could be, there was more of these weird things that i had to do that i don’t remember already because motherboard of that one cracked like three years ago. i also remember that stock driver for tplink dongle was limited and the actual useful one had to be gotten from github

to get wifi working properly in the first place i had to find a missing binary that wasn’t packaged in any normal way and was only hosted on some dudes github so my expectations were low already. it got a lot better over the years tbh

lmde on a seven year old laptop five years ago, i was already accustomed to wifi on linux being dogshit. energy management was even worse and for some time hibernation was not a thing

Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

i could, but closing the lid turned off radios (wifi + bt) at some low level in a way that i haven’t figured out

starting a cult is just good business

pigments are the least problem, and many are not dependent on oil, like titania. some might, like soot, but because we’re talking about japan, it’s likely they get it from chinese manufacturer, and chinese chemical industry relies on coal heavily. but it’s such a small part of it all, binder, solvent and the entire packaging are likely petroleum-derived or dependent so there’s close to zero savings here. not to mention fuel and fertilizer use in farming that led to that product

it’s such unbelievably petty corner cutting, the only value of it is in marketing

you know what would help them? switch to solar process heat, best time for it was decade ago, second best time is now (they’re using heavy fuel oil for heating something)

cap, that’s a marketing move. black ink still needs solvent and amount of it saved by using one pass instead of 3 is tiny, transport will take more

but can both of them lose?

4-5V is state of the art and pushing it there or beyond that gets very tricky very quickly. pure water has electrochemical window of 1.23V, but you can go a bit over that because at low overvoltage water splitting is slow at most electrode materials. that’s why lead battery can have 2V per cell and will generate hydrogen when charged much over nominal voltage

storage of heat is also very cheap compared to some other options and can just be using ground around boreholes, especially considering that most of residential energy use is in form of heat. if you have a hill that you don’t need you can even put an artificial lake on top of it

there’s a speciality resin (that new material) in that battery. resins are nonrecyclable. i don’t think it can be 4x cheaper per kg than LiFePO4 battery because of that material

some of you people itt have never imagined that there could be something like a research dead end and it shows

use of water as a solvent limits maximum voltage

wanted to use water to get electricity anyway for a laugh? we have a tool for that: it’s called STEAM TURBINE

or you could go with sodium battery, or LiFePO4, or thermal energy storage at this scale. hell maybe even pumped hydro

just put butter in the toothpaste tube smh

speaking of oracle, they recently loaded up on debt and got into deals that are all but impossible to fulfill, and in a couple of years their survival will depend on openai making profit. (not revenue) put a pin in it and come back to that in a year or three

breaking news: fork found in kitchen

Altman has been claiming chat gpt made him feel dumb since 4.5

perfectly believable tbh

that mmwave radar would have to be attached to a drone, because their manned aircraft are unbelievably obsolete. it means smaller size meaning low resolution, and as starlink emits pinpointing them would be very easy when active, much easier than any passive sat dish, and starlink is still in use. i’ve seen some advice on hiding starlink that includes turning off starlink wifi and using wired connection, because irgc is looking for 2.4 ghz signal (from ground?) and not for 14-ish ghz uplink, so they probably dont have a lot of flying ew/radars

i’m not saying that iranian air force has definitely none of that, but i would be decently surprised if they do have more than 2

there are ways. for example, put a fake hot water barrel on the roof, made from fiberglass or polypropylene or what have you, but not metal, and put dish inside, or in any variety of inconspicuous containers or boxes made from plastic or wood or fabric. some other antennas can be camouflaged as fake chimneys or gutters or water piping or many other things

If one were to make hydrogen producing solar farm specifically, this could have made sense if there were efficiency gains compared to pv + electrolyser. But there ain’t, and from what i understand won’t be