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by dx034 4y ago
I know it's not issue free. But Europeans tend to pay a premium to avoid its shortcomings rather than have blackouts. And I prefer that over having cheaper electricity but with a threat of blackouts.
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by dx034 4y ago
I've already replaced dimmers to work with LEDs. But changing all fixtures would be way too expensive, it'd then be cheaper to just stick with Halogen. And I don't need any "smart" features, an LED that can be dimme
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by dx034 4y ago
New houses aren't much better. Windows are much larger, but triple glazing windows keep a lot of light out. A winter in Europe will be dark in nearly any home.
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by dx034 4y ago
But that probably emits at least 1000W in heat, so you'd then need that air conditioning, at least unless you only use it in winter.
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by dx034 4y ago
The problem just is that it's really hard to find good LEDs. Maybe they're all being sold to industrial consumers, but it's been a pain to find good LEDs if you're looking for anything more "exotic". E.g. dimma
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by dx034 4y ago
Wind should work better than. Especially offshore. Tends to be much more expensive than solar in a sunny place like Texas, but also much more reliable/stable. In the end, you'll always need a mix of supply. Or simply better insula
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by dx034 4y ago
As a European, it always baffled me that power outages are such a common phenomenon in the US. I've heard stories about rolling blackouts due to heat/cold from people in all areas in the US. Whereas in Europe, I cannot remember a
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by dx034 4y ago
It's one of the larger ones in the world (same GW as the largest European countries), there's a lot of data available and it's the only one that recently collapsed. I cannot remember a similar collapse due to a mismatch of de
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by dx034 4y ago
Apart from the already mentioned fact that it was made in Europe, using Celsius makes sense for scientific dashboards. And here, data is pulled from airport weather reports, which always report in Celsius.
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by dx034 4y ago
They probably got DDoS like usage patterns from badly behaved scrapers around the world. Geo fencing is the easiest solution while still keeping data public domestically. It's easy to blame them, but if you provide any data on the web,
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by dx034 4y ago
If all of the child porn industry switched to generated images they'd still be horrible people but many kids would be saved from having these pictures taken. So a commercial model should certainly ban it, but I don't think it&#x27
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by dx034 4y ago
So what's the loss? It's not like stock photos are the highest art form. Surely, for some people it means they need to change their business model, but all those just needing pictures to illustrate something the process will be m
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by dx034 4y ago
Apple with just European users would be worth much more. If a company really wasn't that big just in Europe, there would be a case to exclude them. Apple certainly isn't one of them.
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by dx034 4y ago
Signal can give you the option to disable that. They just cannot force that decision on users.
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by dx034 4y ago
No, the EU knew that something like a DNT header could never work. And let's not forget: No one needs a cookie popup. If you don't track more than technically necessary, there's no need to get consent or inform the user. It&#
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by dx034 4y ago
Of course you can use Apple Pay, but if you don't like it you could also use Google Pay or Samsung Pay instead. But Apple Pay could also be used on Androids if Apple chooses to offer it.
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by dx034 4y ago
With the right plugin (both mobile and desktop), you can automatically opt out, something that wasn't possible before. And larger ad companies actually enforce compliance here (where possible).
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by dx034 4y ago
They had to pay a fine in France because of throttling their devices with older batteries. Maybe they'll try again, but I'm sure it'll be proven eventually.
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by dx034 4y ago
GDPR changed a lot. From my own experience, European companies think much harder about what data to collect, where to store it and how to distribute it. We're not even close to 100% enforcement, but a huge step forward from where we we
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by dx034 4y ago
Not all lobbying is bad. That this regulation clearly protects the local tech industry is in the interest of many companies, but also in the interest of many (if not most) of the population.
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by dx034 4y ago
Great, if Alphabet, Facebook and Apple leave the EU, it will be a painful few years but finally boost the EU tech sector. It's what China did: Prohibit external services to force local innovation.
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by dx034 4y ago
> This will likely make it harder for users to find safe/private services to use. That's what tech companies like to say. But from experiences with less tech-savy friends, the current way always leads people to share as much as
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by dx034 4y ago
2x25G though vs 1G at Hetzner (max 10G for 39€ extra). With that many cores, I guess it's easy to saturate 10G, 2x25G sounds much better.
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by dx034 4y ago
I'd also probably order the 10G for that price if it was just a checkbox in the order process. But opening a ticket later (and downtime for the server), or waiting substantially longer for the server to be available isn't really a
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by dx034 4y ago
It can be an extra layer of security. At some point in the future there will probably be another exploit in supervisors or hardware that can be used to spy on other tenants. With dedicated servers that becomes harder. I've heard of lar
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by dx034 4y ago
But I believe the mac mini doesn't have ECC Ram? I've had pretty bad experiences with non-ecc for database servers. It probably doesn't matter as much if you're only processing data where a bit flip isn't problemati
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by dx034 4y ago
Hetzner has also been offering arm based macs for a while now. Maybe they don't include them in their definition because technically they're not servers?
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by dx034 4y ago
Much cheaper than a comparable x64 machine. But only if you can use 80 cores.
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by dx034 4y ago
They only offer virtual servers, not dedicated servers. In the end it shouldn't matter too much, but dedicated servers tend to be much cheaper.
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Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe(hetzner.com)
234 points by dx034 4y ago|122 comments

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