Thorry84 @ Thorry84 @feddit.nl

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One common misconception I've seen is people suddenly being afraid of their PTFE items they use at home. For example coated pans or PTFE cutting boards. They throw them out, because they think these will hurt them.

However this is not true. The long chain molecules used in the final product are perfectly safe. They get all their useful features from being big molecules and being very inert. That's why they are used in the first place. As such these molecules can't interact with biologics at all. You can safely eat them, they will just pass through your body. They don't interact with anything and are too big to get incorporated into anything.

The issue with stuff like PTFE is the production. That's where a lot of small PFAS molecules get used and after they've been used they can't easily be used again. So it's discarded as waste. But it turns out these smaller molecules can interact with biologics and not in a good way. And as they are still pretty inert, they don't break down at all. Hence the term forever chemicals.

Back in the day Dupont studied if those smaller PFAS molecules they were discarding into the world's water by the boatload could do any harm. They quickly found out yes, it can do a lot of harm. But to not hurt the bottom line (number must go up), they kept it a secret. This has damaged the environment in a very significant way.

When this came to light, they set out to design a new small molecule to use in the production. One that would be safe. So they did and used that, which satisfied the public for a time. However later it was proven this is a fantasy. The new molecule is just as bad as the previous one. And it turns out any variant of these kinds of molecules are just as harmful. That's why we now collectively call this class of molecule PFAS. Dupont probably knew about this, as the properties that made them useful in the production are the same properties that make it so dangerous to biologics. However since stuff like PTFE is too important in our modern world, we kept making the stuff. Only recently have we found out how big of a problem we are creating with that.

So when you have PTFE or similar items, please keep using them. The damage for these items is already done and the end product is safe. It would be a waste to have done the damage and then not even use the end product. But when buying new stuff, be on alert. Try to find out if PFAS was used in the production of the item and try to avoid where possible. There has been talk of laws in the EU which would require the label on a product to show if PFAS was used, so people can avoid it. But we aren't there yet.

If we were smart, we would ban it altogether. But like I said, too much of the modern world depends on these kinds of materials. So that's probably not going to happen.

Unless you are a male chick

The children do yearn for the mines

If you want to go Intel, I'd say wait for the B700 series. The B500 series has proven a decent budget gaming card, but the 9060 XT is a solid midrange card and will be a lot faster than any B500 card.

There has to be more to the story than that, as medical tools using radiation have had terrible accidents, but are still used a lot all over the world. And for example every day there are terrible accidents with motorcycles and in some countries that's basically the primary mode of transportation for most people.

The true story has to be a bit more complex and nuanced?

I think space opera can be sci-fi or fantasy? Star Wars is definitely fantasy tho.

Imagine being married to a honest to god actual Spice Girl (after ditching your first wife and kids) and still having the need to sexually harass your PA. There is something not right with that man.

I think my face scrub still has these. But I would have to check, it might be just sand they put in there. Works great tho.

Edit - I checked, the ingredients say it's silica. So yes, they put sand into it.

I use Arch BTW.

Teams runs on just about anything, which is part of why it's so slow.

Back in the day Windows 98 was definitly faster than SUSE on my machine. Drivers back then on Linux were rough and if you wanted to play a game you'd need Windows or DOS for sure.

I only had 56k dialup back then, no fast internet for me.

Yes sir, we finally fixed it. It now no longer denies the holocaust.

Excellent work Jenkins! We've finally created the perfectly balanced and fair AI!

Well there is this one little hiccup sir. It now recommends a second holocaust and calls itself MechaHitler.

Come say that to my face and I'll personally give you the Janeway treatment. I'm sure I can program the transporter to turn you directly into coffee. :p

Yeah but then they pull the old you need to enter everything to get the delivery costs. I understand they need my address to figure out what shipping would cost. But they also require my name, email and phonenumber before showing the shipment costs. So annoying, it makes comparing prices between shops impossible as some shops have higher prices and free shipping, where others have super low prices, but then fuck you on the shipping.

And everything is SO FUCKING SLOW. I swear my old Celeron 300A at 500mhz running Windows 98 and SUSE Linux was super responsive. Everything you clicked just responded right away, everything felt smooth and snappy. Chatting with people over the internet using ICQ or MSN was basically instant, all the windows opened instantly, typing had zero latency and sending messages was instant.

My current Ryzen 5950X is not only a billion times faster, it also has 16 times the number of cores. I have hundreds of times the RAM as I had HDD capacity on that old system. Yet everything is slower, typing has latency, starting up Teams takes 5 minutes. Doing anything is slow, everything has latency and you need to wait for things to finish loading and rendering unless you want everything to mess up and you'd have to wait even more.