Yup, my comment wasn’t about your good math, it was about my low expectations of the source :)

Assuming cnbc clickbait headlines can math of course. Bold assumption.

Wake me when there’s a slider.

Lengthwise, nokia n900 style, with a smaller screen (actually this is 4", that’s one box ticked, prefer 5" tho), and a bigger battery, and an open OS, and sd card expansion, basically an anti-todays-phone I guess…

The chips are made in Taiwan (TSMC), this is likely for chip designers, (and marketers and executives and sundry other hangers on of little worth), water is irrelevant. Evil on the other hand…

Getting Meta’s walled garden fingers out of the VR pie can only be a good thing, perhaps long term, but given Steam Frame incoming, probably not.

Not to worry, plenty of room for two, remind 'em to cross-post though.

Check out soulseek, next gen napster with FLAC…nicotine is a good client (use a VPN obvs)

amount of gas in an AC system is insignificant compared to the CO2 generated just making the AC system in the first place.

Let alone running the damn thing (on fossil fuel electricity).

Ye canna change the laws of physics, Captin.

Also Titanium is a bitch to extract if I recall correctly, hence the price. Still, options are good.

How do you separate it?

Fractional distillation of liquid air I believe (like separating petrol and diesel).

Credit card in your phone case, use your banks’ website, 95+% of people right there.

You’re not wrong, but when/if (joyously, apparently, often it’s more profitable to destroy things for the tax break than to sell them) a significant surplus appears, adapters or new motherboards will appear fairly soon. Even things like H200s can probably be made into co-processors (hopefully running at a sane wattage for home users), as u/tal says there’s already ways to integrate into the linux kernel as (very fast) RAM, I doubt the compute will be left on the table for long.

H200 PCIe5 x 16 card anyone?

historical context Luddite

means the actual Luddite movement, not luddite the word as used today, there’s a bit more nuance there. Go on, read the wiki…

A historical context Luddite would probably be destroying datacentres presently, we might have a thing or two to learn from them.

If you take a broader view of enshittification (than Doctorows’ original formulation, good as it is), as has been happening to the word, you can apply deshittification to things like right to repair, inter-operability, repeal of reverse engineering felonization, even straight up open source. I actually think it could be a useful umbrella term.

First up… backups…

You’ve got all your data on a single 8TB external drive?

This. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP !!! Sorry for shouting, but it’s that important. It’s a main storage tolerant of disk failure, you still need backups or you’re one bad ‘rm -rf’ away from losing data.

First get that second 8Tb, or better yet a 16+Tb (see serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent for good prices on manufacturer recertified drives) so you have room to grow. Now copy that 8Tb onto it and disconnect it from your computer. Congratulations, you have a cold backup and are pretty well protected from data loss, much better than a RAID.

You can now think about a NAS with confidence, but preferably before that get another drive copy your data again and take it to a friend / relative / safety deposit box (even bury it in the back yard in something waterproof). Now you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy and you’re pretty damn well insulated against data loss.

TLDR: Backup first, NAS later.

Woot, competition!

how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun

Have you never played a game with unreasonable grind that saps all the fun out of it ? Often just to drive player hours and ‘engagement’. Multiplayer cheats however can die in a fire.

The tanks might go underground mitigating (perhaps) the pressure explosion risk as opposed to lithium fire risk, but the honking great tent is an issue. Should have a longer life than Li Ion and be repairable vs somewhat recyclable. At scaled production it could certainly be cheaper, but some of the newer immobile battery chemistries might beat it. Synthesized fuel also makes a lot of sense. We shall see. What certainly makes sense is microgrids and power self-sufficiency.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again.’