You know what they say: Plastic is a girl’s best friend

no wait, it was: Plastic is forever

Uh Oh!

Solo Piano, solo acoustic guitar, Lofi, chillhop dreamhop and steel drums

something like that: https://youtu.be/ej0ARP97RPo

https://youtu.be/uwEaQk5VeS4

maybe even this: https://youtu.be/nWufEJ1Ava0

You could build a sun powered Dye laser. Dye lasers are capable of absorbing polychromatic light and emitting monochromatic light.

You could split the sunlight up into its various wavelengths with a prism and then run each wavelength through a specific dye to get more of some specific wavelength of light that is optimal for your task. Mostly just because it’d look cool tho.

BlackberryPi Flipper Zero with LoRa and a thermal camera (because why not) would be cool

No thanks, I don’t like Piefken

I think we need community forks. anyone who is willing to host it can copy the entire instance and all of the content and become the new mod.

but it would make more sense if lemmy was based on some decentralized data layer (like IPFS). Then you only need to copy the references, that makes it way cheaper to fork.

that would solve that issue.

More like Hammer Industries

Glad to see that I’m not the only one excited about this concept. Screaming into the void has been very fruitful, I see.

Check out NixOS Containers

Also: “NixOS’s declarative configuration allows you to define your entire system configuration, including software packages, services, and system settings, in a single configuration file.”

https://nixos.org/

https://mynixos.com/

as is tradition

the aliens watching me for entertainment: oh no, he has installed gentoo and qubes, he is too far gone

we should all take meth so we can speed it up even more

desktop linux is turning into android lmao

Nah thx I’d rather give all my money to my landlord. But I worry that too much of the value my labor produces goes to my boss. I wish my boss would share it 50/50 with my landlord because they both deserve it equally.

well if you are extremely strict about everything having to be powered by on board solar, you could probably just use potential energy. Fly as high as possible and drop a guided projectile down that is as heavy and as aerodynamic as possible. like a light version of the rod from god.

Also we’ve seen how effective cheap drones can be in warfare. the same could be true for small solar drones, to drop various payload on your enemy. Yeah they are slow and have big ass wings. but still they are silent and cheap. If you design them well some of them could loiter “forever”.

And also I would say solar powered artillery works. either using linear or rotary electromagnetic accelerators. Like a railgun or spinlaunch.

otherwise you could build gigantic transparent blimps covered in fresnel lenses that focus sunlight on an extremely small spot. normal sunlight has ~1kW/m². The Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser has 300kW, so you need ~300m² to match its power, so like 17.32x17.32m dimensions. The Hindenburg-class had like 10,000m². So you could have something in the ballpark of a 10MW laser. The destructiveness depends on how well you can focus it and how much enrrgy you loose via the air. And 2x longer blimps get 4x the death ray power. So you really benefit from scale. Or you just use a fleet of blimps all focusing on one point. You know, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

You could also use mylar if fresnel is too expensive.

But only works during the day lol.

like so:

mass produce these, outfit them with cheap drone hardware or something. unleash a swarm of them over your enemy burning them to a crisp.

crazy they were ahead of the curve. Haven’t played it, but I heard it has good world building.

oil never made strategic sense to me, like oh yeah you want to make your prosperity dependent on hostile foreign powers? great idea

yeah it’s cheap and energy dense, but we could have invested in alternative technologies way earlier. spending billions to trillions on useless crap instead.

dual use, I like it. nothing is wasted in sustainable war.

you could also use space mirrors, 1) to reduce the temperature on the planet, 2) create on demand night and day anywhere in the world at any time, 3) as a melty space laser

you could deny your enemy sunlight, make their climate 10x hotter or green deserts or light your greenhouses. melt a shipping lane through the north pole.

Chaotic neutral technology

lmao, the drill sergeant shouts them down for putting the algae plastic shell casings in the wrong recycling bill

Imagine solar powered war.

You have like a 1m² solar hat that collects 200 watts so you can fire one rifle equivalent shot every 20 seconds, at 50% efficiency.

Your tanks covered in solar panels generate about 6000W of solar energy, vs the 1,120,000W of the Abrahams, so you can drive it for 7.7 minutes per day.

The solar impulse 2 can carry pilot, so about 80kg at a range of ~7000km. The smallest nuclear bomb is the Davy Crockett at about 23kg, so you could carry 3 or 4 of those around 7000km. Really you could build a gigantic solar glider to carry nuclear weapons.

What else? Maybe land mines that need to charge up their explosive power with solar.