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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it Possible for a 55inch LED TV to Run on Only 50W or am I Being Scammed?
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    5 months ago

    I would check two things:

    1. Is it a QLED tv? Those are very efficient with the backlight power. QLED only have a blue led backlight and the “quantum dots” in the panel between the backlight and the LCD panel absorb the blue light and emit the red green and blue needed to create the full color spectrum.

    2. How many nits of brightness does it produce? I’d check for the specific model on RTINGS. It won’t help OP much if the TV is efficient, but so dim that it’s unusable in their case.

    Reflectivity also helps with brightness when viewed in a bright room. The less reflective (matte) the less brightness the TV needs to overcome distracting light sources reflecting on the screen.

    Edit: Had to look it up to be sure, normal LED panels use filters that filter red, green, and blue light from a white light source. This means roughly 1/3 of the light from the backlight is filtered away, hence the energy inefficiency vs QLED which uses the energy from the blue light to create the colors.

    Intestingly, some DLP projectors use alternating red, green, and blue light sources which strobe on the DLP chip which takes turns modulating the intensity of each color. Less efficient (and bright) DLPs use a single white light source and a color wheel (rotating color filter).

  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Palworld is terrible
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    5 months ago

    In a lot of ways, it’s Ark without the material/food grind, ungodly long taming times, and chance of losing your tames.

    It does seem to lack underwater exploration (at least for now).

    In short, it’s way less punishing than Ark (coming from a longtime Ark player (1,000s of hours) and someone who played ~15 hours of PalWorld). They also fixed a few of the issues Ark had. Namely ( Ark vs Palworld ):

    Tames Dying: (Ark has pemadeath for tames vs Palworld lets you Rez with a short 10 minute timer)

    Losing Tames: Tames are objects in the world and can be lost in the world or even despawn VS tames are tied to the player or their base. You can always recall your tame instantly.

    Taming: spend 20 minutes to hours sitting next to a knocked out dino feeding it berries, meat or kibble hoping it doesn’t get attacked by wild creatures VS see creature, attack it, get it low on health, optionally ice or electric debuff, throw ball(s) at it.

    Land claiming: Pillars spammed in the world claiming every square foot to the point where new players starve/freeze to death trying to find a spot they can place a campfire VS each guild can have 3 bases. The base perimeter size is fixed and is centered on your palbox. You get 1 base at base level 1, a second at level 11(I think) and a third later. Can build outside the base but it will be subject to decay and damage from other players.

    Base attacks: PvP and random dinos (oh crap, a Titano is wandering near my base) VS PVE base invasion events the game throws at you.

    Getting around: On foot, slow flying mounts with limited stamina that can throw you off VS early mounts + fast travel to specific spots on the island.

    Feeding your tames: log in to mount the Giga/T-Rex to kill things to refill the troughs VS setting up farms, assign pals to farm, they plant, water, gather, and fill the trough for you.

    I almost see it as the EverQuest vs WoW debate. EQ really brought together many of the gameplay elements together (MUD + 3D) but later WoW comes by and offers a more polished, less punishing, and more casual and fun experience.

  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Hacking in 1980 vs Hacking in 2024
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    9 months ago

    True on the digit by digit code decryption. That I can forgive in the name of building tension and “counting down” in a visible way for the movie viewer. “When will it have the launch code?!” “In either 7 nano seconds or 12 years…”

    If they had been more accurate, it would have looked like the Bender xmas execution scene from Futurama:

    https://www.youtube.com/v/aRdRZ6TKo4s?t=25s

    I did like the fact that they showed war-dialing and doing research to find a way into the system. It’s also interesting that they showed some secure practices, like the fact there was no banner identifying the system or OS, giving less info to a would be hacker. Granted, now a days it would have the official DoD banner identifying it as a DoD system.

    I remember with Windows 95, LAN Manager passwords were hashed in two 7 digit sections which made extracting user password from the password hash file trivial:

    https://techgenix.com/how-cracked-windows-password-part1/

    Looks like it was worse than I remember. The passwords were first converted to all upper case first!

  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't we pump seawater into deserts to revive them?
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    10 months ago

    First off, the water would need to be desalinated or you would ensure the land would be unsuitable for farming (and really growing anything) for generations.

    Also, sand doesn’t hold water. In fact, when planting trees and other bushes, if you want more drainage, you typically add rocks and sand.

    Second, most plants need non-sandy soil to grow on (palm trees and other beach bushes and plants aside) though those grow in areas that have lots of rain already.

    Thirdly, the soil will need bacteria to aid the plants in obtaining nutrients and breaking down waste (dead leaves, dead plantlife, etc).

    The way to do it is to look at a couple of projects that are fighting against desertification in Africa:

    1. The Great Green Wall https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-green-wall/

    2. Using compostable waste to fertilize soil https://jstories.media/article/greening-the-desert-with-trash

    You’ll notice that many of these projects start at the edges of deserts. Instead of relying on pumping water onto sandy soil (which would just suck up the water as sand doesn’t hold water that well) they focus on extending the non desert ecosystem onto the desert so that the new soil will absorb water better, the weather over the newly terraformed area will be less dry, and it will eventually be self sustaining.