JohnEdwa

Come run it in Finland during the summer months, we have too much solar and wind generation then and electricity is often free or even goes negative every once in a while.

Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can’t turn their computers off, now they complain when they can’t turn them on…

Though if you are in extremely cold weather areas, like Alaska, it actually doesn’t help at all as the permafrost keeps the basement walls and floor frozen all year round down hundreds of metres (~3 times as many hundreds of feet)

But anywhere the ground isn’t frozen, go down a few floors and it usually stabilizes somewhere around 15C/60F no matter the ambient air temperature. Fantastic for geothermal heatpumps - warmth in the winter, cooling in the summer.

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Spring assisted switchblades are illegal in quite a few countries, so I imagine they are in Italy as well. Still completely ridiculous, as these are plastic toy replicas, and not actual knives.

It’s using a whole bunch of Steam Deck spare parts bought from iFixit, and a few after market upgrades like hall effect sticks and an extremerate shell replacement. Buying a single trigger (just the plastic R2/L2 trigger, mind you) for $20 to fix a broken $500 Deck isn’t too bad, but trying to build an entire controller from spares is really not economically sensible.

But if you did indeed have those parts already for some reason, the rest is all rather cheap, common components. Cannibalize a Deck, and the extra cost would probably be well under $50.
…plus the $500 to buy a replacement Deck, so don’t actually do it.

If you want to make it singular like he/she/it, then make it singular.

He has a car, she has a car, they has a car.
He was friendly, she was friendly, they was friendly.
He sounds fine, she sounds fine, they sounds fine.

Notice the issue?
A singular they is an okay concept, but you then have actually allow it to be singular, in every use - a direct replacement for he/she with no other word or sentence changes necessary.

It is still the same installation method, directly installing the .apk file, from way back when the term for Android usage was defined. So, kinda, but also kinda not. Also, if you do use ADB to do the install from a PC, the command is “ADB sideload filename” which will do the transfer and installation to the memory directly. Then it truly is sideloading as defined.

Android doesn’t use ROMs (Read-only Memory) any more either, because the filesystems are now writable. But Lineage etc are still called custom ROMs, because the end result hasn’t changed.

It’s not a “bullshit new term”, it’s three decades old and means transferring files locally from one device to another, instead of directly downloading or uploading from/to an external server.

The origin goes back to MP3.com and i-drive in late 90’s, but the most common sideloading people did was downloading music to their PC using services like iTunes, and transferring them to their mp3 players. As they did often with early PDA and smartphone apps, where the term for Android comes from - get the .apk on your computer, transfer it to your phone, and install it.
Sideloading.

The fact that they can sell you a car without having to give you all of the terms and conditions is kinda nuts. Imagine if you went to buy a house and they just went “Nuh uh, pay first, we give you all the HOA rules and city ordinance laws you have to follow afterwards. What is in them? It’s a mYsTeRy!”.

AFAIK it’s a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren’t federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.

Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.

Eh, the anthropocene extinction event will be like the sixth big one, something periodically wiping out a ton of species and life restructuring itself is kinda just natural at this point. As the saying goes, life will find a way. It’ll look different, but just like the previous five times, it’ll do just fine.

It will, don’t worry.

Artists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don’t find to be much better of an alternative. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I’ve switched over, but many do not because there aren’t enough users.

But I haven’t actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?

Well, yes. Dumping high concentrations will instantly kill everything in the waterway, diluting them and doing it slowly means they can handle it and survived.

Heck, the ocean is full of salt, but if you started dumping high-concentrated brine off a beach you’d kill every animal and plant on sight, just as you would kill yourself drinking said brine. But it would be quite hard to argue that you can’t safely put salt in the ocean, or add some to your food, once it is diluted to a safe level.

The question is how much of something total can the ocean handle before it becomes a problem. And for many things the answer is, quite literally, that it is just a drop in the ocean.

Any temperature below somewhere around 60F/15C is “deadly cold”, as in your survivability depends entirely in how well you are clothed as you will eventually die of hypothermia otherwise, the only variable being how long it takes. Kinda like how you can get a 3rd degree burn with 44C water, it just takes 6 hours.

-12C really isn’t all that cold - lowest temperature in northern Finland this winter so far has been -42,8C / -45F - but it is a temperature where you will need to pay some attention on how you dress for it. For me, it’s around (-10 to 15c depending on the wind) where I’ll put on long-johns in the morning and add a sweater instead of just having a t-shirt under my jacket.

He doesn’t want to be the president of the solar system, there’s no oil anywhere so what’s the point.

Also the US already has a military base in Greenland and has for many decades. In fact, they used to have dozen or so during the Cold War. And because the area is apparently such vital importance to the defence of the US, they currently have… 150 soldiers stationed there.
In the one base they have kept.

Very, very important location. Vital for defence.

Well to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol’ ripe age of 12.

This whole “you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult” thing is really recent in human history all things considering.

Ah, such nostalgia. I used a complex password until they forced monthly resets on us and I forgot mine a few times. After that, “FuckingPassword1”, “FuckingPassword2”, FuckingPassword3" etc with a mysterious post-it note on my table with a single number. Very memorable, still remember it well after a decade.