...what about the cooling? Equatorial Africa is not exactly known for its temperate climate.

Worse, half the population of Kenya don't have access to clean drinking water, and low rainfall for the last year means that many areas are in drought conditions.

It's long past time that some decision-makers got a good beating with the clue-stick.

The local domestic electricity supply infrastructure is built out knowing that each household won't use 100% of their individual supply capacity, in the same way that ISPs have always oversold a neighbourhood's actual backhaul capacity. See also airlines, etc.

As soon as they add this always-on load to the local infrastructure, service is going to degrade.

In addition, it doesn't matter if the load is dispersed like this or all in one place in a DC - you still need to have the generation and transmission capacity to support the load.

Oh, and what about cooling?

Musk is saying he's going to buy Intel's 14A process for his own fab.

Intel is looking for customers for its 14A process, meaning customers for wafers produced using its 14A process in its own fabs.

Musk really doesn't understand the fab business, does he?

The palpable aura of smugness that exuded from early-adopter Tesla owners, especially in Europe.

Offset almost entirely when I watched 20 or so of them angrily queuing to use one of the four Superchargers at a service station on the M25.

...how many times you can do a 7-minute charge on the battery before it dies?

Also, there's no mention of how much capacity the 7-minute charge battery actually has, so the "7 minutes for 10%->98%" lacks the context to be useful.

Finally, if the capacity is meaningful, what specification of charger does it need to reach these numbers?

"...anything but declining..."

Damn.

The "1970s oil crisis" was nothing to do with the perception of declining oil reserves.

The first crisis was a result of the Yom Kippur War. A coalition of states led by Egypt and Syria, and supported by the USSR, attacked Israel. Israel fought back, supported mostly by the USA, but with other Western nations too. After the fighting was over, OPEC (the cartel of middle-Eastern oil producing states) decided to fuck with the West for supporting Israel by massively reducing the supply of oil.

The second crisis was in 1979 when revolution in Iran replaced the pro-West Shah with decidedly anti-West religious fundamentalists who, again, reduced the oil supply to fuck with the West.

This is not to say that oil reserves are doing anything by declining - they are a fundamentally finite resource - but your recollection of history is slightly flawed.

Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Well, here we are again...

You can't use coal to make lubricants, fertiliser or plastics.

While Iran's larger ships - the big grey boats that most people regard as constituting a navy - are out of action, their small fast boats are still operable, and are plenty able to attack shipping.

And, of course, the deep-water lanes are so close to Iran that they can target shipping with direct and indirect fire from land - 20mm recoilless rifles and 120mm mortars will reach shipping with ease, let alone heavy artillery. It's not like a tanker carrying 2 million barrels of oil is going to dodge...

So, yes, Iran is in a position to close the Straits of Hormuz, and has de facto done so.

Anyone remember, back in 2017, when the Long Island Iced Tea company suddenly pivoted to blockchain?

There was a similar effect on their share price, followed by subsequent investigations, prosecutions for insider trading, and finally a realisation by the markets that perhaps blockchain wasn't the world-changer they thought it would be.

With any luck this will be the first prick in the "AI" bubble, as if there weren't enough pricks involved already.

...of why never to buy a product that costs the manufacturer money for you to continue to use it.

We've seen this time and again, whether in video games, appliances, IoT devices or anything else - as soon as it makes economic sense, and/or they think they can get away with it, manufacturers will stop spending the money on whatever it is that makes your product work.

It happens even if there's a subscription model - at some point an MBA will look at the cost/benefit analysis and end users will always be SOL.

The only solution I can see, beyond legislation, is to vote with your wallet. However, good luck when asking the salesdroid in your local big box store "Does this [device] cost the maker money for me to use it?"

Oooooh - what year?

A whole load of weapons that might have otherwise been sent to Ukraine got used up with no good way to replenish the stockpiles any time soon, the war in Ukraine itself dropped off the news cycle, and Russia is able to sell its oil without worrying about sanctions.

I think Putin got everything he wanted out of this.

So, what is the age of majority in your jurisdiction? 16? 18?

Did you know that the legal age for adulthood varies from 16 to 21, decided by each country?

Just in the USA, it can be 18, 19 or 21 depending in which state you reside.

Yes, this whole thing is a turbo-charged shit-show, but you're not helping...

"HD-Ready" is still prevalent amongst the smaller TVs.

I've just had to replace a 10-year old 32" FHD dumb LCD TV as the backlight failed (and repair was uneconomic) and at least half of the current offerings are less than 1920*1080, even from otherwise-reputable makers.

Worse still, many have dropped the "-Ready" part, so now you have to drill down quite a long way to find the actual resolution and, for some strange reason, vendors don't always make that information obvious.

Coincidentally, I ended up with a TCL "QLED" 32SFS560, and it turned out to be bloody awful in almost every way, so it went back for a full refund. I've replaced it with an LG which is much better.