i think that it should be able to be sold, but not as food, i.e. only if it has special warnings on it that it’s not safe for human consumption.

We already have vast plots of land being taken up by parking lots and buildings. There is a hospital in my area that put solar panels over the parking lot. It is really nice. Your car interior stays cooler. Many buildings have their AC cooling fans on the roof. Solar panels would also shade those and help make them more efficient. All of these areas already have a hookup to the grid. Substation may need to be modified but it isn’t as dramatic as you make it sound.

yeah but check the economics. climbing on roofs to install 3 m² of solar panels is just not worth it. the total cost of the system is not just the cost of solar panels + land area, but rather solar panels + land area + installation workers cost. and installation work costs significantly more on a roof than on a flat plain area, which is why the plain land is cheaper overall.

uhh i think these solar panels will be pretty distinct so they’re basically a way to give the police a clear proof that you did it.

solar panels have been used on communication infrastructure since 1960. for example telegraph wires and their respective later versions (copper cable, fiber optics cable, etc) because these cables often run through the middle of nowhere and need a small amount of continuous power to operate. so solar + batteries is the least-maintenace, highest-availability, cheapest option. nobody wants to travel 1000km into the woods to replenish a diesel generator.

–> electronics have been using solar panels since forever. this is nothing new.

especially, a lot of tech CEOs who supported trump are tech CEOs, and dropping the facebook / instagram / etc platforms would seriously hurt their budget.

Even better: i just saw this:

you can even download a personal copy of all the games on the entire archive! for those of us who make backups of things.

• carry objects around
• can actually lift meaningful amounts of weight
• probably has fingers and can rotate screws in etc.
• can probably operate tools that require fingers with more precision than mini-helicopters?

i remember a while ago i read that the average wealth of a black person in (new york? or somewhere else?) was $8. fucking $8. it’s still running through my head. wtf

nah i think that the storage requirement grows approximately linear with the number of users, and maybe in the worst case quadratically; but the typical case should be linear.

yeah you already said it in your edit, but just to respond anyways:

grub’s simplicity is a feature. it does one thing and does it well.

it would be cool if i (or any user) could just contribute a part of their storage space / network connection to the video platform. something like “i store this video (that i just watched) for a month sothat others can see it too”.

unfortunately, as i understand it, there’s both technical and legal hurdles.

• technical hurdle: this doesn’t work for mobile, where network traffic is often limited. e.g. if i pay $10 for 50 GB upload/download capacity per month, then i don’t want 49 GB of those to be sucked up by other people’s video watching behavior.
• legal hurdle: what if some of the content is accidentally illegal? then i would be distributing illegal material, which can quickly become a problem for myself … (seeing how it is illegal in many countries to distribute copyrighted material, but not to watch it oneself).

how so?

the way i imagine it:

• as long as it’s american companies running everything, it’s “fair” and “free market”.
• as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we’ll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to “protect american values”, “for our national security” or sth else. i’ve seen this soo many times. people who “just follow the rules” as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.

As long as you keep your crimes to an extent that it doesn’t cause a massive backlash on large swaths of the country, it’s a different ballgame.

actually that does sound kinda reasonable. what is a crime, if not defined by its negative consequences for the rest of the population?

No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.

Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.

did you read the article? TRON was heavily backed by the japanese government.

what counts as an “operating system”? is it enough to just create another linux distro? is it enough to just fork the distro and add a new visual design to it?

wait until you learn about the information density of DNA

you’re writing as if you know what users want. let people decide themselves please. allow mastodon<->lemmy federation, make it an optional feature that you can activate on sign-up or in your profile setting. this way everyone is happy.

i remember there is an XKCD about it, i just can’t find it rn

edit: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

fun fact: street vehicles are still being used to transport data around. for large amounts of data, it’s faster and cheaper to write it on a disk, then ship the disk, instead of transporting it over the internet.