I would be shocked if it was over even 1000W at peak, but I suppose it’s over provisioned to deal with the very very brief peak when the compressor kicks on.

We have large fridges here. It’s not the volume that matters when we’re looking at peak draw, it’s the compressor’s power rating. The same compressor can cool both, just at different duty cycles.

FWIW there’s probably a lot more auxiliary power being pulled for things like water dispensers and that kind of thing for your fridges. And of course the Palantir-enabled AI Smart Fridge Miner features. In case any of these pretentious commies eats any food correlated with support for the wrong ethnic cleansing victims.

It’s likely the fridges we buy here are simpler older designs with less fragile components, and stuff that runs on lower power. Most people here are not going for the smart fridges. There are a few inverter fridges on the market, but I prefer going with simpler older designs for what should be obvious reasons.

USian here. My refrigerator expects (and is legally required to have) a dedicated branch circuit of fifteen or twenty amps with nothing else on it.

Does any fridge use 1,800W? Even at peak? A small freeze-dryer? I’m holding off on making cheap jokes at the expense of American cuisine, your fridge might be legally over provisioned for some reason, but it’s not drawing this much power. My entire house idles at about 1.1~1.5A, or about 250~350W, if nothing is running but the absolute essentials. And that’s a relevant number for me, I do solar! I do batteries! Every little bit counts. Fridge is the most important thing to power, and literally everything else comes after.

During the financial meltdown/pandemic people ran their fridges for eight or less hours a day because there was just not enough diesel. That’s the time we decided to splurge on solar. If you want more fun anecdotes, during that time I was waiting in line for 3-4 hours for fuel, and then bribing the attendant more than the value of the fuel to let me fill over 20 liters. Not fun times. And I’m someone who was lucky enough to be able to pay his way through the worst of it.

I’m in Lebanon. I too count my blessings. It’s not culturally mandatory to strand your kids at 18 here, nor culturally accepted to have them dodge bullets at school. So you know. Even at the peak of people being harassed by Hafez’s secret police, people were not getting snatched on the street en masse. I don’t have the mental scaffolding to even begin to grapple with your reality my dear. Using the gas because the microwave is unavailable until tomorrow, temporarily stealing my neighbor’s water, angling for favor with feudal lords’ bureaucrats… Problems yes, but problems I understand.

I hope I’m not being too mean here, the US still fascinates me in a way no other potential new home does, even with everything happening right now. How’s that for perspective.

Where I live most people actually do think of household electricity in terms of instantaneous current draw. The power grid is insufficient, so you get rationed grid power throughout the day depending on what area you live in, with the rest filled in by mob-run local power generators.

You pay a subscription based on the maximum amperage and you have to manage your power use accordingly.

🤓☝️ Um that’s functionally the same as a power limit

Yes, but it’s ampere based because it’s managed by a breaker out on the street, and the ampere limit is colloquially understood. “I’m paying for 5A, the bastard won’t give me more” is a perfectly understandable statement. When I was 7 years old I already understood that “we only have 5 amperes during most of the day” and that it meant the microwave wasn’t available during that time. And since the breaker is out on the street, you learn your limit very quickly, since you have to get dressed and go down a few flights of stairs in the freezing cold to turn it back on. If you have an elevator in your building, it sure as shit isn’t running when the generator power is active.

Annoying when you’re using solar to escape this hell electrical system and everyone has to re-learn to think in terms of Watts/VA. I have a table printed out stuck to the wall to “convert” between amps and Watts at 230V. Do you want to explain to grandma which devices are intuitively at 1kW≈1kVA and which are not? No? Then let her keep using amperes, it’s fine.

Yes, the power generators run off diesel, yes, the diesel fumes and generator noise is a problem, yes, we get price gouged by both the generator mobs and the government grid, yes, I hate dieselpunk and think diesel is the most disgusting fuel. The generators give you a much closer wave to 230@50Hz though, so it has that over the grid. Was solar the most expensive thing we’ve ever paid for? Yes. Does it make me feel like a king with a 24 hour battery-backed microwave? Also yes

I’ve expressed this a few times already on Lemmy to little fanfare to say the least, but I use YouTube a lot. I use it a lot on my phone. I’d use it offline on planes. I want to pay for it. But I’m a yucky VPN user and I’m not even allowed to pay a blanket inflated price for it.

