I also use Mint and have noticed the updates there are running a higher rate than usual too. The AI can firehose end product around so effectively that everyone is finding vulnerabilities. Apple is not exempt either.
And yet my daughter is a fan fiction addict which she reads on her phone.
"construction and infrastructure workers" have good prospects.
Good, but those are short term jobs. When the data center is completed they move on.
Second, those are not the comfortable office jobs the current crop of college graduates expect. There will be some cognitive disconnects when the kids figure this out although it's already starting.
The fashion industry may be collateral damage if everyone, especially the women, has to wear OSHA approved clothing to work. No swishy skirts, no high heels, no sandals, and no long flowing hair.
A is true. The newest discrete GPU here is an AMD RX 960. Newest CPU is an M2. The Linux box is a Ryzen 4600G.
B is not a problem. As the man said, winter is coming. The house is all-electric and the mini split heat pump does not heat the bedrooms on either end. Those use resistors (baseboards). The cluster could be one M2, the 4600G, and the 2010 Mac Pro with the GPU and a six-core 3.33 GHz Xeon with 24 GB RAM.
Is that enough to do a useful job?
Back in 1995 I was running a neural network on a 100 MHz PPC 601. The training runs generally ran overnight. Time wasn't a problem then, and for home use really isn't now.
Odd. The poles here are doing fine.
The phone lines are buried though, and nothing but trouble. The company's failure to fix the. Is why I got a cell phone, a,one with the price for the landline being higher than the cell contract, and the landline bill did Not include long distance. They really did not want my business and were driving off customers so they could officially abandon the land lines.
The Supreme Court took a look at what was on their cell phone's and decided that warrants should be required after all. The powerful don't want their secrets exposed.
Similarly, in Washington State none of the judges who demand timber wolves be protected actually live where wolves might be found. Releasing a pack in their neighborhoods would undoubtedly change their minds, but that would be illegal.
Safety.
If the grid is down but your panel is still energizing the line do you want to be responsible for electrocuting the lineman?
If you have a battery system an automatic disconnect is required for the same reason.
The standard socket is 14 gauge wire so 15 amps. There is also the 20 amp version using 12 gauge wire.
That's on 120 V. If the vendors make a 240 V version then the same 15 or 20 amp limits apply but at twice the power.
1200 watts at 120 V is 10 amps so no problem in any system.
I was wondering about that.
Thanks for the data point.
What does an Nvidia 5090 go for? That's probably part of your answer.
By the way, I looked up a Beelink Ser 9 last week. That's a thousand bucks too. More RAM and storage, less CPU/GPU. Take your pick.
They have already been blackmailed.
They claim they will not give in to the blackmail.
The low wages argument doesn't really follow:
"The average ENTRY LEVEL TEACHER SALARY in the Washington, as of August 2026, is $29.24 an hour or $60818 per year. "
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Local employers do influence the local schools, no argument there. I grew up near a paper mill town. Shop classes for boys were very important. What little interest there was in pushing students toward higher education was reserved for the girls to make the next batch of teachers and nurses.
The general principle is nothing new. The local high-school in this area has an FFA chapter. That's Future Farmers of America. You can guess the basis of the local economy.
Another step to the ultimate Advanced Food Substitute.
I wonder if tilapia will eat it.
Fanning the flames that have already started when people looked at their electric bills.
Even more so since half these data centers will end up bankrupt, abandoned, and stick the county taxpayers with demolition and cleanup costs.
Nope.
"the atmospheric concentration of CO2 will fall below 150ppm (parts per million) in 100 million years, which will eliminate plants that use solely C3 photosynthesis. Further studies have shown that this threshold will probably not be the end of the biosphere however. C4 pathway photosynthesis can persist to CO2 values as low as 10ppm. Those levels should persist for another 1 to 1.5 billion years."
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle
