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I'm all here for the green energy. I think it's worth investing in "both sides of the coin", though. Now that I've replaced all the energy-wasting bulbs in the house with LEDs, and the house is well-insulated enough that there's just no need to run a three-bar electric fire to keep warm, then I'm at the point where solar panels would be sufficient for nearly all my energy requirements. That's partly because solar has got better, but mainly because I'm just using loads less

On that note, the secret to not having power and cooling issues running tens of thousands of super-hot GPUs in the desert, is not to build them. Which as they're not being built, might be enough ;-) But investing in more effort processing units and more efficient models would do it too. They wouldn't have their "no one else can afford this" moat if it was all made more affordable, tho.

He's mentioned in the third paragraph of the link. But yes, it is. In order for it to be "worth" burning a trillion dollars every year on AI, then there has to be a time in the near future, 2030 or so, where AI will be making unimaginable trillions. If the datacentres aren't being built, then that money can't possibly be coming in as planned. That makes the massive investment in NVidia's GPUs look extremely shaky - why buy them if they'll never be turned on? - and it means Oracle will be completely in the shit.

Ed's arguments have been, "if any link in the chain fails, the whole thing falls down". I think he'd been leaning towards "banks being unwilling to keep financing datacentre builds on debt" as the most likely stumbling block, but just being unable to power the damned things for want of infrastructure and skilled engineering, as here, is a problem he talks about frequently too.

He thinks it's likely it'll bring down the entire tech industry, since they're now full of idiotic MBAs with no other big ideas. And frankly, it's about time.

Can't comment on the Lemur Pro, but the Pulse has an excellent screen. Was wanting more pixels than a 1080p screen but 4K incurs ridiculous cost and tends to be available on "laptops that don't fit on your lap". 2880x1800 @ 120 Hz means your fonts look really crisp and updates are smooth.

When my Tuxedo Pulse arrived, I turned it on once to marvel at the fact that it started up straight into Linux. Then restarted it to install Arch btw and never looked back. Fantastic laptop, tho.

Heh heh, phallus.

Asha Sharma had this statement, in amongst the rest of it. As per Ars Technica:

Some decisions in the gaming division currently pass through “14 layers” of decision-makers, Sharma said, before promising that the new Xbox will be a “flatter organization” with “no more than 5, and where possible, 3” layers of management involved in any decision.

You'd have to think that it's this shit that she's pointing at. Massively excessive management certainly helps with all the design-by-committee cookie-cutter crap that's filled with monetisation. Alas, they've just got rid of the really interesting studios that I'd like to see spread their wings a little.

Professor Kitkat there has somehow gone from Pythagoras' equation and the basic equations of a circle, to Einstein's equation for mass-energy equivalence, without even showing the working for applying the Lorentz transformation. That's the kind of haphazard mathematics I'd expect from a feline and has no place in a classroom setting. Zero marks.

A couple of years ago, I might have still checked protondb for Linux compatibility before making a purchase, but it seems a waste of time now. Everything that I've bought through Steam, or bought on GoG / claimed for free on Epic through Heroic has Just Worked, and has done for years. I think it got better when the Steam Deck was released; put a lot of visibility on Linux compatibility.

If you aren't in to AAA, and even then only the competitive multiplayer with intrusive anticheat, then Linux is all you need.

Lots of options and you'll need to spend some time RTFM. But if you already know how you want to partition your disks, then the basic installation (with a network controller!) takes about two minutes.

Then you can restart into the cli, and the real questions - what else am I going to install? - can begin.

Oh, what was that thing called, ndiswrapper or similar, where you downloaded the windows versions of the drivers and then wrapped them up and hoped they worked, and good luck with power saving or resume from sleep.

Don't get me wrong; amazing that it worked even as well as it did, but glad we've got native drivers now. A small step forward every day and soon you'll have gone a long way.

I've found that the real problem is having a television to plug them in to. Still got my old NES and SNES from when I was a kid. But no modern TV has the RF input to connect them to, they're all digital only. Emulation is much easier.

True, although the ones I know did have the medical qualifications and associated title of 'doctor' and then renounced it when they qualified as surgeons, since it's traditional for them.