rm_dash_r_star @ rm_dash_r_star @lemm.ee

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I've been using "Subscribed" and "Top Day" for a while. Works well for me. If I used "All" there would be a large number of communities I'd need to block. Easier to just join the ones you want to see.

No issue here on sticking with the standard Lemmy front end. I'm fine with that. Even if you hosted different front ends, I'd probably keep using the standard one. Also hope the best for you on the personal side.

Strange new Worlds. I think it's the best Star Trek series since the original. I don't think the casting is particularly great, but Anson Mount makes up for it. Like William Shatner was born to be Captain Kirk, Anson Mount was born to be Captain Pike.

I watched the whole series recently, it's on YouTube.

Some years ago I had the whole collection on VHS, tells you how long ago that was. Haven't seen it anywhere since, I'll rewatch it if I do.

I got a laugh out of that even though I think you're being serious, maybe just because it's so true. With the software and network integration of cars it's like they're becoming a platform to squeeze as much money as possible out of you. And like commercial software you can buy a car, but you sure as hell don't own it. The automaker is in control.

So yeah, fuck cars. And Tesla is spearheading that approach to automobile ownership so fuck Tesla too. If someone makes a car free of that evil network to maker shit, it's a buy for me.

As you mentioned chip lithography is hitting a wall. They're not going to be able to make things much smaller with current technology. People have been working on new ways to build these mechanisms. They're researching ways to do things at the quantum level, that's some seriously sci-fi tech.

Yes compression will always be required. The raw video they work with in production takes up enormous amounts of drive space. As things become less restricted it only means we'll be able to use less compression and higher bitrates. Though you can use fairly liberal bitrates with local storage already. I have zero issue with local videos, but I can run into compression artifacts when streaming from sites with less than optimal bitrates.

Found a good video article on Na-Ion battery technology; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQE56ksVBB4

So according to that article Na-Ion energy density is comparable to the LFP type of Li-Ion battery. That's about 20% lower than the more common types you see in consumer products and EVs. LFP has much longer cycle life and lower fire hazard so it's used where weight and space are less of a concern. However it still has the same cost and materials issues.

Na-Ion is well poised to replace LFP. The advantage is lower cost and more environmentally friendly materials. Unfortunately Na-Ion is not inline to replace the higher energy density types. As it becomes more widely adopted it may improve to the point where it can so there's hope for it.

You can buy Sodium Ion batteries already,

You see a lot of stories about the next great battery tech. I've been seeing them for years, but still Li-Ion is the ubiquitous tech.

Even if energy density is only comparable, a battery with lower fire hazard and increased longevity is sorely needed. Li-Ion batteries simply wear out too fast. Considering the replacement cost (especially for EV applications), its a huge advantage for consumers. Then there's a bonus of it being cheaper and more environmentally neutral which is also a big deal.

Of all the proclamations of a better battery, Na-Ion sounds like it might actually be a reality. That would make me happy to be rid of Li-Ion batteries once and for all. The only advantage they have is high energy density, they're a fail on every other front.

I rarely use any kind of chat, but I used IRC sometimes back in the day. I was recently working on a thing where I needed to use Discord for some programming advice. I got the info I needed, but yeah that Discord is a convoluted mess. Newer hardly ever means better.

Funny, when I was a little kid my grandmother had a Zenith TV with that exact remote. I still remember the long throw and clank of those buttons. TV remotes were uncommon then so I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Yeah dating myself here.

I just finished Season 2, have to say I enjoyed Season 1 more. Despite what Tennant claims the writers are pretty irreverent about traditional Christian views. He's probably correct in saying it doesn't outright promote Satanism, but it certainly takes it lightly. Doesn't bother me in the least, it's supposed to be comedic satire. Though if you subscribe to traditional Christian views and have no sense of humor (which there is a dearth of these days), don't watch that show, it will make you really mad.

BTW, the flaming Bentley at the conclusion of Season 1 was comedy genius.

I had flip phones before smartphones became default, I loved the intuitiveness of answering, locking, etc, and I love the idea of a foldable smartphone because of the size of the screen that you can get into a pocket

Same here, was on flip phones for the longest time. I loved the compactness. They became scarce some years ago so I started buying smart phones, currently a Samsung. That thing is huge and unwieldy. It does not fit well in a pocket so I don't carry it around. I always have to find someplace to stow it, often in the center console of my car.

