I don't use AI directly but companies are plugging into all sorts of things now.

I grow a lot of our food and waste very little of whatever food we buy from the stores.  If you look at how many resources are used to grow food that ends up being wasted it is a huge destructive force for ecological diversity, adds to poorer water and air quality, etc.

I recycle as much as possible.

I do eat some beef once in a while.

I drive 30-100 miles a month.

I don't fly.

they were using wind, solar and battery storage to run them.

Otherwise they are the stupidest thing since bitcoins for this planet.  The extra CO2 will make the future worse no matter what the supposed intellectual gains (which seem weak to me in aggregate because at some point you still have to check the work for hallucinations and fabrications).

You don't get something for nothing and in this case it is piling error upon error.

True.  Enough people did not get out and vote in 2022 to prevent the return of the great orange slug.  That's on them.  I did my part.

However, the anti-intellectual backwater bigotry is embedded in our culture and the gullibility of so many is a pure tragedy that is constantly being exploited.

The Bell Curve is viscious - I just don't see how we ever make it in space or through difficult times on this planet.  I hope we can do better but I see no obvious way it happens.

I was going into this election being hopeful that we'd get a change.  I didn't expect as much as we got.

And yeah, we gave the boot to the jackbooted thugs.

The plastic is still very dispersed so such a simplistic and wrong-headed response doesn't accomplish much other than spread a lot of radiation around for little improvement.

The thing is, that guy has done more to clean up the plastic in the ocean and the plastic going into the ocean (via interceptors) than most other people.

Your ignorant comment aside, have you ever looked into what they've actually accomplished?

Same here using Debian testing most of the time and MATE Desktop.

Current Memory Use:

$ free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         7989460     1984016     1825448      557772     4805404     6005444
Swap:       19530748           0    19530748

I'm using a browser, listening to music on speakers that also include a subwoofer, the CPU has a small fan on the heatsink, the monitor is 32", I connect via a radio network dish and all of this for 50watts almost all the time since I'm rarely crunching numbers or compiling anything.

Do you think for some reason that the changes won't be tested?

By the looks of things Linus did do enough testing to satisfy himself there was progress made.

Linux itself gets huge numbers of CPU cycles run by it each day.

I think his approach is pragmatic.

I personally don't use LLMs for anything because if I have to keep checking the results for factual fabrications aka hallucinations then I'm wasting my time, but I don't think they're going to go away either so we'll see how it works out.

I can't find that button for this administration. AI Please make it so. Beam me up Scotty...

Many power companies will let you buy into a solar installation if you can't have one of your own or if you just want to do it.

Perhaps you've not figured it out yet, but all the energy you are using right now was supplied by the sun (or some other star) and made available to you via plants, fossil fuels (made from plants and animals that ate those plants and each other) and some direct things that come via your skin and exposure to sunlight (Vitamin D being one of them). That you are not paying for the damage that fossil fuels cause is just a warped coincidence due to historical ignorance. That the future peoples of the earth will be paying compound interest for the damage means that if you don't pay now you will be paying more later and/or not be able to sustain as many people as are currently living on this planet. Make your choices wisely. Even someone paying 1% more is making a huge difference. If you've not studied compound interest you should.

I would give you a point if I had one (other than the one on top of my head :) )... Thanks for expanding my vocabulary!

which dilutes existing domain holders. :(

I've been a long term investor in both AMD and INTC and I also trade them short term if the price is right.

I think selling of the memory unit was a strategic mistake and wonder if they'll rethink that or get some R&D going for new technology for the longer term (looking forwards)?

Otherwise I don't plan on selling off my long term holdings of either but I am currently out of both in shares that I was trading for the short term (too many risks in this market). If the price drops on either of them I'll be back in again.