I'm pretty sure most portable ACs sold in Europe these days are R290 (propane) which has a GWP of about 1/14th of CO2, so for those that's no longer much of a concern.
R290 has a GWP of 3.3, so that's 3.3x worse than CO2 with a GOP of 1. Which makes sense, because when propane breaks down it usually breaks down to CO2.
Thanks for sharing that portable AC's in Europe are R290, I don't think that's super common in the US. But I'm open to being shown wrong on that!
I do the same as the poster above, fastmail supports it directly and makes it very easy to manage. All you have to do is bring your own domain (they'll even manage your DKIM/SPF records etc as necessary if you want).
> Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak.
This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countries, but at least in England the widespread rollout of vaccines (just beginning in January 2021) only started at the end of the final major spike in excess deaths.
It's simply not possible for excess deaths to line up better with vaccine rollout than with the initial outbreak, because both major spikes in excess deaths were before mass vaccination rollout.
NIST does not refuse hybridization, they will be publishing guidance on hybrid schemes in the draft of SP 800-227 at the same time as the final standards. They don't impose it though, because at a large scale it's more efficient to run just (fast) ML-KEM instead of (fast) ML-KEM + (slower) ECDH, which more than doubles your computation time for what they see as no benefit.
Generally recycling aluminium is incredibly cheap, especially if it's just a solid block without the regular potential contaminants, although I don't know what specific alloy they're using. If it's something like 6061 then it's especially easy to recycle, afaik, because it's very low in silicon and iron.
Do you know of any large tech companies that have more environmental ethics? I'm not sure Apple is good about it, but sadly I don't know of any better.
Well frame.work and Fairphone for starters. Milling blocks of aluminium like that even if the alu is recycled is still wasteful. It takes a massive amount of energy on both the milling(also consumables lost) and on the recycling.
A moulded alu part that required less milled off it would have been a good starter over using a full billet block.
It feels absurd their using billet alu on a device that definitely won't have a 10 year lifespan.
There's a throwaway comment in here about the earth's magnetic field affecting CRTs and turning the TV upside down, is that actually true? I would have thought the earth's magnetic field would be incredibly weak in comparison to the deflecting coils.
I've had TVs move room to room and face a different direction and need to be fixed with a degaussing coil. I'm told it's from the Earth's magnetic field. Could also be that they were next to other TVs (arcade machines in this case).
If i had to guess, i bet it's the other machines nearby. I'm sure we've all felt the static from a crt screen when it's turned off. Being in a closed room of turned on crt's would probably create a significant field of potentials around the room. I can't imagine the earth's magnetic field is so erratic as to change noticeably from room to room. I'd think any variation of that order would disrupt the functioning of compasses, and the phenomena couldn't just be localized to your one room on earth, compasses would be somewhat unreliable all over the globe then.
But who knows, maybe a solar flair hit you between rooms and changed the environment enough to disrupt the tv, but then i'd bet it'd effect all the machines. Eh, who knows. Weird thing that electromagnetism
I've got a cocktail video game, and the top (which the screen is mounted to) is on a hinge. There's a decent degauss on start, so if you start it with the screen up, it's fine, and if you start it with the screen down, it's fine, but if you move it while it's on, the colors get weird.
Rotation can affect image purity. You don't even have to turn the set upside down. If you have a set that already has some color purity issues due to bad magnetism of the mask, you can affect that (and sometimes even find a position that eliminates it) simply by rotating the TV around on the surface it rests on.
I just sent an email to my old high school buddy. I'm sure this is incorrect, and I've asked him for his remembrance of something we did on a lark.
One night David Letterman did an episode where throughout the show, the camera(s) did a full 360 degree revolution.
When the show was half-way through, it was of course, upside down. So we turned the television upside down.
I personally don't remember anything unusual about the way the show appeared, other than that the TV was upside down, and then on its side for a few minutes at the 45 minute mark.
If he responds within a reasonable time, I'll follow up to mention if he remembers this the same way I do.
Actually, this is a perfectly good point - arcade games had their CRTs on a 45 degree angle, some on portrait and some on landscape direction, and they showed no "intermediate" effects that you'd expect if this gravity claim was true. There were even "table" video games where the CRT was 90 degrees upward, which should have really messed things up if this gravitational effect was at all true.
Likewise, remember the green swooping radar of days gone by? In wartime, those regularly got a wild ride through gravity, and yet you never hear of them having a problem with it.
I'm really thinking this article's "throw-away" comment is really worth throwing away.
> Likewise, remember the green swooping radar of days gone by
Monochrome CRTs don't have a shadow mask or an aperture grille, and no degausing or need for it. Certainly, magnetic fields will interact with the electron beam of a monochrome CRT, but if it's the earth's magnetic field, it will be uniform over the whole screen, and not a big deal.
From personal experience, I took a 20" Sony Trinitron from Los Angeles to New Zealand in the mid 90's. the reversal in the Earth's magnetic field between the northern and southern hemisphere's meant I could never completely get the RGB guns to line up correctly.
To me, this sounds a lot like the directional flow of toilets flushing. I'd have to see this as an actual experiment before I can be convinced of what the webopedia page is claiming.
Check out my previous comment on the time a friend and I watch his TV upside down. There was zero difference that I remember.
Consider where most of the monitors are shipped from. Did they send "southern hemisphere" specific televisions and crt monitors? And what happens at the equator?
Could your monitor have been fritzed on the flight? Did it work normally when you brought it back?
This would actually be a fantastic YouTube video, whether it debunks or proves the claim being equally interesting.
This is simply not true. If it were, then a monitor at the equator would be ruined merely by rotating it to face east instead of west, or north instead of south. They would have needed to sell four different monitors, to accommodate customers who were going to face their monitors in different directions. Even away from the equator most of the magnetic field points north/south rather than into or away from the Earth. More likely vibration during shipping defocused your monitor somewhat; a TV–repair shop probably could have fixed it.
It's much more likely that your TV suffered in-transit knocks and bumps that rendered it out of alignment, and too out of alignment to be able to be re-aligned.
Some professional Sony BWM series monitors have menu settings for the direction where the monitor is facing to compensate for the earth magnetic field.
Interesting. uname -a reports x86_64, and lscpu also reports x86_64, although perhaps that's just the kernel being patched to lie about the architecture.
I regularly use Orbstack to develop for x64 Linux (including kernel development). It works transparently as an x64 linux command line that uses Rosetta under the hood, so performance is reasonably good.
It can also run docker containers, apparently faster than the normal docker client, although I haven't used that feature much so I'm not sure.