The algorithm is still absolutely amazing for music discovery. I already have channels I automatically yank things via YT-DLG from, but like using the service normally is nice too. I don’t see ads on my computer, but I suspect they might be feeding me extra ads on the phone to compensate. Because if this is the standard ad density for phone users it is vomitingly absurd.

Theoretically the folks you watch get paid from the fee. I don’t hate that system. I’m willing to pay, my payment is ready, I’m willing to pay 5 or 20 or however many bucks for it. But using a VPN to watch YouTube on a paid account can get your account banned. Incredible stuff. This is just about the only media subscription I can see myself using. And they’re cutting off all VPN users like that.

I can sound out horrific guttural Cyrillic text thanks to Geoguessr, but this just looks indecipherable to me. The urge to leap at typical Latin script pronunciation is much harder to stave off for some reason, and half of the glyphs just look completely alien to me.

Language really is a fucking miracle

You could say “I wish their executives loved games as much as their developers and artists” or lament that they’re tied to such a cutthroat corporate machine or something. You do know you can express a more nuanced idea than “FUCK X THING” without kowtowing to some of the most high profile corporate bullshit out there, right

I’ve had to use Office a lot professionally and I have to say you do get to learn its quirks over time if you’re stubborn enough to figure out what triggers each unexpected behavior. Ironically learning LaTeX really helped me figure out what’s happening internally in Word in some of those situations, just understanding how the breaks and spaces might be stored gives you a little extra insight.

AFAIK you can do something similar to what you’re describing in outline mode but I could be completely misremembering.

All the Office suite is bloated but LibreOffice still feels a long way off.

I thought the Notepad > Wordpad > MS Word progression was pretty much perfect. A zero complication plaintext editor, something with a bit more formatting, and outright typesetting for print.

Granted I use a combination of Notepad++, Obsidian, and haphazard LaTeX venvs now so who am I to talk. I don’t represent most Windows users and especially not the Linux daily drivers. I’d like to think there’s still a lot of people in my situation.

It says a lot that none of the reasons I like Notepad++ were brought into Notepad when they changed it. A copilot button in the place where I write immediate notes and edit batch files? What could possibly be the use case? I just need it to be able to open massive text files and have a decent search UI and that’s it

Not to be all “The safest way to ski is not to go skiing”, but throwing together a meal can be a way to exercise some agency during low days. Even if the food itself isn’t very healthy, the process can be good for you.

I’ll soak some beans overnight and be forced to boil them the next day. The steps are individually low effort and spaced apart (and you can cook beans with zero onions etc if you want) and at the end you can find yourself sitting in front of a hot bowl of good ass beans and feel hey that was good for me.

Hell, beans out of a can and tomato out of a can over rice out of a pouch can feel like you at least did something, you know? Delivery is relatively cheap where I live and getting into a cycle of being dependent on mass produced food really didn’t help me feel like I had a lot of control over what was happening in my life.

There are like eight cities in the US that give me hope for you guys.

Not a crazy amount of hope, to be clear. But I like seeing this more than the good old find out half of the imperial boomerang.

I have to find a new home at some point and it’s good that not every single community in one continent has decided to continuously shoot itself in the foot at every opportunity. I’ve got friends who moved to Boston and they say it’s nice. Frankly any place where a house costs eight billion dollars better be nice.

The companies that market machine learning tools to investors and the masses have not been set up by people who believe art has value. Everything is content, and content exists to be aggregated alongside advertisements or displayed for a fee.

I genuinely hate that actual artists can’t use a lot of pretty neat novel digital levers to make stuff. Because it’s synonymous with garbage. The ability to leap across the uncanny valley has lost all novelty and is downright banal now.

