Okay, so my airing of grievances post had some issues.

So, lets swap it up:

What events are you looking forward to in 2026?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    362·
    19 days ago

    US midterm elections: November 3, 2026. The most-likely outcome is that the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives, though they won’t actually take office until January 3, 2027.

  • runsmooth@kopitalk.netEnglish
    2·
    19 days ago

    I’m going to jump into a Meshcore rabbit hole here, potentially converting a Raspberry Pi into a repeater if I get further in.

  • tomi000@lemmy.world
    1·
    18 days ago

    Official start of WW3. Its been going on forever and we should finally acknowledge it. All this pretending we live in peace makes me sick.

      • mikenurre@lemmy.world
        10·
        19 days ago

        All of them! I have Ubuntu 24LTS on my desktop, prepping Mint for a utility machine, testing Manjaro and Endeavor in VMs, not sure what distro I will move my laptop to yet.

        • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          Ubuntu 24.04 is doing well for me. I use the cinnamon flavor. Switch the scheduler to performance, before that with multiple apps open while gaming there was stuttering it the CPU load was below a certain amount (Ryzen 5800X). After switching to performance all stuttering was gone.

          Liquorix Kernel is something else I am looking at utilizing since I also edit 4K 60FPS video on the same computer.

          • mikenurre@lemmy.world
            4·
            19 days ago

            Not familiar enough with the differences. Plus I’ll learn it better if I have to figure out all the ways to do a task instead of just one. Nano or Emacs or Vim? KDE or Gnome? Too much to choose from! :)

            • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
              1·
              19 days ago

              Yeah, there’s plenty to get overwhelmed in. If the overhead becomes a bit, then any of them are probably good enough and either way you’ll work out what you like

              A friend of mine did something that might work for you: he used genAI as a linux tutor. It’s one of the better use cases I’ve heard for it, if you’re not ethically opposed. Just make sure to double check something more official before you run a command and accidentally destroy something

        • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          9·
          19 days ago

          <Insert highly subjective complaint about choice of distro here>

          Either way, another soul saved. Great to have you on board!

          • mikenurre@lemmy.world
            5·
            19 days ago

            I still have Azure certs, and Microsoft is still my job. But… if I can make my job moving others off Microsoft, many souls can be saved.

            • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
              2·
              19 days ago

              Oh, in that case, and considering the list of devices you’re updating, you might be interested in putting Linux From Scratch on one of the disposable devices:

              https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

              I wouldn’t run it as my main driver, but it’s a book that steps you through each package to manually compile until you have a fully working system. It’s pretty error prone but along the way you learn how most of the pieces fit together. It’s probably still a bit much for now but I thought I’d mention it

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      19 days ago

      considers

      You know, not really a problem that I’ve thought about, but outerwear is gonna limit what people can show from a fashion standpoint.

      I’m not aware of any effort by clothing designers to really work on the problem, but I wonder if it’s possible to make outerwear that thermally-insulates, but is transparent.

      I don’t know if it would run into problems like fogging up on the inner surface and that messing with transparency. If so, it might be possible to mitigate that via use of forced ventilation coupled with an inverse-flow heat exchanger, or maybe using some kind of hydrophilic insert to absorb moisture.

      goes searching

      What I get for “transparent jackets” is mostly raincoat-type things, thin sheet of plastic.

      https://www.etsy.com/listing/661392917/long-womans-transparent-trench-coat

      The problem with those is that those can’t do much to insulate.

      There’s also this:

      https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2024/10/transparent-down-jacket-keeps-you-warm-sans-feathers-uses-near-infrared-rays-from-sunlight-to-do-so/Transparent-down-jacket-by-Kosuke-Tsumura-2.jpg

      Which probably will do something to insulate, since air insulates pretty well, but the bending plastic on the sides of the air pockets are going to do a number on the aesthetic, since one can’t see clearly through it.

      What I guess one would want would be a substance that thermally-insulates, is transparent, and also doesn’t act like a lens to distort what’s on the other side.

      Aerogel is one of the best thermal insulators we have, so you’d need very little thickness to provide a very great amount of thermal insulation.

      It can be at least somewhat-transparent; most shots I’ve seen look kind of like a cloud:

      And it looks like people are looking into using a thin layer on windows, as effectively-transparent insulation:

      https://tokyo-smes.com/en/productservice/transparent-glass-film/

      It’s also extremely strong.

      However:

      • It’s rigid, which isn’t ideal for clothing; the human body moves, and if you want it to fit to form, it has to be able to contour to it. That being said, we have made human clothing out of rigid substances before, like chain mail — you just need to segment the stuff into small pieces. To some extent, outerwear doesn’t need to contour to form; hoop skirts, for example, didn’t. We have made clothing out of joined, rigid metal plates before; it’s clearly at least possible, though outside of armor and sheer novelty of aesthetic, I don’t think that we’ve ever really had a practical reason to actually do so:

      • I understand that it’s also damaged by contact with water. This can be dealt with by coating it with something that protects against water, but that stuff has to be able to resist being punctured. Need a transparent coating, maybe some kind of plastic, maybe Gorilla Glass or something.

      • It’s presently (relatively) expensive to make. My guess is that that can probably be overcome; industrial diamonds used to once be pretty expensive too.

        searches

        It looks like these people have a flexible, composite blanket partly made out of aerogel and billed for use in apparel, though they’re not trying to make something that’s transparent (and their composite is even more expensive).

  • mienshao@lemmy.world
    41·
    19 days ago

    Pokemon turns 30 this year, so I’m hoping for some cool anniversary stuff (maybe gen 10??? 👀)

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    April 1st I travel to Cozumel Mexico for a couple weeks of diving. Another 30 hours in my happy place (up to 100 feet under water) will be amazing.

      • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        19 days ago

        Ocean. I’m rescue certified and trying to get going as a videographer on a shoestring budget. Eventually going to expand my skill set some more so I can do some mine dives a few hours from where I live. Hopefully get to the point where I can do some cenote dives to play in the halocline.

    • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
      1·
      19 days ago

      This is kind of what I’d hoped for this question originally. I don’t enjoy Trump and was looking to ask something that would lead to comments about a bunch of obscure things some groups were looking forward to, ideally not too political. It was going to be a moderation nightmare though and my other “what are the bad things about Trump in 2025” got me educated on why rule 6 exists

      • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world
        22·
        19 days ago

        I hate Trump and everything about him. On the other hand, mma is the only sport I’ve ever cared about or watched. Seeing it grow and change over the last 20 years has been so cool. It feels like seeing it on a national stage like this will be MASSIVE for the sport and its growth. Thats especially true considering the new streaming system it’ll be under. As a side note, its always surreal when im watching an event and then Trump, kid rock and Mario Lopez walk out together mid event.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    19 days ago

    Pierre Pollievre getting the fuck out of office, or at least stepping down. he’s fucking pathetic and only seeks to divide the country.

    goddamn I wish we had proper vote reform for ranked ballots or whatever, and didn’t get stuck with the Liberals

  • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world
    6·
    19 days ago

    In 2025 China installed over 500GW of solar power. That is an insane amount it’s over 1.3 gigawatts a day or a large power plant per day. Sodium batteries have gone into production and gonna be sold at like 50$/kwh. These price points and scales are where it’s cheaper to build 2 times your power needed in solar and have like a week of battery backup so you can power everything off solar and wind. Right now it’s 60/40 fossil fuels/low carbon sources for electricity production, 2026 will be the year it flips to 49/51 in actuality, it might take a year or two before analysts actually realize it has happened.