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UnderpantsWeevil , vor 4 Tagen an Memes in please

I work with a person who opens .docx files by opening Word and using its internal search function

Unironically one of MS Word (and Google Docs)'s better features. Its easy to lose track of where you save a file when you've got a bunch of them open at once, and the ability to recall recently opened files and search by file name is a lifesaver.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 4 Tagen an Memes in please

At least with Linux the distro-specific packages install software where it should go.

I keep explaining this to my grandmother but she just stares at me and says "When I was your age, we wrote things down in our Trapper Keepers"

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 4 Tagen an Memes in please

Ah, but those aren't really your files. You clicked "Agree" on the 10,000 page EULA so now Microsoft owns you body and soul and all of your offspring out to the 17th generation. They're just moving around their contracted work product and if you don't like it you can go pound sand, assuming you pay Microsoft $30/mo for the "Pound Sand^TM" account license.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 6 Tagen an Memes in This is unironically fine

Oh no! The "This is Fine" Dogs have gone woke!

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 16 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

Don't forget Blinky, the three eyed fish.

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky_(The_Simpsons)

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 16 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

I just dont see any reason to ever invest into it nowadays, when renewables and batteries have gotten so good.

Renewables and batteries have their own problems.

Producing and processing cobalt and lithium under current conditions will mean engaging in large-scale deforestation in some of the last unmolested corners of the planet, producing enormous amounts of toxic waste as part of the refinement process, and then getting these big bricks of lithium (not to mention cadmium, mercury, and lead) that we need to dispose of at the battery's end of lifecycle.

Renewables - particularly hydropower, one of the most dense and efficient forms of renewable energy - can deform natural waterways and collapse local ecologies. Solar plants have an enormous geographic footprint. These big wind turbines still need to be produced, maintained, and disposed of with different kinds of plastics, alloys, and battery components.

Which isn't even to say these are bad ideas. But everything we do requires an eye towards the long-term lifecycle of the generators and efficient recycling/disposal at their end.

Nuclear power isn't any different. If we don't operate plants with the intention of producing fissile materials, they run a lot cleaner. We can even power grids off of thorium. Molten salt reactors do an excellent job of maximizing the return on release of energy, while minimizing the risk of a meltdown. Our fifth generation nuclear engines can use this technology and the only thing holding us back is ramping it up.

Unlike modern batteries, nuclear power doesn't require anywhere near the same amount of cobalt, lithium, nickel and manganese. Uranium is surprisingly cheap and abundant, with seawater yielding a pound of enrichable uranium at the cost of $100-$200 (which then yields electricity under $.10/kwh).

We can definitely do renewables in a destructive and unsustainable way, recklessly mining and deforesting the plant to churn out single-use batteries. And we can do nuclear power in a responsible and efficient way, recycling fuel and containing the relatively low volume of highly toxic waste.

But all of that is a consequence of economic policy. Its much less a consequence of choosing which fuel source to use.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 16 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

I would rather see more investment on better renewable tech then relaying on biohazard.

Modern nuclear energy produces significantly less waste and involves more fuel recycling than the historical predecessors. But these reactors are more expensive to build and run, which means smaller profit margins and longer profit tails.

Solar and Wind are popular in large part because you can build them up and profit off them quickly in a high-priced electricity market (making Texas's insanely expensive ERCOT system a popular location for new green development, paradoxically). But nuclear power provides a cheap and clean base load that we're only able to get from coal and natural gas, atm. If you really want to get off fossil fuels entirely, nuclear is the next logical step.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor 16 Tagen an Memes in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

One of the saddest bits of the show was when they kinda just gave up talking about socio-economic issues and made the whole show revolve around Homer being a big dumb-dumb.

Some of the harshest criticism they had around nuclear power revolved around its privatization and profitization. A bunch of those early episodes amounted to people asking for reasonable and beneficial changes to how the plant was run, then having to fight tooth and nail with the company boss for even moderate reform.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in Linux best

Carving my soul into seven unholy partitions in order to maintain my unnatural existence as a Windows Guy whose shit still works.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

Was that game any good? The mobile version had a Gacha mechanic that scared me off, but it otherwise looked like a really smooth SNES style JRPG.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/addfcf2b-3089-4471-8edc-733e010eed4b.gif

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

Most of the abstractions, frameworks, “bloats”, etc. are there to make development easier and therefore cheaper

That's true to an extent. But I've been on the back side of this kind of development, and the frameworks can quickly become their own arcane esoteric beasts. One guy implements the "quick and easy" framework (with 16 gb of bloat) and then fucks off to do other things without letting anyone else know how to best use it. Then half-dozen coders that come in behind have no idea how to do anything and end up making these bizarre hacks and spaghetti code patches to do what the framework was already doing, but slower and worse.

The end result is a program that needs top of the line hardware to execute an oversized pile of javascripts.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

I think it's given us a big wave of "Return to pixelated tradition" style games. When you see 16-bit sprites in the teaser, you can feel reasonably confident your computer will run it.

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

emerge

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f7dfddf1-cb9b-4212-a5b4-f32d2663f876.jpeg

UnderpantsWeevil , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

I agree that this is bullshit and Linux is better. But as someone with a Windows work computer, this was a huge help.