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  • Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025

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  • It might be less the quality of the research and more this:

    (This comic is a bit outdated nowadays, but you get the idea).

    Except the headlines say "scientists report discovery of miraculous new battery technology using A!".

    Also i think people don't realize how long it takes to commercialize battery technology. I think they put them in the same mental category as computers and other electronics, where a company announces something and then its out that same year. The first lithium ion batteries were made in a lab in the 1970s. A person in 2000 could have said "I've been hearing about lithium ion batteries for decades now and they've never amounted to anything", and they would be right, but its not because its a bunk technology or the researchers were quacks.

  • Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025

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  • With electric cars you might not even need a special charger so much as a special charging cycle. Its already the norm for cars to tell the charger what voltage and current they want, and its already the norm for cars to carefully control their battery's temperature during charging.

    That's not to say you'd necessarily be able to do this with just a software update, but its not too far off from the current paradigm.

  • I think the motherboard is enough?

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  • I've seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.

    None of them are very recent, so I don't know how well 'modern' DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.

  • We dont need one

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  • In addition to what groet said, I'll add that this is a little bit like asking "what's the difference between a public library and Amazon?".

    Yes, there are other public libraries you could go to if the one you subscribe to didn't have something you wanted or 'went bad' somehow, but the most important difference is you don't have an antagonistic relationship with your public library. Your public library doesn't have a financial incentive to try to trap you or screw you over.

  • We dont need one

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  • An antivirus is mostly just a blacklist of known malware. Sometimes heuristics are used such as 'this piece of software isn't installed on many PCs, and it appears to be doing shady stuff like, monitoring keystrokes or listening to your microphone'. But unless your antivirus is actually sentient there's no way for it to really distinguish between a chat application that listens to your microphone so you can talk to your friends / monitor your keystrokes to know when you've hit the push-to-talk key, and a piece of actual malware that intends to spy on you and blackmail you.

    What you have with a package manager is a whitelist of programs that have been selected by your distro maintainers. Is it completely impossible for someone to sneak malware into a distro's repository? No, but its a lot easier to maintain a list of known good software than it is to maintain a list of known bad software. And in that situation your antivirus isn't going to help you anyway, since the people maintaining its malware list aren't going to magically know that something is malware before the distro maintainers do.

    So, generally, just using your package manager instead of running random shit you find online is going to be a lot better than any antivirus. With things like Wayland and Flatseal becoming more common we're heading towards a situation where fine-grained per-package permissions will become the standard way distros do things, making antivirus even more unnecessary.

    We should have done that a long time ago, as the security model of 'any program you run can do anything you can by default', then blacklist the ones that inevitability abuse that privilege, is completely backwards.

  • Like Joining a Game Where Everyone is Using Aimbot and Winning From Pure Skill

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  • Friend, I am talking about pictures that look like this:

    Which was sent to me by someone, along with a bunch of other similar images, by someone who thought it was a real photo.

    I am talking about thumbnails generated by early DALL-E, where people's faces are melting.

  • Like Joining a Game Where Everyone is Using Aimbot and Winning From Pure Skill

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  • People who use Lemmy would be able to tell the difference most of the time, but the average person would have zero idea.

    Just look at any of the YouTube videos with obviously AI generated clickbait thumbnails that get 10s of millions of views. Or all of the shitty obvious Photoshop thumbnails that existed before AI.

  • It's hard to say goodbye

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  • [Person shitting in a public pool]

    "Its called a public pool for a reason. I have a right to this water as much as you don't like it."

  • More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"

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  • Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.

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  • YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life.

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  • How can the same SSN be issued twice?!?

    The SSN system is bad in almost every way it is possible for an ID system to be bad. If you ask "does it really do this dumb thing?", the answer is probably yes.

  • EU Commission and national authorities take action to protect children from harmful practices in video games

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  • In addition to the rating it should have an ugly warning on all its promotional material, like cigarettes.

    "Warning: this game requires additional in-game purchases and gambling to access all of its content". On the screen for the entire duration of any trailer.

  • Least extreme biophysics phd

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  • If you're talking about unit 731 and the nazis then there was very little, if anything, scientifically valuable there.

    They had terrible research methodology that rendered what data they gathered mostly useless, and even if it wasn't, most of the information could have been surmised by other methods. Some of the things they did served no conceivable practical or scientific purpose whatsoever.

    It was pretty much just sadism with a thin veneer of justification to buy them the small amount of legitimacy they needed to operate within their fascist governments.

  • You better say "Thank You"!

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  • Trust your training

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  • Yes, that's the word that everyone uses for the large generating stations that create power on a large scale like a manufacturing plant creates goods on a large scale.

    Its rare for us to have "power houses" now, and when we do no one calls them that.

  • Trust your training

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  • What's interesting to me about that phrase is that no one uses the word "powerhouse" for anything else any more, except maybe to call something powerful.

    Since it's not the 1920s any more and we have an electrical grid and centralized power generation. We still sometimes do use temporary off-grid generators, but we no longer have any need for a dedicated word that means "building or shed that we keep our generators in".

  • Anti-acknowlegements

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  • I don't understand the "computer girl" one, did the technician think that her being a woman meant she was doing computer science instead of physics?

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  • Lighthouse keeper grindset.

  • Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

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