A folding smart phone could be a solution, but they're all really expensive. I don't spend a lot on phones and never will. Right now I'm looking to replace my under $300 Samsung with an under $300 Motorola. Functionally my Samsung works well, but I hate all the Samsung bloatware on it. I know Motorola uses a fairly stock Android image and hopefully it will be a bit more compact.

Except Samsung has competition. Apple has blind loyalty.

I need to replace my Samsung phone soon and I'm looking at Motorola. An Apple user just says I need to replace my phone soon. Then they get to spend an arm and a leg to do it.

I'm not a big book reader, but a friend got me "The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works". It's sitting on my nightstand when I can motivate to crack a boot. The book I finished before it was "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" by Stephen Hawking.

I like reading works from Scientists. I can't understand their research papers because of the math, but I enjoy the works they do for the layman.

In the 19th century internal combustion engines commonly ran on grain alcohol, but it was too expensive and too hard to mass produce so they went to petroleum based fuels. Electric cars have existed since the invention of the electric motor, but they've always been held back by battery technology. An electric car that uses hydrogen fuel cells in conjunction with batteries would be more environmentally neutral while improving usability, but the cost of fuel cells and logistics of hydrogen fuel makes it infeasible.

Advancement in our way of life has always been driven by profit. If it's not profitable, forget it. Advancement may even be held back by companies that see it as a threat to profit. Environmental impact has historically been a background concern. It's not until the damage has become an actual threat has it moved to a forefront consideration. And solutions are mostly driven by government, not the responsible profiteers.

Tech is now pushing toward sustainable solutions, but it's still profit driven. Business is looking to capitalize on new markets that have been opened up by government subsidy and popular opinion. It should have been there from the start, but the desire was never there. The attitude of government and big business in the first half of the 20th century was destructive. They felt the Earth was a resource to be plundered without regard for anything but profit.

We have to turn around over a century of damaging industry and way of life. It's got a lot of inertia and it's going to be hard to do. I think the human race is going to have to reap what it has sown and it could get pretty bad. We'll have to get through it and change our way of life so it doesn't happen again. If we become caretakers instead of destroyers the Earth can survive this era of human impact and heal much like it has for natural calamities in the distant past.

1000 billionaires, sounds like a great plan. They did so well last time.

Getting the flotation is actually not that difficult in terms of engineering since Venus has a crazy thick atmosphere. Not hard to float a balloon at an altitude of a few Earth atmospheres. Problem is your life is dependent on the reliability of the floatation system. It would take a lot of attention to fail safe design. That OceanGate organization would be like "the wrong stuff".

There's other engineering challenges in colonizing Venus such as solar radiation. Venus has no magnetosphere to protect against ion radiation from the Sun and being closer it's much more intense than Mars. Then you'd have to tether the balloon somehow, Venus has some strong vertical winds. That's going to be like thirty miles of cable to the scalding 900F surface. Venus has clouds of sulfuric acid so that's going to present a materials challenge. It's a tough sell, greatly easier to colonize Mars.

It's like when Elon started blowing smoke about colonizing the moons of Jupiter. If not already aware, Jupiter emits the most radiation of any solar body second only to the Sun. The moons around Jupiter are seriously toxic to human life. They can't even get a probe to last more than a year around Jupiter due to radiation exposure, let alone a manned spacecraft.

Old English from a millennia ago sounds like a foreign language, even early modern English from Shakespeare's time sounds pretty odd. So it depends on when the translation was done. With English it's common for newly invented words to get popularized and end up in the dictionary. The same kind of thing happens with grammar. Conversely people still sometimes use obsolete words from early modern English as a way to emphasize a statement.

The grammar of that quote may be due to the English translation of the time or something he simply interpreted in his own way. It sounds grammatically off for contemporary English, but that's relative to the time frame. I imagine the English we speak today may sound odd to someone a few hundred years from now.

I've never used a web app for desktop browser. In fact I even use a uBO filter to block the PWA icon, under "My filters"