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Shrinking before it has even began?

The efficiency goes down significantly with those temperatures, given that most sources of waste heat are low-temperature (such as datacenter heating water, waste water, etc - places where it makes economically and ecologically sane to extract heat).

That's the problem even in district heating where temps are ~115C (like in Helsinki). Sadly, reducing the temperature is not an easy task, since many buildings have heating systems designed for higher temps.

Even lowering those temps to 80C would improve efficiency of the heat pumps a lot. But it's a big project to get it done and will most likely take a decade or more.

Nespresso's taste is least likely to be anything anyone is looking for in a good espresso.

That high pressure causes some odd taste notes and it would cause channeling in the puck. Not to mention all sort of other issues which start already at ~11 bars.

AMD's FOSS drivers for Windows gaming? Where? As the article said, the real problem is in the gaming optimizations on older APIs.

You need to optimize the driver for each game basically, thus every supported game adds more and more lines in that silly world. This is for all the old DirectX9-11 games.

Personally I followed the rootfs way of installing Fedora to WSL2. It was simple enough and worked fine (including podman). I found no reason to use external tools / scripts / modified distros.

Sadly, some anti-cheat tools in games still refuse to work with WSL2 (they hate Hyper-V, I guess it's been used as attack vector), so back to VMware Player on my personal workstation and using terminal to open Linux shell.

Regardless of what he said, do you think Visa / Mastercard should be content filters?

What if you said something bad about MasterCard's services? "Oops, no more credit cards for you" ?

This kind of monopolies should be treated like utilities, however I guess they're too useful as political tools to get that treatment.

There are some headsets (such as Audeze Penrose) that use 2,4GHz wireless instead of Bluetooth. Penrose's latency is reported to be 16ms. At least for games, that's good enough and noticeably better than anything over BT I've tested.

Of course, it has the dongle issue which limits the usage to certain devices (Xbox and Windows in my case, I haven't tested the dongle on my Mac or Linux).

Well, we also blow up billions in missiles that achieve nothing. So, why not smash some particles instead?

Games, yes, games. We're talking about laptops here, not mobile phones. PC gaming industry is huge and continues to be (even in the future iterations you talk about).

When it comes to projections, the ~1300€ laptops are not going to be the ones taking over the world. Not in any realistic projection, unless the inflation goes to Turkey level.

Every people makes deliberate choice, don't discount someone's choice not being deliberate just because it does not align to yours. I don't pick a laptop for my own self, but a desktop - since I don't need the mobility when I need grunt. There M2 brings me nothing so far.

Your granny might make a more thoughtful choice than you do. She might buy a tool for herself while you're fancying over something shiny. That's not deliberate.

Living in a bubble is always nice though. How many laptops are even used as laptops?

Most of the world is not using Apple laptops and is not going to. The Facebook community around you might, but that's not the entire world. The "nobody" in your list still accounts for what, 90% of the laptop buyers? Even more?

Most of the powerful laptops are neither Macs, as those go to the gaming laptops where - this is a big surprise - games and their performance counts. Apple has no answer there.

Why would it cause NATO more expenses? Finland takes care of patrolling the border, just like before. There's no intention to get foreign troops to guard our borders (or even foreign troops at all in Finland beyond exercises).

There's no need to make any new connections. This is just a push of a button in the computer to make them have electricity again.

As long as there's no sanctions against Yandex itself, then there's no legal reason to prevent that from happening either.

Which modern PC draws 30W when off? When mine is off, the electricity calculator states 0W (the draw is less than it can register).

Even for sleep mode that would be huge. 30W is about the normal modern PC idle (on, but not doing anything) consumption, not any sleep / standby / off state consumption.

Unless this has changed in the recent times, then yes you will get your money back as whole. If you have all the pieces, the bank (at least in Finland central bank will) will trade it to a new one and the old one is demolished.

It is pretty normal for money to get damaged and reissued.

Solar is not a viable solution in the north. The energy usage goes up when solar generation goes down.

For wind, we're too small country - there are always days without any wind. There are even days without any wind in nearby countries included.

We don't import a lot of LNG from Russia. Gas coming from Russia comes through the pipes, not LNG. However, we don't even use gas a lot in Finland (it accounts 3% of the total energy production).

The electricity prices are through the roof for other reasons (and have been for almost a year now) and are not related to Russia at all.

NUCs are smaller than the Mac Studio. Desktop PCs are comically large only if you want that comically large amount of extension capability. Which you can't get with any Macs.

> They have only one enemy, the Russian government.

Do you think layman thinks the friend is the person who punishes them without them doing anything wrong? I find that seriously difficult to believe.

Think about it yourself. You go to a nightclub and then the doorman says only you're not allowed, because your friends who just went in said you're not wanted. Do you still consider them as your friends and just think it's for your best?

That's a very odd logic there.

And that usually plays to the advantage of the elite. Now the working class has only one supporter, the Russian government. Their propaganda of "west hates you" feels very real to them now.

This is quite age old tactic that usually doesn't work, punishing civilians in the war usually does not demoralize them, but works against the aggressor. Same can be said about these sanctions. Why would they trust the west if we want to punish them and their only hope is their current administration?

It's Baikonur. Rented to Russia, and as you see from the map.. it's quite big area for a space port.

EU is definitely not a synonym to Europe. That would exclude UK, Norway and other countries that are certainly in Europe. I've never heard anyone even thinking those two things are the same.

No, a lot of saunas in Finland are electric heated. But they're still only 3*16A at most (and usually a lot less, but that depends on the size of the sauna). I think mine is ~7kW and still heats the sauna to high temperatures, just takes a bit more time.

I still don't get though, if living in rural area, why not heat the pool with wood. It just has that sensation that electric heater doesn't provide.

$1100 Air has 60Hz screen, which is equal to oldest LCDs found in laptops. That's not a good screen, that's horrible.

Resolution isn't everything.

Nexus phones were cheap compared to iPhone, that was their whole differentiation. For example, Nexus 5 launched at $349 while at the same time iPhone 5 launched at $649. There's nothing comparable in those prices.

If you really did buy all of these, then you certainly didn't pay the same price. And after that, there was 3 years break before first Pixel - so you used a bricked phone for 3 years? Or it worked fine for 3 years?

That insurance isn't socialized medicine. In Europe for example, the hospital is owned by the government/state/etc, the doctors are hired directly by the hospital, the medicine costs are directly set by the state and so on.

No private parties at all.

This project wasn't government project though, but TVO's.

These are my solutions also, I do have a working Fedora in WSL2 (using the manual method of installation), but I still keep using the VMware Workstation. At this point, although the GUI is running, I'm only using it as a "remote ssh" from my VSCode and everything works like a charm.

Certainly WSL2 integration has some benefits, but I'm not really using any of them at this point. My Windows terminal sshs to the Linux VM, my VSCode terminal opens in the Linux VM and everything feels fine. That covers my development requirements pretty well and rest of the stuff I do with native Windows tools (and I rarely need to cross-access files).

Defence is not that different from offence. An offensive task such as destroying enemy artillery behind their borders or their service routes is an effective way to defend. If the enemy has nothing to attack with, then defending is a lot easier.

And I've seen developers who use Vim/Emacs/VSCode spend more time doing the same thing the other guy using an IDE would have done earlier and continued with important stuff.

Although, if we go by your logic, wouldn't doing everything without an editor be even better? Because the indication and advice you're giving is that people using right tools that help their life are suddenly worse at doing their job.

Which is just bullshit.

The same way they went bankrupt?