The thermos approach is unfortunately almost the best we currently have, because every storage solution would have to pay taxes twice, once for buying, once for selling. Not VAT, but Stromsteuer.
Also, these dips don’t occur that often, are usually not very long and it’s kind of a reverse game of chicken. The more storage we have, the less profitable each one gets. All that makes it rather unattractive to install grid scale plants.
Yet, you spout innuendos as if you’re knowing what you’re talking about.
In general, the US seems to be weirdly pro-violence.
Being beaten up is portrayed as perfectly normal in media and advocating for violence (like here) seems to be totally okay for many.
That’s fucked up.
You could easily throw the components into an old tower case.
Getting the PSU to fit could be a bit tricky due to the rather short cables.
Workstations, like real workstations, are another beast and not what’s typically referred to as “office PCs”, those are indeed rather sff builds.
Again, optiplex sff 3060 as an example, it has two SATA ports, one x16 and one x1 (I think) PCIe, and looking at the PCB, apparently there’s a version with m.2 slots. Sure, not exactly server grade storage, but if you manage to find some version with m.2 slots or invest 10€ for a cheap SATA card, you can get enough storage attached.
GPU wise, absolutely no idea. My optiplex has a wx3100 that I got for cheap and its self reported power draw never goes under 5W, but since this machine is a desktop, it doesn’t run all day.
Sorry, but you’re either pulling those numbers out of your ass or haven’t kept up with the real world for 25 years.
The numbers I’ve posted above are measured using an external meter. I’m German, I have a vested interest in knowing how much power my devices pull.
And you don’t think, office PCs pay attention to power consumption, given they are intended to run 8h a day?
My optiplex sff runs at about 10-15W in idle, and it’s an i5 6500. The t variant in my elitedesk runs at 5W.
Per month.
And it already was so expensive before that most customers were those who had (more expensive, regional) tickets before.
It seems like they want to drive up the price until hardly anyone uses it anymore and then drop it for lack of demand.
I mean, that sometimes did happen.
Germany propped up the Commerzbank after 2007 by essentially buying a large part of it, and managed to sell several tranches with a healthy profit.
Same is true for Lufthansa during COVID.
The mastodon devs decide what to merge, though. If they don’t see the value of a feature, they won’t merge it.
If you want to extend the protocol, sure, go ahead. But you’ll be alone on it, since no one outside of your protocol island can use that specific feature.
Germany just raised the nationwide ticket from 49 to 58€, awesome.
What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don’t. I guarantee it.
Most people don’t read news for a living. You can’t fact check everything you read online. That’s physically impossible. And if you’d be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don’t read any further. Not because you’re too stupid, but because you’re not that interested in Trump’s latest shenanigans or Italy’s economic outlook.
All this gate keeping is bullshit, but I do have to agree that we are really bad at actually engineering.
If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.
“Even deader internet theory”.
Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?
Problem is, though, that some of the hate fans have some valid points for the wrong reasons.
For example, it does feel a lot like the writers are ticking boxes. They have the usual Star Wars tropes, but also the “diversity” check boxes. It feels very obvious that there’s the orphan, here’s the misunderstood genius, here’s the queer character, here’s the obvious callback to casual fans, etc. etc.
You’ll have your haters for everything deemed woke, those are idiots, but having formulaic, not very organic stories isn’t exactly great.
Honestly, it could be kind of cool.
If you’re doing it right, the juxtaposition of “profound” graphical appearance and nonsensical/banal text content can be funny.
Privacy is almost always a double edged sword here.
Making all medical records of everyone available to science would catapult us 200 years in the future…
… but it would also lead to extremely widespread discrimination against a whole bunch of people, throwing us back 200 years.
I’m not arguing against the need, I’m saying that the economic incentives for private investors are not really great.