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@binom If you film with a camera with a ntsc vertical reference rate of 59.95 hz you will see a beat note between the lights and the led lighting indicating it is not well filtered if at all. If you have a newer HiDef camera, most of them work at a 24Hz refresh rate, that IS a slow enough rate that you see jitter in the movement, they also will have a beat note if recording under most LED lights. Many cheap led lights just have a capacitive current limiter and that’s it. If you power them off of 50Hz you will see the flicker, if you get dimmable LED lights they will NOT have a filter. But I don’t want to interfere with anyone’s bragging rights.

@FlembleFabber Do you have LED lights in your house? Can you see 60Hz flicker?

@VinesNFluff Most people can’t honestly perceive any change in their visual field in less than 1/60th of a second except perhaps at the very periphery (for some reason rods are faster than cones and there are more rods in your peripheral vision) and even then not in much detail. So honestly, frame rates above 60 fps don’t really buy you anything except bragging rights.

@weird Same here, and although Linux is my daily driver, I do have a Windows VM and a dual boot that I use for gaming, but on those I create my accounts without a Microsoft account by removing the network connectivity first, and then if they get one drive installed anyway, I de-install it.

@Sparrowette As long as it continues to offer so much hatred for people offering to help, I don’t see how it can survive let alone thrive.

@iAvicenna Well I guess you’re destining us to re-live it.

@Quadhammer So far that hasn’t proven to be the case. Any nation that has wide spread application of renewable energy also has very high rates. Take Spain for example, approximately 50% of it’s energy comes from renewables is 19.9cents / Kwh. Saudi Arabia by contrast, less than 1% of it’s energy from renewables, 6.1cents / Kwh, less than one third the cost in Spain AND their grid doesn’t collapse on a regular basis when clouds obscure a solar farm or the wind dies down.

@Astella You don’t have to, or at least I don’t have to.

@Smokeydope Please understand that a PSU is rated at the total power it can supply to 5v and 12v lines combined, but it can not supply that full power to both. And in my experience many brands of PSUs do not live up to their ratings. If you’re going to run a “beefy” GPU and CPU, I suggest going with 1000 watt or 1200 watt supply. If you are worried about an efficiency then go with a Platinum, they provide good efficiency even at low load levels. This will give you the overhead you need for your machine to run without strain.

@iAvicenna Your accusations of what I know to be facts as being fabrications only points to your own lack of knowledge.

I know, history is scary, if we get too attached to the past we might be tempted to recreate it. The truth is NOT knowing history is what dooms you to recreate it.

Picture yourself on a boat on the ocean, far away from any land. If you don’t know where you’ve been how do you know you’re not going around in circles?

@iAvicenna You can stick your head in the ground and ignore history but it has the unfortunate side effect of likely leading to your own demise and potentially others.

@iAvicenna Knowing history is even better than knowing theory, theory is just that, history is fact.

@boonhet @LandedGentry She was a school girl that did a lot of societal harm.

@iAvicenna Yea, you have the typical communist mentality, if you don’t have enough goods, it’s not because there aren’t enough goods, it’s because they aren’t equally distributed.

The Bolsheviks had this mentality. They had a few big land owners farming the land and providing food for the masses. But the Bolsheviks thought everyone should own an equal amount of land, so they took it away from the farmers, divided it up, and gave it to all the plebs.

The end results, the new land owners didn’t know how to farm and ten million people starved to death.

@Viking_Hippie Not lying. It is a well known if not widely admitted to fact.

@Viking_Hippie No I’m not conflating anything, what we have NOW determines how long the grid can tolerate under production and that is about five minutes. But wind might not blow for days, the sun is on average not in the sky 12 hours out of the day and the majority of those hours it is at an angle that makes less than peak production possible. But even if we used every gram of lithium we have we couldn’t produce enough storage. There are some alternatives, vanadium flow batteries, but again vanadium is expensive and in short supply, or sodium ion batteries, here we’ve probably got adequate materials, but sodium has a two step discharge curve that make the electronics more expensive. In short we don’t PRESENTLY have enough storage and it is doubtful that we will ever have enough to last overnight.

Total world wide electricity generation is 17,400,000,000,000 watts, total battery energy storage 57,000,000,000, pumped hydro adds another 17,900,000,000 do the math and you can see why storage ain’t gonna get us there, at least not with existing technologies. The recent outages in Spain and Portugal were the direct result of unreliable renewable energy.

@Viking_Hippie Sure there are alternatives but nothing can be put in place overnight and the capacity should be there before you should down fossil fuel plants. Also the only real reliable alternatives that can be scaled are nuclear fission and geo-thermal, and geo-thermal is only available in some geographical regions, although in the US you could build enough capacity in yellow-stone to supply the entire country, the same namby-pambys that are panic’ing over carbon dioxide don’t want to risk diminishing the geysers. And most of them are also opposed to nukes.

@Viking_Hippie Well you are calling what I know to be fact non-sense so I know you are too out of touch with reality to have a coherent discussion with.

@Viking_Hippie You’re no fan of authoritarianism yet you want authority over others access to energy and goods. And you want to deny people access to reliable affordable energy which is necessary to the production of damned near everything.