SoleInvictus

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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Linux has come SO far. I first tried it about a decade ago, wrecked my install, and came crawling back to Windows. A few months back, I installed Ubuntu (tease all you want, peanut gallery, it's better than Windows) on my laptop and it's so much better. It just works great, I have my system customized to how I want it to work, and the poor CPU fan is no longer blasting even when the system is idle. My battery life also gained almost an hour.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The blind or vision impaired would appreciate this. Past that, hard pass.

It's a little racist, i.e., utilizing the stereotype that Africans are savages.

I appreciate their optimism.

It's the term we need to use until it's generally accepted. Thanks for fighting the good fight.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's the new screen-mirrored laptop, taking the development of open-source software to the next level with real-time, in-room code transparency.

This is "truth" social, where the idiot in chief can ramble incoherently as long as they'd like.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yep. Only potatoes and salt, plus multivitamins to make up for the massive nutritional defecit, for 5 days. I was already experimenting with an elimination diet due to food allergies and a friend mentioned this week long potato diet to help reduce food cravings. Potatoes were a safe food so I thought I'd give it a try.

It was awful. Day 4's dinner was an entire pizza.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I tried this with potatoes. It's miserable and I broke after four days.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I spent like twenty minutes looking. I'm stumped!

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, even though it sounds adorable, that's a myth. There's nothing about bees or bumblebees that would make their flight theoretically problematic.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Failed electrical engineering major here - it turned out I was built to be a scientist, not an engineer, but it took a year of EE classes to figure that out.

Regarding energy storage, capacitors aren't much different than batteries, but they can charge/discharge faster, have lower energy density (units of stored energy per units mass), and self-discharge faster, hence why they aren't used in place of batteries. For something where weight and volume aren't an issue and with no need for long-term storage, like a solar-equipped house, a huge cap would be a great option. I'm trying to figure out how to build one of what's described it the article now.

The rate at which a capacitor discharges varies just like a battery, proportional to the resistance of the circuit. The reason most folks associate capacitors with "shorted terminals go boom" is the maximum rate of discharge on a capacitor is much higher than a battery, plus some capacitors operate at a much higher voltage than is practical for a battery, increasing the likelihood of generating a small arc. Shorting the terminals with a conductor makes a low resistance circuit so it just dumps its charge, whereas a battery would max out at a much lower rate, typically making a toasty wire versus a vaporized or melted wire.

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