• 0 Posts
  • 25 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: September 2nd, 2023

help-circle








  • Razer naga. (A gaming mouse).

    When I bought it, the software didn’t work. (The macros deleted every time I closed Razer synapse). Their customer support team said the solution was to make a razer cloud account so the macros could be stored in the cloud.

    I should’ve returned the mouse right there. But I instead deleted synapse and made my own replacement that didn’t delete macros.

    It worked good enough, until 4 months later the mouse drivers crash every 5 minutes, which disconnects the mouse for 10 or so seconds.










  • Not all the matter in farming fields come from fertilizer. A lot of it comes from CO2 in the air, which will eventually go into some plant that we can eat. Also, all those ways that matter is lost, therefore not being 100% efficient doesn’t make matter disappear. Burning turns it into CO2 -> it will reach a plant. Excrements going into water streams -> plants will pick them up, or ocean wildlife will pick them up. Buried corpses -> microbes and plants will pick them up. The only way to “lose” matter is for it to leave the atmosphere into space or to be buried so deep that no life can reach it.

    The atmosphere loses matter at a rate that is (presumably) not affected by human actions.

    Matter buried too deep is compensated by matter coming out from volcanic eruptions.

    As long as the earth’s core is hot enough for volcanic activity and the sun doesn’t run out of fuel, the cycle keeps going.


  • If you place a data center in a 100% green location, then you’re reducing the supply of 100% energy, so everything else has to consume less green energy. Therefore, by using 100% green energy you just increased your carbon footprint.

    Green energy, like all resources, is limited. If you waste it on a glorified food predictor you can’t use it on a electric harvester that will feed the people.

    Even if you want to avoid this problem and create your own green power plant for your own data center (creating the green supply and demand at the same time), you are still spending green energy resources (rare metals and manufacturing capacity) that went into creating your powerplant instead of creating a powerplant for electric harvesters.

    There’s no way around it. Misusing electricity is accelerating climate change, one way or another. Even if the energy you are misusing is 100% green.