Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

And there are other approaches to power storage. Thermal power storage is popular / useful with large solar installations. Hydro dams associated with a reservoir often have pumped storage where they can pump water back into the reservoir and then use it when its needed.

The signaling and frequency matching is still an issue.

I recall a company I worked at in California had two sets of generators. They had a diesel emergency generator for the data center and also a set of natural gas generators to cut down on power costs (when the price went high). The issue with the natural gas ones is that they needed something else to provide the utility frequency, something about them not being stable/consistent on their own.

Rooftop systems have the possibility / likelihood of also destabilizing the frequency in the grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_photovoltaic_power_sta...

> An electrical power system containing a 10% contribution from PV stations would require a 2.5% increase in load frequency control (LFC) capacity over a conventional system an issue which may be countered by using synchronverters in the DC/AC-circuit of the PV system. The break-even cost for PV power generation was in 1996 found to be relatively high for contribution levels of less than 10%. While higher proportions of PV power generation give lower break-even costs, economic and LFC considerations impose an upper limit of about 10% on PV contributions to the overall power systems.

There's a reference to that at https://www.worldcat.org/title/ieee-transactions-on-energy-c... - which I don't have access to to quote from.

The key point to this is that if solar power is increased, then the grid as a whole needs to also increase its power to get back in control of the load frequency. That is likely what you're seeing. By itself, this storage isn't sufficient for answering that issue. Ideally, the solar systems would have their own local batteries and respond as part of a smart grid to contribute according to the load frequency. ... But that costs more money for the installation and consumers are hesitant to do that.

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/tesla-powerwalls-hooked...

https://www.provisionsolar.com/general/grid-outages-and-the-...

Car makers need to do well against the competition, and resale value is something that people look at. They want your car to last 10 years and then fall apart - that being about the time people start to be willing to call a dead car dead of old age. Though they do like having a few collectors cars that are a lot older than that around because collectors also feed into car culture.

Huh? Pacificas are everywhere, especially since they also have the only PHEV minivan in the US. In the PHEV Pacifica FB group I'm in (I do own one, so I am a bit biased here), many people have Pacificas alongside Teslas and other EVs. But even the gas Pacificas are everywhere, including "upscale suburban driveways".

Though your point does still stand about FCA/Stellantis' reputation: we had to get over their our perception of them when we got ours, and I would never consider any of their other vehicles. But our Pacifica has been a really great van. I'm just amused that you picked the one vehicle in their entire lineup that doesn't prove your point.

You don’t really expect anyone to take your defense of cryptocurrency seriously with a statement that hyperbolic and dismissive, do you?

Since the games industry is making up almost a quarter of the M&E economy, which is the single largest industry segment in the US, it’s evident that games provide a transfer and store of value to the economy. People who create games are effectively mining, so there is an apparent creation of value too, one that also involves creativity and skilled labor, unlike crypto. You can even read about the “value chain” of the games industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry#Value_chai...

Just last year’s video game revenue in the US alone is equal to two thirds of the entire market cap of ETH as I post this, and of course the industry's revenue is growing every year, and the global games industry is much larger than the US alone. Crypto will become bigger eventually, but it’s not today. (And which is larger is actually irrelevant, you compared apples to orangutans, my point is simply that it’s a pretty bad idea to try to falsely claim the financial value of games is negative.)

I don’t even play games that much, because you’re right they do suck my time, so it’s an awkward position to be defending them, but the least you could do if you’re going to spout about the “value” of games and crypto is start from the truth and financial reality of the markets.

No, this doesn't solve the problem.

Because what they want to do is ensure that the cards are not resold to miners, and instead stay in the hands of long term customers.

> You don't need to cripple the devices

First of all, they aren't crippled for the existing customers. They are only limited, for this other use case that the company doesn't care about.

And they do need to limit that functionality, if they want to prevent those cards from being resold to crypto miners.

> I don't support companies

Then don't purchase their product, if you don't like it. That is kind of the point of all of this. They don't want you as a customer. And it is their company, that they can do what they want with.