doughless

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[–] doughless@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I love a bit of lemon glaze on my french toast.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I almost added "and they most certainly do not" to the end of that sentence, but I was trying to underestimate a little as well.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The numbers aren't too difficult to verify.

I found this Canadian government web page that says it's roughly 8.9 kWh, so that checks out.

Looking at the fuel efficiency table on that same website, it looks like OP used a reasonable average fuel efficiency of 30 mpg or slightly under 8L/100km: 4 miles / 30mpg = 0.13 gallons, or 0.492 liters, so their claim of half a liter of gas also checks out.

The cheapest commercial energy in the US appears to be in North Dakota at $0.0741/kWh, so using $0.05/kWh was very generous.

The average Netflix user watches about 2 hours per day, or 60 hours per month.

Just in an attempt to be a bit more accurate, let's assume the individual user's television and internet router use about 900W, so we'll use a final number of 8kW for Netflix's power use per user.

8 kW * 60 hours= 480 kWh

And the cost of all of those kWh at $0.05: 480 kWh * $0.05 = $24.00

Or, the cost in the least expensive state in the US: 480 kWh * $0.0741 = $35.57

National average is $0.14/kWh, so unless Netflix was serving everyone out of North Dakota and Texas, their average cost per user would be much closer to $70 per user.

OP's numbers were definitely already accurate enough for the point. Basically, there's no possible way Netflix needs that much electricity to serve their users.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a huge fan of the checkered background letting me know I'm possibly looking at a transparent image.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago

And after they had depleted the zebrafish's gut microbiota.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Heroic Games Launcher works on Steam Deck, and syncs your achievements and cloud saves to GoG. The biggest downside to GoG is it requires you to use the Windows/Proton versions of your games for cloud sync to work.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It doesn't mention you can take stuff with you. You might end up in Tirana Terminator-style.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Arizona, simply concealing merchandise is still considered shoplifting:

https://azleg.gov/ars/13/01805.htm

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microwaves can generally reach up to nearly 3/4" in water. If heating 8oz in a glass, that should still heat the water evenly enough, since the microwaves will still mostly pass through the glass.

Heating in shorter increments and stirring in between should help avoid breaking the glass, and heat the water more evenly. If you take the time, it should be identical to kettle boiled water. That's why people prefer a kettle to a microwave, it's much faster and far less effort.

But the sister also performed that experiment in the worst possible way, why did she microwave the actual tea bag?!

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, but the achievements wouldn't sync with the native Linux installation, I had to switch to the Windows install of Silksong before they started to sync to my GOG profile.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Heroic will let you install the native Linux game (if available), or the Windows version that runs on Wine/Proton. But like moody said, GOG will only allow cloud saves for the Windows versions of your games.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I was halfway through silksong before I realized cloud saves and achievements only work with the Windows version. Fortunately, copying the Linux save folder on top of the Windows one kept my progress, but I'm still missing most of my achievements. Guess I'll just have to play again from the beginning.

 
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