BastingChemina

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

40% of the world's population lives in coastal area. Tsunamis are devastating as well so I'm not certain that a giant asteroid falling in the water would be less deadly.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

I disagree, but in not in your situation so I can be wrong.

Unless you are producing way, way more electricity than you can use I think net metering is a great arrangement for the customer. (Not so much for the utility company)

The electricity is usually bought by the utility company at a much lower cost than what the customer is paying. Because the generation cost is only a percentage of the cost, there is taxes, maintenance of the grid ...

For example in France we pay 0.1952€/kWh, but the utility is buying the solar electricity produced by household at 0.04€/kWh.

Meanwhile with net metering your electricity is virtually bought at the same price as what you are buying your electricity for.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

My dishwasher does that. On the Eco cycle it opens the four at the end of the cycle to let it dry

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago

People dying from the heat are older people or people already in bad medical conditions. Not kid or healthy people.

AC could have an influence but the excess mortality due to heatwave is also happening in countries with a lot of AC like Australia : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025004982?via=ihub#t0010

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

It's not really a competitor, Steam's business is selling games, not consoles.

The steam deck is just one way for them to increase sales on steam.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 18 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

It makes way, way more sense in my opinion.

Humans are terrible batteries, but the processing power of our brain on the other hand is amazing.

Based on the FLOPS (Floating point operations per second) today's supercomputer powered by a nuclear power station does not match the processing power of a single brain, powered by a few potatoes.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Net metering is great, much better than being paid for the surplus.

With net metering the grid is basically an free, infinite, 100% effective battery.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How ? Is it just AC ?

We oscillate between 300 and 800kwh per month and it's with an old water heater, an electric car charged at home, a dryer and electric oven.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago

This is normal in all the developed countries.

Having and raising children is not a concern only for the mother, the whole community needs to be involved.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (10 children)

You were not allowed to but I can guarantee that you were still screaming in public.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 days ago

I like the fediverse

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've looked it up and the Katy Freeway on the picture has an average of 219 000 vehiclra using it per day. Let's be very generous and assume an average of 1.5 person in each car, so around 329 000 people are moved each day thanks to this highway.

A single metro line or two tramway line moves more people per day than that.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26007191

I saw this bike made by an independent bike shop for himself.

It's an electric longtail and can carry a 300kg europallet, plus the toolbox on the front, plus an extra person or material on the bike rack!

Here is the link to the shop website: https://www.cycles-penet.fr/

 

I saw this bike made by an independent bike shop for himself.

It's an electric longtail and can carry a 300kg europallet, plus the toolbox on the front, plus an extra person or material on the bike rack!

Here is the link to the shop website: https://www.cycles-penet.fr/

 

So, to give the context I was driving to a city 2 hours away from my home and the shortest path is through mountains.

I was surprised by the snow but, apparently I was not the only one. From afar I saw this big geese-like bird jumping on the road but realized when it tried to take off that it looked much bigger.

As I got closer I realized that it was probably a Vulture. The closest match I could find is the griffon Vulture, there is some in the area.

It did not look hurt, it was trying to fly but could not take off.

 

A picture of a 3D printed router guide A 3D Model of a router guide

My router (makita) was supplied with a copying guide but the opening was too small.

I've look online but I could not managed to find the right size so I did what any sane person would do: print one

Edit: more pictures of the result a dinosaur shaped observation tower another picture of the observation tower with a kid standing on it

 

So, I had to reinstall windows as a dualboot, because I need some CAD tools for work. It was painful but it's not thebaubject

I'm running nixos with systemd-boot and I installed windows on another drive. I started to research how to add the entry on the boot list so I don't need to go in bios to switch the boot order each time I want to change OS.

Most of the information I find is about grub on nixos but I finally find information on how to add a manual entry. On the Arch wiki I find some information but now I have to blend all that to make it work on my laptop.

It's late and I'm scared to mess up my boot partition so I go to sleep to work instructions on it the next day.

The next day I'm ready to do all that only to realized that there is already the entry for windows is already in the boot menu, it has been added automatically.

So I spent all this time to think about how I while have to adjust my system manually only to realize that nixos already did it automatically for me.

 

To be fair they were also using encrypted messaging to talk to each other like WhatsApp and Signal, they even show their mom how to use it which is extremely suspicious.

“All members of this group were particularly suspicious, only communicating with each other using encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computers and devices […].

The Investigating Judge

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/10/06/the-beginning-of-the-8-december-trial-is-also-the-judgement-of-the-right-to-privacy-and-encryption/

when the DGSI [a French security agency charged with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups] has questioned Bastien about what he thinks of Macron. A photograph on his computer is mentioned, which according to them details the President's security arrangements for the July 14th parade. (...)

The device in question (an aerial photo taken from the press) is highlighted in such a way as to draw a dick. A dick.

The link is made with Bastien's passion for drones. The implication is that he could have used a drone to attack this dick-shaped device using explosives.

https://www.auposte.fr/j7-quis-terroristiat-ipsos-terroristes/

 
 

I'm wanted to share with you the blog that my wife is writing, she's writing about parenting and relationships and she's making some amazing articles !

 

I believe this is a very good initiative. France is allowing collective self consumption.

It means that in an appartement building or in a neighborhood (up to 2km radius) people can organize in a collective to redistribute electricity to each other. If someone has extra production one day then he can redistribute to other people in the collective. For free or at the price they agreed upon in the collective.

It does not need any extra hardware, it's using the existing installation from the national utility grid.

This is exactly how I imagine a solarpunk community would work.

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