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Cake day: June 24th, 2023
  • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•220-ton flywheel generator in GermanyEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Although my little fun fact doesn’t apply to THIS flywheel generator, I recently learned, that flywheel generators are used all over Europe to stabilise the Continental Europe Synchronous Area: They are constantly kept spinning and because of their inertia they level any voltage drops and peaks they encounter. Learning this blew my mind because I never would’ve thought that such a simple technology was used to stabilise our electricity grid.

  • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?
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    1 month ago

    Even though I am listening to podcasts almost all the time I am outside, doing groceries, commuting, running errands, I can totally get that there are people whose brains are wired differently than mine that need what you might describe as auditory monotony because listening to familiar sounds in a familiar surrounding gives then safety and is easier on their brains.

    I don’t find this surprising because most people need some degree of routines or rituals to function so I don’t see why this human tendency to reduce complexity (see: Niklas Luhmann) wouldn’t apply to what you’re listening or not listening to.

    This doesn’t have to do anything with brain rot, just that brains work differently and need different stimuli.

  • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?
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    1 month ago

    Hmm… In my opinion you can’t really compare Balatro and Brotato. You’re right, both games are about making numbers big but the way, they scratch that itch is completely different in my opinion.

    Of course the gameplay loops are different and when you’re more into the action oriented approach of Brotato, Balatro just might not be for you, but that’s not my point: In my opinion in Brotato you build your character and when everything goes right you reach a point where you begin to scale and roll and become pretty much unstoppable for the rest of the run. In Balatro you have more RNG caused variance in the main gameplay loop so you might have a rounds where you barely win and rounds where you draw just the right cards and destroy the Blind.

    For me, a Brotato run feels kinda more “linear” while a Balatro run has more ups and downs even when going well.