Second point should have been evident even before embarking on the argument

I sometimes use sync and other times voyager. In voyager and lemmy-ui, it is not a clickable link. In sync it is. I was looking for a way to have a clickable link in lemmy-ui

Weird. This works as a tag but doesn’t give a clickable link to the profile.

I use this but was unsure if people were actually getting tagged. Thanks kind stranger

What I meant by gaps was that nuclear can be used in areas where solar or wind is not feasible yet or in areas where solar or wind cannot fulfill the energy demands.

Also we have very good control over nuclear power generation. There are a variety of methods using which we can control the reaction rate of the fission process

It does not necessarily take nuclear power plants that long to make. Japan built theirs in less than 5 years and France built the majority of their plants needing only 5-8 years per plant.

I am not sure when the narrative around nuclear power became nuclear energy vs renewables when it should be nuclear and renewables vs fossil fuels.

We need both nuclear and renewable energy where we try to use and develop renewables as much as possible while using nuclear energy to plug the gaps in the renewable energy supply

Still the environmental effect of the waste from nuclear energy is far less than the environmental effect of waste from fossil fuel

Damn that’s a high quality image

Thank you. Forget to type that out when I was writing the comment.

Riddle me this - Some people’s argument against using telegram is that it is not as secure as WhatsApp(which on face value is true because WhatsApp is E2E encrypted while telegram is not E2E encrypted). Other people claim that only hackers and terrorists use telegram and that is why they don’t use telegram. My question is why are people like hackers and terrorists using telegram in the first place if it has worse security while having no upsides for these kinds of individuals.

I am stumped. How can steam/the system exhibit different behaviour when we are executing similar commands. Maybe it is because I have an amd+amd laptop so it automatically dumps the graphically intensive application to the dGPU. Or maybe because in a desktop, the dGPU is connected directly to the display, it not switching to the dGPU automatically as the user had specified the use of the iGPU. In my laptop(which has no mux switch), the iGPU will draw the frame on the screen even if it the dGPU which determines what is to be drawn

Odd. I am guessing that use integrated graphics option from the Gnome DE forces the use of the iGPU for everything steam launches. Do you also require to use the DRI_PRIME=1 command if you launch steam through the terminal in which case it automatically switches to the iGPU for the steam client because I sure did not when I was launching steam from the terminal to circumnagivate the issue

I used the workarounds mentioned in this post’s comments to resolve the issue https://lemmy.one/post/151466. With this workaround there no need to use the DRI_PRIME=1 modifier for the games(atleast in my experience)

Edit : does somebody know to link the post in a way such that it opens within the app you are currently using(voyager for me) and does not open a new lemmy.one tab in the browser

and then add DRI_PRIME=1 to the command options of the games you want to use your external GPU.

No you don’t need to do this. The games will use the dGPU automatically. Only the steam client uses the iGPU

Infinity for reddit

I think you mean infinity for lemmy

How do you donate to the linux kernel team(for a lack of a better term). kernel.org does not have any links to donation and neither does the linux foundation

Archlinux + EndeavourOS

Lemmy Devs + Instance admin

Gnome

Voyager

Wine

Mangohud

Ublock origin

Pipewire

Both yes and no. Yes the time I used to spend browsing reddit is now spent using lemmy. But the experience is totally different in lemmy. I am a much more active part of the community here whereas I was a lurker at reddit

I understand your points about the ecological impacts of creating and buying new technological devices. But youtube is not the sole driver in making people new devices. People buying new stuff is the goal of the entire tech industry. I dont see how switching to peertube or other FOSS alternatives will lead to an reduction in ecological impact. Hardware companies will still be making new phones, laptops, etc and people will still be buying these new devices.

Dont get me wrong, i would love for FOSS alternatives to youtube becoming mainstream but the ecological impact argument does not seem to hold at least not in my eyes.

The paper was an interesting read though. Thank you. I will try to hold on to devices for longer from now on (hopefully as long as possible)

potential low tech hardware

Low tech ≠ efficient

I have an old laptop that is low tech and uses only 15 watts of power. Compared to that my laptop has a general power usage of 35 watts or more on heavy CPU intensive tasks. On face value it seems that the old machine is more power efficient but that is not the case. The amount computing power provided for that 15 watts used is very low and like 15 times lower than the computational grunt provided by the new machine which makes the new machine 5-6 times more efficient.

Edit - it would great if you can link the scientific papers you mentioned. I am by no means an expert and love to be proven wrong and learn something in the process

you think your time is worth nothing, then okay.

What exactly do you mean by this? Do you really think that people who use or try to use open source software do not value their time?