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benjymo commented on EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025 energy-efficient-products... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

alnwlsn · 5 months ago

What does it even mean for a TV to be energy efficient? A TV's job is to convert electricity into... light, I guess? It's not light like a light bulb, nor would you want it to be. You wouldn't light your home with TVs.

So is it something like "only produces light where needed on the screen" or "uses the least energy when turned off" or "does image processing for x format with the least energy" What are they measuring here?

benjymo · 5 months ago

You can check the label here https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/....

It's the electricity usage when running the TV. There is e.g. quite a difference between LED and OLED.

TVs is also quite a large part of electricity usage in a household. Maybe 75 - 150W running a few hours a day. You have to keep in mind that not many people have PCs, NAS, etc. running 24/7.

benjymo commented on EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025 energy-efficient-products... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

nottorp · 5 months ago

I wonder how much charging infrastructure China has built inside their borders for their cheap EVs.

In the EU, everyone who could afford an EV probably already has one. The rest will buy what they can afford and can charge.

benjymo · 5 months ago

When I last bought a car 5 years ago, the used car marked for EVs was very small and EVs were very expensive. Since then, they became much cheaper, there are a lot of new models and a lot of used cars on the market.

I'm not planning to buy a new car though, as mine is only 8 years old and still working fine. I'll check again when repairs start to get more expensive, maybe in a few years.

benjymo commented on Busy Bar busy.bar... · Posted by u/jbernardo95

turbokit · 5 months ago

it is a conversation starter more than a distraction stopper! plus $250? no thanks! a small display on your desk won't magically fix your environment!

benjymo · 5 months ago

The video for the first use-case is kinda funny. Instead of telling them to come back in a few minutes, just raise your hand and point at the timer.

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derekp7 · 5 months ago

The corollary to that is to make sure that not everything that looks like DEI is actually DEI, or has a good reason for it. For example, applications for telescope time had an acceptance rate skewed towards application proposals from specific demographics. When they changed it to redact the person's name prior to being evaluated for merit, the distribution followed a more normal curve. Is this DEI, or is it taking action so that the most scientifically beneficial proposals get pushed through?

benjymo · 5 months ago

Getting rid of these biasis is mostly what DEI is.

benjymo commented on Germany concerned over F-35 'kill switch' amid US policy shifts eutoday.net/germany-conce... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ein0p · 6 months ago

German pensioners, get ready. The government you've just voted in is about to bleed you white to create a poor replacement. This is, after all, why we "don't have free healthcare" in the US. Or pensions, for that matter.

benjymo · 6 months ago

The government just announced an increase in pension of 3.74%. I think they'll do ok.

benjymo commented on Germany concerned over F-35 'kill switch' amid US policy shifts eutoday.net/germany-conce... · Posted by u/pseudolus

dopidopHN · 6 months ago

That was a talking point in French newspaper when Germany bought those. While they could have bough perfectly fine Rafales. Tss

benjymo · 6 months ago

I think they went for the F-35 to carry US nuclear weapons. At the time, I read that planes need extensive certifications for this including giving US access to critical components. Obviously no european arms manufacturer should give these to the US.

benjymo commented on Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/vinni2

derrasterpunkt · 8 months ago

It is because of merit order. The most expensive generator of energy sets the price for all the energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_order

benjymo · 8 months ago

If rates go negative this isn't relevant.

You can get dynamic contracts based on the day ahead price in Germany. You pay a negative price for the electricity there. You still have to pay a transmission fee and taxes, so the actual end price is almost never negative though.

Of course sometimes you also pay much more than normal contracts.

Also without merit order, you'd still pay close to the most expensive source on the spot market. It's a consequence of the open grid where demand and supply has to match and price is not fixed.

benjymo commented on Skype Credit is no longer available skype.com/en/credit/... · Posted by u/tlyleung

relistan · 9 months ago

I was once called in and questioned by the police in Munich because of Skype’s phone service. When I moved to Germany, lots of places required a local phone number, including the bank to set up an account. But you needed a bank account most places to get a phone number. I will not follow that thread down all the you-can’t-get-there-from-heres. Anyway, to solve a problem, I got this fixed SkypeOut phone number. It turns out that O2/Telefonica provided the German numbers to Skype, and whoever had the number before me was committing some kind of fraud with it involving shipping containers. The police asked them who owned it and they said me. So the police called me in for questioning. I had no idea why. I don’t speak German and they didn’t provide translators. I luckily had a good, ex-punk friend who volunteered to translate for me. We spent a couple hours in the 1930s era police station. It all worked out in the end thanks to my friend and my retention of the sign up emails from Skype. But what a mess. Thanks Skype. Has made me leery of other similar phone number services.

benjymo · 9 months ago

That really sounds awful, especially if you don't speak the language.

If they only go by phone number I'd guess this could have happened with any phone. Companies regularily reuse phone numbers.

benjymo commented on The Onion buys Infowars nytimes.com/2024/11/14/bu... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

jacknews · 10 months ago

I'm very much not a fan of Q-anon and related subcultures, but the sandy-hook award of $1.5 billion is obviously ridiculous, and is clearly just a government/institutional exercise in dictatorial/systemic power.

There is no possible way that someone ranting on the internet can cause 1.5 billion of emotional damage or whatever the claim was.

In particular, the libel (and it should be libel, making claims that are not true, rather than 'defamation' which is merely slurring them), should be from a credible source. Alex Jones is obviously not a credible source in this, or any case, and is unlikely to have caused any material harm (loss of jobs etc) to the 'victims'.

I mean, good riddance to Alex Jones, but the tools and methods used were entirely inappropriate to a liberal democracy, where you prevail with better arguments.

benjymo · 10 months ago

He knowingly rallied his supporters to harass the victims and their families. That's a bit more than "someone ranting on the internet".

benjymo commented on WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe hadea.ec.europa.eu/progra... · Posted by u/nabla9

rvnx · a year ago

80 hotspots in a single building, and none in the city. Seems like public funds were well used again.

benjymo · a year ago

Looking at a few spots around me, it seems it includes some hotspots in public buildings and museums and so on. So on the map it shows e.g. 30 hotspots in a museum, which seems OK as you probably need that many for coverage indoors with the amount of people typically there.