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@ PagPag @lemmy.world

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  • As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act

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  • When’s the last time you looked into this?

    I just went fully off grid and I have a relatively large house and workshop.

    The panels I used, which are great but aren’t the absolute best on the market come out to about 231W per sq. meter.

    I have a 39kW system installed just for my house. It’s overkill, yeah but I plan for the future (telling the regional power monopoly to go fuck themselves for the next 30 years).

    Covering one of these centers with solar would absolutely make a huge impact. Not only by providing power during the day but also with keeping the building cooler.

    For reference, the panels I have (65 of), coupled with 100kWh battery bank.

    https://www.runergy.com/wp-content/uploads/download/DH156N8-30F.pdf

  • What do you do when homeless folks ask for money?

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  • I ask them to come inside the store and I’ll buy them some food.

    If they decline, oh well. If they agree, I happily pay for some food for them.

    Some of these encounters have broke my heart, others have just reiterated what most people assume when it comes to these things.

  • New idea

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  • Exactly. Almost as great of an idea as running a 1/2” hot/cold line 100+ ft to a house from… nvm, I give up, this is too stupid to even make a joke.

  • How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content

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  • Damm WaterCatholics

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  • Right? And he didn’t even do a shitty crop to remove half of a word.

    This place is going down hill fast.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Never ran any tests here but the difference is so stark that I never really considered it a need.

    Kinda like when I switched from SoundCloud to Apple Music. I couldn’t go back to listening to the songs I had in my SC library because it was just noticeably worse.

    I’m sure there are ways to rip high fi YouTube audio but the basic options I used in the past yielded results worse than avg SoundCloud quality.

    Will say it’s been a few years since trying and I never had any paid for YouTube subscription, don’t even have an account. So, while it may be acceptable, I just never had a need and if I wanted to rip music, I’d be torrenting .flac files, not ripping .mp3s from YouTube

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • This is cool if you’re okay with low fidelity music.

    After years of lossless and headphones to distinguish, this sounds like fingernails on a chalk board.

    It’s akin to using a tape deck to aux adapter in an old car or recording a tape off of an old boombox radio lol. I’d rather listen to nothing.

  • Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End

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  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • I was on Reddit back from the beginning and around 2007-2010 it was a very well curated place due to this culture.

    People didn’t comment unless they had something actually relevant and insightful to say. Researchers, engineers, lawyers, doctors/med students and all walks of life in between with professional or intellectual knowledge of the subject at hand.

    It was great because the comments were vibrant with good discussion, links, and other ancillary information.

    As all things that get popular, the quality declines in tandem.

    It started out with the whole summer break periods when school kids were out and bored…then the digg exodus. Slowly, but steadily the quality declined as the user base exploded. Large subreddits were increasingly shit so you’d have to stick to the more niche subs.

    The API debacle was finally enough for me to strip all my comments and delete my account.

    Lemmy is not quite at the level of when Reddit first started. I find that outside of a handful of commenters per notable post, most are not very knowledgeable, insightful, or otherwise providing quality discourse. I will say that it’s not consistently the case, as sometimes (depending on the topic), it does remind me of those old times. There’s still hope lol

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Have you tried not purchasing a Google phone? I heard this works extremely well.

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Absolutely, it only requires you to allow a Google representative to check your pulse via fingering your asshole. It is worth noting that results and feedback of this authentication method vary based on age and sexual orientation*.

  • If you want evidence that “protecting women’s sports” was always bullshit, look at the comments on articles about WNBA’s union negotiations

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  • Agreed.

    Never realized the significant disparity.

    Always assumed it was just because nobody watches it and nobody really goes to the games.

  • If you want evidence that “protecting women’s sports” was always bullshit, look at the comments on articles about WNBA’s union negotiations

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  • WNBA is pretty hard to watch tbh.

  • End of year bonus

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  • Were you there or just saying you remember the last time this was posted in the past five years claiming this guy was actually dead?

  • Texan Moved Fam to Russia to Flee Woke—Now He’s Headed to Ukraine Front Line

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  • Bentley became a Russian citizen via Naturalization in 2020. In April 2024 he was killed by Russian soldiers in Russian-occupied Ukrainian city Donetsk

    Right, what a loser

  • Why is it often cheaper to buy new than repair old and how can repairing be encouraged on different levels of society?

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  • Not sure where you’re finding this battery price but I’m guessing it’s much cheaper than that.

    I repair just about anything. Sometimes just for the challenge. Electronics are much easier than most realize.

    The one thing that causes a barrier for most is the proper tools. “Proprietary” screws are a small toolkit away from just being a regular screw…

    You could give the make and model of your laptop and I could send you links to buy anything and everything you need. I’d be willing to bet that tools and parts would be substantially less than buying a new laptop.

    Caveat being if it’s a budget bin low spec laptop from a non reputable brand. If it was extremely cheap and cheaply made brand new, I’ll concede your point. Will say it’s still cheaper to fix, but at a certain point it doesn’t make sense to fix something that’s borderline unusable even new (outdated). That is assuming you don’t want to install Linux lol.

  • Why is it often cheaper to buy new than repair old and how can repairing be encouraged on different levels of society?

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  • Does your assessment assume that you cannot fix it yourself?

    Fixing things is nearly always cheaper than buying new unless the base assumption is you cannot perform it yourself and have to rely on a third party.

    Repair services are often not even available because the margins would be so low. So, to answer your question of how we got here is because of Capitalism.

  • Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • Bruh wtf. I mean I get it, but Jfc how many times you going to post this shit. You okay?

  • When life was full of wonder

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  • Encyclopedia?