Pxtl

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As a software developer: MS has been 100X better to work with under Nadella. He may not know what to do with the operating system side of things, but the .NET/Azure/android/linux etc side has never been healthier.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know unions would have standing for a lawsuit - wouldn't the lawsuit have to be filed by a competitor?

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

To be fair, Canada doesn't build much solar. Most of our modern green energy is wind.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

sounds dystopian.

So does the total death of objective fact.

An end to internet anonymity isn't great, but given the alternative I'll take it.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (41 children)

I keep saying: none of this will end until we get a clean, cryptographically secure, government-backed way to ID who is sending us something, and it becomes an expectation to use it all the time for anything important. Which is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government ID.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I realize that it's their land and their reserve and it's vital to keep their culture alive, but if it were me? There is no justification, not financial, not cultural, not religious, that would keep me living in a place like that.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

"on them" where "them" are the municipal and provincial police forces.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but DDG seems to have worse organic results in my experience. I mean the bar is low, but DDG falls under it.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's funny, the thing that bugs me the most in this is the over-expressivism of Threepio's movements. He bulges and wobbles exactly like Anthony Daniels' character doesn't. Giving him more restrained motions would likely be easier animation.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I love his videos but I hadn't seen anything about the whole home issue of "omg this is way more power hosue-wide".

The idea of smart switching sounds neat - that would basically mean "you can't run your dryer and have hot water and charge your car at the same time", right? But, like, in an automated way not just "it throws the breaker".

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Holy crap like 24000W of juice on tap. That is not screwing around. Awesome. A neat option but sounds like something for new builds not retrofitting an older home.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

I'm aware but I haven't heard people's experiences with them. I ask because I'm shopping for water heating right now and debating the expense of getting 240 run to the water heater for a heat pump.

Electric tankless sounds impossible (yes, I know they exist, I just mean they don't sound like something that should be able to), since the amount of BTUs required to run a gas tankless at peak is absolutely nuts -- tankless gas water-heaters run on 3/4" pipe instead of the normal 1/2" since they need to have so much burst heat. That doesn't sound possible for electric.

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