Right on. The way the way population is right now, every time a chunk of mountain or glacier falls down, or a river floods, tens of thousands die or are displaced.

In 1960 there were 2-3 billion people on the planet. Now it’s 3x as many cars, mouths to feed, homes to heat/cool.

In Bangladesh there are over 1 million Rohingan refugees who’ve been there for TEN YEARS. They can’t work there, have no country to move to, have to live on $6-12 a month for food.

Just the other day I was listening to this song by the Grateful Dead:

"Sometimes the light’s all shining on me …

Sometimes I can barely see …

And lately it appears to me

What a long strange trip it’s been. "

The German Nazis stored people data on Hollerith punch cards supplied by US company IBM.
https://ahrp.org/30999-2/

I’m not sure that Google could sink any lower.

You might be looking for the HDPARM command …

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/hdparm-command-in-linux-with-examples/

I remember playing with this one for my measley 4Tb drive: LOts of options:

-S Set the standby timeout for the drive. A value of 0 disables standby mode.

Good for the girls, they’ll know which boys to stay away from!

For one thing UBO, if you take the time to (turn on and) learn the advanced user mode, will let you customize interactions site-by-site, and remember your choices for years.EG I regulary use the zapper and eyedropper to get rid of stuff other than ads. It’s also easy to turn on/off site-by-site.

The man deserves a medal for the time he’s put in literally saving the internet for so many millions.

No problem. So much enshittification on the web these days, don’t need so much RAM, I might sell some.

Got rid of Vista, installed Mint in 2012. Never a single regret. I am so good at Mint now, it’s hard to be humble.

Next time, install Cinnamon Mint !

Hope somebody here shorted 1000 shares the day they hit $220.

oh oh … there’s that old vegeta ble again.

Also, note that LMint installs many Ubuntu components, but supports Flatpak apps out-of-the-box, but not Snap.

would be worth $3,703 today. Or perhaps $250 tomaro when the AI bubble pops. An investment in the market is obviously worth more to those high-living traders, of course (and those fee-loving brokers), so they concur.

Unfortunately, HS teachers in places which need to know these things the most are also the most likely to lose their jobs for it. E.g. In my HS, learning ‘history’ stopped at the beginning of the 20th-century.

Just like in Rome

As was noted by P.K. Dick …

Next time, instead of buying, take the idea home. Think about it first.

I remember a bunch of movies where torches and pitchforks helped.

Promises, promises. I haven’t heard of one that’s actually in commercial operation right now.

But, apples and oranges… it’s a bullshit choice. Power plants generate power, DC’s consume power.

If you going to generate power, why look beyond solar/wind and batteries? At a much lower price, and much faster build times, they too are ‘physically incapable of going into meltdown’, and are already in use worldwide, no wait time.

As far as DC’s go, they depend on very new technology (enjoying a trendy fad) which -will- get far less power-hungry than they are. Or else. (The grid’s not ready for them.)

The only people in a rush seem to be the people who invested in all the snake oil promises that LLM’s are real A.I. … which they aren’t.

I would again recommend that anyone doing online marketing and/or tracking be legally confined to the .COM TLD. Severe penalties for corporate abuse would include removal of all internet access. Less severe penalties might include a confiscation of double of all profits made outside of .COM during a deliberate infraction.

There would be no cost for any TLD’s outside of .COM; all regulation and legal costs to be paid-for by .COM - users.