I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
In litres and MJ because SI units make it easy:
Approximately 34 megajoules per litre for petrol/gasoline.
50 litres filling up in 4 minutes = 1.25 litres/second pumping rate. lol don’t do calculations before coffee, let’s just say you’ve got a hi-flow pump doing 1l/sec.
1 litre/second x 34MJ per litre = 34 MJ/second.
1 watt = 1 joule per second, so:
An average fill up runs at about 34 megawatts.
I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.
It’s not a sign of AI, but when every second post manages to slip the “not x, not y, just z” phrase into their wording, you get pretty over it, pretty quickly.
Ditto for posts that worm in the phrase “just physics”. No, it’s not “just physics”. Physics is complicated, and I wish AI slop would stop handwaving away a decent explanation with that phrase.
Perhaps they’re talking about junction temperatures, but even then specialist components can only do 175 degrees C briefly.
Why
Monoculture isn’t great.
Having and maintaining other options is good for if/when things go bad.
Try Mint Mate, the desktop environment is lighter than Cinnamon. When I was running systems from that era, Mate was much speedier than KDE / Gnome 3.
After that it’s just looking at what’s running after boot up and deciding whether you need it or not. As long as it’s not hogging precious RAM/CPU don’t worry about disabling it.
Repositioning the taskbar is one of the top asks we’ve heard from you. We are introducing the ability to reposition it to the top or sides of…
Not introducing, RE - introducing, just like how you could before. Alllllll the way back to Windows95, UNTIL YOU MESSED WITH IT.
Basically the whole post is “blah blah blah we screwed around with things so much blah blah blah we messed up file explorer blah blah blah we’re working at putting some minor things back and walking back forced updates a little and cramming AI into everything because that’s what we really want to do.”
laughs in country with public healthcare
Yeah you guys should really sort that out.
Oh, you know, only about 80 billion.
Could have given 10 bucks to everyone on earth, would’ve had more impact.
My department just gives them a PDF explaining with cool graphics how Linux can save more money, how more secure it is, how we can avoid the constant force fed bug filled updates that MSFT pushes, how we can customize it exactly to our and users needs, we can actually own our own keys… The goes on and on.
No, because there is no simple point and click group policy/active directory equivalent in Linux that allows a group of 5 IT techs to manage 2000 desktops. And if you get your shit together and actually use the tools that Microsoft provides, you don’t get surprise updates, you can image PCs via a gui over network booting, you get bitlocker keys backed up in your domain etc etc etc etc etc.
All the things that allow a business to manage hardware and software with the minimum amount of expensive employees, Microsoft provides it, for money of course. That money is offset by the reduction in IT guys needed to look after everything.
It’s that simple. CorporateLand won’t touch Linux on the workstation until that’s possible.
I’m not sure, but if cake is being served, count me in.
Anyone completely switching off windows needs a bulletproof system
A solid 90 percent of home users just need a browser, email, and access to some kind of app store or repository where they can click on the big colourful icon and get a program they want.
Any modern distro can provide that, it doesn’t have to be the particular one that you’ve got an obsession about.
Lithium ion batteries have a sweet spot of around 60 to 80 percent charge where very little wear takes place to charge or discharge. If you could keep it to just that 20-30 percent usage in that range it would pretty much last ten thousand cycles.
Charging to 100 or discharging below 50-60 percent accelerates the wear on the battery, but it is still much better than the wear rate on lead acid batteries that are cycled in a similar manner.
I’m sure we did a cycle of network booting thin clients and windows terminal services about 10 or 15 years ago. 🤔
There’s slack time in people’s daily work hours. You work an 8 hour day, possibly you’re only actually productive for 4 to 6 hours.
Take that into account and suddenly that thing that claims it can cut an hour or two here and there gets a lot more interesting.
“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!”
Ha, If you’re alluding to my post being similar to generated output, you obviously haven’t experienced the pure blandness of LLMs trying to write engaging content.
It’s statistical blandness writ large.
The stack of single-sentence paragraphs after the introduction paragraph trying so hard to have an impact.
The tendency to put “not X, not Y, just Z” everywhere.
The perfect conclusion written at the end of each piece , summarising three bland paragraphs with yet another bland paragraph.
Statistically regurgitated bullshit, all of it
How
the FUCK
can a single datacentre cost
TWENTY SEVEN BILLION
dollars?