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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, they do, and they pretend to be wise adults while doing it. Like they're the only ones who thought of this.

EVs, too. No, we don't have to wait until they can all do 1000 miles and charge in 5 minutes. 350 miles and 20 minute 10-80% charge is fine for the vast majority of the market.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

No, none of that has much to do with CO2 output besides transportation.

Nuclear power needs a lot of concrete. Concrete releases a lot of CO2 during production. It does eventually reabsorb it as it cures over a decade or two. IIRC, it might even be CO2 net negative eventually.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What you do is get weather data for sunlight and wind. The two combine to cover some of the lull in the other. From historical data, you can calculate the maximum lull where neither are providing enough. Double that as a safety factor, and that's how much battery you need.

Doing this is by far the cheapest way to get to 95% clean energy everywhere. That would be a total game changer.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's the power source that doesn't do that? How do I advocate for it?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Then get it from the sources that already exist. 97% coverage is a great milestone.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

What would be the alternative?

The energy used by a window AC unit would be easily offset by a single 300W solar panel (even on hot days, they don't run 100% of the time). They tend to be needed most on sunny days, so that's not a problem for solar.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago

Flash had a myriad of problems. Web devs celebrated its death.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Darek Smart will always be the GOAT of... whatever this thing is called.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Sony is just better at this. They're really good at taking advantage of their competitors' mistakes.

We forget a lot now, but the opening of the PS3/Xbox 360 era looked like Microsoft was winning. Sales looked good for them, Blu-ray be damned. Then the Red Ring of Death hits. In some ways, Microsoft has yet to recover from that. Sony held their face just above the toilet water ever since.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear, now sitting in basement.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152766

“In the European region, heat stress is the leading cause of climate-related death in the region,” he said. “Temperature extremes such as those we’re experiencing at the moment are really exacerbating chronic conditions, including cardiovascular, respiratory and cerebro-vascular diseases, mental health and diabetes-related conditions. The extreme heat that we’re experiencing is a particular problem for elderly people, especially those living alone. It can also place an additional burden on pregnant women.”

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On 22 July 2024, the daily global average temperature reached a new record high of 17.16°C, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. On 23 July, the preliminary value was 17.15°C. On 21 July, the temperature record was 17.09°C. All three days were warmer than the previous record of 17.08°C, set only last year on 6 July 2023.

This is a real and growing problem. Stop sticking your head in the sand.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Microsoft's original plan was to own the living room the way they own the office space. Not just gaming, but all your movies, TV, shopping, etc. could be done through the XBox.

Kinect was a particularly big jump in that regard. There were demos of AR-type stuff where you could see yourself wearing clothes you might want to buy. You could move around and the clothes on screen would move with your body. There's some promo videos of that, but nothing concrete ever came of it.

Now they have slagging sales for two generations, and a AAA industry that struggles to make a real hit and is laying off a lot of people. They can't even hold onto the core gaming market much less get their tendrils into the rest of the living room. They then release a handheld that's basically an upgrade of an existing handheld that wasn't selling very well, but now with XBox branding.

Is this a problem for the rest of us? No, not really. There's plenty of alternatives, and we don't need to care. Is this the result the money people at Microsoft envisioned when they started this ~25 years ago? No, not at all.

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