(Speaking of the near-unfathomable profitability of the surveillance business model, take a min to contemplate what the ability to pay tens of billions to cement their dominant position means vis-a-vis the revenue that dominant position redounds to Google.)
Many people seem to be under the impression that series hybrid drivetrains (where the ICE powerplant turns a generator which powers a motor) are superior to parallel hybrid (where the ICE can spin the wheels directly).
I think a lot of this comes from knowledge of diesel-electric locomotives, and trains are known to be efficient. But, in fact, those trains would be even more efficient if they could parallelize the diesel engine - that's just really hard, and isn't the point.
@the_other_jon No sir, you missed the point. The point is that TC was making an Apple to Oranges comparison, (Volt vs. prius) which is what I was trying to (apparently poorly) highlight by also making an A2O comparison (X6 vs Prius) that points to the opposite conclusion.
Yes, there are losses when converting energy types, but there are also losses when running an engine at suboptimal RPMs, especially when doing it over and over again, as one does through a traditional gearbox.
So I guess #Meta#threads federation is DOA, eh? I suspect it's one of those things that they kept in their back pocket to roll out if they ended up being "too" successful? To combat anti-trust, monopolistic legislation. But instead the opposite has happened and Threads is failing miserably. Sounds like they just rushed a half-baked product out the door to capitalize on Musk's BS.
@gray There absolutely is. It just contributes to more fragmentation of messaging apps. A messaging app is useless if I can't send messages to the people on it. If by "messaging app" you mean another client for existing messaging protocols (ie: Matrix or XMPP) that's fine.
@raddude12 as for why it concerns me: believe it or not other people's choices affect you. If I use Signal, and my friend uses "Sup." we cannot chat with each other without moving or downloading another app. Now multiply this scenario by the dozens of different chat apps already in existence and you start to get some perspective.
@raddude12 adding another app that adds nothing on top of the hundreds of chat apps already in existence just makes life more complicated and provides nothing.
@SunflowerUnruh You can personally block entire instances such as threads. It's very easy and I've done it many times (mostly to avoid instances clearly made for alternate languages that are not marked appropriately).
I'm officially done with #linux . @protonvpn quit working. I have no idea how to fix it. Tried to uninstall it from the software pane but it just...doesn't. It acts like it's uninstalled, but its not. The killswitch, however, is still on, with no way to disable it. I can no longer access internet from @fedora. All support documentation sends me into the terminal. The commands return a generic error. I don't have time for this. Not looking for support, just giving feedback.
Consider updating your story settings to make sure new friends can see what you share & anyone who youโve fallen out of touch with no longer sees dispatches from your life.
Go to the Stories tab at the bottom of your phone > click your profile icon > Story Privacy > curate your list however you like.
@feditips@fediverse Is there a Fedi version of something like Facebook Groups? Social circles for a specific topic? Calckey looks like it has something similar but they are currently not federated and also I've found the platform in general to be very unstable.
Thinking I want to build my first personal home server. I have a #Synology#NAS DS220j but I'm thinking it's probably not adequate for Plex transcoding, among other tasks. I have a spare #Ryzen 2700x and 16GB DDR4, and also a 2060 Super (does a server benefit from a GPU?). Looking for any advice #fosstodon would be willing to share regarding hardware and software solutions.
Also, you can set up Friendica to work with XMPP. To wit:
Server admins can configure their ejabberd or prosody XMPP/Jabber servers to authenticate against the Friendica user database. If configured this way, every Friendica account is also a XMPP/Jabber account and can be used with any XMPP/Jabber client.
So XMPP is a totally valid protocol you can use with the Fediverse right now. As for why few people do this, I donโt know. Maybe they really do believe that Google โkilledโ XMPPโwhich is, in fact, untrue.
@atomicpoet@robertnorlyn but presumably the majority of those "specialists" are using that standard for it's intended purpose? If you invented a new standard and sent a vector image to someone in .abc and the software they used couldn't do anything with that file, would it be useful?
@AntennaPod How do I get the app to show the name of the podcast in my "Episodes" queue. I'm getting a bunch of episodes in there and I have no idea who is publishing them.
