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  • jerkface@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzBut yes.
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    3 hours ago

    I believe they have been used in pacemakers, for example. They are becoming practical for more applications over time and are seemingly on the verge of appearing in consumer electronics. We shall see.

    RTGs also do not use water. I suppose the watch batteries are essentially just tiny RTGs.

    Conceivably you could use bimetallic strips to produce mechanical energy from the heat generation.









  • But, that’s not relevant to communities. You can kill a community by technical means, but technical means cannot create one; it’s necessary but not sufficient, and not even the hard part.

    Most people are still on fucking FACEBOOK. They are willing to put up with almost unlimited bullshittery for the sake of their sense of community. Building a better mousetrap won’t work, and building a vaguely equivalent mousetrap won’t even move the needle.





  • Most people don’t change unless they have to, and rarely even then. You’d have to make it so that they can’t visit Reddit anymore.

    Even on reddit itself, you can’t get people to move from a sick community with hostile moderation to the preferred community. /r/Canada got taken over by /r/metacanada what feels like decades ago, and they turned it into a post modern bigoted classist hellhole, but it still ranks far above the “real” Canadian sub /r/OnGaurdForThee.

    Maybe better not to compete with existing communities. Develop some anchor communities on Lemmy that are doing their own thing on topics that aren’t well served on Reddit.