My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the...
I built my own strawblae house and have worked on half a dozen others. I have designed 3 award winning homes, one of them was strawbale.
Mice aren’t a problem, the walls are sealed with clay (inside) and lime (outside) render, the mice can’t get in.
Same with fire, the straw is tight and sealed, they don’t burn. In huge bushfires in southern Australia a few years back, several families sheltered I a strawbale home as the fire passed.
Moisture not a problem if you have proper eaves and footings, which you will cos you design it properly, right?
Loads of massive benefits over brick or stick built.
I have no data on wolves sorry, but definitely dropbear proof
Well, because straight earth as in mudbrick (or concrete, normal bricks etc) is not insulation. That’s thermal mass. It stores energy. Insulation (like strawbales) slows heat movement. So you need insulation on the exterior and thermal mass on the interior for a properly thermally regulated building.
At 2 inches thick of limestone, you can sure bust it up with a sledgehammer or similar. A punch won’t do much more than hurt your hand. Still, if you take tools to the majority of homes they break quite fast.
Couldn’t say houw tall they can get but from memory I think I’ve seen 3 stories? Over that you’re talking more full on construction. I’ve seen a 4 story using super bales that was in an commercial carpentry shop
From my previous comment, it looks like NHTSA is moving faster than I predicted. We’re now at step 1, with this Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking....
Also walkable towns and cities. Also public and community spaces. Also strong interconnected communities. All these things are bad for capitalism and the ruling class and their enforcers though so don’t expect to see any change in the policy of dismantling communities
So I’ve been brooding over my second Warhammer and first Astartes army, I’m asking for suggestions and critique for the paint job and the lore I had in mind. Aretium Guard. I was thinking and please correct me for inaccuracies of a blood angel successors chapter form 13th founding, fleet based not long before finding a...
Yeah love it. The idea of their big chapter quirk being that they love the old style armour is fantastic.
And obviously, those landscapes are nuts! I wonder if you could do some extra gold trims, flourishes, embroidered capes etc as well? Check out some German/HRE armoyrs from the 1500s
I mean, that’s better than round 1 when they told the civilians where to move to and then bombed that position. At least this way they’re more dispersed…?
You’ve just said the same thing but you don’t understand.
Reducing that job from 18 months to a few weeks frees up workeder for other tasks. That means nobody gets hired to do those other tasks and people who would otherwise have good jobs have nothing.
It also means the people Stoll there can be easily coerced into working for lower wages because there’s a line of people at the door who will happily work for less since they’re currently unemployed.
That’s what replacing workers means and that’s the effect of labour reduction. It puts power into the hands of the owner of the tool instead of the people who use the tool to generate cashflow.
This is capitalism - the one with capital exploits the many without, all backed up by the exclusive right to violence of the state which is owned and run by the capital owning class.
This is a friendly reminder that medieval peasants had more freedom of movement, worked significantly less hours/days per year, and had stronger and richer community and family loves than anyone in our advanced modern society.
Well that’s a dumb thing to say. That money was stolen from other people to start with. This is like robin hood, but the rich guy steals from the poor and then gives part of it back to them so he pays less tax, which would have meant he gave more back to them…
Yeah I think that industrial agriculture is a horrifically destructive activity for the environment and humans, and less tractors and more small scale local sustainable agriculture would be great. The UN agrees with me on that one too BTW.
Yeah I think that industrial agriculture is a horrifically destructive activity for the environment and humans, and less tractors and more small scale local sustainable agriculture would be great. The UN agrees with me on that one too BTW.
Its a bit of drama but if you have a look at setting up qemu with virtual machine manager its worthwhile.
It makes virtual machines that directly utilize the hardware, meaning you can run your stripped out windows inside a window on your Linux desktop.
Its pretty hard to get your GPU to pass through but if its non-gpu oriented apps you need its perfect. My fixed windows VM boots in about 10 seconds, has next to zero network usage, uses 2 cpus and 4gb of ram, and just runs its couple of little apps no trouble every day
See this new article. The image database they looked into is called LAIOn. There are others though of course. I don’t mean google crawlers, I mean image databases for training image generators.
Based on a true story (lemmy.world)
My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the...
People are forgetting an important lesson (startrek.website)
Class War (lemmy.world)
AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says (apnews.com)
The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)
2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.
Linux users when (media1.tenor.com)
Followup on the vehicle "kill switch" mandated by the Infrastructure Bill (www.govinfo.gov)
From my previous comment, it looks like NHTSA is moving faster than I predicted. We’re now at step 1, with this Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking....
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
My first homebrew successor chapter. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
So I’ve been brooding over my second Warhammer and first Astartes army, I’m asking for suggestions and critique for the paint job and the lore I had in mind. Aretium Guard. I was thinking and please correct me for inaccuracies of a blood angel successors chapter form 13th founding, fleet based not long before finding a...
How in the hell is this possible?
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/5770e167-e786-4c37-8b56-e113b8361782.webp
Australia developing 'top secret' intelligence cloud computing system (www.abc.net.au)
I assume this is the genesis of a Five Eyes cloud platform....
Jeff Bezos-Backed Real Estate Company Is Launching A New Fund To Acquire More Single-Family Homes Across The U.S. (finance.yahoo.com)
‘Near-total internet blackout’ as Israel attacks Gaza’s south (www.aljazeera.com)
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)
AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client (www.theregister.com)
Difference between first and third world countries. (lemmy.world)
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
First RCS now this, today has been wild
South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children in a first for country's courts (edition.cnn.com)