I found my dad's Psion 5mx in a drawer the other day. They were really fantastic devices
Readit Newstimellis-smith commented on Of Psion and Symbian abortretry.fail/p/of-psio... · Posted by u/klelatti
Colour me a bit cynical but we use plastic massively in healthcare and food industries precisely because it is non toxic.
Given the massive prevalence of plastic on just about all our food, if it was really such a threat I would expect life expectancies to have dropped.
Personally I regard this all as fear mongering.
I seem to remember I was on the FBI watch list for subscribing to Linux Journal back in the day.
timellis-smith commented on It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/rustoo
Train performance is abysmal in the north of England. It’s a joke. The trains can barely be relied upon. It’s managed decline of the railways.
Strange, I live in the North of England and that has hardly been my experience of late. Most trains have been at least 1 or 2 minutes late.
timellis-smith commented on I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again androidauthority.com/goog... · Posted by u/Corrado
For me this is also a major failure of poor competition policy.
If Google's smart home system were an independent company, it would love or die by its ability to do its job. But Nest can just piggy back on Google's brand power.
timellis-smith commented on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket apnews.com/article/german... · Posted by u/thm
Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
Theres a really interesting graph showing rail usage under both public and private ownership in GB.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/GB...
I'll let you draw your own conclusions
From this page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail
How is making a huge financial and CO2 investment into a tech that is still fossil fuel and has to be replaced again a step forward?
Fracking for all it's bad press has been immensely helpful in reducing greenhouse emissions.
If it weren't for natural gas we would still have massive coal fired power plants.
If you look at UK emissions which have been declining steadily since the 1990s, this has been in no small part due to the move to natural gas.
While it would be great to move to carbon neutral immediately, we can't do that without driving up energy prices massively and causing widespread poverty and disruption, so there is definitely room for some middle ground compromises.
timellis-smith commented on The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush adamtooze.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/hackandthink
My entire point was America pokes around. You’re mentioning more cases. Yes. We do that. Sometimes, mostly around WWII, we did it well. Since Vietnam, the record has been crap. (Question mark for the first Gulf War.) Ukraine and Taiwan look more like the work our Greatest Generation did than the Boomer years.
The conflicts we hear the least about tend to be those we were least involved in. Myanmar. Tigray. Whatever the fuck South Africa is currently up to.
As far as I know, South Africa hasn't been involved in anything since Angola. The current military probably couldn't find enough working vehicles to even get to a conflict let alone fight one.
>Of course and that needs to be factored into renewable supplies which massively increases their cost.
It is and it does but being 5x cheaper means even a massive increase in cost still doesnt put it in the same league as nuclear power.
That doesn't matter because it's not like you can double renewables to increase redundancy (no wind is no wind no matter how many turbines you have)- you need another more expensive energy source as well.
Of course and that needs to be factored into renewable supplies which massively increases their cost. When you have periods of Dunkelflaute you potentially need to have full grid redundancy either through inter-connects, other energy generation sources or battery backup, none of which are cheap.
Oh and while we're about it interconnects just increase the systemic risk of multiple regions experiencing Dunkelflaute at the same time. And it's not enough to say that this almost never happens because in a system that expects many 9s of availability almost never is just not acceptable.