Geothermal is already workable. Ask the people in Iceland where it accounts for over of the country's power generation. The reason it's not everywhere is that unless you live next to a volcano or other geological features that put out enough heat, there's no way to tap into it other than transmitting the power from those places. Making it even more efficient or increasing the output are certainly things we should do as well, but geothermal is already working now. I like it better than solar or wind because the power generated doesn't fluctuate like those others do and hence there's less reliance on batteries if the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.

Oddly enough, you just described how it might work perfectly if you had a few sites to extract that energy source that’s more dependent on timing than physics.

Extract the energy from “hot rock” when hot. When it cools to a non-optimum temperature, you switch back to primary power and target the next hot site to pull energy from and wait for the first one to heat back up to become an optimized energy source again. Rinse and repeat.

Switch to geothermal sources in times when the primary is more expensive (such as heating costs in winter). Convert to geothermal when you can mimic nature year round and pull the energy effeciently.

Oh, and much like Japan nuclear wont forget tsunamis anytime soon, let us not forget about natural and wild volcanic activity. One cannot over engineer that safety valve enough.

With friends like that behind the corporate firewall, where’s Pablo Escobar the HR Director when you need him.

Seriously. A sneeze-activated cocaine dispenser on the CEOs desk sounds better for business than that shit. And ironically is what currently works to keep their stock price higher than giraffe pussy.

You have to admit; it's a fun thought experiment.

We don't know we will find such a method. But let's say we do. Just for the sake of the thought experiment. Imagine how different people will react. Some will have their favorite cause just plain ... taken away.

The Product can either take the service selling them as they see fit, or they can kindly fuck off.

There. Hope that clarifies how much influence the “customer” has on that platform. And how much you want, actually matters. They don’t need your input anymore. And they’re not asking for it.

That, is how you treat a Product you’re selling. Not a customer you’re catering to. Fucked up part is this is so brainwashed in consumers now they forgot what it means to be a customer. You used to vote with your wallet. They took that feature away by becoming that dealer giving away the good shit for free. Forever. After that, Product behavior became as predictable as addiction.

I’m well aware of how business used to work. Be more aware you’re talking about ancient history now. Even consumers don’t remember how to customer anymore. They think every service online should be “free” now, without grasping who The Product must become when a wallet never opens to pay a bill.

>"The majority of the people you show it you will download it and do a full nuke-and-pave"

Doubtful. Although it might be a significant minority.

>"then wonder why this new 'Windows' can't run their favorite programs".

Like a browser? Because for a huge chunk of home users, that is all they really use now.

Yeah, but hang on a minute. Let’s look at this in context a bit more.

Don’t look now Meta, but you just described Facebook. The hell else do they think their feed junkies do upon breathing air in the morning other than scroll through their personalized feed to get their daily fix for the last 3.1 hours since last login from the shitter?

Facebook on Facebook. How very Meta of you.

Riiight. It was me going out of my way and not a senseless dragnet operation to hunt down misdemeanors at a cost of millions to taxpayers who get such a tax paying bargain in that state, right?

California hardly needs my help to look like the asshole state they are. There are now more legal weed dispensaries in the US than McDonalds. California was the first to legalize thirty fucking years ago. Go make them make it make sense. Otherwise they deserve the verbal bitch slap for grandstanding on a double standard. That dragnet bullshit should have been shut down last fucking century. Literally.

Those “users” (a cute but outdated 20th Century term) are The Product now.

Meta will use and abuse AI to sell The Product as they see fit.

Any actual resemblance towards usefulness in AI for The Product, is purely coincidental.

Yes. This is in the EULA. Yes. I do know you still read it to see if I’m lying.

> The failure of successive COPs to agree to get rid of fossil fuels means that this is going to become necessary

Nobody believes this anymore.

Global temperatures are cyclical and the current trend is very close to the normal periodic cycle. All the "models" have failed. Sure, 95% of "Climate Scientists" believe their funding should continue but the jig is up.

If they actually attempt to blot out the sun there is no limit to what normal thinking people will do to stop them.

Fortunately they are very unlikely to get any real support for this harebrained scheme.

... it would certainly put the hyperventilation industry out of business, to just ... you know ... cool things off a bit.

We can't have that!!

>"Even if all 1 million downloads turn into real OS installs, it's a drop in the bucket compared to Windows installs."

True. But if even if a small number of those people then show someone else and that other person switches, and on, and on, awareness keeps spreading. That is a great thing.

Generally, I don't care what OS people use (as long as I don't have to support it), but I do care if they are unhappy. Having Linux as an option is really great and works fantastically for a large number of people willing to really try it. The fact that it is free, fast/efficient, has no licensing mess, is more secure, more privacy-oriented, more controllable, more customizable, more open, easier and faster to update, and without forced cloud crud, no AI creep, no ads or nagware, and very little fake/forced hardware "obsolescence" all make it a very compelling option for lots of use cases. Not all use cases, but a surprisingly large number.

>"However, after Microsoft's recent announcement their own updates have broken their own system [slashdot.org] combined with no longer supporting W10, this can only lead to good things."

Microsoft obviously has its own agenda that doesn't mesh at all with what many (perhaps even most) users want now. And it shows. As MS-Windows has gotten significantly worse and more hostile over the decades, Linux/distros have gotten significantly better. Even people who haven't tried it in 5 years are often pleasantly surprised.

I tend to point people to Mint, but Zorin might be just fine, as well (I just have no experience with it).

He believes that his hands are clean because he's Tlexcalteca.

The whole point of socialism is to fool stupid people. That's exactly why you buy into it. Fascism and socialism share a massive overlap on the venn diagram, both making stupid promises that history has shown repeatedly that they can't keep. They both need people like you who are stupid enough to become their henchmen.

Why is it more cost effective to build a new Capitol than to build a water pipeline?