SkyeStarfall

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 7 months ago

Why should legality matter? What are laws? It's rules that the government put down for everyone to follow. And what happens if someone controls all aspects of the government?

Legality is meaningless in the face of fascism, because the fascist government will be making the laws. it's like asking why it wasn't illegal to do genocide in nazi Germany. Or asking why it wasn't enforced by law to hide jews from the nazis to protect them

Legality is not relevant. Legality is not morality or a foundation for ethics. Legality is just the will of the government, for better or for worse. It is not something that necessarily serves the people's beat interests

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don't know enough about the subjects to go into details, but I know enough to say that that is reductive. ARM/alternatives are not inherently better, at least not universally. And, especially because of the inertia, I do not expect x86 to be fully replaced on the desktop any time soon. The motivations behind companies such as Apple using ARM likely have more to do with licensing than anything else

It's probably more useful to think of x86 and ARM as slightly different tools that are slightly better suited to different tasks. Desktop, server (and possibly high-performance) computing are x86's specialty, and I do not expect it to be replaced

All-in-all, from what I know, the practical differences between ARM and x86 are nowhere near large enough to be compared to something like the electric vs internal combustion engine. It's probably closer to a difference of, say, a typical train and a subway

But, please read up on this yourself. I am not an expert in hardware, this is just what i casually picked up as a layperson

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 7 months ago (12 children)

It's very much not? It's not even certain if an alternative architecture will ever fully replace it

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

Not being happy in a relationship is enough to move on. You don't really owe anything to someone who isn't fulfilling your needs

Of course have a chat about things first if relevant, but it seems like you already have done enough

Realize your self worth, and take care of yourself

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Actually, yeah, you highlight a very important point

Were effectively ceding parts of our humanities to commercialization/capitalism, and then subconsciously not allowing ourselves to participate in those things anymore, eroding our humanness

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Uh, that's not how orbital mechanics work

And also, let's say we have to remove 10% of the moon's mass to noticeably affect the tides (and it's not enough to just mine it, you'd also need to remove it from the moon's gravity well which is... A whole thing by itself, so let's ignore that for funsies), which is about 7*10^21 kg. I can't find statistics for total mining activity, but we mine about 2.6 * 10^12 kg iron each year. Let's just take the 10x value of that to be safe, 2.6*10^13 "stuff" mined each year

In order to mine 10% of the moon's mass, it'd take roughly 10^8 years, or written out, 100 000 000 years

And, as mentioned, this is while ignoring that you'd need to actually remove the moon's mass from its gravitational well, which simply won't be done at this scale

Worrying about this problem is so ridiculously out of scope that it's laughable

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's been 4 years though

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

Idk, I regularly replace milk in recipes with soy milk. Usually you can just substitute milk like this, just make sure to consider the peculiarities of the milk alternative you're using.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

That's fascism for you. That's where the US is headed

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why a gas burner specifically? Induction stove tops are more controllable

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 121 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I don't think it's a criticism? It's more about highlighting the slight absurdity of super-high tech power generation still using the same method that has been used since the very start of electricity generation. A turbine spun by evaporated water.

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