Once you have a plant cover, it starts to be self-reinforcing, as the plants already grown provide shadow cover for the next generation. The pioneering plants get replaced by other species later, once the local micro climate has changed, and then you get an even more complex and more stable ecosystem. Of course, this takes many decades to establish completely, but it might be that it is self-sustaining much earlier.

Biologists study this all the time. Spoil tips, abandoned crop fields, volcanic ash, or the charred remains of a bush fire, they are ideal research objects on how Nature reclaims those areas. And the time line is vastly different depending on the environment, between a few years, and centuries. Until an oak forest has naturally regrown and gets into balance, it takes about 1000 years.

Nature should be preserved exactly as it was at a point in time of your preference.

It sends (false) positives to the authorities not encrypted by keys you hold, so in that respect it selectively breaks the encryption.

In the U.S., "champagne" simply means sparkling wine, in other places, it means "wine grown and produced in the Champagne region". Same with Parmesan or Budweiser or something.

And there isn't even a clear cut difference between the two, and especially in German, where many food items have different names depending on the region (don't you ever trust a dictionary, because for many food items, there is no Standard German word), a vote like the one the European Parlament just did does not work. The famous "Berliner" (jelly donut) is a prime example, which is not called "Berliner" in Berlin itself, but a Pfannkuchen (pancake), while the pancake is called Eierkuchen (egg cake) here.

Grützwurst, Erbswurst, Bettwurst - all words using the German word for sausage (Wurst), but none of them is made primarily from meat or does even contain any meat at all, and the Bettwurst is not edible, but a bed accessoire. And Burger? How about Bitburger (a beer) and Burger (a bakery and a trademark for different types of bread)? Do they have to change names? What about Schnitzel (cutlet)? How do we call Rübenschnitzel (sugar beet pulp) and Holzschnitzel (wood chips) going into the future?

This was a vote where the main goal was to "own the Left", without any thought about the consequences.

The problem is that in German, it's not Hamburger Steak, it's Hamburger Beefsteak, something everyone in Hamburg would understand. In German, Steak means the meat, and Beefsteak means the patty - quite confusing for someone native to English, for whom "beef" means meat from a cow. But when the words were borrowed by the Germans, they moved their meaning.

That's not true given UDNA, they just realised too late.

Just like they realised too late that using worse-CUDA as their main programming language was not a good idea.

Bosch is going to take down the servers that some of their smart thermostats use.

The thermostats will continue to work, they just won't be Internet-accessible.

They are sending out newer models that will be fully supported at no cost to the owner.

I'd be absolutely shocked if they did.

DRM has been a problem for TiVo pretty much since digital cable became a thing. TiVo managed to squeak out a longer shelf life as a DVR because they kissed the ring, but they had to go through all kinds of hoops to do it. Amongst the reasons the GPLv3 exists is because of what Stallman called the "TiVo-ization" effect, where the GPL components were released, but the useful extensions weren't, and they couldn't because they were the components that allowed the TiVo to work despite the DRM.

In practice, I will concede that HDCP has been mostly-seamless, most of the time, for most users...but I don't think TiVo is going to play games with the HDCP licensing and enforcement to then allow timeshifting. I submit that there are issues on both sides with doing so. On one hand, what you're suggesting is the ability to timeshift content that is inherently on-demand. TiVo's popularity was entirely due to making it possible to timeshift linear broadcasts in a way that was far more functional than VHS. Having a TiVo that would accept an HDMI signal from a Fire Stick would be mostly-pointless...unless the user is intending to archive a video due to concerns about takedown...and it's not like TiVo would roll the dice on a device that would be a lightning rod for litigation, if not actually-legal ones, if TiVo's HDCP license got revoked, they would either neuter everyone's hardware, or they'd be signing up for a court case they have no chance of winning.

The alternative exists; HDMI capture cards are plentiful, and there is plenty of software that can record from it. Screen recording software is also super plentiful, and examples of these things which also manage to play fast-and-loose with DRM are readily available on the market.

So, TiVo would be caught in the middle, and the liability is well below whatever they would make in revenue...it's certainly not worth it to them.

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Problem with your calculation is that it is already outdated. Germany right now is at 57.4% renewables for the whole year of 2025, and not just a good month. The worst month in Germany in 2024 was November with only 45.1% Renewables, but two month, February and April (yes! those two!) came in at more than 60% Renewables. The whole of 2024 finished at 55.8% Renewables for electricity production.

By the way, February 2025 was the worst so far at only 42.1% - completely different than February 2024. On the other hand, June 2025 broke the record with 73.4% Renewables, while all three, August, September and October 2025 so far are above 60% Renewables.

If you want a look at the numbers, here they are.

Plus support for Cablecards is no longer mandated, limiting their customer base.

At its peak, TiVo was a household name...and in hindsight, it probably would have been possible to keep it going with relatively small amounts of effort.

For starters, they weren't all that great to their base - the folks with the lifetime subscriptions. They were the early-adopters and the enthusiasts, but they ran into issues once the lifetime subscriptions were tied to the analog boxes and the cable companies stopped offering that service...in such cases, the customers had to choose, and at the very least, some of them were unlikely to choose to continue with TiVo. It probably didn't help that some of those boxes required dial-up connections to get guide data, and they weren't exactly upgradeable to wi-fi.

From there, cable companies competed with first-party DVR boxes...which everyone hated because their UI sucked and was slow, but it came bundled with cable service and the cable companies actively supported and marketed them, so lots of people used them instead. Had TiVo offered an onboarding service, where TiVo would get a CableCARD on the users' behalf and send it to them preconfigured, that may have helped justify the purchase.

TiVo was already at least some living rooms; they could have gone toe-to-toe with Roku and Amazon Fire Sticks...and I believe the later models *did* allow Netflix streaming and such, but it was too little, too late, and TiVo didn't have retail space in the same way Roku did. For sure, Roku would have won on price, but it likely would have been possible for them to have leveraged their brand recognition.

Finally, the nail in the coffin for TiVo was that they didn't lobby to retain the legal mandate for CableCARDs. I had a SiliconDust HD Homerun Prime, and I loved it for the time I could use it, but my cable company wouldn't give me a CableCARD when I changed my service, because they didn't have to.

It's completely unsurprising that the pioneer in the space lost their spot, but they absolutely could have owned the market with a bit better marketing and availability.

That may be true to a certain extent, but I submit two counterbalances to this:

1. VPS workloads aren't usually helped by GPU acceleration; even if DigitalOcean or Hetzner got these datacenters in a fire sale, they'd still be sitting on a pile of GPUs they would either have to leverage or sell.

2. While VPS companies will undoubtedly continue to have their workload quantities increase over time, if the AI tech bubble bursts, they are likely to end up being on the working end of that at some level, too. I'm sure they aren't going anywhere, but even if revenue is down 10%, it's going to be a tough sell to get leadership to think about making an investment of that size when it's unclear whether next year will *also* have a 10% loss of revenue.

You  advise suffering; making  networked computer use as difficult as getting a drivers license. I do not see that as a step for'ard. Of-course I have spent the last three days getting two Linux boxes enabled on the  sketchy local WiFi.  Inexpert? Yep. Twenty years ago getting my Florida drivers license took 2 hours at DMV. YMMV.

Hyper-wealthy AI-abusers can have bpoor  judgement.  So you DO mean failed brake-lines don't you ? I understand that Mercedes, Tesla, BMW,Porsche ... all have that mechanical issue. Most assign it to over-aggressive driving ...