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by yellowapple 2mo ago
And at least one of those two countries is also building datacenters in droves and would have a vested interest in hindering foreign competition.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
> those that want data centers are doing their damndest to somehow claim that they’re not responsible for the rise in the cost of utilities and shouldn’t be held responsible for it Because they're not. That's a utility billing
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
The UK is surrounded by a planet-spanning body of water. It has no excuse to be complaining about water shortages even if every square inch of it was a single giant datacenter.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Plenty of the people opposing datacenters are opposing them in places that already have datacenters. If there was a direct experience to be had, they would've already had it.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
In my case it's way too sensitive, causing me to scroll too far every time.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
It seems like they're indeed trying to sell “Orion+”, but it doesn't look like it buys you much besides bragging rights, in which case an Ardour-like business model of “source code is free but we charge for pre-built binaries” see
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
The Linux beta feels nice. Built-in ad-blocking and nested vertical tabs satisfies the two main things keeping me on Firefox (unnerfed uBlock Origin and Tree Style Tabs, respectively). Some things feel like obvious oversights, like the lac
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Huh. Are we using different versions, then? I'm using the one on addons.mozilla.org. EDIT: I'm now seeing some numbers by usernames; I think that's just how many times you've upvoted that user's posts/comment
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
I just installed that extension and it doesn't show the actual number of votes.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
This just sounds like an excuse to complain about things without wanting to actually do anything about them.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Why do we need sites at all? Let's just all use Usenet.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Much like how I'd be reserving a Slate right now if 4WD was an option, I'd be reserving an REO right now if electric was an option. Kinda frustrating how this new slate (pun half-intended) of non-behemoth pickup trucks manages to
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Gas vehicles suffer from that range reduction, too, as my brother-in-law learned the hard way last weekend during a road trip we took to Idaho and back (wherein he was towing a camper-trailer).
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
> nobody uses “sign in with google” for mission critical stuff There are lots of organizations out there, even multi-billion-dollar ones, using Google Workspaces.
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
> and designed it around their index as the primary means of accessing anything on the web Except that you don't have to use an ATproto relay (the “index” equivalent here) to access anything on ATproto; there's nothing stoppi
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
A USB-C successor (USB-D?) that's USB-A sized but with the added pins, reversibility, and bidirectionality of USB-C would be neat. But USB-C is “good enough” as a one-standard-to-rule-them-all that I don't think it'd be wort
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
I might need to power a lot of things simultaneously. I currently travel with a 6-port USB-C power adapter; while it doesn't blast max wattage over every single port (nor do I need it to quite yet), I'd be unsurprised if one th
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
> It’s important that the charger accepts an IEC C7 cable. This is an international standard, so you’ll be able to find local mains cables at office supply stores or borrow them from nearby appliances, and it’s a two-pin design. Having a
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
Macs probably would've been a reasonable choice for all the administrative/office tasks (emails, spreadsheets, presentations, all that jazz), leaving the heavy lifting to the IRIX boxen. Probably would've also been the typic
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by yellowapple 2mo ago
I would expect within the same order of magnitude. Worst-case, skipping a burger once a month instead of once a year is hardly some insurmountable sacrifice (and I say that as a fatass who loves himself a good burger).
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
> But a data center also using 1/5th of the water consumption of an 88k person city should still be what are debating. Why, when that's such a minuscule amount of water in the grand scheme of things? Why focus our energy there
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
Here in Reno the anti-datacenter crowd has been extending that tolerance to the local casinos and golf courses (of both of which there are many more than we arguably need). If the choice is between running servers to keep the Internet goin
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
> Or, if you want to focus on individual consumer choices, the water footprint of eating a hamburger. To drive this point home: if every American ate exactly one less hamburger per year, it would entirely offset the annual water consumpt
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
Yeah, especially accessibility-related data ( especially especially crosswalk info) is apparently sorely lacking in OSM, given that every time I fire up StreetComplete in a new place the vast majority of the questions are things like “Do b
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
You donate money to Apple?
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
I could use (and have used) Körber/HighJump Advantage Architect in production, and yet that's nonetheless so far from notable that Körber's own Wikipedia page doesn't even bother to mention its acquisition of HighJump an
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
Given the argument that “Odin must be notable because JangaFX uses it in production!”, it seems worthwhile to note that JangaFX itself doesn't appear to have a Wikipedia page. Maybe the case for Odin's inclusion would be strong
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
The DAC is pretty impactful if it's outright incapable of outputting anything beyond the usual 48kHz :)
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
It's also sort of an inverted “Van Halen demanding a bowl of M&Ms with the brown ones removed” thing for me, too. The vast majority of my Tidal listening happens over Bluetooth, so that 24bit/192kHz FLAC stream is just gonna
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by yellowapple 3mo ago
Yes (as in the band Yes) on Tidal at one point had a bunch of probably-AI-generated albums that Tidal shoved into Yes' discography because the “artist” included “Yes” in the name (with album titles like “Yes, it's raining” and oth

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