bad the damage to the screen assembly is without a photo at least. It could be that the LCD/LED is damaged and not clearly visible, but enough of it is still visible to enter your PIN if you can find a way around the touch interaction. We're missing information, and making assumptions about the situation based on explicit definitions that you know doesn't necessarily translate to an end user.

A broken touchscreen doesn't mean you can't see what's on the screen. OP said its "unusable", but we don't know if that just means just the touch is unusable or if the actual LCD/LED is damaged as well.

Most people have no idea you can use a mouse or keyboard on the phone at all, so they'd consider the touch not working to mean the entire phone is unusable since they can't interact with it the one way they've ever used.

We just don't really have all the information, we don't need to be making assumptions that could easily be wrong as well and ignore possible easy solutions for their problem.

To be fair the bagging area issue is usually caused by a bad configuration, and usually weight based, not camera recognition.

Different stores setup those systems with varying parameters, some are so strict that just regular product variances go outside their limits.