[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When her cat escapes the house, one sure way to get the cat back in the house is to bribe it with treats. Would that stop working?

People say cats are just as possible to train as a dog, but I’ve never seen one that sits and rolls over.

If her cat didn't crave treats the way she does, would we still have bonded?

Does it still need the treats? You may have trained it successfully to be friendly.

Obesity in pets should not be celebrated. It's a sad thing.

Absolutely.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

The UK needs to cut some bureaucrat middle management and allocate the funds to the social programs they’ve austeritied into symbolic existence.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Education makes a tremendous difference. Americans have mentally ill people probably at the same rate as EU, but also has ignorant people and that’s where the difference is made up. If you travel 3 hrs in USA, you’ll find the same culture. If you travel 3 hrs in Europe, you’ll be in a different culture altogether.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I agree with the spirit of the post - the tanks Americans have been taught to adore are a bigger safety risk than a small car and I love my Smart. However, the standard full size Euro NCAP are performed at speeds not exceeding 60kph. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to require that in order to travel on roads with a 50kph speed limit, the vehicle will not crumple like a piece of tissue and kill the occupants. There is the separate quadricycle test which demonstrates the risks of these vehicles.

The Euro NCAP also have the valuable pedestrian safety tests and extrication ratings.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

It would be trivial to ddos, and likewise for the receiving mail server. Sounds like an amplification attack by design.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Low ABV beverages like wine and beer don’t take age well. Some wines can age in the bottle, but most volume is not made with that in mind. Beer has a shorter shelf life than many people realize. Spirits don’t age (well) in the bottle either.

It’s not milk, but it’s not a MRE either.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 6 days ago

Technical people don’t understand the business, you see.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 271 points 2 months ago

I appreciate the removal of the unnecessary censorship.

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Affordable options (discuss.tchncs.de)

I’m interested in barefoot shoes but the prices are just ludicrous. I mean, a ballerina slipper for $240. There’s certainly a lot to be said about economies of scale, but theres not a lot of material here and longevity is a pretty frequent talking point. I typically spend less than €150 on shoes.

Somewhere on this fediverse, someone posted a list of some of their successful and less successful shoe purchases from both online shops as well as Amazon sellers. There were shoes in the €50-100 range that seemed like reasonable options.

If you’re reading this and have experiences good or bad, please share them here!

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 201 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

USA could have spent money developing an electrified economy but the republicans are focusing on bringing back coal mining and reshoring shoe manufacturing instead.

This admin has set the USA back 100 years.

ETA - what I mean is that China is rampaging on in electrification, developing manufacturing skills, infrastructure, and design/engineering/technology around renewables and electrification. Europe is thinking about it but not going crazy to the extent China is, because legacy - China doesn’t have 100 years of cars and 150 years of trains; they’re building new. USA meanwhile is actively regressing under Republican policies.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 172 points 6 months ago

We and our 908 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device.

Absolutely, we need a Reject All button!

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 203 points 7 months ago

LTSC is supported, yes, but it’s an edge case not intended for desktop (or most server) applications.

If you don’t want to move to 11, install a flavour of Linux. Don’t run LTSC.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 193 points 8 months ago

France did the thing that Democrats are too scared to. I hope it works

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Wind (discuss.tchncs.de)

I know this is solarDIY, but it seems like a good place for this anyways. Tl;dr is there a good way to integrate wind and solar without spending a bundle?

Sun only shines during the day, and as distances from the equator increase, day lengths get shorter, and cloudier, and angles get steeper. However, my location has steady prevailing winds. So much so, there’s a wind farm practically in the back garden.

Which has me thinking that instead of a ton of panels and a big battery bank (to make use of sunnier days), a little 1kw or so turbine would go a really long way - especially for steady and/or long-running loads like router/server/modem, refrigerator, heat pump…

I understand that wind turbines make some dreadful power and it tends to be AC. They’re also a bit of a pain to situate but that’s sorta secondary. Let’s say I spin up 10kw of solar, a pile of LiFe batteries, and an eg4 AIO with grid-tie. Is there a reasonable, and safe way to integrate wind? I know one guy who just hooked it straight to his batteries but they were lead acid, and they cooked in a storm. Gave him an excuse to get a big life system instead.

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