Xbox was dying long before the RAM shortage started. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now. The infamous and confusing "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign started over a year ago.

8000 tons is irrelevant in a station building scenario.

Individual data centers already have dozens of shipping container sized diesel generators, so space isn't exactly at a premium.

The only reason batteries might not be able to fill the gap is simply ingredient supply - and new chemistries are being developed every year.

Plutonium that's mixed/dissolved in molten salt. If the baddies have enough access to be processing the fuel themselves, me thinks you have bigger problems.

To me the real benefits of these is that they can literally eat our existing uranium pellet waste.

I read something once that this jogged in my brain...

There are 4 types of people:

1. Gets work done, espouses company ethics - easy keep
2. Doesn't get work done, doesn't follow ethics - easy fire
3. Doesn't get work done but shows ethics and effort - keep and help
4. Gets work done but doesn't espouse company ethics.

#4 needs to be shown the door LOUDLY so people understand.

I worked for a gov't contractor that would have benefited from that.

Our leadership had a penchant for sending *VPs* to take *notes* to increase the bill rate to the gov. Often enough the gov clients actually complained lol

Also Ctrl-MouseWheel works a treat.

Don't use xrandr directly. Use arandr which gives you a nice GUI to configure the monitors. Once you're happy with the layout, you can save it as a shell script (that under the hood does invoke xrandr) so you can replicate the setup each time you log in or each time the system boots.

Our society has become progressively more and more materialistic to the point where "Standard of Living" has come to mean how much stuff you can own rather than how happy and healthy you are.

Honestly, once you have enough stuff for your basic needs, and then a bit more just for fun, I find any additional item is a net negative for my happiness. I also get extremely irritated by built-in obsolescence and I try to make my stuff last as long as possible.

Society teaches us to consume rather than think.

As of 2025-12-09 at 00:40 UTC, it seems to have been released.

I have four monitors hooked up to my graphics card. From left to right, an Acer 1920x1080 display, an LG 1920x1080 display, a Samsung 1920x1200 display, and a Dasung PaperLike e-ink display whose native resolution is 3200x1800 but which I'm software-scaling to 1600x900.

No issues whatsoever with this setup and X11.

I have always through three years was too short for servers and network equipment. Especially nowadays that Moore's Law is slowing down, I think a 5-year depreciation period for servers makes sense.

For AI processors, though, I think three years might be too long given how much change is going on in that space.

Imagine the hilarity when tow trucks incorporate similar anti-theft systems...

yeah, the last 'innovation' in movie going was Stadium Seating.

Last thing I saw in theaters was The Force Awakens Star Wars reboot. Star Wars was the only thing I felt would be better viewed on the big screen.

Vividly remember sitting through 45 MINUTES of previews. Not again.

I still like going out to a movie. It seems like more of an occasion. Moviegoers here tend to be respectful and quiet, and they will get kicked out if they use their phones during the movie.

As for snacks, any serious moviegoer will smuggle in their own snacks. Or *GASP* last for 150 minutes without eating something.

OK, I live in Canada, so maybe our systems are more sane than yours.