fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

lmde on a seven year old laptop five years ago, i was already accustomed to wifi on linux being dogshit. energy management was even worse and for some time hibernation was not a thing

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

i could, but closing the lid turned off radios (wifi + bt) at some low level in a way that i haven't figured out

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

starting a cult is just good business

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

pigments are the least problem, and many are not dependent on oil, like titania. some might, like soot, but because we're talking about japan, it's likely they get it from chinese manufacturer, and chinese chemical industry relies on coal heavily. but it's such a small part of it all, binder, solvent and the entire packaging are likely petroleum-derived or dependent so there's close to zero savings here. not to mention fuel and fertilizer use in farming that led to that product

it's such unbelievably petty corner cutting, the only value of it is in marketing

you know what would help them? switch to solar process heat, best time for it was decade ago, second best time is now (they're using heavy fuel oil for heating something)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

cap, that's a marketing move. black ink still needs solvent and amount of it saved by using one pass instead of 3 is tiny, transport will take more

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but can both of them lose?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

4-5V is state of the art and pushing it there or beyond that gets very tricky very quickly. pure water has electrochemical window of 1.23V, but you can go a bit over that because at low overvoltage water splitting is slow at most electrode materials. that's why lead battery can have 2V per cell and will generate hydrogen when charged much over nominal voltage

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

storage of heat is also very cheap compared to some other options and can just be using ground around boreholes, especially considering that most of residential energy use is in form of heat. if you have a hill that you don't need you can even put an artificial lake on top of it

there's a speciality resin (that new material) in that battery. resins are nonrecyclable. i don't think it can be 4x cheaper per kg than LiFePO4 battery because of that material

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

some of you people itt have never imagined that there could be something like a research dead end and it shows

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

use of water as a solvent limits maximum voltage

wanted to use water to get electricity anyway for a laugh? we have a tool for that: it's called STEAM TURBINE

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

or you could go with sodium battery, or LiFePO4, or thermal energy storage at this scale. hell maybe even pumped hydro

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

just put butter in the toothpaste tube smh

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