Why was it grey instead of just noise?

So if you’ve just exercised, psychological stressors won’t increase your cortisol levels very much? Is that what it’s trying to say?

On the other hand, not exercising means that psychological stressors can spike up your cortisol sky high. Well, at least that’s my interpretation of what I just read.

The total ad volume remains constant if you decrease W11 ads and increase Bing ads to compensate. It’s the law of ad equilibrium. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

For many years, I’ve used a HTPC with a few different distributions. At the moment, it’s running Debian with Gnome. For me, this is good enough, since the UI allows me to easily do all sorts of computer stuff like having multiple virtual desktops, many browsers, lots of tabs, spreadsheets and a system monitor. Obviously, you need a wireless keyboard + touchpad combo to use this HTPC.

If you’re aiming for a more simplified UX, I would go with something like LibreELEC

Or this

When YT decides this channel isn’t bringing enough ad revenue.

Does the Catholic Church have social media account? If so, there’s a special category reserved just for them. Come to think of it, there might be more than one applicable category.

Just a fun little nugget I heard from someone who studied there at the time. I have no personal experience with UK libraries though.

So, any updates? When did the public libraries start having IT systems?

I’ve heard the same about UK too. When other countries switched to electronic library cards, UK still kept the traditional paper system.

I heard this from a friend who studied there around 2005. Was a bit of a culture shock to go back in time like that. I expect they’ve upgraded their systems now.

It’s still in service? I thought that was in a museum or a private collection. Wow, that just makes it even more special.

My guess is, all NSFW communities will see a surge.

I stumbled upon this post specifically because it’s in a community where interesting conversations take place. I’m sure similar discussions must occur in political communities as well, but they never appear in my feed because they are in the wrong community.

I care about this community and that’s why I’m here. The people here come and go, and I have no idea who they are or if we’ve even met before. I don’t feel like I need to know. The topics are interesting, and that’s good enough for me, no matter who the people are.

This community is a bit special, because the unifying feature is so broad and abstract. If you subscribe to a very specific community such as [email protected], the main topic really stands out in every post. You go to a place like that because you care about the topic more than the people. Lemmy allows me to apply this approach to countless topics I find interesting.

If you end up black listing countless people, I get the feeling that a topic centric platform isn’t ideal. A person centric one could work better for that purpose.

For many years I’ve struggled to find a good use for Mastodon since generally speaking I don’t care about the people. What matters to me is the topic, that’s why I’m here. However, politics clearly doesn’t work here, so that’s why I’m thinking that white listing specific users might be a better approach, i.e. Mastodon.

It’s too early to tell just yet. I need to keep this experiment going for a few weeks to form a proper opinion.

Yes, copper recycling totally works, just like Fe, Al, Pb, Au and Ag. It’s just that the total mass of copper currently in circulation isn’t enough for our ambitious plans. We need a lot more of it to electrify everything. Also, more HVDC lines need to be built, and normally they are made of aluminum, so we’re going to need more of that as well. For example, North Africa could produce absurd amounts of solar power, and with HVDC lines you could transfer the energy over to Europe.

I would like to read more about politics, but the atmosphere makes me uncomfortable. When I’m scrolling Lemmy, that’s not the feeling I’m after. As far as I’m concerned, this isn’t the kind of place where I can engage with politics.

Recently, I’ve started following some people on Mastodon to see if that works any better. Hashtags invite everyone to participate, so black listing might be useful there. When following individuals, you’re essentially white listing them, and that’s the whole point of Mastodon. Maybe that could be a better tool for this purpose.

Many elderly people die in their sleep, listening to nothing but silence.

Exactly. Mastodon is all about the people, while Lemmy is all about the topics.

I think it’s a human problem. Wherever there are humans, you’ll find the same problems.

The blocking thing always seemed weird to me. I just subscribe to all the good communities and ignore the rest. Blocking 80% of the fediverse sounds like too much work. I’ve ignored the all-feed and still managed to enjoy Lemmy. That feed is so wild and untameable that I can’t find any use for it. Maybe sort by top of the month? I guess that’s the only way to find something even remotely interesting there.

As a result, Lemmy is actually a bit boring now. The upside is, I won’t spend all day scrolling. 😄

Sounds like you like to gravitate towards all the topics I like to avoid. Political discussions tend to bring the worst out of humanity. If you hang out at a garbage dump, you shouldn’t complain about the smell, rats and flies.

Regarding those minerals, Li, Ni, Co and Mn play an important role in electrification, but they don’t have to. It’s just that in recent decades we’ve built the production chains necessary for producing LIBs (Li-ion batteries), and now we’re kinda stuck with that technology. Recently, NIBs (Na-ion batteries) started to become viable, and I really hope they manage to ramp up production quickly. Seems like the author of that article was thinking of LIBs all the time and forgot about NIBs. The problem is, it takes a long time to build the production capacity and production chains.

Then there’s also copper. It’s kinda hard to ignore that one, since we can’t really electrify things when the grid can’t handle the load. Also, electric motors require lots of copper, so I can imagine that the demand for copper will remain high in the coming decades.

MS is a corporate clients first type of company. They really don’t care about consumers, let alone gamers. A huge chunk of their income comes from corporate licences and cloud services.

I guess I’ll just borrow a cookbook from the library next time I want some recipes. Way better value.