240 in the neighborhood - i.e., that’s enough to distribute from the pole to a few houses. Of course you have higher voltages to go longer distances. This is equally true for AC vs DC. Thus, the idea that it takes a looot of copper for DC is erroneous.
In fact, where conductor size is relevant is that you can use smaller conductors for DC, because of the skin effect.
Wiring: Split phase, that is also usable as 240 for large appliances. So, the latter.
Yeah. Basically, the biggest reasons for AC have to do with voltage stepping up and down, and for instant grid load knowledge. Well, and of course, existing infrastructure.
Both have solutions, but aren’t as cheap as they are for AC. But, aside from that, DC has a lot of benefits, particularly in end usage efficiency and transmission over distance.
Back in the day, the capability to easily bump up or down the voltage of electricity just wasn’t there for DC, so AC was the distance winner (high voltage is needed for distance, low voltage typically needed for usage).
I mean, you need a lot of voltage to make voltage drop irrelevant. Like, 120 or 240 volts. If distribution is voltage is the same dc/ac, we could use the same wiring (but different breakers, and everything else).
So the wiring argument doesn’t really hold up - the question is more about efficient converters to reduce voltage once it’s at the house.
I.e., for typical American distribution, it’s 240 in the neighborhood and drops to 120 in the house. If the dc does the same, the same amount of power can be drawn along existing wires.
Holy shit, you are so right. I must have been sorting by something whack that put this near the top.
Fair enough, but kinda off-topic.
Tragedy of the Commons.
I think of ‘Linux’ as more general, unfiltered, anything-linux. But, maybe we should make a ‘linuxdailydriver’ or something.
Really, I think it’s a missing feature in Lemmy.
Have a meaningful separator, and allow subcommunities, where all posts are included in the larger community unless explicitly filtered out by the user. Also mods could configure that the more general one doesn’t receive posts, and you have to select a subcommunity when posting.
So, subscribe to linux and you automatically see all subcommunities (including ones created after you subscribed to linux) linux.tech, linux.support, linux.newusers, etc. …but not those you’ve filtered out.
Or, keep “linux”, the more general name, as welcoming as possible, and have “linuxusers” for chat driven by people who are familiar with it as a daily driver.
I kinda wish there was a meaningful separator in lemmy, like ‘.’, that could be used to make subforums.
Like, ‘linux’ would see everything from ‘linux.tech’, ‘linux.noobs’, etc.
Then make “Linux” the landing zone, and have links to subforums in the sidebar. Maybe even restrict posting to subforums.
People could subscribe to Linux as a whole and block specific subtopics, or subscribe only to certain subtopics.
But yeah, Mod tools would be good.
Yeah, I’d rather have this be the unfocused/general/noob/“everything linux” community, and have links in the sidebar to more focused communities that might want to filter out some noise.
Yeah… It’s socially way easier to undergo the process of
Than to undergo the process of
In a sense, making /c/linux the general landing zone for Linux, with a lot of noob and unfocused posts seems like a good idea to me, with links to more-specific Linux communities shared in the side bar as the community grows.
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in a compulsive panic btw!
Lineés. Linacea. Linii.
Honestly? Yeah. I agree. At the very least, a solid niche has been carved out, and it’s growing. I like that.
I’d really like to see more governmental support, but… …so it goes.
It’s a filesystem that supports all of these features (and in combination):
If that is meaningless to you, that’s fine, but it sure as hell looks good to me. You can just stick with ext3 - it’s rock solid.
Your lack of awareness is fine with me.
Yes, it’s easy. BUT: