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IAEA chief says German return to nuclear power is 'logical'
  • sodium. gravity. carbon capacitors. lead acid. molten salt. air pressure. flywheel.

    there's alllll kinds of battery storage solutions, and for grid storage just about anything other than lithium can be used because lithium is really only useful for power density applications where weight and size of the battery matters like cars and planes.

    nuclear fission is dead. fusion is the only nuclear worth talking about and that's still years, probably decades away from being actually useful.

    so then: solar, wind, wave, hydro, geothermal, and all kinds of batteries is what we have now and can do cheaply and do everywhere and do it now.

  • IAEA chief says German return to nuclear power is 'logical'
  • why do nuclear diehards always pretend it's nuclear or fossil fuels only, like renewables are nonexistant? it smells bad faith as fuck. nobody arguing against nuclear fission power plants are arguing for fossil fuels. absolutely nobody.

  • Mullvad DNS for Linux and Firefox settings
  • don't know why you'd want to? you may trust your dns server but without dns over https the dns requests themselves are sent plaintext and are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. with dns over https the dns requests are encrypted and that encryption would have to be broken for a MITM attacker to see your requests. more security is better and dns over https costs virtually nothing to use in terms of cpu resources.

    edit: oh do you mean whole system mullvad VPN? if so, then yeah dns over https doesn't really help much but it's also still a case of why bother turning it off when there's no benefit to it.

  • Immutable Gaming Distro That Just Works.
  • linux typically won't hard freeze on errors like that no matter the distro. it can, but rarely. being an all amd build i suspect there's some cpu bios feature auto scaling core clock or voltage and in my experience ryzen cpus need to have a manually set stable clock and voltage to perform properly no matter the os. try checking your bios and disabling any powersaving or auto-scaling features for your cpu and manually set it for stock clock and voltage. you may need to look up what these values are as the bios might not have a default value for you. this might not be your issue but it's worth trying. good luck!

  • A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games
  • one of her reasons is "erasure of femininity in gaming" with a screen bemoaning "masculine features" of modern female characters, and her pinned comment says "you know things are bad when oblivion npcs are prettier than some of these new game characters" and also thanks asmongold for sending viewers her way.

    so uh, how about no for this hateful garbage.

  • Boy who attacked sleeping students with hammers at school sentenced to life
  • the ableist part is saying you must be crazy if you do a violent thing, when reality shows the mentally ill are far far more likely to be a victim than the perp in a violent crime.

    edit: also, ya know, this whole thread of 'probably autistic' speculation.

  • FBI stats show murder dropped 11.6%, the largest single year decline in the last 20 years
  • no, it did not. the initial lockdown at the beginning lowered violent crime a great deal, and the rate rose back up after lockdowns were lifted, but still not to the rate from before the pandemic. this isn't out of date; you're remembering media reports and propagandists online intentionally misrepresenting this data by only looking at during lockdown and just after, pretending lockdowns and mask mandates and other covid response measures as causing crime.

  • Found this function in my bashrc under user defined aliases; I dont remember adding it?
  • seems similar to the set up for systemd snippets, where you can avoid changing default config files for systemd units and instead use a drop in file in that created .d dir to load and overwrite the defaults on boot for whatever specific thing. don't know anything that uses this for bashrc, tho. most likely harmless, especially if there's no created bashrc.d yet.

  • Replace your bowden tubes occasionally.
  • on a bowden system yes, but just ever so slightly. not any more than you could fix with retraction and other settings, and prolly only nylon and other flexible ones you should be doing in a direct dirve anyway would be affected.

  • Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates
  • cinnamon, lxde, kde, and mate are all desktop environments that mimic the basics of windows ui like the taskbar, start menu, and windows with minimize, maximize, and exit buttons at the top. and all can be installed/selected during install on pretty much every popular distro. there's prolly some others i've forgotten but those are all solid choices.

    edit: whoops had mint listed but that's not a de that's a distro

  • ACAB includes Kamala Harris
  • enforcing a 'don't talk about voting ever, only encourage not voting' anarchist community is sus af. not voting isn't gonna make the govt disappear. not voting is just laying down and saying 'do with me what you will'. not voting, especially from anarchists, inevitably gives more weight to explicitly fascist votes. i'd like a world without goverment as well, but we aren't gonna get there not voting nor by banning people from anarchist spaces who advocate for slowing the rise of more violent fascism. material conditions, bud.

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