Graphic novels are incredibly popular with kids today. Many are reading them instead of novels. We'll see more kids make the jump to regular books, but from what I've seen it's only a small percentage.

But in Japan you have manga aimed at adults. Why are stories told only with words somehow superior to a drawing an dialog? As they say a picture is worth 1,000 words.

Which is fine. It's to stop laying off the entire IT department and and outsource it to one of those companies who fill out thousands of H1B applications a year and pay $60-80,000/yr.

96, and still kicking unless something just happened and hasn't been reported yet.

You don't need portable. Just get a mini split.

Now if the recycling actually happened versus the ease of creating new plastic from the basically free raw materials that are byproducts of refining gasoline.

Your utopia didn't turn out so well for Germany. Shutting down all their nuclear plants and going green. Only to need to pay inflated prices to import power from France's nuclear plants.

Then there's all the industries leaving Germany because they can't get reliable power to operate manufacturing plants.

The sun doesn't always shine, wind doesn't always blow, and extended droughts can cause water to not flow. There needs to be alternative sources. And modern nuclear plants are preferable to coal and gas plants.

Just as long as it's outside of those periods of completely end ending darkness.

Solar is simple to rollout, it's used on Mars which is even more inhospitable than the arctic poles.

Large storms can still cause problems and those aren't rare.

Or maybe just heavy snow on the panels which can make them produce 0%.

Take Winnipeg for example. In December the Peak Sun Hours calculation is 1. That means they on average product 1KW/h per square meter PER DAY.

https://peaksunhours.app/canad...

Perhaps you don't live in a north climate and instead are in the sun belt so you are unaware of these challenges. The Earth also does this tilt as it rotates, and in the winter months Canada has very short days with little to no sun due to clouds that can last a week or more.

Add in terrible Canadian policy and you have the wild fires chocking the air with smoke which further reduces solar production.

Someone slapping solar panels on their roof to lower their electricity bill? That could be all right. A country wide deployment? Whoever pushes that policy will be tar and feathered when a bad winter hits and there are month long outages due not just to snow on the panels, but also damage to them requiring replacement in sub zero temperatures. With a half meter or more of snow to get through.

The Intel N100 is the performance of an 8th gen i5 at drastically lower power draw and includes the iGPU media engine that was included in 12th-14th gen chips. That can handle 4K media transcoding including h.265 HEVC and AV1 decoding in hardware.

I ran a 2nd gen SandyBridge monolith system with storage and services for near a decade. And that got long in the tooth and struggled to transcode.

I've moved to using TrueNAS for storage as I determined having storage on its own layer is fine as storage capacity is the bottleneck there and I can keep hardware around for longer. I keep that system as just storage using a Z-RAID2 with ZFS and some offsite replication for important data. I have a desktop backup service as a Docker app, and a VM running ProxMox Backup Server hosted on the TrueNAS as I feel those are really just storage.

I then run ProxMox on the Mini PC and have separate LXC containers for each service. If I find I need more compute I can always get an extra PC or a more powerful one and migrate the containers. I've been able to spin up new services to trial run and get rid of ones I don't like.

If things do south I can build an entirely new ProxMox host, point it at the ProxMox Backup Server and be back up and running in ~15-30 mins.

Which CPU are you using? Pre-Skylake CPUs should still have an iGPU and support some level of hardware transcoding.

I switched to having a separate N5095 based NAS, with an N100 based mini PC as the application host. The N100 can do hardware 4K and HDR tone mapping and sips 6W of power and spikes that max out around 15W. My overall max power of both system is in the mid 60Ws with the majority of that being spinning rust.

RAM and storage prices have currently killed off the cheap Mini PC. But they used to be ~$130 for a complete system with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of NVME storage. Rarely do you save money by lowering power usage. But that price to performance did in only a handful of months.

There were those studies that found a day out in the woods equaled two months worth of therapy. Sounds like those city dwellers need to take that advice they are always giving and go touch grass.

They aren't "learning" computers. They are learning "on" computers. I've heard from some high schools that students are learning on arduinos on the like.

But for most students the computers and tablets are just replacing worksheets and books.

So we have a generation that's the most exposed to tech at an early age, yet are the least literate when it comes to understanding "how" it all works.

One thing I never saw was confirmation that your body ever stopped creating the proteins after any period of time. If it doesn't your immune system reacting to something your body is producing is an auto immune disorder.

Being able to design new proteins in short periods of time is great. But why does that need to occur in the human body itself? Doesn't the current flu vaccine get produced in something like eggs? Couldn't bacteria or something be reprogrammed with the mRNA and then the protein that is produced gets harvested and used as a vaccine?

As with all "westernized" countries that are looking at population cliffs. Hopefully policies can be enacted that promote people having more or even at least one child.

Right now things are far too overpriced, with a lot of uncertainly. With the proper policies and support that could be changed.

But this isn't just a US problem. Most of Europe, and the "westernized" Asian countries like Japan and Korea are also experiencing this exact same problem.

But when you have young people coming out of college with hundreds of thousands in debt who aren't finding jobs or housing. They generally hold off on starting families. And those that do will limit their size to be smaller than they'd like without economic constraints.

The big issues with the GPU is many don't have active cooling, instead expecting a front to back airflow to exhaust fresh air across it.

So you need some fairly forceful directed air movement. You can rig up things, but it won't be just plug this desktop GPU into the motherboard and connect PCIe power and you're all set.