They have a fully prebuilt option for every computer. Which works well for non-techy people.

No clue what shipping is like in your country. Was fine for me in the US.

Not good for: Tasks requiring human judgement or design decisions

So, like 99% of programming after you have been a professional programmer for longer than a year…

Framework makes some very high quality laptops. Have one myself.

generating power while solar, wind, and water are the cheapest

When you include storage in your cost calculations, this is far, far from the case. If you don’t include storage, you are pairing renewables with natural gas peaker plants, which defeat a good bit of the point of renewables being fossil-fuel-free.

Trump announced he would crack down on such companies from snatching up single-family homes and contributing to the affordability crisis nationwide

Hard to tell without knowing how much those data centers are paying for power and how long the new investments are intended to last. Could be they are funding grid strengthening we badly need, could be they are getting rates subsidized by everyone else.

Good news is there is increased investment in nuclear energy for data centers, which will go a long way to combat this.

The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.

The cheapest choice for reliable power in the US is natural gas. Fossil fuels are often in the news for causing all kinds of issues. Therefore a statement like “this is highly unlikely to benefit the public at large” seems quite unfounded. That is, unless you don’t consider burning fossil fuels instead to be a harm.

If you give a shit about our future, investments in carbon-free power are to be celebrated.

Good news, we can do both!

Love me some nuclear investment.

It’s the best carbon-free base load power we have.

Was going to say, what will happen next month is he will be broke.

Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders has Platinum status on Linux, meaning it works extremely well under Linux. What problem are you having with it?

Man, I spend the first 30 min just loading the program into my head. Actual work gets done after that. This ‘code on the subway’ workflow sounds horrible.

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Thank you for the detail. I haven’t seen much on how such things work outside of documentaries and relief donation drives.

Good luck man. <3

To me it looks like you’re all washing floors and filling toilets and watering golf courses with precious drinking water.

As the other person said, yes on the former two, not really on the latter (though there are exceptions).

For an individual, everything is just the one, potable, water supply. Showers, clothes washing, drinking water, lawn watering (though most people don’t water their lawns, it’s expensive and grass grows just fine by itself). It is more complicated and expensive to deal with a secondary water system for homes to have a non-potable water system, so nobody does. One’s water bill is generally the cheapest utility bill.

Fire hydrants hook up to the potable system as well. As that is the only pressurized water that’s really available. Though, some places have taps into lakes and such for when the water system runs dry during large-scale fire-fighting. Think massive forest fires.

Farms, golf courses, data centers, nuclear plants, and other industrial uses generally have a secondary water source that isn’t potable. These are generally lightly treated well, river, or lake water. This is mostly for cost reasons as full water treatment gets pricey when you are using that much water.

Is drinkable tap water really that common around the world? I thought that was a rich people thing when I saw it in cartoons as a kid.

In basically the entire first world: yes, drinkable tap water is the norm. Even living in the middle of nowhere USA, you have well water and it is perfectly drinkable. (That is to say, rural American homes have their own well, water pump, and filtration system)

there’s really only pressure a few hours per week

Water towers are common and completely solve this issue. Even during power outages, gravity still works and water towers provide pressurized, drinkable water to everyone in the area.

You should look into getting a well installed. This is something you and your immediate neighbors could all benefit from and could go in together on if you can’t afford it yourself.

If you don’t mind me asking, what country do you live in? What you are saying is not something that is common in entire continents.

It’s also significantly more expensive than buying a filter.

Surprisingly, if they have such waiting times, it seems to indicate they do have people using the service.

If there are waiting times on a regular basis, it mostly says they under-bought hardware to service what customers they have. Which comes at the cost of future customers as people hate lines.

But, yeah, I think GeForce Now is the only cloud gaming service that didn’t flop instantly. Though, with the prices listed in OP’s article, the value proposition just seems really bad. They may be killing what audience they have.

I hear ya. You probably want something like a Steam Deck. No PC building required and it goes wherever you are.

What’s the proper way? Seems being shipwrecked is a perfectly valid surrender by itself.