I didn’t have “Still, there are other alternative OS out there you could look for.” in the initial draft but even then, 6/23 is a fuckin ratio for “get a different os or get rid of google”

they hadn’t said what kind of phone they had before I mentioned it, and i already said I forgot only pixel was supported atm. you’re taking me in bad faith, and i dont appreciate it.

Strictly speaking, that is a solution. Fair point though, I forgot it had limited support. Still, there are other alternative OS out there you could look for.

edit: I guess fuck me for having a fallible human memory, sorry everyone i learned my lesson i’ll never mention alternative os ever again. also how is the “foss” part being ignored. fdroid? alternative stores? degoogle? hello?

my bad, thought i was on lemmy.

Reject android. Embrace GrapheneOS and FOSS.

fucking. why. if new reddit is soooooo fucking good just stick with it.

I seem to recall something to the effect of “theft of a prototype:” like a custom water block or something like that he was supposed to review, and then gave a rushed, improper review, and then misplaced or in some way failed to return the prototype. IIRC.

I think the idea is that Linus is a hypocrite.

I know what phone I’ll be looking for when the piece of shit in my pocket finally dies. That maneuver where he popped the cover with a fingernail and hotswapped the battery sold me.

Hey, totally unrelated question: Didn’t linus recently take a lot of flak for shady/unfair reviewing practices?

Yeah, I was imagining it would probably work better with water instead. Sand can’t be pumped (or turbined lol), and I noticed those many enormous trucks carting the sand around underground which seems to introduce an enormous efficiency loss to the system. Good to see the fundamental concept works well in practice, thank you.

I wasn’t suggesting that a turbine could be used (directly) for sand, I hope you didn’t get that impression, I was just trying to address that commenter’s point of confusion about generators and turbines.

To your question, a flow is cause by a difference in energy potentials between two connected points in a system; Potential energy causes the gas or liquid to flow through a turbine. The more potential energy, the higher the speed, or pressure (depending). Also, not all turbines drive generators. The output could drive anything where you need rotational input, including a vehicle’s transmission. For a lot of reasons, that isn’t usually done.

If I understand correctly, the idea is to store something heavy up top, send it down below using the weight of the sand to somehow (unspecified?) generate electricity, then send it back up when there is an excess supply of energy generation, leaving it available to use again when energy production is reduced. Battery really describes this system better than generator, because it’s only a hole in which to dump excess energy and then pull it out (which, in a roundabout turn of events, the “hole” in this instance is above ground, and then you “pull it out” of the hole by sending it back down.).

All that said, this seems like a boondoggle. I think there’s a lot in this press release that is unsatisfactory, and I’m extremely skeptical that this makes good sense until I see definitive independent proof otherwise.

The turbine is the part that turns potential energy into rotational energy. The generator turns that rotation into electricity.

that thumbnail tho

for that bot-infested shitposting dump?