Indeed.

In addition, there’s a lot of consumption that was non-electric (e.g. transport, heating) that is moving to electric. Most of the increased grid consumption is not new consumption, it’s consumption that was previously direct fossil fuels.

The exception is basically bitcoin and AI, plus electrification of underdeveloped areas.

Those specific cases are learned behaviour, but general purpose cruelty and theft is something that’s been around longer than capitalism has, and has to be unlearned as kids, not learned.

Anyone attempting to claim that humans are inherently humane has not met many humans.

Ah, yes. The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train Balrog.

The NASA Vehicle Assembly Building is also a contender.

I’m not sure how many dividing walls there are inside Everett, but the VAB is basically one massive empty skyscraper.

"We are gentlemen at the World Conker Championships and we don’t cheat. I’ve been playing and practising for decades. That’s how I won.

Mr Jakins won the men’s competition but lost in the overall final to women’s champion Kelci Banschbach, originally from the United States, who only took up the game last year when she moved to Suffolk.

Hmm.

Most turbocharged engines need at least mid-grade due to the higher overall compression. Plenty of Toyotas with a turbo.

“Lossless” isn’t the term you want; that refers to not lossily compressing the main data. Lossless compression or storage of media is very rare outside of text and sometimes audio, because it ends up so large.

You want to preserve metadata. That applies regardless of how lossy the data compression is.

I’ve heard flammable gas uses reverse (left hand) thread to prevent cross connection. At least for welding gases in NZ; not sure about natural gas.

Internally consistent MAGAs. Good lord, now I’ve seen everything.

Not to scale. Left triangle shows that the centre tee is actually 80/100⁰, not two right angles. So right triangle is 100+35+45, angle x is 135⁰.

135°.

The non-right-angle is downright cheeky.

Tumbleweed, at least per marketing spiel, is rapidly updated like a rolling release distro,(e.g. Arch) but has good testing and stability like a conventional fixed release distro.

It’s not quite lived up to that fully for me, but I’m pretty sure the times it’s broken have mostly been my fault.

Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families’ reliability isn’t worth it if you’re dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.

Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.

Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.

Under US$15/TB is typically a ‘good’ price.

For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.

You don’t normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.

When you download a torrent, you’re downloading it from someone else’s computer. That ‘someone else’ is usually an individual, not some file sharing site with redundant servers.

When you download a torrent, someone had to send it. It’s a small cost for individual torrents, but they had to pay for energy, internet connection, hard drives etc. If more people seed the torrent, you get a small bit of it from each seed, spreading the burden.

If no-one with the torrent has their computer on and seeding it, you cannot download the file, because there is no-one to download it from. If there are several seeds with the torrent, then you can still download it even if one or more seeds turn the computer off at night, delete the file, or are overloaded.

I didn’t notice until now that your characters sometimes slightly cover the text boxes! Very cool.

Well, that’s certainly the answer.

I wouldn’t have thought you’d want to put a building quite that close to the waterfront even in a Fjord, but apparently they did.

I don’t think the US/Canada usually does that style of power pole, with three phases on a crossarm and no neutral below.

Barriers on what looks like a pretty low-traffic low-risk road too.

I would think somewhere Scandinavia or central Europe. NZ wouldn’t put barriers like that up.

Rock wall near bottom of picture screams old.

B key vs M key. Laptop likely needs a SATA M.2 using B or B+M keying, you have a PCIe x4 drive with M keying.