mranachi

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[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok, so I think the core concept you're building from is that electrons are particles, thus can be placed in a jar like marbles for later use (or gas). However, this is an overly simplistic analogy, and although electrons can be 'stored', this presents some challenges. Matter isn't a 'physical barrier' to electrons. You have an insulating container, you put and electron inside it, the electron can travel to the outside of it freely.

This concept is not as exotic as you might think, when you rub someone's hair with a balloon, you pick up electrons on the balloon. Your balloon is a container of electrons, it's statically charged. This isn't just a fun party trick. Things like van der graph generators, and now pelletron particle accelerators use this 'electron container' concept to generate big voltages (typically millions of volts).

Capacitors store electrons in a non static way. You have two metal plates that don't touch, on one side you have an excess of electrons and on the other side you have an excess of positive charge (absence if electrons). If you connect these to plates together they rush to meet.

Batteries are different again, they store electrons in 'a chemical reaction'. I.e. you have two compounds that will react, but need to transfer electrons for that to occur. The only path for that transfer to occur is via the terminals of the battery.

Light always moves at the speed of light of it's medium. Storing it requires to first address that challenge.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Can't be solved, says only country in the world where it happens regularly.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My man out here rebranding "rubbing a balloon on your hair"

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well your first statement is a subtle strawman. Ross said this way is the only way, because no one else is trying, not that it was the right way.

Secondly, fallacy fallacy, just because it's a false dichotomy doesn't mean it's not also correct. Can anyone just start up another initiative now? Not technically, but practically. Or would any serious attempt just join this movement to add to the momentum. Then if this fails, when can another attempt be made, how long till the 'political will' burnt by this campaign is regenerated?

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's such a tired line. You know what everyone finds creepy, people who don't respect your personal boundaries and don't understand basic concepts of consent. Neither Money nor looks can make up for that in the slightest.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I can't say I know what I'd do if I were in your situation. But many people throughout history have chosen to write those books, and they have suffered for that choice, but they have also driven change.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Care to explain your point with some detail?

If this fails, I doubt we'll see a second proposal. So I think it would be fair to measure any arguments you make as why no action is better than the proposal.

Correct me if I am wrong, but this petition doesn't decide the wording of any law just ensures it is brought to attention of EU lawmakers and discussed right?

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Things change slowly then all at once.

Which is to say, the older generations are very set in their ways, but the new generations can be completely different.

You say you can write a book, maybe you should. Detail all the things you see and don't like. Give me a voice to the people who think like you.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I see war memorials as a reminder of what we're trying to avoid, not as a glorification.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean you last line sums it up, If on your balance you can weight the sum total of human systematic logical effort against your anecdotal experience then what is the point of discussion at all?

And you want to know when that looks really ugly? When the faithful see things like "the light and hope brought by faith" and are blind to rivers of blood and human suffering that have not ceased to this day enabled and perpetuated by faith.

It doesn't matter if there is a god, by the things done in God's name the concept of faith must be reject for humanities sake.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mranachi@aussie.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I've been seeing a lot of bazzite recommendations recently, and it sure sounds great. An atomic fedora, gaming optimisations out of the box. It just works.

We'll that's not been my experience for V-rising, and I wanted to share it incase others anyone else encounters the issues I did.

First and foremost I am sure there major issue is the game, more than any given distro. I've been happily running arch on my home PC for 7 years. Its been great, no issues, I've loved it. As my free time decreased, that computer had become just for gaming. The maintenance debt was building up, I knew the dream run with arch must end. That end was V rising, crashed frequently, all kinds of stage behaviour. I assumed a vulkan issue, but couldn't easily find a fix, and didn't want to waste any more time on it.

I went with Bazzite, but to no avail. The crashing problem got worse. Only now i had to deal with the sluggish flatpack versions of things. Its not that bad, but us a was a very noticeable change.

If it had just been me, I think this is whereui would have given up. But I was playing with my wife and mate online, both of whom also use Linux and weren't having the crashing issue. On my wifes computer i had recently installed bazzite. It did have issues, mostly flickering which i chalked up to a too early switch to Wayland on a gtx1080. My mate was on mint, with a 3060 and v rising was working perfectly.

I switched to mint (I am running and a 5700xt), and my problems were fixed just like that.

Next was to solve the wife's woes, so I switched her to mint too. Which resulted in v rising not being able to load, freezing up the computer every attempted requiring a X restart. Didn't matter which version of the nvidia drivers i used. The flickering was gone though, so that was something. Pop-os was the solution, took a bit of understanding popshops preferred order of events to get nvidia drivers installed, but now all is fine.

So the lesson I think i might have learned, old hardware and new (vulkan) games require unidentified settings to work and easiest solution is just distro hop till success. Big shout out to steams transfer over network functionality (i also needed to install bg3 each new distro, it ran fine on every combination but bazzite was noticably more flaky).

It doesn't matter, but does any one have and ideas as to why v rising caused such headaches? 7 years a Linux gaming, and nothing has required more than a few hours of tinkering at most to get to work until this.

Tldr. Needed a safe space to debreif, everything worked out in the end.

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