Sorry about that!

Light bulbs are very small things; the energy that goes into making them is likewise very small, regardless of type. The electricity an incandescent bulb burns is, by contrast, not at all small. You also have to replace the incandescent bulb far more often.

There's all sorts of exhaustive analyses out there, but the TL/DR is:

One incandescent bulb takes ~1-1,5kWh to manufacture and lasts ~1000 hours
One LED bulb takes 8-20kWh to manufacture and lasts ~25000 hours (commonly modern home construction doesn't even use lightbulb sockets anymore; the fixtures are designed to not need "bulb replacements")

So even on manufacturing, the LED bulb wins because it's up against 25 incandescent bulbs. But that's all trivial, because:

60W × 25000h = 1500 kWh
9W * 25000h = 225kWh

So a few extra or fewer kilowatt hours in manufacturing is irrelevant. It's totally dominated by usage energy.

Incandescent only wins one category: disposal (it's just glass and a little metal, you can just throw it in the trash; LED is e-waste and gets recycled). But in both cases, you're talking tenths of a percent of lifetime energy usage.

So is it your thesis that the police can and will plant information on my phone for the Lulz?

I suppose there is a no-zero chance, just like there is a none-zro chance I can shit out a singularity.

Yeah, everyone in jail is innocent. And you are quite paranoid.

Now ima gonna give you nightmares. I make certain when I am at a store that I look at and wave to the cameras. I'ma going to buy everything on credit cards. In the even I am arrested in one of your Cops plant evidence schemes, I'ma going to subpoena cell phone records. I'ma going to subpoena their cop cams.

You think I don't have imagination? Au contraire. This invasion of your sovereign citizen rights are things I will plan to use in my defense.

SoI will counter your paranoia with the truth that these modern spying actions are equally likely to prove you innocent.

I haven't been able to find it, because it was several years ago, but in a case in New York City, a woman was raped, and the description of her assailant was circulated. They arrested a man who matched her description - she identified him as the perp.

But it turns out that he worked at a bank, and was working late that day. When he left the bank and checked out, the security cams showed him quite clearly at the same time she was assaulted. A week or so later, they found the real perp, who as it turned out looked very much like him.

Anyhow, you do you.

Similar, I have Safari, Mail, VPN, Boom3d, and Preview, and am using 2.1GB.

It the Mac mini M4 not a sweet little thing?

I have told people, do as you like, commit crimes as you like. You do you.

But I have also told people that if you for a new your second, believe that using your smartphone is at all a good way of assisting in whatever you feel like doing - you are not as smart as you believe you are. They are not secure, they are a little walkie talkie, that transmits radio waves that can be listened to. As noted here, they are not at all secure.

The very technology that allows the cellular system to function is exactly a tracking system, unfortunately people can't understand that if you live in LA, and can still receive calls and text in sat, New York, it knows where you are. Maybe they think that the angry desert gawd tells your phones to ring because only he knows where you are at all times.

Like I said, if a person wants to do something that will land them in trouble - hey, have fun. But using a smartphone, you are documenting it.

Yeah - but I do understand corporatese. If the man says "Xbox is not for sale" - it means it is for sale. Just like when someone is in a bit of trouble, and teh Boss says, We're behind him 100 percent, the guy is gone the next morning.

Regardless, the gaming industry is in a bit of a kerfuffle at the moment. I'm a casual gamer, but can drop a few hundred on them - or at least I used to. I haven't bought a game in a couple years now. So Maybe games will get better if no one is making them any more? Get those mass layoffs going!

"Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Microsoft has no plans to sell the gaming business, telling The New York Times that "Xbox is not for sale" and that the company intends to sell the gaming business "as fast as it fucking can."

It can, just not well.

"Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models"

The headlines get more incomprehensible every day.

Breaking News: "Frndo Shares Clarts with Carnob Twice; is Jorp Spivved??"

Before Microsoft bought Activision. Gaming as a service combined with a loss leader hardware never has high profit compared to revenues. But at several points the gaming division was raking in more revenues than the OS division, and that before they saddled the division with the cost of interfering with game production that is costing them dearly now. The xbox division has been continuously profitable since 2005 until covid.

Huh? Did they? I just opened the Macbook Air webpage and literally the first thing that is said on it, literally the first feature written about, in the first sentence at the top of a very VERY long scrolling page: "MacBook Air is remarkably light at just 1.23 kilos and only 11.3 mm thin."

By the way that's thinner than this HP laptop.

[Citation Required]. The only just announced this as a strategy a few months ago. At this point they haven't even released an insider build based on this strategy yet, so do you work for Microsoft with your knowledge?

By the way I just opened it and had a look. The weather app uses 500MB, or about half the amount of RAM as Chrome does with 2 open Slashdot tabs, and given the weather app consumes 0MB of RAM when it's not running, your point is quite irrelevant to OS RAM usage.

Literally anyone not running Windows 11.

AI could literally not be worse at war than the current DUI hire and the moron who hired him. We don't need Super Intelligence here. We don't need Artificial intelligence. In fact we could do with just 5 functioning interconnected neurons and a bunch of crayons at this point and it would be an upgrade to America's war strategy.

Lol, a company dominated by Rationalists/Yudowski fans is "far left activists" now ;) The entire premise of HPOMR is that Lily Potter cast a spell to make her sister Petunia more attractive so she could marry a better husband, and when they adopted Harry, instead of having him attend public school, they homeschooled him, so he became brilliant. Very "woke" premise there ;) I don't know if you've heard, but the Rationalist community is the middle of a scandal right now for putting career-limiting pressure on women in the AI space to attend sex parties, including rape-themed ones. All those dang woke feminists, amiright?

Throwing money in trump's direction, you say?

AI Overview
Investigative reports by organizations like ProPublica, Reuters, and the Center for American Progress describe various financial conduits connecting Russian oligarchs and elites to figures and family members within the Trump orbit through real estate, shell companies, and direct gifts.

Luxury Real Estate Purchases

  According to a Reuters special report, at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida.

  Critics and investigators note that cash-heavy luxury real estate purchases provide a way for foreign nationals to move large amounts of money into U.S. assets.

Shell Companies and Campaign Financing

  The Center for American Progress reported that Kremlin-linked actors used anonymous bank accounts, shell corporations, and wire transfers to move millions around the 2016 campaign and presidential inauguration.

  In 2018, public documents released by attorney Michael Avenatti alleged that a firm linked to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg deposited $500,000 into a shell company controlled by Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Direct Event Funding and Personal Gifts

  A September 2026 investigation by ProPublica revealed that Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev bankrolled hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding after-party in the Bahamas.

  ProPublica reported that Kremlev—who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin—paid for private island rentals and fireworks through a Dubai-based entity.

  Donald Trump Jr. and his wife acknowledged the funding on social media and called Kremlev a personal friend. President Donald Trump later stated that his son would repay the money to Kremlev.

Things that make you go, "Hmmmm"