Remember, Krita did it in the Windows store and was able to hire additional developers because of the success for it. A lot of people will pay to help the project on platforms where they're used to paying for software even if they know they can download it for free on the website.

Would be better if we had a link to the current report instead of just to the 2020 study

By that logic, every single person who tries to overclock their hardware is now "greedy".

I think a lot of people want to blame cryptominers so badly for the chip shortage, that they're failing to just step back and look at the actual situation.

I honestly fail to see how this makes them greedy. That's even casting aside the fact your whole point is only a point if both versions of the cards were available. They're not. We're in a chip shortage. You get what you can get.

Then, I fail to see how someone trying to get extra performance out of their purchase is greedy. If you buy an old laptop because that's all you can get, then install linux on it because it's faster than Windows on the hardware, are you now greedy?

This makes no sense

I fail to see how the majority of miners - people trying to pay for their cards and maybe put a little extra money in their pocket are "greedy".

Everyone likes to blame miners for the chip shortage and point out the big mining outfits, but miners had nothing to do with the chip shortage and it's affected every industry

It's not just Shakespeare either. The industry needs to realize that they're not just employing narrators. They're employing VOICE ACTORS. The best narrators don't just read the book, they bring the book alive. I currently go through 1-2 audiobooks a week during my commute. If they change to AI, I will change to only buying books narrated by humans. When that's no longer possible. I'll use my own software to narrate it much cheaper than the price of an audiobook. I'm not paying 3-6 times more for a voice to read a book to me. I'm paying for that voice to act out the book for me. I read 1-2 books a week as well in my free time. But, there are books and series that I will not read myself. I'll only listen to the audiobooks because the voice actor brings that much more to the table and the series wouldn't be the same without them.

It may be how humans approach the problem, but that doesn't mean it's an intelligent way to approach the problem or the right way.

If the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency allows you to move consumption to areas where waste is happening, then it's very plausible that cryptocurrency could be a more eco-friendly alternative to the current system, for example.

Or, like they're doing in Texas where they're beginning to mine cryptocurrency so solar power can remain connected to the grid and doesn't have to be switched out of it. This increases profitability for the solar generators and helps the switch to renewables. Remember, crypto is decentralized. You can ramp mining up or down easily to keep a minimum load on the grid.

"That's about 3800 times more credit cards transactions, which makes credit cards around 1500 times more energy-efficient than bitcoin."

Well no... you can't say that at all based on the number of transactions. The only way you could say that is if each method's energy consumption was proportional to the number of transactions it does. That's not the case with bitcoin and may not even be the case with the bank. What you can see is that they're manufacturing concern over bitcoin's footprint when having a footprint themselves that is 2.5x larger

I just listened to episode 441 of Linux Unplugged a few days ago and it brought much needed perspective to this. I'd recommend everyone head over to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index put out by Cambridge University to really put things into perspective.

Basically, mining gold uses as much electricity as mining bitcoin. MANY things do. For instance, the current banking system consumes TWO AND A HALF TIMES more energy than bitcoin. But, more bitcoin transactions aren't a 1 to 1 comparison to energy consumption. So, why the focus on bitcoin?

It's easier to get payments around the world with bitcoin. Bitcoin is very popular and is a threat to the banking system's monopoly on currency transactions. So, take things out of context, demonize cryptocurrency and profit....

Actually, in the late 90s and even into the aughts, Linux was referred to as a "windows killer" and this article from 2000 makes reference to it commonly being called a windows killer

I can answer that first one easily....the US south and midwest. There simply aren't enough charging stations close enough together to make it feasible to own an electric car. As a matter of fact, in the last year, I've seen a grand total of 1. I have a Hyundai I bought six months ago. If they go this route, my next car most likely won't be a Hyundai.

It's an article about a maker of spyware...not a doman ranking

It does. Tom's Hardware did a big writeup on how to install Windows 11 to a raspberry pi 4

My eyes glaze over whenever I see anything from the FSF. When they welcomed back Stallman, they had said all they needed to say. If anyone took them seriously before, I don't see how they could afterwards.

I have a friend with a masters in English. She's currently homesteading in Georgia and trying to make ends meet by proofreading people's work for a fee. I've known a bachelor of science who worked at a gas station...a bachelor of history at a TGI Fridays. If we think we need people with these types of degrees, we should PAY for people with these types of degrees. In the meantime, we need to be honest with some of these people and tell them "If you major in this, you might end up worse off than had you not gone to college at all".