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It’s off topic, but am I the only one who wanted to press the x button in the top left corner to close the window?

Homer Simpson invented a make-up-shotgun.

At this point maybe nobody knows this for sure. IF industry is going to have an energy-problem, then everybody else WILL have a financial problem (and many become poor - we heave j…

dec 2017 $19100 -> feb 2018 $6800 -> dec 2018 $3300 -> thats 35% of it's peak value after 2 months and 18% after 1 year. nov 2013 $1130 -> apr 2014 $400 -> jan 2015 $200 -> thats 3…

And the other months it's a not-so-strong dip in production (Jan 16%, Feb 31%, Mar 57%, Apr 94%, Jun 100%, Jul 100%, Aug 87%, Sep 60%, Okt 41%, Nov 22%, Dec 13%). This means (for g…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_sourc... Depends. With just the cost per kWh is photovoltaic cheaper, but you would need additional storage for the nighttime…

I’m with you. Many people constantly complain about windows but most of them still using it. They say it’s going to get better, but it won’t. You could spend five years trying to m…

This was my first thought when I saw the pen. (Still waiting for mine)

If you have enough bitcoin you could also buy and run many bitcoin miner, it’s PoS with extra steps.

Or maybe better. In the first days of bitcoin nobody cared about a lost key. A few thousand bitcoin on an account nobody has access to? These bitcoin shouldn’t count, but it’s hard…

I used Apple Maps Navigation a few minutes ago because I was to lazy to enter the destination in the car navigation system. And so I got really annoyed of Apple since all direction…

You should take a look at SailfishOS. I switched from Android to Sailfish OS 8 years or so ago. The original Jolla Phone was really nice and the OS too. Later I switched to an Sony…

Precisely. Firefox is the only real opponent to Chrome (and Google is evil) and have just a few percent market share. So whats the matter, Mozilla needs money to develop Firefox an…

I've been using BackInTime ( https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Back_In_Time/ ) since 6 years and happy with it. - it's using rsync and hardlinks, the files on the backupdrive are just no…

How about the stock market? Everyone I know that invested in stocks did so hoping to trade it back later on for more fiat than they paid.

Without knowing if this has anything to do with these glasses I remember something called „in eye projection“. The trick is to create the image with a laser direct in the eye ignor…

> We should be extending the lives of existing machines as much as possible right now, encouraging people to purchase new computers right now is irresponsible. Not just now ..., ou…

They did. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-... Also: https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-sche...

We already store a lot of data at home. And ssd and hdd storage has sometimes read errors. With terabytes of data we come across a handful error s per year, most of them will nobod…

> I use this feature. On a large monitor, Firefox wastes quite a lot of space with the default layout. Ditto, I hate programs wasting space with these things. The compact design ma…

As European citizen I don't really trust the Euros or Dollars. Just think about the loss in value If you own money. Even if the official 2% inflation, its still 2% lost of value. A…

> With built in and inevitable deflation. Why is everyone thinking deflation is a bad thing? "Oh no, how horrible, my money isn't loosing value over time so I dont't have to buy th…

This. Using the app should be dead simple - with a default server, a default username, maybe even a pre set password (bound to the phone number or whatever, I'm not a fan of this b…

I like the fun-facts on this page: "The amount of electricity consumed every year by always-on but inactive home devices in the USA alone could power the Bitcoin network for 1.8 ye…

The only thing is, with Bitcoin we have the numbers. The classic banking system look like a few thousend banks with thousends of buildings with hundreds of thousend computers and m…