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Jrockwar

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  • Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?

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  • And probably on iOS too, which isn't linux either.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Are you ok?

  • AOC and Sanders still talking to longtime ally Genocide Joe

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  • Why have you written bat and ban with different "b's" if they're pronounced the same way?

  • kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the Internet

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  • Kurzgesagt? I didn't know this, how come?

  • Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Bank Analysis Finds

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  • This is not news though? This is a 6 year old article about the 2018 Christmas period. So much has changed since then.

  • How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?

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  • These figures are too cherry picked for the shock value. You could go the opposite end and say that (these are all true, I've tried my best to research them):

    8.5 Wh (average of all daily queries for a user) is also...

    • Equivalent to running a 2000 W hair dryer or a kettle for 20 seconds
    • Equivalent to idling a car during a traffic light and not turning off the engine
    • A quarter of the energy required to reheat a ready meal in the microwave (roughly 45 Wh)
    • The power usage of a Macbook screen over just 30 minutes.

    850 MWh (whole consumption of all AI queries in the world) is also equivalent to...

    • The power consumption of ONE single cruise ship for 12h (link)
    • Charging 0.002% of the 75 million electric cars in the world
    • The energy stored in the fuel tanks of 2000 petrol cars - a small stadium car park in Europe
    • The amount of energy the largest solar plant in Spain or Germany generate... In a couple of hours.

    So yes - AI bad... But for other reasons. This is a diversion. Datacentres powered by coal are bad. Cruise ships are worse.

    The problem isn't that the whole world needs less than a solar farm's worth of energy for AI. The bigger problem is the social damage of AI - including the fact that this "expansion at all costs" is justifying getting that energy from non-renewable sources.

    But seriously, one single cruise ship uses more energy than all of the AI in the world. They serve no useful purpose and there are hundreds of those.

  • GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms

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  • Can you renounce US citizenship if you become a citizen of a different country?

  • Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’

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  • Duh. It's weak because of Brexit, it needs to be soft touch because it's lost the influence to be anything else.

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    Lara Croft is a Sociopath

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  • My flatmate used to call that Tomb Raider (the first of the new trilogy) "PTSD Simulator". It's as you say, the first few deaths are entirely survival-driven, with her constantly crying and then she becomes an emotionless one-woman army.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • I would recommend people buy their books off ZLibrary instead, where they come with no DRM.

  • Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

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  • At this point I think Keir Starmer is actually a covert conservative trying his hardest to undermine and destroy the Labour party for decades to come.

  • Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale for 20% off ($400 -> $320)

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  • A very minor one, but only in a roundablut way. Valve weren't targeting a performance boost, but a battery increase. They went for a newer generation of their processor with roughly the same processing power and slightly more efficiency. The thing is, because of the added efficiency it can sustain high loads without throttling for longer. Between that and the minute differences in processing power, it happens to have a tiny bit of a performance boost, but it's very very minor.

  • [Not funny] How to avoid sexual assault?

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  • That's not the joke.

  • Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe

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  • The paradox of tolerance. You're quoting an racist remark - there's no need to tolerate intolerance as the social contract is broken.

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  • You sort of can already. For text it's definitely possible, and I've started doing it since my notes are mostly text rather than screenshots. (I use obsidian to take notes, and quick thoughts get their own note).

    I don't have a mega cohesive workflow yet but this is the list of things I do:

    • I have a script that combines all my notes into one. This runs automatically in my computer every few minutes, and synced to Google drive.
    • For work (we have a Gemini Pro subscription) this plus some rolling meetings notes gets added to a gemini "gem" (custom set of instructions/context) that has been instructed to answer from my notes, so that I can ask it "what recent ideas have I had" or "what's the biggest problem right now with project XYZ".
    • For my personal notes, I upload manually the combined notes to perplexity and do roughly the same.
    • And the one that might work for you, now I've opened my obsidian vault (I.e. the folder where my notes live) with Windsurf, an AI-enabled IDE. These things can do much more interesting things than vibe coding. I use this for tidying up: "help me find topics in my notes where I haven't linked the notes between them".

    You could use this last one to open your screenshots folder, and your monthly credits might not last that long if you're dealing with images, but I think that'd be a problem only at the beginning when you have a large number of unsorted files. You could ask it to put analyse them and put them into longer format notes, for example. Or go through them one by one, analyse them, and if they're worth keeping, add the text to a single big text file and then move the screenshot to another folder that you could delete later.

  • Working method to get things started based on Rubicon model

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  • I love this, thank you so much!!

    I'm going to add another thing I've learnt in the past couple of years. No organisation method is perfect, and IT'S FINE to ditch a method and try a new one. No shame.

    No, you haven't failed, no, you're not "incapable" of doing GTD or using Kanban or Todoist or whatever. It can be the case that your life has changed and what seemed like a good method 6 months ago, just doesn't work anymore.

    The reality is life changes quickly, and when you're a student at 22 you need different strategies and methods to when you become an intern at 23 to when you have a decent but different job at 26 or when you become a manager at 38. And in between all those things there are many small steps - you move countries, you start living with your partner, you have a child, you start your own company, you decide "fuck it, I'm not working a 9-5 anymore and I'm going to live off advertising things on Tiktok".

    Whatever happens with your life, it's a process, not something static. So as tempting as it is for us NDs, you can't blame yourself when your method fails to contain the huge chaos of the neurodivergent mind. Plus let's face it, if you have ADHD you're likely to get bored of it and at that point it's better to find something new than to just give up altogether on the idea of organising.

    (Same advice applies to many other fields, e.g. exercising - gym might stop working for you but you can always start swimming, or bouldering, or whatever, up until your life changes and you get bored).

  • can you talk me out of buying a Fujifilm Wide Evo?

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  • I think a better purchase in the fujifilm realm is the instax link wide printer.

    Your phone is likely to already take far better photos than the Evo and will get upgraded over time anyway, improving the quality of your Fuji photos. Plus, if you eventually get a DSLR (or mirrorless given we're in 2025) you can also print instant photos off that.

    The Evo only has a 1/3" sensor (an iPhone's is far bigger and nicer) and a 16mm equivalent focal length, which means nothing like bokeh or subject separation - it's almost literally a 2018-spec wide-angle phone camera sensor attached to an instax printer.

    For me it's a no brainer. If you already have an iPhone or any phone that takes semi-decent pictures, the instax printer is cheaper and gives you that link to the analogue world.

    The other instax you have serves as a "semi disposable" camera that you can still keep but that you care less about (e.g. for going to the beach).

  • How to deal with wasps in fallen fruit around pear tree?

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  • sorry I can't come up with anything more humane but here it is: my safe-ish idea would be to get a large clear plastic box, and drop it (opening facing down) on top of the pears and wasps. If it's large enough you're likely to be able to do this without angering them, and as long as it falls flat-ish they won't be flying right back at you.

    From there you can just leave them, or come back a while later and place something heavy on the box so it doesn't fly with the wind.

    There's a chance some of them might escape but if they do it will be one by one manageable) and otherwise they'll keep feeding on the rotting fruit until weather or lack of water takes care of them.

  • Ram ends EV pickup truck plans

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  • This category normally is considered EV rather than hybrids because of the ICE not being connected to the wheels. They are usually called "EREVs" for Extended Range Electric Vehicles. The BMW i3 with the optional range extender of the first generation Chevrolet Volt / Opel Ampera are examples of it.

    PHEVs (Plugin Hybrid-Electric Vehicles) are what they're called when you can charge the vehicle as well, but the internal combustion engine is connected to the drivetrain rather than just the battery.