faultyproboscus

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[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...heaters are the one thing that's 100% efficient. And if you want to go even further, look up heat pumps.

The best time to watch Primer is immediately after watching Primer.

[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm... concerned they are prediabetic.

[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's not how metabolism works. You'd need to get into a starvation state before the number of calories getting burned changes significantly - and that takes a long time.

If you actually need constant snacks throughout the day, you should get checked for diabetes.

[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 48 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Sure, but the company fronted the millions of dollars required to develop the technology. The investment needs to come from somewhere.

That doesn't have to be a private company, though. We need public funding that retains the patent rights, if not just to make the invention free from licensing costs to manufacture.

The insane thing about our current system is that we do have public funding, but private companies wind up with the patent anyway

[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm don't

You sure you're not?

[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So that's what happened to my Blu-ray drive on my PC! I had to flash the firmware to a custom version for ripping to get it to read anything.

That is incredibly shitty behavior. I'm putting the disk that I purchased into my own hardware. The studio already got my money from the sale, why the hell do they care?

[–] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nah. This would require an update be sent out to every blu ray player, which is not feasible unless they were all standardized to a single database or service for their license keys.

Even if that were the case, which it's not, the device would need to connect to the internet for this scheme to work.