Allero

@ Allero @lemmy.today

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3h ago

Moved back to Debian
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Allero @lemmy.today 3h ago
Yep, always have been :)

14h ago

EU Now Requires USB-C Charging for New Laptops Up to 100 W

As someone with a USB-C phone and laptop: yes, it's this good.

I can use laptop charger to charge my phone, and yes, phone charger to charge my laptop (although it takes a while).

I can grab a power bank (got a 65w 40000mAh one) and add juice to both phone and laptop through the same tiny USB-C cable.

I am never lost without power.

2d ago

China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.

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Allero @lemmy.today 2d ago

Battery 80 times cheaper

No. Article mentions that iron is 80 times cheaper than lithium, but that doesn't mean the battery itself will be that much cheaper.

16 years

Article mentions 6000 cycles - which might be 16 years if you charge it once a day under perfect conditions, or it may be any other timespan.

A promising development, but there's no need for a sensationalist headline.

2d ago

After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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Allero @lemmy.today 2d ago

Indeed! This is why I always call to explore live images or a VM before making the jump. It won't be indicative of the system's performance (a regular install should run smooth as butter), but it will indicate what you might be lacking, what problems you may face, etc.

2d ago

After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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Allero @lemmy.today 2d ago

Took me a week to say "welp, never coming back"

2d ago

If a human shapeshifter turned into a flying bird they would be the largest one alive, assuming mass is conserved.

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Allero @lemmy.today 2d ago

Preserving a mass while maintaining the ability to fly would require you to significantly increase in size, which comes with all sorts of drawbacks.

Humans can't fly precisely because we're too dense. Birds and other flying creatures have plenty of adaptations meant to reduce mass (or, rather, density) by all means possible.

3d ago

The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

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Allero @lemmy.today 3d ago

Great news overall, but I feel a bit alarmed about the wording, and whether the post itself is made by a human. This doesn't look quite like the normal Mozilla writing style. Might just be false trigger, though.

3d ago

lemmy.world is gone. who wants to sword fight?

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Allero @lemmy.today 3d ago

I find it cute as long as people are just fooling around, joking about why THEIR same instance is the best. I can play that!

But when people are seriously like "all people from .ml/.world/whatever are scum", this is where it gets weird.

3d ago

Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise

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Allero @lemmy.today 3d ago

In Russia, alcohol ads are banned. So, beer ads take all the air, rolling their usual, and adding a small fast "nonalcoholic" at the end for their obscure nonalcolohic version no one cares about.

So, effectively, advertising your beer is legal as long as you have a nonalcoholic version.

4d ago

China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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Allero @lemmy.today 4d ago

Indeed, environmental regulations have played a pivotal role in the development of Chinese EV market, no doubt here.

In some cities, ICE cars are borderline unusable since you can't even drive them at will any day you want - assuming you can even get a license plate in the first place.

What I meant was that international pressure on the demand side is not as scary for Chinese companies as it is for many other places.

4d ago

China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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Allero @lemmy.today 4d ago

A huge domestic market is a strong advantage for Chinese manufacturers.

Even if every single country stops buying Chinese cars, they'll still have a base of 1.5 billion potential customers.

With more countries actively partnering with China, this number goes up considerably.

5d ago

load bearing worm

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Allero @lemmy.today 5d ago

Oh, we do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_bovine_serum

5d ago

load bearing worm

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Allero @lemmy.today 5d ago

As a (micro)biologist, I totally support that notion. Biology is, indeed, chemistry, which is in turn physics, which is in turn mathematics.

The problem is, good freaking luck simulating biological processes on a physical level. We do biology and not physics, because it's a reasonable shortcut we have to make to work on what's important without waiting another millenia for a decent enough physical simulation.

6d ago

What’s the difference between communism and socialism?

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Allero @lemmy.today 6d ago

TL;DR:

Socialism: maintains monetary system. You earn and spend money like usual, except you are restricted from using the labor of others to generate profit for yourself (example: maintaining a large business). Key formula: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their labor.

Example of a socialist country: USSR, Eastern Bloc, Mao's China, Castro's Cuba, Allende's Chile, pre-1986 Vietnam, North Korea

What socialism is not: Nordic model, capitalist states with social support.

Communism: no monetary system. Everything is free. Communism assumes one of three ways to make it happen: either everyone understands the intrinsic value of labor and does it for the sake of it, or labor is mandatory, or all of the unlikeable jobs are automated. Communism is normally considered not as an immediate outcome, but a future goal. Key formula: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs

Example of a communist country: War communism period in Soviet Russia, Khmer Rouge

What communism is not: socialism (although it's a development of one), capitalism with state support.

6d ago

Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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Allero @lemmy.today 6d ago

None, and that's subject to change by Stop Killing Games.

By breaking the law, I meant stealing IP of others and obfuscating the code so that no one would find out.

1w ago

Oh, Brother [@jasonadamk]

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Allero @lemmy.today 1w ago

Bought a 20-year-old used Brother printer for $25, and it runs just fine! Bought it when I planned to print my thesis and figured straight up buying it is cheaper than going to the print shop.

It still prints all I ever need to print, and I never had to change or even refill anything. I did have to install drivers as the printer is not supported in CUPS by default, but drivers are still available on the official site (as well as AUR, my Arch friends), and looks like even some spare parts are still available for purchase.

It also doesn't have any connectivity except USB, which adds some peace of mind.

1w ago

Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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Allero @lemmy.today 1w ago

This is actually addressed as well. The initiative doesn't oblige currently developed or already released games to have such features, as it recognizes all the financial/legal complications that may arise. It only concerns future games, and refers to the experience of many old games being initially designed with player servers in mind, rendering it possible to play them even now.

It is absolutely possible and normal to do this, and it's really only the recent practice to act otherwise, which is why Stop Killing Games arose just now.

That being said, of course this decision would affect the developer's bottom line. First, as another commenter mentioned, they won't be able to push new games so aggressiely if players can stick to the old one, forcing them to focus on quality and originality of content, which are both more expensive. Second, publishing server code renders them unable to break licenses and steal server code, forcing to make in-house solutions or compromise with open-source. This is, by the way, why Microsoft only now opened the code of MS-DOS - it waited until all the potential lawsuits on IP infringement are expired.

Stop Killing Games will force more transparency, and developers hate that, because they don't want to admit they manipulated players and broke the law to get here. But they should never have done either in the first place.

1w ago

Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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Allero @lemmy.today 1w ago

Stop Killing Games initiative doesn't force developers to maintain the game; it only obliges them to release whatever tools necessary for people to self-host a game server.

This way, if anyone still cares about the game, they can start their own server and keep playing it.

1w ago

Coldbrew package manager

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Allero @lemmy.today 1w ago

Rather, removes all the security elements, forcing you to risk your system because you never learned permissions.

1w ago

Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs are donating $1 of every copy sold on Steam this week to the real-life Pirkštejn Castle, preserving the actual history behind Henry's home

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Allero @lemmy.today 1w ago

I agree here, which is why I said "isn't huge by any means". It's not that KCD devs are really gonna pay up for the whole restoration project; this will barely be enough for a certain simple change.

Yet, it's, well, something.