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Comment · 10 days ago
Yes lets do it by continuing to outsource the pollution to China and deindustrialize Europe.

Cut the nuclear, add the imported solarpanels and experience the joy of 10x electricity prices.

Blame the consumer for not turning the kettle off during peak hours and make sure you give tax breaks to Google and BiGData to open a couple more datacenters that use more power than a average city.

Oh, ban combustion engines, fuck up every batteryfactory by thinking its enough to buy the Make-Your-Own-Battery-Kit on Aliexpress.

Wow such strategy.

Comment · 15 days ago
Hey the clunkiness, the slow thinking, the hardware buzz (fans) and the feeling that your computer is a living being (an evil one) is well alive in my worklaptop.

Fucking piece of shit.

Comment · 22 days ago
Golf courses are a nice spot for frogs apparently! According to a frog-interested person i met.

We have a golf course that is located very close to the city centre (when it was built it was on the outskirts etc.). And it is from time to time the subject of debate i.e. we should build houses there instead..

At the same time we have footballfields, a huge graveyard, parks etc. that doesn't get the same "scrutiny".

The golf course is used for crosscountry skiiing in the winter, provides a buffer towards a major road etc. And of course there are a couple of thousand members that use it for golf and the green-fee visitors etc.

I dont play golf but i often get a sense of "only the rich uses it" which... Well rings a bit hollow!

Comment · 22 days ago
But i mean, i dont think he thought of this as an "art-object" more like a ... house-control-kiosk-whatever. And people spend tons of money on those things. Eink-screens for thousands. Control4 for whatever amount. Homey-hub for..300usd? Hue-lights for hundreds etc.

So, sure 900usd or a part of that system is a lot of money and I wouldn't do it. But I've spent 900usd on techthings with a very diminishing amount of return :)

Comment · 22 days ago
Okay, good for you.
Comment · 23 days ago
I think that varies in availability depending on country.

Sweden is pretty hard on mortgages/loans to people who are retired, know problem for some actually.

Comment · 1 month ago
Newer TiZEN models has a jellyfin app now in the appstore!
Comment · 2 months ago
I like my TRMLN it has been very solid.
Comment · 2 months ago
Bauhaus has huge saws that they use to cut particle boards. They are not routers so i don't think they would do the cutout for a sink however.
Comment · 4 months ago
Lol.

Do you think todays aircraft are not designed with the idea that the engine can fail?

And if you have unreliable components do you think redundancy is going to save you?

And lets be real - there already exist a aerospace arena where you have a higher number of CAT-events - it's called the military. And they deal with it by having a parachute for each passenger..

No - in effect building jet-engines (that are commercially viable i.e. fuel and efficeny) is not a easy to disrupt business. And the cost of entering it would be - high. And the benefit, well less obvious.

Comment · 5 months ago
Back from my old overclocking days - its heat that kills life. And if you keep that under control (what ages is the heatpaste, replace it ever so often) i very much doubt you'll have any life issues from the cpu itself.

Bearings in fans, caps etc. are also stuff that you need to keep an eye on.

I just replaced a i5-660 thats been powered on since 2010 24/7, heatpaste was fucked so it crashed during heavy loads :)

Comment · 6 months ago
Ah okay 150w is not _that_ bad - more than a rpi for sure but still :)

And another cpu+chipset is always going to eat som Watts just by existing.

Comment · 6 months ago
I've recently upgraded my ageing X8SIL Supermicro with an i5 to a X10 Sm board with a 2960 V4 14core Xeon... I was expecting a horrible power situation but it's less than 100w with a handful of spinning disks etc.

I see lots of people complaining on power with their re-used ProLiant and others etc. Is it the throttling or bios settings that messes with the idle power?

Or are you just running it at 100% and my low usage is what saves my electricity bill?

Comment · 7 months ago
You are aware of our different price-markets in sweden right? SE4 is priced at the export prices for Danish wind and German goal - which sucks for Swedes in SE4 (and to some extent SE3). SE4 can eat their own dogfood since they cut the Nuclear Power and are now burning oil instead (Karlshamnsverket).
Comment · 7 months ago
At scale.

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