New houses aren't much better. Windows are much larger, but triple glazing windows keep a lot of light out. A winter in Europe will be dark in nearly any home.
The problem just is that it's really hard to find good LEDs. Maybe they're all being sold to industrial consumers, but it's been a pain to find good LEDs if you're looking for anything more "exotic". E.g. dimmable LEDs work and are available, but there is so much cheap trash out there while good brands are often sold out. And for many sockets, there's maybe one manufacturer offering it, if at all. I've had instances where only cheap vendors offered LEDs for a certain socket.
Wind should work better than. Especially offshore. Tends to be much more expensive than solar in a sunny place like Texas, but also much more reliable/stable.
In the end, you'll always need a mix of supply. Or simply better insulation and efficient heat pumps rather than wasting electricity on heating at above freezing.
As a European, it always baffled me that power outages are such a common phenomenon in the US. I've heard stories about rolling blackouts due to heat/cold from people in all areas in the US. Whereas in Europe, I cannot remember a single instance rolling blackouts were used because of a gap in supply.
Sure, Europeans pay more for electricity, but maybe that spare capacity and inter-connectivity is worth it.
It's one of the larger ones in the world (same GW as the largest European countries), there's a lot of data available and it's the only one that recently collapsed. I cannot remember a similar collapse due to a mismatch of demand and supply in any other network that size, especially one where we get all the data for.
I believe the CA power grid gets similar attention here whenever there's any news. A post for a dashboard would've probably attracted as many upvotes.
Apart from the already mentioned fact that it was made in Europe, using Celsius makes sense for scientific dashboards. And here, data is pulled from airport weather reports, which always report in Celsius.
They probably got DDoS like usage patterns from badly behaved scrapers around the world. Geo fencing is the easiest solution while still keeping data public domestically.
It's easy to blame them, but if you provide any data on the web, the load you get from scrapers is insane.
If all of the child porn industry switched to generated images they'd still be horrible people but many kids would be saved from having these pictures taken. So a commercial model should certainly ban it, but I don't think it's the biggest thing we have to worry about.
So what's the loss? It's not like stock photos are the highest art form. Surely, for some people it means they need to change their business model, but all those just needing pictures to illustrate something the process will be much smoother.
Apple with just European users would be worth much more. If a company really wasn't that big just in Europe, there would be a case to exclude them. Apple certainly isn't one of them.
No, the EU knew that something like a DNT header could never work. And let's not forget: No one needs a cookie popup. If you don't track more than technically necessary, there's no need to get consent or inform the user. It's just that everyone likes to collect as much data as they can that these popups are necessary.
Of course you can use Apple Pay, but if you don't like it you could also use Google Pay or Samsung Pay instead. But Apple Pay could also be used on Androids if Apple chooses to offer it.
With the right plugin (both mobile and desktop), you can automatically opt out, something that wasn't possible before. And larger ad companies actually enforce compliance here (where possible).
They had to pay a fine in France because of throttling their devices with older batteries. Maybe they'll try again, but I'm sure it'll be proven eventually.
GDPR changed a lot. From my own experience, European companies think much harder about what data to collect, where to store it and how to distribute it. We're not even close to 100% enforcement, but a huge step forward from where we were.
If this law only reaches 20% of what it envisions, it'll do more for consumers than other laws before.
Not all lobbying is bad. That this regulation clearly protects the local tech industry is in the interest of many companies, but also in the interest of many (if not most) of the population.
Great, if Alphabet, Facebook and Apple leave the EU, it will be a painful few years but finally boost the EU tech sector. It's what China did: Prohibit external services to force local innovation.
> This will likely make it harder for users to find safe/private services to use.
That's what tech companies like to say. But from experiences with less tech-savy friends, the current way always leads people to share as much as possible. Opt-out is always harder than opt-in.
I'd also probably order the 10G for that price if it was just a checkbox in the order process. But opening a ticket later (and downtime for the server), or waiting substantially longer for the server to be available isn't really an option for me. I'm wondering if they deliberately do that because their switches couldn't handle too many 10G servers?
It can be an extra layer of security. At some point in the future there will probably be another exploit in supervisors or hardware that can be used to spy on other tenants. With dedicated servers that becomes harder.
I've heard of large companies that require their own hosts. But then again, if you're big enough it really makes sense to build your private cloud anyway.
But I believe the mac mini doesn't have ECC Ram? I've had pretty bad experiences with non-ecc for database servers. It probably doesn't matter as much if you're only processing data where a bit flip isn't problematic or where data isn't stored aftewards (e.g. web server), but for data manipulation I wouldn't use non-ECC.
Hetzner has also been offering arm based macs for a while now. Maybe they don't include them in their definition because technically they're not servers?
I always thought these rental models would be great if they gave you the hardware for free. Not having hundreds of configuration options would be an advantage for buyers and manufacturers. And you'd only pay for what you're using. But there should always be the option to buy the feature outright and charging for hardware and a subscription is obviously greedy.
While I agree that they won't shut down OVH France, I'd rather go with Hetzner Finland than Hetzner US. Mostly powered by renewables, much of that water, they'll be fine regardless of the availability of gas.