Viper_NZ

@Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz

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Viper_NZ,

I threw Ubuntu 24.04 in a VM it’s been a few years since I’ve used it.

I was unpleasantly surprised.

Viper_NZ,

I have a nasty feeling it’s going to be like Halo without Marty O’Donnell - bland music that is completely and utterly forgettable.

Viper_NZ,

The old version of EM6 was so much better :(

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

Viper_NZ,

Two to three times what Spotify pay artists per stream.

Viper_NZ,

I’ve been with Tidal since. I miss the Spotify recommendation algorithm but that’s it.

Viper_NZ,

I tried Ubuntu again recently for the first time in years.

Between Snaps and having to create an account to get security updates, I quickly gave up on it.

Viper_NZ,

iPhone has enormous market dominance in the US and no sideloading.

Viper_NZ,

ME3 was an amazing game up until the last ten minutes

Viper_NZ,

The thing that I loved about Mass Effect was the characters.

Andromeda’s characters were straight up uninteresting or plain annoying.

Viper_NZ,

It’ll never be cost effective compared to pure electric. It’s simply far less efficient so the energy costs will remain higher.

Viper_NZ,

Hydrogen has its own problems with rare metals like platinum and palladium.

Even setting aside the energy loss, the cost of compression, chilling, storage etc is much more expensive than both fossil and ev charging infrastructure. Scale will help but it’s simply not there.

I can see a future in aviation for fuel cells but for shipping I think it far more likely we’ll see something like ammonia fuel cells taking centre stage. It’s vastly more easy to transport and a leak at sea isn’t as big a deal.

Light passenger vehicles? Never going to happen. It arrived 20 years too late.

Viper_NZ,

It’s why I don’t see ammonia being used outside of shipping.

Scale won’t get to fix FCEV light vehicle transport because is simply chicken and egg.

Unless governments pump billions into hydrogen infrastructure there’s simply no financial return for any investors. And why should governments do that when BEVs are already solving the decarbonisation issue?

Battery technologies like Lithium Iron Phosphate and Sodium Ion are here and solve the material issues. And once the materials are mined they enter a circular economy.

Fast forward 30 years and most new car batteries will be made from old ones.

Viper_NZ,

The short version is: Because people are making and buying the batteries. Hydrogen has failed to scale.

They’ve been ripping hydrogen stations out in the UK, Norway, California. Hydrogen may as well be Betamax or HD-DVD at this point.

Edit: I’ll be quite happy if I’m wrong. I would love to see more widespread decarbonisation assuming the hydrogen wasn’t blue.

Viper_NZ,

Coercion, mobilisation and straight up press gangs.

Viper_NZ,

So much for frontline staff not being impacted…

Viper_NZ,

And helpfully, the social fabric is so strained at the moment with anti-vax nonsense that even the most basic advice like “stay home if you’re sick” or “try not to cough directly onto the face of anyone” would be meet with insane opposition.

Viper_NZ,

It happily uses epub and not proprietary formats.

The only downside to my Kobo is Amazon’s walled garden exclusive books being unavailable.

Viper_NZ,

I have my washer and dryer on an isolated network. It’s actually useful to be able to tell if they’re done without walking to the other end of the house to check.

Viper_NZ,

The laundry is next to the garage and I work from the exact opposite end of the house.

Is also a front loader that’s pretty quiet even when spinning.

Viper_NZ,

Mine does too but can run up to 45 minutes over time depending on how it adjusts the load, water temp etc.

The dryer is a sensor heat pump dryer so I have zero idea whether it’s going to take 30 minutes or 2 hours.

It’s a feature I find useful, I can isolate it on my network and I didn’t pay extra for it.

Seems weird to be defending it.

Viper_NZ,

I have a front loader that takes anything from 1.5 - 3 hours depending on water temperature, load size etc.

It may tell me 2 hours when I start it, and still be going 2 hours 20 minutes later.

The dryer next to it is even worse when it comes to guessing duration, so having a notification pop up next to me is helpful.

'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour (www.newshub.co.nz)

Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?

Viper_NZ,

My kid’s best friend came to school a fortnight ago with a ‘bit of a runny nose or cough’. Thanks to that decision I’m now the sickest I’ve been in ~20 years with COVID.

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