Magnolias with beetle pollination FTW! 😤

To summarize:

• The Republicans have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they’ve thought up so far is an even bigger handout to Visa and MasterCard as well as other rich/incredibly profitable/unnecessary middlemen companies that handle Health Savings Account plans. Note: The more money you make, the more money you save via HSA plans!
• The Democrats have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they’ve thought of is to extend the Republican band-aid known as Romneycare the Obamacare subsidies which will only slightly delay the inevitable, on-going collapse of health care in the United States. AKA the death spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)

What should be illegal is patents like this!

Open source software. Sigh.

The same thing can happen in Windows. Only difference, really, is that Linux tells you that there’s a problem and the Event Viewer doesn’t. You just end up with a hung Windows PC or a screwed up USB port that won’t work anymore after it happens enough times.

Oftentimes what causes it is undocumented firmware “features” that need to be turned on via a proprietary driver (for your USB device). The vendor “supports” Windows but not Linux so they never bothered to submit any patches to fix issues like that. It’s that Linux fault? Not really. It’s the fault of the shitty vendor.

It’s always some bargain basement piece of shit Chinese-made USB device that causes these sorts of problems. The type of thing that can happen when even the vendor of the product didn’t know a counterfeit chip ended up in their device.

To be fair, “avoid change at all costs!” Has been the Republican motto for a long time now. It’s right up there with, “ignore reality.”

Too stupid to notice? No. Too meek to do anything about it? Yes! That sums up Windows users in a nutshell.

The History Channel isn’t a history channel!

I had this same thing happen a while back. You know what it was? A bad USB device!

I had a little USB debug probe that went bad (somehow) and it totally screwed up my USB hub’s ability to… Stay stable? Haha, that’s the best way to put it.

Anyway, the fix was to remove the device and disconnect the USB hub (and its power) for a few seconds. If I ever reconnected the probe, the problem would recur within an hour or two.

Here’s how you can check for something similar: Run dmesg and look for regular messages like, “unable to enumerate device”. It’ll tell you which bus and port it’s on but that’s not easy to figure out so just keep unplugging things until you get the one matching the device that’s regularly throwing errors in dmesg. Keep it disconnected, power everything off (PC, USB hub’s, etc) for a few seconds and then try running without that device for a while. It might be the culprit!

You know they’re just buildings full of servers, right?

I mean, I’d rather have a data center than some toxic chemical factory or a busy warehouse in my neighborhood. Data centers just… sit there. They use a lot of power and some use a lot of water, but if your region doesn’t have power/water problems it’s not really much of an impact.

A nation’s supercomputing power used to be something people celebrated. Especially one owned and operated by a place like Los Alamos National Laboratory.

So… Basically nothing. That’s something like 0.01% of our total emissions?

The way the news reports about AI data centers you’d think they’re like nuclear bombs that destroy entire cities worth of energy and water everywhere they go up.

The solution is to require them to use renewable energy! Just regulate them, already! The big AI players won’t give two shits about that; they’ll upgrade their designs and move on. Just like with every other environmental regulation that’s come along.

No. You misunderstand: Jesus is an undocumented immigrant but because he works for a big corporation, he gets left alone until he complains. Then they get rid of him… Along with his entire family.

“At Republican Airlines we let Jesus take the yoke 👍”

Zero-Point Motion? No.

Zero-Point Module 👍

Interesting: I guess we’re about to officially find out just who he considers “a person”.

If they’re using wastewater, that’s some shitty cooling.

I mean… It’s nice to know the executives give a crap I guess?

When the economy goes to shit, oil consumption drops and gas prices along with it.

It’s not a perfect 1-to-1 thing but it’s real

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With Trump tariffs and related inflation, it might.

We need a simple regulation that mandates that all data centers must power themselves with renewable energy.

It’ll fix sooo many issues. Not the water thing but that’s a region-specific problem. Not everywhere has water shortages and not all data center designs use shittons of water (even AI data centers).