We rode out Katrina near the Mississippi Gulf Coast back in 2005, in a run down trailer made in 1979. We didn’t board up the windows, matter of fact we did exactly the opposite.
We opened all the windows and doors, to allow the air pressure changes easier to try to equalize. We sat in the living room, no power, just a battery powered radio, watching the walls ‘breathe’, if you will…
Scary shit yo, but our beater trailer survived. About 45 minutes after the strong winds started to settle down, suddenly the water level raised about a foot and a half, only a couple inches from coming in our front door. Luckily we were on high enough ground that we didn’t get water in the trailer. Luckily.
We were two weeks without power, but at least my dad was smart enough to be prepared with a 400 gallon tank of chlorinated ground water. People though he was crazy for having that much treated water prepared, until Katrina hit, then he was sharing the water with all the neighbors.
TL;DR - Stay safe out there, and prepare early.
Thank you for sharing an update on this storm. There are a couple of tropical weather communities in the fediverse, but they don’t seem to get much attention…
The ENIAC, one of the original ‘programmable’ general purpose digital computers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
https://books.google.com/books/about/ENIAC_the_Triumphs_and_Tragedies_of_the.html?id=l2nGQgAACAAJ
This was a significant era of computing history, and in the modern digital era, I think everyone should at least get a sense of the early days of digital technology.
And people living on ventilators and suffering dementia or paralysis or other debilitating ailments is hardly anything worth calling any sort of quality of life. I’m 42 right now, and at the rate things are going, both with my own health plus the rate people are ruining the planet, I kinda hope I croak by age 60 or so.
The human body isn’t meant to last forever, and if they ever think they gotta put me on a machine for any length of time, I’m gonna be like fuck that, time to check out.
It’s definitely not a top notch phone, so don’t expect it to be a powerhouse of a gaming phone or whatever, but it’s actually a pretty decent phone to be fair.
It doesn’t have many sensors, only the accelerometer, light, proximity, and significant motion sensors, so don’t expect it to work with RFID or NFC devices either. No compass sensor either ☹️
But where it lacks in power and features, it makes up for in an amazing battery life, plus even the stock Android ain’t too damn bad. 👍
I wasn’t suggesting that I’d expect newer DirectX to work on older versions of Windows. I was suggesting that I would have expected newer DirectX standards to still be backwards compatible with older DirectX standards.
Sigh, I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility. Oh well, I switched to Linux after Windows 8 came out anyways. 🤷♂️
Guess not, but as far as I ever knew, M$ has been known to try to maintain backwards compatibility for longer than most users would even consider necessary.
XP supported DirectX 7/8/9
I would have figured that would have continued on with future versions of Windows, but I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility.
Oh well, all the more reason I switched to Linux as my main daily runner after Windows 8 came out. 🤷♂️
Why would someone expect DirectX12 to not also support 11/10/9/8/7?
I have a Blu B131DL that allows the bootloader to be unlocked without being online. No WiFi, no SIM card, it just simply allows unlocking. No catches.
I haven’t actually done anything with it though, it’s still on its stock Android 11, but it’s nice to know I have that option.
2 centuries ago there weren’t anywhere near 8 billion people. Earth ain’t got any bigger since then. At what point would you consider the world overpopulated? 10 billion? 15? 20?
I don’t see that he was wrong at all, he was just calling it out earlier than anyone was ready to listen.
2 centuries ago we didn’t have millions of cars on the roads burning gasoline stuck at red lights in gridlocked traffic. Try again.
I was referring to modern day overpopulation and our excessive addiction to energy consumption, as opposed to past centuries where there were far fewer people (yet still quite a plenty), and far less energy consumption demands.
I dunno where you plucked the idea of slavery out of anything I said, you can fuck right off with that.
What does life expectancy have anything to do with energy consumption? I was talking about overpopulation. More people equals more energy consumption. That’s just science.
We have a much better understanding of disease these days, so we can indeed keep our longer life expectancy, without acting like we somehow need even more people on the planet.
Once upon a time, the internal combustion engine didn’t even exist. How did people get around? Either on foot or by horse. Or bicycle, if you wanna get fancy, without burning any more fuel than the calories you consume.
Once upon a time human generated electricity didn’t exist. I mean sure it’s nice and all, but people lived without it for hundreds of thousands of years.
And once upon a time gunpowder and shit didn’t exist. Welp, that and other cats are out of the bag now ain’t they?
I dunno, it just seems to me that overpopulation and the human addiction to energy is like 3/4 of the overall problem.
No, I’m just saying there’s way too many damn people for this little tiny planet these days, and if you let the politicians talk their rhetoric and shit, they’d just as soon try to convince you that we need more people.
They want more women birthing children, just to have more people to milk of every bit of tax money they can, and either work them into their graves or send them to war.
We’re all pawns in a huge game. The more people there are, the more energy we consume, regardless of the source of that energy. That’s just science.
If there was only 1/8 as many people on the planet, there still wouldn’t be any shortage of people, and we’d probably only be consuming about 1/20th of the energy, because we wouldn’t be gridlocked in traffic and competing so much for the finite resources on the planet.
Yes that last part is a bit of speculation, but still, isn’t 8 billion people a bit too many for Earth? There ain’t any more land to conquer/explore, unless you dare try living on Antarctica…
You make a fine point as well. Overpopulation. There’s only so much surface area on our degrading blue-green marble of a planet.
Back in the 1700s there wasn’t anywhere near 8 billion people on the planet. Yet people were living just fine. Not perfectly, but is anyone except the richest of the rich living just fine now?
But these days, the politicians want people to believe there’s a shortage of people, even trying to restrict women’s rights, and also arrange wars to kill people.
https://scottmanning.com/content/year-by-year-world-population-estimates/
Edits - Apologies for numerous edits, I just want to make my thoughts clear.
And yet, there’s still the elephant in the room.
The literal ‘Elephant’s Foot’ from the Chernobyl disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
It’s bad enough that disaster even happened, but now the aftermath is now in a war torn country? Fuck, why can’t we just all work together and figure a way to recycle the nuclear material that we refined in the first place, instead of Russia trying to blow it up?
Oh that’s right, nuclear stuff is super dangerous. Like, potentially worldwide life ending dangerous. Humans Politicians are not responsible enough for any of these energy demands, whether it’s coal, oil, nuclear, etc…
Shit, my own phone only uses a few milliwatts of energy a day, but the servers it connects to use megawatts. Has anyone ever considered just turning off the electricity, worldwide, for like a month, just to see what happens?
Just a hypothetical thought there, please don’t take me too seriously. But for real, humans existed for over 100,000 years without electricity and they never had any of these extreme devastating problems…
Make sure they’re not your own tampons, don’t want them tracking your DNA pregnancy status…
SLPT: Pouring hot bacon grease works faster, if you’re in a rush…
It’s 2024, we’ve upgraded to the Plumbus X…
I usually just pay fair price for the person I wanna bang. $1.25, plus tax of course…