Lichtblitz

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[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Extremely cheap per kilowatt? Every statistic out there that I've seen and that includes government funding, as well as construction and deconstruction costs, paints a different picture. Nuclear is only competitive with coal or the relatively underdeveloped solar thermal.

In 2017 the US EIA published figures for the average levelized costs per unit of output (LCOE) for generating technologies to be brought online in 2022, as modelled for its Annual Energy Outlook. These show: advanced nuclear, 9.9 ¢/kWh; natural gas, 5.7-10.9 ¢/kWh (depending on technology); and coal with 90% carbon sequestration, 12.3 ¢/kWh (rising to 14 ¢/kWh at 30%). Among the non-dispatchable technologies, LCOE estimates vary widely: wind onshore, 5.2 ¢/kWh; solar PV, 6.7 ¢/kWh; offshore wind, 14.6 ¢/kWh; and solar thermal, 18.4 ¢/kWh.

Emphasis mine, source: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Modern browsers happily show you the actual characters, while sending their encoded entities to the server. So, from a user perspective there is no ASCII limitation. Case in point: söhne.at (just some random website, I have no idea what they are or if they are legitimate)

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

1Password can't fail that hard easily. They've done great write-ups to compare their architecture to that of LastPass. Long story short: it's the secret key that protects you: https://blog.1password.com/what-the-secret-key-does/

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Trouble with those tests is, that they become unreliable or even meaningless, when you have done then once before, let alone daily.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

When I installed Kinoite to start using Linux as my primary daily driver, the first thing I did was setting up Ansible, creating a new playbook and all Linux configurations I made from that point on, are only ever done through that playbook, which is backed up in my Forgejo instance. One command and everything is being set up exactly the way I want. It feels extremely liberating.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Windows hss supported slashes in both directions for a very long time. I almost exclusively use forward slashes to reduce mental load when switching between OSes.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To me it feels like it doesn't do much better than the Google keyboard. But it does follow my custom dictionary while swiping, which Google never did. After all these years it still suggested a word I never use instead of a name I type often. Heliboard just casualty does the correct thing after adding the name to the dictionary. That plus showing the detected word directly above the finger so I can keep my eyes on one spot instead of constantly checking the text for bullshit words are killer features to me.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It depends. Some hardware degrades gracefully while my current desktop system won't even boot and throws error codes on an empty battery. It took me hours to figure out what was wrong the first time it happened.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the same argument. Getting a reasonable amount of charging is possible in 15 minutes. But not everyone has immediate access to fast charging stations. If everyone could always make a deliberate decision whether to go easy on the battery and save money or having to be places, EVs may look much more appealing to a lot of people.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 8 months ago

It turns out there's still plenty I don't know, and I spend much more of my time confused and frustrated than I did before. The cool part is that I'm now confused and frustrated by really interesting problems.

This is spot on. Your whole response ist just a trove of insight, I wouldn't have been able to articulate so eloquently.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's the same for me. The content is awesome but requires a lot of concentration.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As you mentioned, with Fedora the best alternatives are immutable spins. Updating means downloading a new base image, applying overlays and additional installations to it and on the next reboot you start from that image. You can configure it to keep as many previous versions as you need and boot into those directly on startup. Since you never change your current image once it's built, you can't break a known good system. You can only ever break your next version and in that case, just boot the previous.

I've created an Ansible playbook that configures a vanilla Kinoite the way I want it. No need to back up the system if I can recreate it with less than a megabyte of text files. Secrets are in my password vault, personal files are in my personal cloud and get synced to and from the laptop continuously. I would never go back to backing up system files as opposed to recreating it with a playbook. That seems so wasteful in hindsight.

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