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BombOmOm

@ BombOmOm @lemmy.world

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  • Because bread tastes better than key

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  • I wish they would do that for me

    They do. It's why your first A/B question doesn't look like a giant blurry mess. The machine already got it close, now they are fine tuning the final result with your input.

  • Because bread tastes better than key

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  • they’ll even test you against the ones you already tested against

    Yep, they are trying to get you as close as possible to your best prescription. So making sure is important.

  • Tomorrow +45

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  • The SSA has a neat Actuarial Life Table, which informs how long the average person of a specific age will live. As you get older, your average life-span actually increases, as we can now factor out that you didn't die at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4...38, 39 years of age.

    The average adult male, 40, lives until they are 77, female 81.

  • Tomorrow +45

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  • That's what they all say. Then it's "damn, I should have not spent money like I was going to die, I should have invested, I should have taken care of my health, I should have spent more time with my family that is no longer around"

  • I don't even know if windows is good or not now.

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  • I can’t be bothered to figure out how to clean up the bloat, disarm the telemetry, avoid the online MS services, block the ads, dodge the bugs, wait for the updates, get used to all the various stupid ways the UI has changed

    And once you figure that all out, an update turns half the shit back on without telling you.

  • Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October

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  • I STILL don’t fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc

    I'm assuming you are referring to column filters and/or keeping the first row at the top of the screen:

    • Filter: Select Header Row > Data > Auto Filter
    • Row Freeze: View > Freeze Cells > Freeze First Row

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • Nobody is building it

    France built the fuck out of it, 71% of their power is nuclear. Works darn well.

    it’s not because regulators are blocking it

    In the US, the over-regulation makes it horrifically expensive. Every plant is bespoke instead of mass produced, with exchangeable parts, personnel, and knowledge. Mass produce nuclear plants and the costs come way down.

    Water/wind/solar solutions have undercut even the plummet in natural gas prices.

    Wind and solar are paired with natural gas. People still want power in the winter and at night and right now that is natural gas. By opposing nuclear, you ensure it will continue to be natural gas paired with wind and solar.

  • Samsung brings ads to US fridges

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  • Our fridge dings when the door has been left open. I'm not sure why you would need anything more than an audible ding for the door being left open.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • What makes power when the sun isn’t out and the wind isn’t blowing? Nuclear, gas, or coal.

    By being anti-nuclear, you force it to be gas or coal.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • O, absolutely. The reality is the only reasonably economic way to do off-grid is with solar, battery, and a diesel or propane generator to top off the batteries when solar isn't cutting it.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • Small wind turbines are really, really poor. You need to go high to access the good air-streams and wide to get useful efficiency out of the turbine. Any wind turbine you put on your roof will vastly under-perform for the cost spent on it.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • Damn, those winter numbers mean full off-grid is quite difficult with pure solar. A propane or diesel generator to occasionally top off the batteries would be required for winter.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year

    Obviously, we can't use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here's my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?

    O, god, it's going to be huge. You really can't do the off-grid thing unless you have enough power production to satiate you over any given 3-day moving window. Trying to store power from summer until winter is going to be too expensive, instead buy more panel.

    This isn't even going into the fact batteries lose charge slowly. So any power generated in summer will be much diminished by winter, even if you have big enough batteries.

  • Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”

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  • Killing super-mods would have been much more effective 5 years ago, back when there were still lots quality moderators in small subreddits. I remember people screaming for years this was a problem they needed to do something about.

    However, during the last blackout (triggered by Reddit killing off 3rd party apps), Reddit removed hundreds (thousands?) of moderators who wouldn't toe the party line. These people aren't coming back and there aren't quality people lined up behind them to donate their time. The mass moderator removal made the super-mod issues even worse.

  • That should fix it for sure!

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  • Easiest way to deal with news-induced anxiety is to just turn off the news & social media for a few weeks. Does wonders.

  • That should fix it for sure!

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  • Doom scrolling makes all those bad things significantly worse.

  • Removed

    Simplify home hardware for selfhosting

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  • Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it's specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

    Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

    The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think 'I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?'

  • sorry for the commercial

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  • On top of that, it isn't 'just $10 more'. It's $70 more as it has to compete with games I already bought. What does Battlefield Next offer that Battlefield Previous doesn't? Yeah, nope, Titan mode on 2142 is still fun. Flying choppers in 1942's Desert Combat mod is still fun.

    And when I do want a new game, look, Silksong is right there for $20. Beats the price proposition on some rehashed game for $70 out of the damn water.

  • Removed

    Too soon?

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  • Yeah, people love to complain about authoritarianism. Then those same people cheer murder of political rivals...

    It's not a road we should go down, and certainly not one we should cheer on.