That’s not a bad article, but it’s largely focused on debunking claims about renewables on today’s grid (e.g., the false claims that they have somehow been responsible for blackouts in CA and TX).

I generally agree with the articles points, but what I’m talking about is a future grid with 90%+ renewable generation and limited geothermal/hydro resources.

It’s purely a hypothetical at the moment because no one has come close and technology could advance quite a bit before the grid even reaches those limits.

That said, based on today’s technology, under the right circumstances, nuclear can provide a cost effective means of closing the final gap in reaching zero-carbon electricity, but only AFTER we do the bulk of the work solving the other 90% of the problem which is installing more renewables and storage.

This is a great response. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, and the waste is difficult to deal with.

What it doesn’t touch on is the functional aspect - the advantage (and disadvantage) of nuclear power is that it provides a very steady “base load” power supply, something renewables struggle with.

Regions with good access to natural solar and wind resources throughout the year, as well as those fortunate enough to have geothermal or hydro power (which has its own environmental drawbacks) can provide stable sustainable power supplies with minimal storage, but when the goal is zero emissions, getting that last 10-20% reduction at scale in many locations is incredibly difficult.

Having a power supply that’s always providing a steady stream of power, even when the Sun and wind are down, can dramatically reduce the amount of storage you need. For places where it’s appropriate, nuclear can help fill this void, but only after getting like 90% of the way to the finish line with renewables.

Just pointing out, nuclear is on your chart twice - one significantly different from the other. “Nuclear - Large Scale” costs overlap most other technologies shown.

That 9070xt looking more and more tempting

Certain other content crosses boarders. Mastadon especially. Whenever you see people replying to messages and it starts with some sort of @user@lemmy.verse tagging, you’re probably eavesdropping on a Mastadon thread and you don’t even know it.

You ever watch Orphan Black? Based on a true story.

Even setting seed to infinite, if there’s just one other capable seeder, good odds no individual sends any other individual a full file.

You’re just sending jibberish chunks everywhere, not your fault if someone assembles it all from multiple sources, right?

For those who maybe breeze past it in the article linked, here’s an unofficial tool for searching all of the zillions of Kagi bangs: https://kbe.smaertness.net/

They have all the usual, !g for Google, !gi Google Images, !b Bing, !ddg, !brave, etc, plus like a billion niche ones.

Unlike free search where there’s definitely no incentive to sell your data to keep the lights on, right?

Get dat flatpak.

Of course they didn’t. The claims used to drop funding, like all of the administration’s spending cuts, were obviously horse shit.

The question is, will the courts have enough of a spine to do anything about it?

The lawyers don’t need to submit evidence, because it was never about proving anything, just sowing chaos.

Call me if it’s on sale for $10 without rootkit or secondary launcher. Until then, I snooze.

Lots of people think naturally grazing cattle is somehow less resource intensive than the alternative.

It’s the “yeah, factory farms are bad, but I get all my beef from my made up neighbor who runs a sustainable farm” crowd.

Yes, it absolutely can, it’s super easy! Just swap your Minecraft .jar with Paper and it’ll do the rest. It’s a tiny bit harder to go back, but only marginally.

Out of the box, aside from huge performance benefits, Paper is virtually indistinguishable from vanilla, but it also opens the door to a whole world of easy-to-use server-side plugins.

Edit: (you should still make a backup before swapping, just in case)

CPU intensive servers like Minecraft are where you start to run into problems with older hardware. If it’s just you on there, a 10 year old CPU is fine, but if you’ve got a few friends, the server may start to struggle to keep up.

Not sure how recently you ran this, or what all your were running, but in the past couple of years Paper has hit some pretty major milestones in unlocking threaded processing. Barring some sort of spammy 0-tick redstone nonsense or over the top plugins, I’d wager a Raspberry Pi 4 could handle up to about 5 or 6 friends without seeing any TPS dips. Its really remarkable how far they’ve pushed performance recently.

Could I get a larg HDD and ad it in an enclosure to the Mini PC to handle the media volume?

Like an external USB drive? Absolutely.

Anyone know the path to hitting them with CCPA info/take down requests?

I mean, this is c/piracy, you can pretty easily go download a non-HDR version of everything. If you do want HDR just not DV, most decent DV encodes also have a HDR10 fallback which should kick in if your device doesn’t support DV.

Alternatively, I’m pretty sure there are plenty of tools out there like DoVi Tool that can help you convert the HDR metadata to HDR10/10+ if that’s what you want.

If that’s true, why bother “monitoring” a search engine? This whole list screams of somebody who knows nothing about tech put out a vague RFP and a contractor pulled a list of “top sites” and used it to justify an egregious proposal cost.

DOGE, if you’re looking for waste and fraud, perhaps here’s a good source.

How else am I gonna find out they dropped a minor update to WoW and added more loot boxes for your loot boxes in Overwatch (which I assume they will just start calling 3, despite any major change to engine or gameplay)