WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • It’s impressive that some people keep a phone in good condition for that long and actively use it still. Even if the phone launched with android 7, I’d hope it at least would get an Android 8 update. Meaning a lot of phones meeting this criteria are even older.

    Otoh, the fact that security update support only lasts a couple years is pretty sad. Honestly didn’t realize how long it’s been since my phone got a security update (currently android 11, originally launched with 10). Been meaning to swap to lineage or e/OS, but never got around to it, so thanks for the reminder.




  • Having zero/negative prices incentivizes programs to incentivize consumers to use energy storage to get cheaper prices. Anyone who uses AC/heaters has at least their residence as a thermal battery and people can do things like shift when they do energy intensive activities as well.

    Also, if you want enough power generation to power through the evening, then having excess generation during the peak generation hours/days is the expectation. When building new solar/wind is less than half the price of building any other form of energy production (even before considering the externalities of most of those other forms of energy production), its still cheaper to “overbuild” by a factor of two to reduce the need for other sources of power and provides the expectation of excess power needed to justify building storage.






  • Some people pay a lot of attention to what instances people are from. I think I’ve had someone who jumped to negative assumptions about me because of what instance I’m using and I think I might have seen like one person from this instance - I pretty much never see people using the same instance, so its weird imagining someone seeing it enough to have an assumption about the users.

    There are some servers that are a bit more tight-knit (hexbear comes to mind).




  • Agreed most others wouldn’t use email as a replacement for casual chat, but its always seemed like an arbitrary choice. So many people waste so much space in emails because they treat them like letters, so the biggest difference seems to be the culture around them rather than the medium itself. If people formatted all text messages as

    "Hello Dear Friend,

    Here is stuff to waste space.

    Here’s what I actually want to say.

    More extra stuff.

    Sincerely, Walrus"

    I doubt we would see that much of a difference between them.