[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 points 17 hours ago
[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do think that using the phase changes of water as the sole point of comparison is a bad argument.

Why? Water is extremely important to life and very abundant. The phases changes of water are something that you are confronted with in every day life, all the time.

For most people, the interaction with temperature is through the weather, and I don't think Celsius is inherently better for that.

I do, because the temperature being above or below freezing is a very important boundary. Freezing temperatures means slippery roads, frost on windows, car locks freezing shut, etc. A lot of our interaction with the world outside is affected by the temperature being below or above 0ºC. By comparison, 0ºF is completely arbitrary, nothing changes when you cross that boundary.

I like that in Fahrenheit 0 is a cold winter's day, and 100 is a hot summer's day.

10ºF is also a cold day, so is 20ºF and 30ºF. Just like 90ºF is also a hot summers day.

I find that more relevant in day-to-day life than the phase changes of water.

None of those seem relevant to me. I don’t need a round number to know that 37ºC is a hot day. There is no significance to 100ºF. 99ºF is also a hot day and so is 101ºF. Nothing interesting happens when you cross the 100ºF threshold.

When you cross the 0ºC or 100ºC, potentially dangerous things start to happen of which you need to be aware.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 5 points 3 days ago

IIRC it also had a clip of the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing. Amazing stuff.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 points 5 days ago

I use dnsmasq on my router (I use a small server-grade PC as a router). It’s both a DHCP server as well as a caching DNS. Next to that it also runs a TFTP server. TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a standard for simple file transfers mainly used for network booting.

If you tell a machine to boot from the network, it will basically request an IP through DHCP and with that DHCP response comes a list of available network boot options. Each option is contains the name of a file it can load from the TFTP server. If you select one of the options, it will download that file and execute it. That file will usually be a bootloader (like Grub) which will then take over the boot process.

I have set up a bunch of different network boot options, including a Debian installer, a small Linux rescue system and Memtest86+ . That way I can always network-boot any machine on my LAN to either install an OS or diagnose problems.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 209 points 2 months ago

Showing it’s unsustainable is kind of the point of the original game Monopoly is based on: The landlord’s game.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 81 points 2 months ago

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 162 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is misleading. The 49.5% tax in the Netherlands is on income above €75,518. Billionaires rarely make the bulk of their money as income.

We don’t have a capital gains tax, instead there is a tax on capital that’s based on expected return on that capital. It’s about 1% on money in bank account and about 6% on stock and other investments.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 161 points 1 year ago

I live near a university that attracts quite a few international students/lecturers and I’ve often witnessed the exact opposite of this. You’re outside in the middle of summer, trying not to die of a heat stroke, when a obviously non-native person walks by wearing a winter coat and a hat.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 79 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is really trying hard not to lose their last place in the console market lately

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 206 points 1 year ago

Lightning is/was actually pretty great. Also remember that it was introduced before USB-C even existed.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 140 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Triangeljosti.

The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 125 points 1 year ago

Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.

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Hope this is the right place to report this, as this community is mentioned on the contact page of join-lemmy.org.

If you go to https://join-lemmy.org and click on 'run a server', this results in a 404. This is a shame as it puts up a roadblock for those wanting to create their own Lemmy instances.

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I'm trying to subscribe to some of the communities linked here.

When I click on any of them, there is no working subscribe button. There is a 'subscribe' text, but it's not clickable. (see attached screenshot) The button does show up on local communities, but not on federated ones.

Tested on Safari iPadOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1

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