Yes, these days you might have like 20 devices plugged in, but they’re all DC and most only draw about 10W each. Also, they’re not all drawing power at the same time.

Back in the day your monitor(s) would have been drawing a lot more power (I’m talking way back with CRT monitors). Also, your PC doesn’t draw 750 watts all the time if at all - 750W is the max rating for the power supply. Even if you did have a very power hungry system (read: GPU) it would only draw that while running full whack, most of the time the PC will idle at lower clock speeds and lower power.

Your soldering irons are probably only 25W, certainly less than 100W (unless you’re showing off). The big things are generally anything involving heating, but many of the things at your desk probably don’t use that much. After heating it’s motors. And, again, these things are generally not all on at the same time.

Suffice it to say, there isn’t really any higher risk to the volume and type of load we have today than back when electricity was first installed in houses. It certainly should be said that the installations are much safer now than they used to be, where even a faulty install like this shouldn’t lead to a fire - if your cable is installed in ducting or kopex then even if a faulty termination heats the cable up there won’t be anything in contact with it to start a fire.

But you should still get check these things checked out. The layers of redundancy by design are great, but you don’t want holes in the Swiss cheese to line up - that’s when bad things happen.

We have a lot more stuff plugged in than the era when most houses were built.

While this is true, most of the devices we use today are DC devices and much lower power. Your standard USB device is maybe 5V and 2A, so only 10W.

Yes I’d just found that! That’s insane.

At the end though the Controversy section implies it was probably exaggerated. Even as a show vessel it would have been grossly impractical with the technology at the time. Still, it’s so fantastical, I love it!

The name “forty” refers not to the number of oars, but to the number of rowers on each vertical “column” of oars that propelled it

What the hell, 40 per column, just how many rowers did it have all together?!

Edit: Wow, 4000! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessarakonteres However the controversy section is well worth a read hah.

In announcing the change, Twitch cited the “costly” indefinite storage of these highlights, which it says are responsible for “less than 0.1% of hours watched” across the site.

I don’t know how many hours are watched on Twitch, but I bet it’s so many that 0.1% is still a fuckton of hours.

You could always take the performance hit and install it on a virtual machine. I’ve even heard of people who have an APU (CPU and GPU on the same chip) along with a discrete GPU, or just two GPU’s, and they run the base operating system on the weaker GPU then run the VM and dedicate the entire good GPU to it, which gets near to bare metal performance allegedly.

DivestOS here, it’s not in my ROM.

It seems so strange to me that everyone buys the bullshit that personal data is worth very little.

The data brokerage industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry. Yet, there are only ~8 billion people in the world, many of whom don’t have internet access or have very little data being traded. Thus it’s reasonably safe to assume that an average regular internet user’s data is worth somewhere in the region of $1,000 per year.

These companies don’t do anything with the data. We create the data, they collect it and sell it, then whoever buys it is the one that actually makes something from it. If we allow the brokers a very generous profit margin, they are still stealing $500-700 from every one of us, every year.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. My tongue rests on the roof of my mouth, to pull it back takes more effort. In fact, as I open my mouth my tongue sticks to the roof a little, then pops away - there’s like a vacuum seal holding it there, effortlessly.

US government: “Make us an app that people can use to subvert suppressive regimes.”

Developer: *makes Signal*

US Citizens: “Hey, that’s a useful app…” *installs*

US Government: “No, not like that!”

Well obviously OP can’t go back in time to when they were a child, but there’s nothing to stop them getting a cook book once a week and trying out a recipe or two.

The CIA does this whenever a country tries to establish a socialist government.

Squirt/apply lubircant, open and close the hinge to work the lube in.

WD40 works as a lazyman’s option, for a short time. However really WD40 is more of a solvent and not a lubricant - it will dissolve out any real lubricant, then dry out much more quickly than a proper grease and also possibly attract more dirt.

You can get plenty of other lubricant sprays. A quick search suggests things with PTFE (teflon) in them can be good. WD40 do a teflon spray can, that was the recommended lube for my crosstrainer.

Other, possibly better lubricants are silicone or lithium based.

Petroleum jelly can work also. Any lube is better than none, but this website suggests petroleum jelly < PTFE < silicone or lithium. However I’d defer to some proper science to decide which is really best.