sinkingship

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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting, thank you for the reply! Learned something new today. The lines I see span over a quarter or so of the moon, so I'm not fully convinced yet. Absolute massive.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of those articles that make you feel disgusted about the world we live in.

Thank you to all those scientists trying to throw the rudder around, that get bullied, while trying to save fellow humans.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, this is probably the right community to ask.

What are those stripes leading to the crater, here in the upper left?

I've noticed them before, but when I try looking it up, I usually only find results for Saturn's moon.

Beautiful picture, op!

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

As far as I understood, it'll leak into the atmosphere, where it'll cause 80 or 100 times more warming than CO² for a decade or so, before breaking down into good, old CO², causing further warming for centuries / millennia.

Not sure, but I think I've also read that in the process of breaking down into CO², the ozone layer gets damaged.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But if CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage. The leaks can lead to heavy metal contamination and potentially lower pH levels, all of which can make drinking water undrinkable.

Can someone explain this to me in a easy way?

As a layman I would be worried of large amounts of CO² suddenly leaking near where people live. But how does it make water undrinkable? I thought some people like their drinks with CO². And where do the heavy metals come from?

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Read the Wiki and well, I dont know. It may be a climate agenda, but in my opinion being green isn't necessary being bold.

Bold would be meeting at least what scientist recommend: halving emissions by 2030. I know, that's very much to ask for any country in the world. That's why it's called bold.

What green parties all over the world are doing is: turn the rudder away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy. Which is a step in the right direction, but I think that's not bold. It's the least one can do.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Who are these candidates with a "bold climate agenda"? I don't know any political party in any country, where I'd say 'they've got a bold climate agenda'.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish I had been old enough during the time we could've still made changes to make a difference.

Why? When you cared back then the frustration must have been at least the same it is now. The hope might have been bigger, but at the same time, you would have been part of a very small minority. And I think it would have been hard to endure that almost nobody you know thinks similarly. You might have been the only doomer they know. And how fast we manage to screw up our planet, you would have likely gotten old enough to come to the same conclusion you came to now: we won't make it.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Emphasize on "should"? Thank you! I've looked this up several times just to have in forgotten when needed. So for me, VIM only, when I have internet access.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

I assume that the submarine producer gives stats like empty weight from which the current weight can be calculated.

However, weight isn't the important thing in a sub. It's the weight to volume ratio, or buoyancy.

A sub sinks when buoyancy is negative and rises if the buoyancy is positive.

There are three common ways to achieve the changing buoyancy: the most simple one is a vessel with positive buoyancy adding droppable weights until the buoyancy is negative.

Other ways are a neutral buoyancy vessel that uses it's engine power to push itself up or down. Or a vessel that can change it's buoyancy by filling up tanks with water (to reduce buoyancy below neutral) and blow them out with air or other gases lighter than water (to raise buoyancy above neutral). A combination of several methods is also possible.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey, welcome, fellow noob!

I hopped on the Linux train maybe 20 years ago and haven't had any non unix system in maybe 15 years.

Also, I don't know anything much. I can do basic tasks with a Terminal, but I don't think for example I could install Arch from scratch. Or if I'd accidentally opened VIM, I'd have to kill power to get out again. But I like to tinker. If you like to tinker it's a big plus, otherwise things, that don't work instantly, might get frustrating.

As others said, use a pre built distro + DE environment, especially if you don't really know what you do. Another thing that I'd recommend: a distro that be backed up easily. So you can tinker and start over, if necessary.

If I don't know, how to fix a thing, I usually look up my question online. The problem with that is: I'll find solutions containing commands that I don't know, what they do. I have "fixed" my OS to death before, so it's always nice to have a recent backup.

Ubuntu is the biggest, although it's not old-school like win98 and comes with idealistic problems for many people. If you didn't really enjoy it, I wouldn't go back, just because it has the biggest community. Community isn't only about size.

Mint is rock solid, I've run that a long time with different DEs.

Another distro, I can't really recommend (as I haven't used it further than live USB yet), but might be very interesting for you, is MX Linux. It comes with simple DEs and more importantly: a ton of GUI tools (including a back up tool where you can back up the entire OS including apps and settings as a flash USB).

I don't know, if I was able to help anything. I just wanted to reassure, that there are (maybe even many) Linux users that don't really know what they do.

As with many skills in life, I believe, the best way to learn is by just doing it. There will be failures. And each failure is a big opportunity to learn something.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

As always I will keep reading about every year's COP. However, by now my expectation is, that there won't be much, if anything at all, that I need to know about the COP.

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