mosiacmango

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The lift here is that you setup the end users client. If they aren't local, buy one and ship it. Since it will be on your always on tailscale vpn, you can then interact with it remotely if needed.

Android tvs can be had for $35, Raspi 5 are around the same range, with apple tvs about $130. Have people pony up the cash and mail one of what they want out to them.

That may be too much to ask if you share to a lot of casual friends/family, but its been a successful answer for me.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Jellyfin takes more work, but can be a "simple" end user experience if you set it up for them.

Use a reverse proxy to get a letsenceypt cert for your jellyfin server. SWAG, Caddy, lots of options. Then setup a free tailscale account and add your jellyfin server to your tailnet. Install the jellyfin and tailscale apps on the user android tv/apple tv/computer, then enroll the devices in your tailnet.

They will have always on, ssl secured, vpn protected media sharing for free.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They sold to private equity a couple years back. The enshittification started that day.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

D works well. Being dead puts you in a decent "no one to fool with" category.

Fucker cant even do a prat fall at this point.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There is no form factor of power generation that could match nuclear on something as "small" and dense as an aircraft carrier.

Solar is a no go due to just surface area and the challenges of salt water. The only consistent things left are petrol and nuclear, and of the two, nuclear is better in every way but cost.

It is wacky that "hot rock make steam. Steam makes turbine go" is how like 95% of all civilization exists, but man when we stumbled on a winner in the 1800s, we just went all in on it.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

100% steam. Steam makes the electricity, locomotion, desalination and the plane catapults go on that class of carrier. The reactors and salt water make the various types of steam used in the various systems.

Limitless water is a neat hack when you couple it with limitless heat.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

That carrier is using steam powered propellers. Luckily the steam is "pushed" by a couple of large nuclear reactors, so it's got plenty of juice.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

The existential horror story Lena comes to mind.

It's excellent, but horrible.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They had around 100% market share just a few years back.

Losing half the market in 3-4 years is a huge change for any company, even if some of it was inevitable as rivals caught up and suprassed their offerings.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 51 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The president of el Salvador publicized them first, while the meeting was ongoing.

They staged the meetup for propaganda. They weren't going to let that go to waste.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

This is the world's largest thorium reactor. There have been other experimental ideas, but not many operational ones. The next largest operational Thorium reactor I can find is called kamini in India, which is 30kw. For scale, China's reactor is 2000kw.

3Okw is a toy. That would power maybe 10 US homes. 2000kw? That's more like 600 homes. Small, but usable. Fits the SMR niche well, actually. Making 1/1000th of the radioactive waste and basically no weapons grade materials locks in there too.

The article makes it very clear its running continuously, which is what they are celebrating. They have successfully refueled it while operating, which is a huge part of the "continuous."

The article is all of 6 paragraphs. It's not a difficult read.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

Fascism is when government and corporate powers fully mix.

So literally yes. This is proto-facism, writ large.

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