smeeps

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[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 10 points 4 months ago

I had a 2023 hire VW Caddy while mine was getting repaired and it had real buttons on the steering wheel thankfully. The climate control was all on a touchscreen though which was awful. At least they had a button next to the wheel that would set it to demist the windscreen (change the blowers, heat and fan to Max) so you could do that without crashing.

Was so glad to get mine back with actual controls.

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 10 points 4 months ago

There are some data centres in the UK that use the waste heat to heat the local swimming pool. Seems a good idea, we need compute and we need heat, why not do both at once?

Surely it's not too much of a stretch to have datacentres contributing to local district heating systems either?

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 8 points 4 months ago

Also no one ever mentions that the industries are building products for the public. They don't just release CO2 and use electricity for fun lol

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't disagree with the theory but I've been getting barely a day of battery life since I started buying smartphones 15 years ago. As processor efficiencies are made, they waste all the power elsewhere.

I want to know how long a Nexus 5 would last with a modern battery and CPU and modem.

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 26 points 4 months ago (11 children)

For me, phones have been more than powerful enough for probably 5 years. I'm predominantly looking for battery life from my new phone, not more power. I think I'd happily use a Pixel 1 processor if it had double the battery life.

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are a number of GNOME extensions to make it behave almost exactly like KDE if that's what you're after

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes but if you torrent a movie just for yourself to watch, you're distributing it to hundreds of people, so it's way worse

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I think this is a bit unfair. Most Google Takeout requests are fulfilled in seconds or minutes. Obviously collating 100GB of photos into a zip takes time.

And it's not googles fault you have internet issues: even a fairly modest 20Mbps internet connection can do 50GB in 6h. If you have outages that's on your ISP not Google. As others have said, have it download to a VPS or Dropbox etc then sync it from there. Or call your ISP and tell them to sort your line out, I've had 100℅ uptime on my VDSL copper line for over 2 years.

I was able to use Google Takeout and my relatively modest 50Mbps connection to successfully Takeout 200GB of data in a couple of days.

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 5 points 4 months ago

This is where the physical write protect notch on SD cards would be useful.

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Cheers, currently grabbed Ubuntu, Fedora, GParted, and Kali.

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Survival/comments/732c79/ive_collected_a_bunch_of_free_survival_pdf_links/

Original Zip link is dead but someone in the comments recreated it. No idea if they're any good, hopefully I'll never look at them

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 7 points 5 months ago

Why not both? I'm not lacking in storage on either the USB or the phone.

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