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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Nah that’s not fair. The misinformation campaign was huge. On all platforms, IRL advertisements and all over the mainstream media. It’s so hard not to fall for misinformation especially if it confirms biases already present.

    A lot of people didn’t even know what they were voting on. It’s disgusting the way it went down and hard not to hold the people who voted a certain way responsible.

    But I mostly blame the corrupt politicians and the massive misinformation campaign, partially funded and run by Russia. Like how do you go from a non-binding referendum to brexit? It makes no sense. Those assholes who went like “The people have spoken” should be shot for their crimes.

    Ever since brexit you see right politicians push for more referendums all over Europe. It’s so easy to influence people to vote a certain way. And with a referendum you can point to the people who have voted, so it all looks above board.








  • Yes create a Windows stick and boot from that. But that’s a lot of work, just create a Windows setup stick and install it. Installing Windows and running some tests should take less than an hour and can save you a lot of headache. You can download the ISO directly from Microsoft and you don’t need a license for some simple testing like this.

    Temperatures read out in software can be very unreliable. The software might say it’s perfectly fine and the thing still throttles because some part of the chip gets too hot.

    Cleaning it out and re-doing the paste is my go to for any refurbishment on old laptops. Unless it’s something weird like liquid metal or something, it’s usually very easy and quick to do. And even if it isn’t strictly needed, it usually helps.


  • The CPU speed crashing like that seems like thermal throttling maybe? Any idea on the temperatures? Clean out the vents and redo the thermal paste?

    8550U isn’t like fast, but is isn’t super slow either.

    I would also suggest for debugging purposes to re-check on Windows. You can go crazy chasing down a software issue when it’s hardware and vice versa. Using a wildly different software stack can point you in the right direction. If the problem persists, it’s most likely hardware related.







  • The battery that does the driving is completely different from the battery that does the rest of the stuff in the car. So whilst it sounds funny, it’s actually correct.

    This is not a unique Tesla thing BTW, I think all electric cars work like that. The battery that does the driving has very different requirements, so keeping them separated is the best solution.

    What is pretty shit from Tesla is the regular battery dying all the time. That’s a pretty unique Tesla issue.




  • You are totally correct, hydrogen is by far the most common element out there, since it’s just a simple proton. Any space without a boatload of hydrogen is what we call empty space. Oxygen is also super abundant, so it’s basically everywhere. As far as we know water is everywhere and very easy to get. Like I said you’d need to filter and clean it, since it’s probably full of nasty stuff, but that’s something we could do 100 years ago so it should be easy.

    Now it would be possible for some kind of weird system where there is just hydrogen for the star and not a lot else. I’m not sure how that would be possible, but lets say for the sake of argument that it is. Then you won’t have any planets as well and you for sure wouldn’t have any abundant life to get to civilization levels. The early universe was like this, because a lot of the heavier stuff needed stars to get made. So the early stars systems were just a whole lot of hydrogen and some helium and nothing else, but there obviously wasn’t life as we know it back then.

    But I don’t know how this would extend to an entire region of space. And even if it’s for the entire region, why would you stay? Just move on, the region sucks, you have warp capable vessels so just get out of dodge. There’s plenty of stars around with a lot of water in their systems, Voyager gets to them within the year.

    They also have, you know, space ships, so they have some level of technology. They say the stole the tech, but that’s a little too easy. Even if they stole the idea and the blueprints, they still understand a lot of it. They operate and maintain it, so they have some technical level at least. That means their space ships probably have pretty decent water recycling options. Or are they just venting their piss into space like we did in the 60s? If water is such a big deal, they would surely have their tech tree invested into recycling and water saving techniques. Even a ship with replicators like Voyager is a very sealed system, why waste the resources?

    I think in the show it’s just hand waved away like this is a region with very little water and the audience is just supposed to go with it, instead of thinking even a little bit about it.