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781.
by zbrozek 5y ago
My home internet speed exceeds SATA.
782.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Much depends on where exactly you are and who you pay for electricity and when. For me, under PG&E pricing, the running cost for heat pump heating ends up higher than with gas. And the equipment cost is much higher. I'll end up get
783.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Sadness. I use Google Chat at work and I absolutely hate threads there. Maybe the Discord implementation is better, but I'm not holding my breath.
784.
by zbrozek 5y ago
That's an unrealistically pessimistic assumption though. Many laptops are off, not failing to sleep. The great majority of people aren't buying these niche devices. And the source should be cleaned up since that is a vastly bigger
785.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I don't need to illuminate the whole space all night to see where I'm going. I carry a flashlight on night walks. It light pollutes only the area right in front of me.
786.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I generally followed this guide, despite working from another distro: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF The biggest pain every time I've done this is making sure that I can bind the device
787.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Given that I live in an area that's dark, I walk alone in the dark all the time . I'm just one of the lucky minority of people that manages to escape being ruled by unsubstantiated or irrational fear.
788.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Address the dirtiest sources and the largest sinks, not the symbolic tiny sinks. Your laptop using 6 watts of idle power is not going to make a meaningful difference.
789.
by zbrozek 5y ago
And it doesn't even have to be that way! We have the power to choose something different. I've seen nice indirect lighting fixtures that aren't nearly as harsh, or lights that are warmer. They're just not the norm. Or fr
790.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Sure, but I said most expensive electricity, not highest monthly bills.
791.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Except they have regulated profit margins - it's cost-plus. So they have an incentive to make everything as expensive as possible to maximize their take. And the CPUC rubber stamps everything the utilities ask for. CA has some of the m
792.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Or use a generator when that happens. At my place that would be a week or two per year.
793.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Unlikely. Everything about Bay Area governance is aligned to make doing projects of any type as slow, expensive, and as difficult as possible.
794.
by zbrozek 5y ago
You can also pass through more than just a GPU. I pass through an NVMe disk and a USB controller, effectively giving me a full second computer within my workstation. It's honestly fantastic.
795.
by zbrozek 5y ago
This? https://github.com/debauchee/barrier Is the key feature clipboard sharing? Otherwise I don't know why I wouldn't redirect events with zero additional software. As-is, I press both ctrl keys and my keybo
796.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Not only are there dummy plugs, but some cards (e.g., Quadro) let you spoof the EDID without one at all.
797.
by zbrozek 5y ago
That's cheaper than California!
798.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I have a symmetric 10 gbps connection at home. I have an EPYC machine that plays host to a number of virtual machine guests for various tasks. One of them is running opnsense to be my router. It's not fast enough to route at line speed
799.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Usually not, and certainly not as currently designed. Hence the notion of flipping to a mirrored side in case of excess electricity, or having some fancy coating stack that manages to reflect everything which is not absorbed by the cell.
800.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I could imagine something a bit better controlled could be ok. Large areas of solar panels, engineered to reflect as much as they can't use, would be a good double benefit. Excess electricity could be opportunistically used for GHG cap
801.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm sure there are plenty, albeit not exactly the same thing. The question asked for a specific existence proof for a retailer that didn't take cash and I provided it.
802.
by zbrozek 5y ago
That's roundabout and not compelling to a user. They have no idea what is gathered, how it's used, or any idea if their issues will be solved or when. It's like buying lottery tickets with payoff in bug fixes, except you don
803.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I got a drink at Happy Lemon in Sunnyvale, CA a couple days ago and they didn't take cash.
804.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Maybe so, but as a user I have no incentive to want to allow it. And there's no checks or balances, since it's completely unilateral on the part of the software vendor. My experience has been that there's continuous creeping
805.
by zbrozek 5y ago
There's also going to be a lot of people complaining that flat taxes are regressive because the marginal value of money is different depending on how much you have. Taking that to its logical conclusion means taxing or subsidizing ever
806.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I found that meetings of dubious utility grew to fill every working hour and then some. I'm quitting and accepting a long commute to reclaim lifespan.
807.
by zbrozek 5y ago
In those other processes the designers aim for efficiency - more useful product per entropy. In bitcoin it's exactly the opposite. That makes it unpalatable.
808.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm trying to change a roofline. Now the whole building is considered new construction, and requires a geotechnical survey as if I were breaking fresh ground. No dirt is being moved. Thanks California.
809.
by zbrozek 5y ago
In a lot of cases new software isn't delivering utility over old software, yet consumes more resources. Users justifiably feel miffed that they're expected to buy new hardware merely to keep up.
810.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm not aware of any, which is a shame. I want to replace one of my two cars with an EV sometime late 2022 or early 2023. Unfortunately they all come with touchscreens and cellular connectivity. I want neither. My 2002 Saturn LW200 had

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