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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

    IRL enderman farm

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I love it. I'd get lots of exercise, enjoy a cool underground slide and fix the world. To make it really high output, you should ad a very large trap intake for the window users that will inevitably climb up to complain they can't game on Linux. Now you are going to need lot of bait sentences that will trigger a Linux enthousiast. Here are some. ; > I wish I could apply all updates at a convenient time> or > I have these MRI image I want to look at> who has more?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

    "Ugh my old laptop runs so slow now. I'm gonna have to buy one, won't I?"

    "Seriously? I can't uninstall candy fucking crush now?"

    "Man, why do they always make it so hard to change the most basic of settings?"

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    XXX is best distro

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

    I half expected to see Sadam Hussain hiding somewhere in there.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The humans have to be born, raised, fed and the panel clearly says solar energy for the speaker. None of this is perpetual.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    "I wish Windows would let me perpetually birth, raise and feed humans"

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

    ... And perpetual energy is actually impossible and maybe that's the point because the post is a joke.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A single Arch user can generate enough energy to power a family home for a day. Just tell them the latest update to grdfrgl-upflmupfl-lib.tar.gz just dropped and they have to register on the hill to download it.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    Real arch users are not compable of climbing small inclines

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    A real Arch user would never register for something like that

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    A real Arch user would make a trapdoor of their own, with blackjack, and very plain but efficient hookers.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    All hail the GIMP bell pepper

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    What's the connection? I thought Wilber was the logo?

    [–] [email protected] 137 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Hello! Here is your random engineer: You have to connect both trap doors to the same side of the turbine. Otherwise your generator has a great chance to get blocked by users.

    Otherwise the concept looks good. If we find a way to get the Linux guys out and make them able to walk a slight incline without collapsing this should work.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

    I think the biggest flaw is the name.

    energy would be used by the Linux guys. That energy is probably equal or less than what the turbine produces. That makes it not a perpetual motion machine. It is free energy for the owner though as long as the speakers don't consume too much energy as the Linux guys will come and for free to no cost of the owner

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    Tbh any turbine likely has the potential to be blocked, if two come along at once, making one become trapped between the turbine blade and the wall.

    For maximal efficiency, I would suggest a spring-loaded ring of rollers inside a solid metal ring, conforming to the shape of passing Linux users. The dynamos would need to be calibrated such that the stiction of passing users is enough to slow their fall to match the current flow rate of entering users (n.b. is this doable? If not may need to use the spring pressure for this) to ensure maximal energy extraction for available user flow.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    To address the blocking issue, i propose a vibrating (and cushioned) funnel to make sure that the linux users get to the turbine in single file. this keeps the system simpler and helps the linux users pass more easily, because it adheres to the UNIX philosophy of doing just one thing, which works as a lubricant.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I'm fairly sure there's a queuing module implemented by sys.h that could help with that.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Do you see that hill? Wouldn't you like to... see what's behind it?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

    This is huge brain stuff, honestly.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Here's my idea a keyboard that generate electricity every press. Distribute it to everyone we have ourselves free electricity.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    Dude, that's genius! What if we also attached a thousand motors that spin on each key you press and press a thousand other keys in turn?

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

    Piezo master race checking in

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    This isn't perpetual it's just an extremely efficient system.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    Eventually the pit will fill up

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A: that isn't what perpetual means.
    B: are you really bitching about informed people providing you sound advise on how to solve your issue? wow.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    It's a joke, mate

    I'd be among the people climbing the hill probably.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    are you really bitching about informed people providing you sound advise on how to solve your issue? wow.

    "I really wish Windows would let me do this one specific thing"

    "Have you tried switching out your OS for a completely different one with its own set of limitations and work flows"

    Sound advice!

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

    Ignorance of Windows running just fine in a vm is no excuse for the stupidity you just wrote.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

    Ignorance of Windows running just fine in a vm is no excuse for the stupidity you just wrote.

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