But the answer to your question is the same as every desperate attempt at getting a “good” use case for slop generators. It’s for cranking out low effort trash.

As a dedicated fan of walking simulators I can already see the amount of shovelware we need to dig through to find the good stuff multiplying by orders of magnitude.

It’s been a year since I played INFRA and I’ve thought about it without fail at least once a week and it damn well isn’t because they haphazardly made boring environments.

Remember seeing this in a book as a kid and not knowing if it was real or not. Must have been a Disney-themed encyclopedia I think.

I love/hate that this is a common experience. Someone did this to me too, although this was sort of a work friend taking the piss.

I have straight up backhandedly implied people senior to me who get paid 5x more than I do are throwing any possible expertise they might have out of the window. To their face. My stance on these slop extruders is well known among my colleagues.

I’ve even told people who used them in front of me, in a gentle but unflinching way, that their willingness to use them uncritically is a red flag for me and that comparing my genuine work to general machine output is something I can’t simply decide not to take as an insult. Including people who are supposed to review my work. As a professional I have to do something that exceeds the first page of Google in specificity. I do the long yards. Why is that suddenly a problem? If our work was this simple why are we getting paid to do it?

Some of these people trust me enough that they’re getting queasy about the whole AI thing after initially giving in. Yeah it’s decent at summarizing mass emails from corporate. Summarizing mass emails from corporate is not our fucking job. At least two people were paid subscribers to OpenAI’s product and no longer pay for chatbots. Proselytizing against the death of critical thinking is not a lost cause.

I have to get the fuck out of corporate.

I have a lot of 90s - aughts edutainment stuff that might be of interest to some people in my life. This might be a half decent way to preserve my old PC library for this stuff. I feel like virtual machines are pretty hit and miss and non-technical people don’t seem to enjoy messing around with them

They’re hit or miss. They aggregate a lot of the important tech news, but frankly, I wouldn’t trust them for anything important like figuring out what size and alloy of meat cleaver is the best for changing the SSD in my computer.

Huh. A pen and paper little puzzle format that I’ve never seen before.

I wonder what this whole category of games is even called. Used to see them in things like kids magazines mostly.

Here’s the thing. Digital computing fits very neatly in the orderly march of technological progression. So yes the algorithms might be very advanced but advanced algorithms are just part of doing tech.

Jiggling hydrogen atoms of conscious beings and watching what happens is stratospherically more sci-fi than even the coolest signal processing tech. Like on a fundamental level.

How amazing does the average person think “A”I”” is? This is an order of magnitude more impressive than any society-melting party trick.

same species

One of the loose ideas I remember from university was one professor talking about the progress of technology, concluding with something like “every invention is a logical step up from the previous one, built on increasingly intricate understanding of the way the world works and on more refined designs to employ our understanding. Except for MRI machines. If aliens landed tomorrow and we showed them our inventions, they’d be pleased to see how our progression accumulated, but at some point they’ll take one look at the MRI and say what the actual fuck is this.”

Another time he described MRI technology in our current time “like if the Crusaders had microwaves”.

To this day, any time an actually interesting innovation gets described, I still feel like it’s nothing compared to MRI tech. Really. It makes my head hurt just thinking about it. What the actual fuck is this.

"My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

I feel like this is a lot of people’s experience, we all know someone like this. I know that’s not the kind of thing the Lemmy demographic would look very kindly at, but this is a type of person. Some of them are batshit and others just had a lot of bad luck with the field of medicine.

I really feel like if this guy had a kinder worldview and wasn’t genuinely fucking bonkers he would be a much-needed voice that could speak reason to people who have lost their trust in medical science. Instead he’s this. So he isn’t that.

That quote could have come from someone who has come to a good realization about their understanding of health. Okay, you got sold a crate of vitamins big boy. Are you fixed yet?

But I really feel like the only ones who talk nicely to those people are industrial suppliers of snake oil and that just makes the world worse. Especially now that they’re at the wheel.