after the demo where they massively overpay for clean hydrogen they start burning the stuff you get from natural gas.

Hydrogen is BS in all practical applications.

Dear AMD,

There wasn't any confusion. We heard what you said.

Now you're backtracking - so it seems like the only confusion was with amd.

As holder of the domain aardvark.co.nz I can already feel the benefit.

The excerpt is worded poorly.

Somewhere around 2-3% of American adults are taking GLP-1 drugs for any reason.

12.4% of American adults who take GLP-1 drugs now do so specifically for weight-loss purposes.

q.v. https://www.npr.org/sections/s...

I put a solar roof on; started the process last summer, signed the papers by the end of September, about a 5 month delay from the local utility for permitting, completed in march. My bill has 3 parts: a fixed customer charge (~$20 per meter; I have 2), a delivery charge (about 7 cents per KWh), and a separate generation charge (also about 7 cents per KWh). I pay delivery and generation charges for every KWh that the utility sends me, so 14 cents per KWh, and if I generate more electricity than I'm using, I get a rebate on the generation charge.
This seems to me to be fair. It's as if I'm another electrical supplier, and for the energy I give back to the utility, I'm getting credits at the same rate as I'm paying. Which is, in theory, the wholesale rate for power.
Now I need to find a way to see in real time if I am sending electricity to the grid or taking electricity from it, and move as much of my shiftable consumption to times when I'm supplying, to avoid delivery charges.

I don't see any 2K screens here sold as TVs here in Ohio. 720p, 1080p, and 4K are the choices I see in the big-box stores. Haven't seen much 8K or 16K offered, but I bet those are in higher-end AV stores. I went with 43" 4K, which is as big as my walls will allow (windows and doors and bookcases, oh my!), and our viewing distance is just under 8 feet.

The videos you watch don't have intrusive sponsorship segments then?

I suspect it has in most households -- even boomer ones.

The problem is that nobody wants YouTube to be just like broadcast and cableTV was. The thing that made YouTube so compelling and so popular was its authenticity and variety -- but the management at YouTube are carefully killing the very thing that made it great.

Ever-growing levels of ever-more intrusive advertising. Ads that are (at times) 90 percent scams. Ads and content that are low-value AI-slop which, once the novelty value wears off, will drive people off the platform rather than onto it. Endless spambot comments on videos. -- all these things are slowly souring the formula that made YT what it is today.

Creators are complaining, viewers are complaining and pretty soon, advertisers will be complaining because viewer numbers will decline.

Many creators (such as myself) are now switching to self-hosting via a federated network of servers that we host ourselves (PeerTube or similar). Doing this frees us from the tyranny that is YouTube's arbitrary and unchallengable AI content moderation and it's unwillingness to deal with bogus copyright claims and strikes.

We have reached "peak Youtube" and just like so many companies that have become a huge part of our ever-day lives, it will now begin an ever-steepening decline.

If YouTube doesn't deliver what viewers and creators want they will find an alternative and the self-hosted federation of servers overcomes the single largest hurdle to creating a YouTube competitor -- the problem of matching the company's vast storage, processing and bandwidth capacity.

Watch this space... things are about to get exciting again!

Don't you just go into linux and kill some processes or turn off the computer?

How does the AI have any influence over whether it's running or not?

It dit, right before it discovered the Jevons paradox.

I'd much rather have anything else that's not an optical drive in that volume. Mostly battery but even just some usb ports would be better.

Optical drives being gone is a feature not a problem.

That's right... you don't *really* think YT is giving you a choice do you?

I do not make shorts, I do not want shorts but without using plugins I can not avoid shorts. Successful companies are generally built on tailoring their offerings to match the needs/wants of their customers so YT once again proves that WE are not the customers, we are the product!

Just as with their AI deepfake detection system, YouTube has once again created a problem (Shorts addiction) so that it can deliver a solution (this auto-turn-off function).

I'd actually prefer that it didn't create the problems in the first place.

YouTube is a trainwreck right now and mid-tier creators are not valued at all. Just look at what they have to put up with

YouTube creates a problem (by integrating VEO3 into its platform) and then offers a solution -- but only if you surrender your government ID to them.

This is dystopian.