Nobody is deploying these at scale to harvest water to sell, it’s way too expensive. Probably even more so than desalination.

These kinds of devices would be useful in areas where they didn’t have access to preexisting infrastructure. There the comparison would be between operating one of these devices or air lifting water in by helicopter. The fact that it’s expensive isn’t as much a concern when the alternative is to pay for airlift delivery.

Mutual Funds: We sell Bliss*

*manufactured from the finest ignorance

As someone who has thought about it, could you provide the data that you used to come to the conclusion that the amount of water being extracted from the air has any appreciable effect on local life?

From my thinking…

Death Valley covers 7800km^2.. Atmospheric moisture is typically contained in the first 10km of air. So there is somewhere around 2.5 quadrillion cubic feet of air containing 114 billion gallons of water.

The average Atmospheric Water Vapour Residence Time is around 8 days The median is 5 days and Death Valley’s topography is a valley which would trap more moisture, but we’ll use the average instead.

This represents a moisture turnover rate of about 625,000 Liters/second (or 1.45x10^10 gallons/day).

So, one of these devices would consume .000185% of the moisture that enters Death Valley every day.

Looks like this is a common enough issue:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Noticeable_audio_delay_or_audible_pop/crack_when_starting_playback

When in doubt, look into the Arch and Gentoo wikis they have good information that’s usually applicable to you even if you’re not using them (mostly).

You take that back

That would depend on the notification application that you’re using.

Give me any details that you can think of. Software version, things you’ve tried, etc. I’ll look into it after work

Do sounds work sometimes and then stop or is it that they’re playing but the output is set to muted by default?

10 pacman

20 GOTO 10

Can’t install Package A because Package B depends on it. Can’t upgrade Package B because it requires the new version of Package A.

-Rdd

there is some crackling with plenty of forum posts explaining how to fix these things going back to 2005 that are no longer relevant because the sound uses something with a different name now.

This is almost always because your pipewire buffers are too small (because of the defaults erring on the side of low latency) and so when the CPU is busy the buffers empty and you get some crackling. Use pw-top to see all of your devices and sources, next to the devices you should see a number in the QUANT column. Chances are that this is really low (or 1)

You can change your minimum buffer (pipewire calculates this by setting a ‘quantum’), temporarily with :

pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum 512

You can edit /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf and add a line under the [clocks] section:

default.clock.min-quantum = 512

Restart pipewire for the setting to take effect:

systemctl --user restart pipewire

(If your sound ever just dies for no reason, restarting pipewire is often all you need to do)

Use the temporary setting to increase the number. Lower number means a shorter buffer so, you get less audio latency in exchange for the risk of the buffer emptying. I don’t have much problem with 256, but sometimes Proton adds some extra CPU overhead and I’ll bump it up to 512.

Windows users, I hope you guys know that you have our support in these trying times. I’m wearing a ribbon and everything.

Microsoft only beats you because they love you

The domestic response Donald Trump’s destruction of all of our alliances are giving these other countries the backbone to do the kinds of regulations that bribery have kept away from American tech companies.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, X, should be next.

Why is an online book retailer operating datacenters? How is a search engine 90% of the digital advertising market?

Monopoly powers and corruption, that’s how.

A thing broke, yay

e: Ahem, I mean: A thing broke

yay

I’m sorry that you read that as an actual literal argument instead of a satire comment

In the same spirit of pointless gatekeeping.

You only pressed the buttons. That’s hardly any of the work required for your text to show up on all of our computers.

You didn’t translate the pulses from your key switches into USB signals, or write the kernel code which translated those inputs into scancodes, or write the browser code which displayed the form box that packaged your text into an HTTP POST request. None of your work went into the firmware on the routers which carried your data and you didn’t do a bit of work burying the cables between those routers.

I haven’t check but I’m pretty sure you’re not a datacenter employee in Finland so you don’t contribute to the labor required to manage the servers, you probably don’t contribute to the Lemmy project or Mozilla/Chromium projects.

Your post is the result of a huge amount of tools, services in infrastructure that you had no hand in inventing, deploying or maintaining.

All you did was provide a few grams of force to some thermoplastic and sparked a few neurons.

All of your interaction with technology is mediated by other technology.

We all understand that when we say ‘I went on the Internet’ we’re not picturing a person, with no technological assistance whatsoever, inducing current into a wire in encoded pulses according to IEEE 802.3 and scratching the resulting HTML in the dirt with a stick.

So, when someone comes along and says ‘Well, actually, you didn’t do anything because YOUR BROWSER went on the Internet.’ it isn’t actually describing a difference.

Here, the comment isn’t making any argument on why this differentiation matters. It’s just changing the framing to bait anti-AI engagement.

They likely also used other technology, like an IDE, syntax highlighting, auto completion, a linter, git, a programming language that they didn’t invent themselves, libraries made by others… etc.

Implying ‘if they use x tool’ then they didn’t build it is pointless gatekeeping that doesn’t add anything to the discussion except create an on-ramp for more anti-ai bot content.

It’s over 50,000!

Did they build it though? Sounds like vibe-coding to me

Did you type that sentence though? It looks like keyboard manipulation to me

On one hand you have a soul sucking corporation who’s purpose in life is to profit off of the work of musicians and on the other side you have an AI company.

Sony isn’t doing this to help artists, they’re doing this so that they can demand more rent.

Stealing them is felony grand theft.

Vandalizing them is a misdemeanor (typically, check your local laws and also don’t do crimes).

If they were all stolen, it’s an easy PR ‘woe is us, think of the children’ win for Flock.

If there’s a bunch of social media posts that are showing chopped down flock cameras just laying on the side of the road then it has better optics from the point of view of ‘We don’t want country-wide surveillance networks’.