disposable tech

Yay…

Imagine… “I just love sitting through annoying unskippable ads so much! And I simply can’t wait to see more ads still when I pause!”

On a related note, I host the Guardian to gopherspace here: gopher://theunixzoo.co.uk/1/the-guardian

Sadly that’s what the human race does. It’s nothing unique to nuclear power.

It still baffles me, for example, that with all this technology, we still generate all this rubbish which we then bury in the ground. And we all know it. We all buy things in disposable packaging. We are all complicit.

The care and maintenance stage is part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) decommissioning strategy and spans an 80+ year period. This waiting period allows for radiation levels within the reactor core to decline and helps to facilitate a smoother demolition process. Dungeness A is due to enter the care and maintenance phase in 2027. Demolition of reactor buildings and final site clearance is planned for 2088 to 2098

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_nuclear_power_stations

It’s an amazing place. I visited last month. You can overlook the power station from a nearby lighthouse.

When reading about dungeness reactor i learned that even reactors that haven’t melted down also take about a hundred years to decommission safely.

Another interesting stat I heard on a podcast is that the coal industry has proven much more deadly than the nuclear industry in terms of human lives lost.

I have an android DAP (music player) that runs Android 7. It’s a box with a headphone jack (remember those?) and it’s sole purpose is to play offline music from an SD card.

I side-loaded a few music players, because there’s no way I’m putting my Google password in android 7 in 2024.

I’d be upset if I couldn’t side load. These DAPs never have an up to date android.

Let’s hope the music apps I use don’t block sideloading.

Poweramp won’t. Musicolet?

Will the isochronous mode improvements help?

And bananas are radioactive. Best leave them a few halflives before scraping the mouldy gunky remains from your fruit bowl.

The ads are so obnoxious and frequent. It just kills it for me.

I know the reply I’m gonna get…

Was the droid that one that goes “DROID!” in a robotic voice when you turn it on?

That’s what I thought!

The real issue with Fat32 is the 4gb file size limit.

This smells of academics…

It’s just not very interesting, is it?

“News”

I like the form factor of these lights, but I worry about the built-in batteries. I don’t like the idea that once the battery is done, the light is also.

I notice that the back does come off the arkfeld, but I don’t know if you can source a replacement cell…

Is it an olight arkfeld clone?

I love that someone got the reference!

Bravissimo, hip hip hooray. What a glorious display.

I gave up on kodi. Jellyfin works better, presumably because it transcodes better.