@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

A "design choice" that was the only pragmatic way to implement grids in the early 20th century, which then expanded from there, and that to change to a new "design choice" would involve tons of new infrastructures being put into place (which require lots of energy & materials to create, thus running counter to the supposed green goals in this). Anyhoo - I am all for better local & distributed battery capacities for electric generation, for where & when it makes sense to put in.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

Ummm, grids need to maintain specific frequencies, or else they start shutting down. That happens in both underloads & overloads. That's the "bad" thing, independent of any economic ideology - no "brainwashing" needed to comprehend - and the things that usually get shut down in those moments heading to overload are peakers running on natural gas, not the plants doing the baseline loads. So either battery capacity is there or not, and plenty of capitalists would be happy to sell more of that stuff too. What is missing is regulatory flexibility in many places, seems to me too many people are denied legal avenues if they want to just power part of their residence or business off- grid.

@evan@cosocial.ca @gaditb@icosahedron.website

I see illustrations like this of interconnected Fediverse platforms, kind of often, and from an end users point of view, it just isn't that true. E.g. I need a completely different user account for the "threadiverse" platforms (Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin/Piefed) versus all the blogging ones (Mastodon, Gotosocial, Wafrn, Pleroma, Misskey, etc.) and neither of those accounts get me logged into Mobilizon, etc. And claiming general interconnectedness & interoperability is way misleading to potential new users.

@jernej__s@infosec.exchange @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

Just another point of info, that even for those in the USA, you can get extended security updates for Windows 10 until October for free if you use an MS account to log into the computers you want extended support on. It's what I am doing for a couple of desktops I need for my work, while finishing the last bits of migration of my studio's computers to MacOS, Ubuntu and Debian.

@stux@mstdn.social

You know while they are looking cute, they are totally thinking of murder.