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Some of those SFP cards can use quite a bit of energy on their own. They're not designed with energy efficiency in mind. I've got an Optiplex with an i5 and two hard drives and tha…

I take it that you'll be pleased when a data center is proposed to be built behind your house then yes?

You might have poor quality incoming AC. Capacitors in the power supplies will be under more stress if you regularly have over/under voltages or small spikes and surges.

You can do the same with the GDID, it's stored in the registry.

Not in this case, but if you aren't building it to put humans in it at all, you can build it with higher requirements in mind. Traditionally there's no point building a plane that …

I've got a few planks over a ditch in my garden. The bridge only needs to be designed for the load and then some. In this case, this seems to work just fine.

I recently got a trial for the Google AI Pro subscription and it burned through a week's in a single prompt. Quite impressive for sure.

The counter to this is the UK.Gov website. Very simple and basic, modern (maybe) but very accessible. Government websites should put accessibility over everything else.

The more I learn about telegram, the sketchier it seems.

Every glove is tested for conductivity to ensure it's not got tiny holes in, you can't do that with 'glue gloves'.

Doesn't DDG use Bing?

Are they actually worse than businesses though? The internet, jet engines.. in fact whole swaiths of technology have been created under governments not enterprises. This just feels…

Ryanair has a pretty high safety record, they fly modern, well maintained planes because their margins are lower and they make them up in volume.

Buses can carry 100 people at a time so have a far larger social utility. Besides, most are going electric.

But that's just what OP is saying, you can 'refuse' to be limited to nature, but nature will have other plans for you.

Most 90 year old lonely people would probably benefit more from an actual human carer than some clanker that can't do stairs, any kind of mobility assistance and can't even make th…

Having renewables distributed however is the big challenge. We've gone from a world where you have a small amount of large generators in static places to having many generators eve…

No. 2 is enough though surely, I've had multiple incidences now where a series we've been watching on a streaming platform has disappeared without warning, running my own little me…

Digital radio was always going to be crap, it doesn't degrade gradually as signal gets worse They should have just put all the money into a better 4G network and ran radio through …

I don't think you've got an expectation of privacy when it comes to what you're eating in a restaurant. You could just walk over to their table.

Hello coworker of mine.

Probably worth noting that Polestar 2s are not particularly efficient, though lovely to drive. Mine averages about 3.2mi/kWh for most trips, though there are lots of EVs out there …

I have a few Azure VMS running server 2022 with 2GB running as a controller. Works surprisingly well.

I mean it's all prosumer grade stuff. I get hassled at work to sell their network gear over Cisco and Aruba because of the price but it's a flashy and cheap.

Proper Microsoft authenticator setup is more secure than OTP because it's pushed based and doesn't allow users to copy paste their OTP codes into phishing sites. Google also prefer…