The reason for our situation is that we never accept "good enough". Everything is considered a "problem" that should be solved.

I reject the notion that all difficulties in life are problems in need of a solution.

Heavily depends where that 2J is coming from. If it was not going to be used elsewhere, then neat.

Where'd you get the energy to do this?

Nevermind that, that's a _practical_ problem. There's a more serious problem: When will you accept that this approach is _exactly_ what has brought this mess upon us? That "oh, that's a _problem_ we gotta _fix_ it. With _more stuff_." mentality we have?

"Are you seriously suggesting we *stop solving problems*? Do you even realize how absurd this is?" OF COURSE it sounds absurd! It goes against our very nature! We _literally can not think of any other way_ to approach our environment! Which, coincidentally, is EXACTLY what has brought us here!

and we're getting closer to Maelstrom. Peter would be proud.

it's as if they do not care about transitioning to EVs or whatever, but only about coercing people to buy more stuff, no matter what it is.

just because you do not have a use for high capacity high power low cycle count cells, doesn't mean they do not have their uses

hell, there are cases where even the paleolithic NiCd cells are actually the best choice

That, is completely false. This isn't 1990 anymore. Chargers are not just a CCS anymore. You may leave the battery forever on the charger.

I do not understand

you say you use AA alkalines. Okay.

You say that rechargables are not viable because "the charging frequency and effort is insane". That is where you lose me.

In the following I am making the assumption that the process of replacing the alkalines in the device is the exact same as the rechargables.

Alkaline: once a pair needs replacement you need to
1) go to storage to get new pair
2) go to device to replace spent with new
3) go to storage to place spent pair
4) return to initial location

Rechargable: once a pair needs replacement you need to
1) go to storage to get charged pair from charger
2) go to device to replace discharged with charged
3) go to storage to place discharged pair in charger
4) return to initial location

NiMH have better characteristics. If the discharge rate is low, this should be a process infrequent enough to be insignificant. If the discharge rate is high, the rechargables should make this process less frequent than when using disposables. Maybe the difference is such that it won't make a difference? Say, they last 28h instead of 26h, so you need to replace them once every day anyway, since it is likely you can't go and replace them at 2am, then 4am, 6, 8, 10 etc, you will replace them all at 7pm and be done with it.

So, what exactly makes rechargables non-viable?

I mean, seriously.

https://gigaom.com/report/new-...

"high end" test system, an ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 15 OLED - 15.6" home and business laptop, Intel i9-12900H 14-core CPU, 32GB LPDDr5 4800MHz RAM, 1TB SSD with Windows 11 Pro OS.

startup time: 3.27 s
time to join a meeting: 3.06 s

What is it doing during "startup", if after finishing this "startup" it takes equally as long to join a meeting?

It has to do _something_ to be busy for 3 whole seconds. But even after 3 seconds of work, it is not ready to join a meeting, to the point that it needs _as much_ work to do it?

Visual studio on my system takes less than 3 seconds to startup _with the last open solution loaded_ and I have a sneaking suspicion that visual studio is much, much more complicated than teams.

Teams takes anywhere from 3 to 7 seconds. Up to the point where it tells me that I have the wrong version. And the link it provides me takes me to the page from which I downloaded _the version that I am running_.

Thank *fuck* I do not need it.

(ryzen 5950x pbo off, 64GB 2400 MHz, samsung 960 evo 500 GB)

I missed the comma right after the closing parenthesis. That comma is quite significant!

I think so. When you force it, you're basically asking from the bits in the gearbox that do the rotational matching, to grind against each other until either a) the two rotational speeds change enough so that they do match or b) the bits have been destroyed.

So it's a toss-up, really.

_But_ generally speaking, if you're at high rpm, the engine _should_ drop rpm enough to be able to shift at least once down, maybe going a bit above redline. Unless you're in overdrive _and_ going so fast that you can't drop to lower gear _and_ going downhill so the engine doesn't drop in rpm, in which case... *shrug*

That might cause strain? But if the gear you want to shift down to is too far away, the mesh won't let you shift into it. Physically. On motorbikes, yeah, most if not all are constant mesh. You can shift down to 1st going 120mph, gearbox won't complain, and almost guarantee the engine become undone right then and there.

Why would the drivetrain be damaged, to say nothing of destroyed, if you kill ignition while in gear in a manual, gas powered car?

I mean, not even the catalytic converter will be damaged because there won't be any fuel injected? You won't have steering, most likely since it is powersteering and you only have one good braking action, but why would the drivetrain get damaged?

When all we had was CRT, we would try to adjust them so that all of the display was visible, because the corners had a radius.

Then, came LCD/TFT and they had _perfect_ geometry. The entire rectangle area was _by design_ visible and not only visible, but had the exact same clarity.

Now I see pointless cropping of content from curved corners. Also, there's a hole in the middle of the display. The fuck?

If they _dedicated_ the top and bottom edges to be explicitly for soft-buttons and status information, that would be cool. But they're not. When in landscape, the softbuttons _do_ remain on the bottom of the phone, near the charger (that is, they do not change position) but the status bar moves to the long side of the display? And now, the right side (the one with the softbuttons, as you hold it in landscape), is nicely properly rectangular... but the _left_ side is cropped _and_ curved? So I lose both the screen estate from the status bar _and_ the screen estate from the black bar on the left

I miss my Z ultra :(
(coincidentally, sony is the only major manufacturer that still has a CORRECT screen. That is, no holes, no curves)

That 3090 was the most power hungry GPU that ever existed when it was released. 350 W. There are only 5 cards available today that (nominaly) use more power.

Anyway, you know you can always limit the power consumption of your GPU, either directly or indirectly, yes? It doesn't *need* to go full tilt all the time.