And someone got paid.

Which it is not. This industry has been in business for decades. This isn't a new, unusual burden on the electrical systems, it's tech that is new and unique. Not that the industry might be able to optimize their processes, but that's their business, and we rarely consider asking data centers to do that at any scale, which, BTW, they do do already, for profit.

You would think, huh.

Why not just go real bare bones and implement the only interface that is needed - Aliens style motion tracker. A couple of dots and a sound that beeps faster and faster when the target is closer?

If your property is deserted, isolated, and vast enough that the neighbors will barely notice the ice cubes in their Old Fashioned jiggle all by themselves, well yeah, they might wanna rent it out.

But they already got a lot of that.

And what use would they have without delivery vehicles? Suicide? Besides, nukes need maintenence and the poorest country in Europe certainly couldn't afford that.

EdgeRouter which I use has a web interface for control. Their Unifi range uses proprietary controller, which is most of the switch and wireless stuff. We have about 40 unifi products on our work network, and their control plane is awesome.

I run Ubiquiti Edge router at home and pfSense at work. Both are rock solid.

I was interested in the raw data regarding left- and right-wing violence. So much sop that I read the article at https://ccjls.scholasticahq.co... referenced in Wikipedia...

One incident caught my eye. Attributed to a right-wing assailant, I looked for biographical information. What I found was confusing.

This assailant, described elsewhere as right-wing, was black, homosexual, partnered with a Democratic party member who later was elected to public office as a Democrat. The assailant left a manifesto, ascribing one motivation for their attacks to a church shooting. None of this, on the surface, describes a 'typical' right-winger. But that attack is often categorized as a right-wing incident. Confusing, as I said, though the https://ccjls.scholasticahq.co... article described this as ' a response to some of the more egregious actions by the far-right'. Consider that language; 'more egregious', 'far-right'. I sense an implicit bias, but then I'm sensitized to that and may be mistaken.

Try as I may, I still find the studies to be biased, and often ignoring substantial incidents that could be categorized as politically motivated violence. It's interesting, and I am studying it more carefully.

And that has what to do with his point? He's right. With very, very few exceptions.... guys like Bill Maher... the kind of people that mock Christians would never have the balls to do the same in the same manner to Muslims. That makes them cowards, hypocrites, or both.

It fits well. First, I describe motivation, not action. Second, following the Wikipedia article, several of the footnoted articles actually failed to find significant (discernable is the word) differences in the motivations or tactics of the Left or Right. But more telling, the Wikipedia article seemed to ignore rioting, occupation, etc associated with Antifa, one reference describing these as "violence in the context of ideological clashes at protests". But not political? There is even significant comparison to Islamic violence, which I'll submit is ideological at it's root.

This Wikipedia article I think is terribly flawed, which of course I would think, given it's pretty well titled towards declaring right-wing violence as more prevalent, and extreme, than that of other political movements.

And finally, I was stuck by the article tendency to describe what was identified as right-wing violence as 'extreme', with references to left-wind violence generally lacking such a label.

I reject their premise, dispute their statistical analysis, and in all this, still submit that the Left in America is motivated, motivated, by violent envy. Emotional, strident, extreme envy. It is expressed in many ways. Physical violence is only one means. Legislation, media reporting, do I have to drag you through that? You're not that dense.

What kind of performance hit did you notice? I'm considering giving it a try, as some older games are the only thing really keeping me on Windows at home. I've been steadily moving non-gaming family members to Linux Mint and Chrome OS Flex with the Win11 hardware apocalypse. I'm very interested in first hand reports on how well these games work in the real world with the translation layer factor. I'm assuming there has to be at least some kind of performance hit, so I'd like know your experiences with it.

LOL. How long have you been here? Because personal stalkers have been a tradition here as a long as Natalie Portman's hot grits, Stephen King dying, and Netcraft confirming that FreeBSD is dead.

"They need to return to more sane roots."

For instance, reject Marxism, and return to long-lost roots of, what, their history?

If you accept history, you're left with a jaundiced view of the historical Democratic Party. Go ahead, look it up.

It is perfectly possible, however, to be a miserable old fuck, yet to learn so much more than two decades ago.