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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"The people" don't build NPPs, risk-adverse utility companies do. And while public opinion might matter in some countries, nuclear power is just 5% in China, compared to renewables at around 30%.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Like most things with environmental impact, we just let later generations deal with it. Somehow.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Microsoft jumped fully on the AI hype bandwagon with their partnership in OpenAI and their strategy of forcing GenAI down our throats. Instead of realizing that GenAI is not much more than a novel parlor trick that can't really solve problems, they are now fully committing.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI, and reactivating 3 Mile Island is estimated at $1.6 billion. And any return on these investments are not guaranteed. Generally, GenAI is failing to live up to its promises and there is hardly any GenAI use case that actually makes money.

This actually has the potential of greatly damaging Microsoft, so I wouldn't say all their decisions are financially rational and sound.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Nuclear has its advantages, but there is hardly anything as cheap and maintenance free as solar+batteries. Anyone can set it up, and it just runs all by itself for years and years.

In Europe, the price for electricity on the spot market regularly goes in the negative. Jep, you can get paid money to consume electricity because it's so abundant.

Look at France, their new NPP is taking 12 years and 12 billion euros more than planned. Is it really worth all that financial and environmental risk building something poisonous and explodey that needs constant attention?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Who knows, maybe OP is playing competive PVP in the browser on his phone?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Wo wir noch ein Farblaser hatten musste ich einmal Gelb holen für jede zweite Kartusche schwarz. Das liegt an den tracking dots. Die Qualität der Laserdrucker ist ja so unfassbar gut (/s), dass die Hersteller damit Falschgeld etc zurückverfolgen wollten. Tintenstrahldrucker haben das nicht, also zumindest mein Epson Ecotank nicht.

Man kann in den Druckeinstellungen den Schwarz-Weiss-Modus erzwingen, dann wird garantiert nur schwarz, und eventuell etwas gelb , benutzt.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Just checked it out and it seems that Playtron is yet another Linux distro for gamers. I just can't see how this can be monitized. How do they plan to get users away from Windows, SteamOS or even Bazzite?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying to get into Gemini for a while now. There site aggregators and everything, but I've yet to find something personally engaging.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Well, they have to pay licensing fees for the media, pay crazy money for the IT infrastructure, which they have no matter how many downloads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Both GNOME and KDE are first-class DEs in Fedora - stability is a non issue. You can install both if you want and select your choice at the login screen to just switch back and forth. The only thing you might want to keep in mind is that both have their own prpgrams, like file managers for example, so you'll have two programs for the same task.

Performance is a wash, really, with a halfway modern setup. Your browser will be consuming way more resources than the desktop by far.

Compatibility is also a non issue nowadays, both implement the Freedesktop standard and are fully compatible with each other.

I'm pretty sure that the installer is the same for all major spins.

Hope you have fun with Fedora!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just checked - the animation scale values on my FP4 are set to 2.0. ~~Does that mean double or half as fast?~~

Just tried it out. It's quite obvious what a smaller value does!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Immer schau auf die helle Seite des Lebens!

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