They set up your environments and do all the testing for you too

Oil change is around 1.5 hours a year and filling with gas is around 10 minutes every 2 weeks.. so around 4 hours for the whole year. Modern vehicles don't generally need spark plugs. Whereas I could easily spend that 4 hours charging on a single trip in an EV. And it's more about the timing. I don't mind stopping for gas for 10 minutes while I'm out shopping, but I don't want to be spending time on my car when I am out enjoying myself.

No one said wolves lived there. They said the forest supported life that meant wolves went there to hunt. As for how much life is supported in an area like that? The answer is a shitload, just go ask a hunter.

No it's a natural forest. None of those trees are evenly spaced and they aren't identically sized beyond your own inability to understand what you see: Hint: Trees in a forest are competitive for light, hence most forests where a single large plant dominates result in trees growing to similar uniform heights. This is especially true of pine forests. But if you look beyond the tree trips you'll find plenty of biodiversity further down.

False, and in any case it's also irrelevant. Even plantations support diverse wildlife and are frequently used as hunting grounds too (not just for furry creatures, but for idiots with guns too)

Google destroyed the top soil, not only against commercial resource management, but to the point where the subsidiary building the datacentre is about to be issued a fine. They did so without an environmental impact assessment which is the *MINIMUM* requirement to cut down trees under the forestry act.

Oh an you know who thinks that Google fucked up and did the wrong thing? ... Google. The company which has formally and publicly apologised for doing precisely this thing.

Brownnosing a megacorporation is lame at the best of times, but it's far worse when even said megacorporation disagrees with your view. If you want to be a simp then toe the company line and admit Google fucked up, just like Google admitted.

You clearly have no idea how this works. A permit to build a project allows you to start projects in stages. It's not a single stamp that gives you carte-blanche authority to do what the fuck you want.

Projects are executed in phases, certain activities run in parallel. When you have an initial permission for construction you can start getting contracts ready while you apply for additional permits. Things such as performing impact assessments of the construction, obtaining land clearing permits, emissions permits for temporary generators, water discharge permits for construction water, etc. These are all separate from having approval to build a datacentre.

Google didn't get a land clearing permit. They chopped down trees illegally. Having the go ahead to build a datacentre is not the final step, it's the first step.

Also yes, Google is evil. In fact they even apologised for being evil and admitted it was their fault.

By the way, this applies to you wanting to build your own house as well. It's not only clear you don't know how construction of mega projects work, it's clear you've never built anything requiring permits at all.

There's 3 things at play here:
1) Datacentre equipment is heavy. Having a second floor is far more expensive than having just one floor, and the foundations need to be engineered in a very different way. Also the second floor means the first floor needs load bearing supports which take space and cost money, etc. etc.
2) Construction sites are larger than what they are constructing. This is highly complicated in inner city constructions, but in the bush where you can just clear a bit of extra land, quite often you make a significantly bigger plot clear so you can stage construction equipment, temporary housing, canteens, parking lots for hundreds of workers, etc. The datacentre isn't going to be 2 sqmi, but the construction site may well be.
3) Believe it or not, companies like to hide things like this. A single story datacentre may not clear visible tree line from a nearby road and thus (ironically in this case) preserve the natural looking landscape.

If everyone professionally turns into a code reviewer and no one writes code of their own, are we losing the art? Software engineering is one of those cases where the best people to review something are those with deep enough understanding to do it themselves. If we lose the skill of the fundamentals because no one does that work anymore, how are we going to review and fix things?

I mean if you don't know your history you may laugh and look like a lunatic, but you do you. I'll give you one more change to learn something. Google Sony TA-N77ES. It was a member of the Elevated Series of audio stack. The amp alone cost $3000 back in the 80s, and having a full ES stack in your living room would easily have set you back over $10k. Oh and that amp still fetches that price in second hand audiophile circles today. But I don't expect you to know that because you heard the name Sony and turned off your brain.

Yeah that's sort of where we're at. I'm heavily into photography so my TV spends most of its time displaying some photos I took.

I agree their firmware is rubbish though. They actually killed a useful feature of mine (they killed gaming). The Frame used to ship with Steam Link, which worked amazingly well. Paired a bluetooth controller to the TV and I would sit on the couch playing games from a stream up in the study. Then they released a firmware update that mapped volume up to left anologue stick Y without the option of disabling it effectively making the TV unusable for any gaming. Fuck them.

But fuck LG more, and fuck Sony equally as much and what are you gonna do, buy a crappy TCL? And that's how we ended up with a second Frame.

Requires != seeks out even if you don't set it up. We have evidence of TVs establishing network connections despite not being logged in. Your neighbour has an open wifi hotspot? Congrats, your TV may have a network connection regardless of what you want it to have.

LOL no sorry you haven't figured out shit. "LCD driver boards" does not a TV make and the result would be absolutely trash compared to a high end modern OLED which relies on many things to not only decode incoming video, but to perform advanced tricks such as local dimming control, 4 colour display, automatic continuous self calibration, external light adjustment, etc that precisely zero of these boards have and if they had it, wouldn't work with the proprietary interface.

If you were just trying to display an image, stop fucking around with hacking and buy a digital sign board. That will net you better quality than what you're hacking together, and will still be far shy of a modern TV.

I never said they don't work. I said they aren't an absolute replacement for fossil fuels.

There are precisely zero dumb TVs on the market with the format support and visual quality of a high end TV from the majors. That you don't even know that shows you're not a serious customer of TVs and are just parroting whatever AI spat out at you from a quick Google search.

No you can't. That doesn't guarantee that your TV doesn't seek out a network connection. We have evidence of that, actual evidence of network traffic despite the user "skipping" the network setup. That you don't even know this shows you're not serious about security or have any idea about what is going on in the TV world at all.

There are Android boxes even less expensive.

That really depends what you are comparing to. A lot of people don't instantly compare to the best technology out there. You can watch the video just fine on an old plasma or a new 4k.

I enjoyed shows on old tube TVs. You certainly don't need 4K to "enjoy TV". You need it to gloat about the technology you have though. That said, I don't know if I could stand the sound quality on an old tv.