FiFoFree 4mo ago • 100%
Absolutely, just like there's some things a horse can do that a car just can't.
I don't plan on buying a horse or needing to do those things, and I don't think the vast majority do either.
The end result is that there will still be ICEs in niche applications, but those who know how to operate them and the supply chains that currently make them cheap and dominant will slowly die off.
FiFoFree 4mo ago • 80%
But solar panel costs are falling way faster than battery costs.
FiFoFree 7mo ago • 100%
We also use it for engine displacement.
FiFoFree 8mo ago • 100%
The super credits used to unlock the second battle pass can also be found in game in a relatively healthy amount (including in the first battle pass), making unlocking that second battle pass very possible without spending real currency.
FiFoFree 9mo ago • 100%
Our heat pump didn't really kick in the resistive auxiliary heat until temps were well below 0°F, but humidity also plays into that. It wasn't ever running the resistive heat exclusively.
If sized correctly, heat pumps also don't really like setbacks in the winter. Just set the thermostat to whatever and leave it -- don't have it cool down at night and warm back up in the morning.
FiFoFree 9mo ago • 100%
/c/flashlight sends its regards
FiFoFree 9mo ago • 95%
If you own anything with "white" LEDs, I have some bad news for you...
FiFoFree 9mo ago • 100%
7? Psh.
Try 40.
No but seriously, it's addictive. One moment you're like "I just need a good flashlight" and the next you're telling somebody how the flashlight they got from Lowes has terrible tint and CRI compared to your hand-assembled copper and titanium pixel camo Emisar D4v2 with dedomed Nichia 519As you got for like $120 from a Chinese guy named Hank.
FiFoFree 10mo ago • 82%
*since 2020.
If my cowboy math is correct (assuming two parents and two children), that comes out to about 292 people per year or 876 since 2020.
With a population the size of the United States (330 million), that means that, for a given year, 0.00009% (rounded up) of that population dies as a result of a family annihilation. For comparison, around 40,000 people (including around 1,000 children) die in vehicle accidents annually in the US.
Not that family annihilations aren't horrible. They are. But, from a purely statistical perspective, there are much more frequent horrible things that we don't talk about as much, for a variety of reasons.
FiFoFree 10mo ago • 90%
In Iowa, at least, the state had a pre-existing fiber network that got expanded to a shit-ton of rural communities and local (often municipal) ISPs. It's more expensive than what you'd get in the cities, but much better bang for buck than Starlink.
The only people still struggling to get service are those who live way, way outside those communities -- the kind of people for whom "neighbor" means somebody who lives a significant fraction of a mile away. And, outside of comfortably wealthy individuals, those people are a dying breed, at least in Iowa.
If Iowa of all places can pull something like that off, I figure it's not out of reach of any state (or nation, for that matter) whose inhabitants give a nano-fuck about access to technology.
FiFoFree 11mo ago • 100%
This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.
FiFoFree 11mo ago • 94%
[gestures vaguely]
FiFoFree 1y ago • 100%
I see someone else has discovered the gold mine that is SkyCorp Home Video.
FiFoFree 1y ago • 100%
Everything means nothing.
FiFoFree 1y ago • 100%
Wait, there's a 3000k SFT-40?
FiFoFree 1y ago • 100%
This is fascinating stuff! Now I kinda wanna see one of us build it...
Emisar D4V2 mule - W1 Amber. It's got that same monochromatic yellow as an old sodium street lamp, to the point that I briefly felt a tinge of nostalgia on firing it up for the first time.
I was thinking of getting a 519A DD CCT-shift for the giggles of having that much high-CRI rosy light. What's everybody else getting?
Emisar D1K UV emitter fried itself. Bit of a bummer, but I've already reached out to Hank. Anyone else run into this with the 5W UV emitter?