personal information vacuum

Introducing the new Dyson vacuum! Maybe this is what they mean when they say it’s got a digital motor.

That’s a terms of service/use for Amazon.com (so your account and purchase history), none of that applies to goods sold. This is entirely different than a purchase agreement that says they get to keep any government refunds.

That’s a geothermal battery system with solar water heating as the input. But what’s really cool about Drake Landing is that they can store energy from the summer to heat the homes in the winter, and they even hit net zero a few years ago.

Edit: No idea what the downvote is for… There’s more info about this project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community It’s a little disappointing to learn it was decommissioned, but the technology for seasonal energy storage is really interesting.

I’m curious… what legal documents would these be? You don’t have to sign a Terms of Service to buy a physical product. The unjust enrichment claim is just as valid/invalid unless stores like Walmart are going to start making you read a terms of sale agreement before entering the store.

I’m going to say you’re technically correct because the wording is “recovered” and not “profited”. They’re recovering it twice, and profiting once (when they should be at net zero)

run and maintain a service for me indefinitely

This is specifically NOT what is being asked for. Having an end of life plan doesn’t mean running servers forever.

Does the photo search still work offline? It doesn’t for me. That seems like it’d be the only reason to stick with that app if you’re not using the cloud storage, otherwise I might as well just use a basic file browser.

Only if the store you’re paying at has Internet.

Immich definitely lets you change your email, and even if they didn’t, it’s open source and self-hostable, you could just do it yourself and submit a PR.

GrapheneOS isn’t a replacement for Google Photos though? What do you use for photo backups? (Immich seems like the obvious answer, but I’d like to know if there’s more options out there)

I’m in the PNW and pay about US$0.17/kWh at home, but for the data center rates, they charge based on peak usage because that’s how they size cooling and generator backups. Guaranteed redundant power and networking is just a lot more expensive than residential power.

I’ve been measuring my server rack’s power usage, and it usually sits at around 500W with a 1U + 2U server (and GPU). My plan for the 1U has been to colocate it, but it’s an extra $25/month for each 100W increment, so I’ve been trying things like lowering the CPU power limit to save some money. Apparently turning my 200W EPYC CPU down to 150W barely makes a difference in my workloads, but that 50W is enough to save me quite a bit.

Probably closer to 800W based on OP’s usage.

I can’t think of a single reason a humanoid robot would need to move that fast that isn’t war related… Literally any other application, like warehouse robots sorting oddly shaped items, would just be cheaper to use wheels and just keep the arms for dexterity

How is this the first time I’ve heard of a feature like this… It’s really cool. This basically seems like technology from VR research determining what makes people motion sick and how to work around it. It makes perfect sense it could apply to other screens as well.

Edit: I wish there was more info on it… the implementation seems like it’s proprietary and I can’t find any research papers about it. MuteMotion also seems to be a name used by some sign language translation software.

Backblaze is definitely losing money on you every year, so good luck finding an alternative. I pay $100+/month just in power and network costs to have my own hardware colocated in a real data center, and that’s saving me money compared to renting 200TB anywhere else.

Well, the Wikipedia article listing oil spill sizes is in Tonnes, so it sure is useful knowing how many barrels /s

They aren’t going to scrub the open source history… You can always just use the last version of whatever before the age check is added, but also there’s plenty of people who are just going to release versions without the age checks… There’s already https://agelesslinux.org/

Yeah, I had to go check… There’s activity on the repo as far back as 2016. I was pretty sure people have already ported the entire thing into a Kerbal Space Program mod too so you can reenact the Apollo 11 mission with the real flight computer.

FreeFillableForms works regardless of your income or if you have other unconventional things to claim. It’s just a bit more manual than some of the other apps, but does support e-File. I find the instructions are pretty easy to follow though, especially if you can reference your previous year’s return.