Turning waste heat into electricity is a very old goal but it really does come up against problems with entropy fast. Basically if you have a LOT of heat in one place you can boil a great deal of water and make electricity. If you have a lot of heat spread over a wide area there’s no good way to “herd” it together enough to boil water in appreciable amounts.

before asking others how to think

Well, I’m back to telling you to go fuck yourself. Shame.

If you want to take a look at yourself and profit from this exchange, here’s how.

Consider that there are two types of people in this world.

Some people get excited when someone asks about a topic they know: they’re happy to show off their knowledge and help someone who’s interested in what they know.

And then there are people who look down on others for asking, and think that everyone should soldier out of ignorance all on their own by googling and going to the library. No asking others! These people self appoint as gatekeepers of the entire community’s time.

You were #2 here. Why? Stop talking about what frustrates you in other people and ask why you couldn’t be the first kind of person.

You remind me of a guy I once knew. I asked if I could borrow his cable crimper over the weekend and he thought about it, sighed, and said no -because the only reason he owned one is that no one was around to loan him theirs. So he was going to do me a favor and make me buy my own.

It was such an unnecessary, grim, douche bag little speech he gave me. He was a bitter fuck and he decided to pay his bitterness forward. I now own a cable crimper which I haven’t touched in 20 years.

Don’t be that guy.

Surely no one has ever shown up at a book club having missed a detail.

You obviously started this to try to feel superior to someone. How do you feel now that you’ve been downvoted? Let me guess - still confident in your superiority.

That’s your wank dude, and I’m done participating in it. Fuck off now bye.

My bad I use 3rd party app clients for both Reddit and Lemmy and they look much alike.

It makes no difference though, because Lemmy is a place for talking to people too.

When you already know the answer it’s very easy to “ackshually” someone and tell them just how they could have googled it in a second.

But when you don’t know what you don’t know, it’s not so simple. For example: when my question is “how do we know Jellyfin will not eventually go down the path of enshittification as well?” It doesn’t occur to me to just start reading their homepage and see if I stumble into an answer. Excuuuuuuuse me.

Anyway…

I’m never going to apologize for asking questions on Reddit or Lemmy. This is a place for talking to people. In the time it took you to chastise me you could have stuck your thumb up your ass 17 times.

Meanwhile, I got a perfectly good answer from someone else. Thanks for nothing.

Hey I’m just learning about Jellyfin and have one question that maybe you have a take on.

How do we know that Jellyfin isn’t just one step behind Plex on the enshittification scale? Is it structurally different somehow? Open source or something?

There was a time when Plex was the bees knees and everyone loved it, and now they’re putting th screws to us. Why should we believe another group won’t do the same?

I would say that’s lights out for Republicans in the midterm elections, but we are well into full irrationality in this country at this point.

It’s really a shame. Ebikes are amazing and have the potential to really bring bicycling to the masses. But these jackasses riding motocross rock hoppers down the sidewalk are going to ruin it for everybody.

That’s what I thought as well yet I see what are essentially electrically powered off-road motorcycles everywhere. There’s no enforcing the sales end of it, which I guess means it’s up to local law enforcement?

Yes but the souped up e-bikes doing 30 need regulation as well. Maybe not by placing them into an existing category where they don’t fit but some of these rigs out here are freaking ridiculous and ruining it for everyone.

I might not underestimate how much big tech companies hate this too. They are pretty famous about despising all regulation of their space. I wouldn’t put it past them to block a backwater like Utah.

Why are you assuming the ambulance is the first car behind the Waymo? Are they supposed to bash through all traffic to get to the Waymo and then push it? You know a lot of ambulance drivers are just low level private employees with a couple weeks of training, right? They’re not going to just use the ambulance like a tank and then tell their corporate ambulance company employer to sue Waymo, a huge and powerful tech company. Christ man join reality.

Okay. Most of your comment seemed to be focused on whether they resemble actual humans. I don’t think we have any information about whether these impact your mental health but I would tend to agree they can’t be good.

Perhaps the point is to seek something that’s not like real humans.

Someday soon, and it isn’t as far off as some people think: the government will know who we are.

“The salad is screaming” has been a notion for decades.

Also, the Jains have entered the chat.

I know what open source means.

A group that wants to host that game server is eventually going to need to fix it, or adapt it to new software / hardware if we expect it to be able to run in perpetuity. They will need to be able to modify that source code to do so.

So the game publisher can’t just publish one final compiled package “for people to use.” The software has to be able to be maintained, not just used. And if we expect the software to survive over time, it will need a community not just one group. Open source is the only thing that would allow the game publisher to walk away from it, but allow the software to live on.

It’s absolutely true that we have too much focus on pharmaceutical solutions and not enough on general wellness and prevention. But wellness and prevention means exercise and vegetables, not protein bars and woo woo shit about balancing your internal landscape.

Fuck this grotesque man.

But then how could anyone use it? If it’s to download and run at home, you can get away with it. But in many of these cases they’re saying open source it so volunteer group XYZ can host a server and keep the game alive. Wouldn’t group XYZ be vulnerable to copyright action?