• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: April 26th, 2024

help-circle
  • The assumption here is that solar panels make sure that the energy from the sun gets turned into electricity instead of heat. However, pretty much everything that uses electricity is technically a 100% efficient electrical space heater (eg. A fan turns electricity into heat and kinetic energy… which dissipates into heat). So the only way that solar panels could have a cooling effect is if we didn’t use the electricity (someone smarter than me will probably be able to point out exceptions to this, but still this should be the case for the majority of uses).

    Also, since solar panels are intended to capture as much solar energy as possible (hence why they are typically black), the realistic effect of covering the planet with them would probably be a temperature increase













  • noli@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.worldPrivacy tool
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Either Windows does a lot of it for them and they should have chosen a distro that does the same, or they’re much more familiar with Windows and expecting that to translate to Linux without any time investment.

    I’m convinced this is the main reason people say linux is hard and finnicky. They use windows their entire lives then boot up linux and expect it to work the exact same way, inevitably leading to some not-dones like installing some random packages downloaded from the internet (download a .deb and double click it. What could go wrong?) which then come back to bite them way later in an update.

    What you find easy/intuitive is whatever you’ve spent most time using. In windows I get frustrated because 50 random things are happening in the background that I don’t know of and there’s like what, 7 different configuration apps from 5 different eras, some of which are overlapping in functionality. Programs I installed are either hopelessly out of date or when I launch them they need to spend a minute updating before I can use them.