zurohki

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's been 30 years and jokes about Windows expanding to fill available space still work.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but because pricing jumped like someone set a firecracker off under it's chair people are actually still using vintage GPUs.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

They know who signs their paycheques.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don't.

So we're getting the arms race either way.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Ugh, hydrogen.

Hydrogen vehicles are the magical combination of expensive to buy and expensive to run. They just get mothballed when trials are over and the funding runs out making the whole thing a waste of time and money.

Battery electric vehicles are cheap to run so they get used for whatever workload they can do, even if they can't do the most demanding jobs yet. BEV bus can't do the longest route all day? Put it on a shorter one. It'll get used for something.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like only smaller ones so far. John Deere are launching some in 2026.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

QC 2.0 is proprietary but it would probably still be identified as a device on a standard USB port. For $2 it's probably worth giving one a try, anyway.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking at the PD spec I got the impression devices are supposed to pull the D+ pin up to a certain voltage, but I got lost partway through.

OP asked for the easiest way and deciphering the spec docs probably isn't it.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 66 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I'm not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

It's just another attempt to slow down renewables by taking up all the funding doing something else. It doesn't need to be useful or practical, so long as it drains the carbon reduction budget.

See also: the coalition's nuclear energy policy

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