Bobert

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

This 1 fucking guy ruined ~~a whole~~ future generations of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.

Ftfy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Probably wasn't even IT but 'roadies' based on those cables

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Source: Jim Farley

Here's a little FYI for ya. Tropic Thunder is based on my experiences in Vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Helluva presumption to just pull out of your ass about someone whose only relation to this matter is family name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It likely didn't affect cellphones. I know major appliances and vehicles were to be supported no less than 7 years. So I'd guess this just brings cellphones and other electronic items under that umbrella. Makes me wonder what is exempt, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I would hazard a guess that they were running a geostationary setup rather than Starlinks LEO approach.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My knowledge is specific to TVA, but I was privy to such an agreement that a Cryptominer I worked for had.

The Local Utility Provider would bill the company for their usage, but they did not provide the rate. TVA did because of the amount of electricity. This rate is much cheaper than the Utility Provider offers residential customers; economies of scale as well as the inability to store this amount of power meaning it's "wasted" otherwise. Whenever there is a period of intense usage TVA would provide a 30 minute notice. After the 30 minutes were up the rate provided to us (industry) would more than quadruple, and was actually quite a bit above the residential rate. Residential customers are entirely exempt from this. Your rate, is your rate, is your rate.

The effect of the above meant that it was a mad scramble to shut everything offline whenever we got notice. Otherwise we were losing money. Regular industry trudged along because their bottom line doesn't care if their power rate quadrupled for 3 hours a dozen days out of the year. It's not that big a deal.

I definitely got to see the sausage being made, and it's opened up my mind to some of the ignorance around crypto mining. If anything it drove me further away from being interested in it as anything more than a neat tech demonstration that people figured they could trade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who has the keys to free the hostage? ERCOT or the Crypto Mine?

Don't blame the Crypto Mine for the decisions of the State or ERCOT.

TVA doesn't give energy credits. They give you a thirty minute notice that your ¢/kwh is about to quadruple.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 year ago (8 children)

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would absolutely anyone on this sub install Home? Microsoft themselves make a multi-edition .iso available on their website. And funnily enough now, Microsoft supports the hosting of massgravel. Should it take as many steps as it does two make a local account? No, but it's literally two extra clicks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Very much doesn't my guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.

 
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