This particular statistic has nothing to do with Iran, but we can expect a significant global boost for renewables due to the currently ongoing debacle. Businesses and governments worldwide knows how bad this hurts, and is still going to hurt. They know that they need to decouple from oil strategically. The cheapest route to do that is solar + batteries (for most of the world). Some northern countries (Scandinavia, Canada, northern Russia, plus a bit of central europe) - will of course need "winter generation" in addition. Norway solves that with Hydro. Others will need nuclear in addition.

There will most certainly be an acceleration in buildout due to this debacle. That won't shop up in the statistics for another year - but it'll be there.

Finally, anyone who has paid a modicum of attention to geopolitics in the last 45 years know of the Strait of Hormuz. It was quite central in the "Tanker Wars" in the early 80s. Not to mention for people who paid a modicum of attention around 20-25 years ago when Iran started developing their "speedboat strategy".

I absolutely loved fitbit. Bought one for myself, one for my wife, one for each of my parents. Lots of "fitbit friends", always competing with each other. Usually had between 20K and 40K steps year round after the initial couple of months while getting in shape.

Then google nerfed it. They removed the social aspect. They removed the competition among fitbit friends. My interest utterly evaporated. Haven't used my fitbit since a week or so after google nerfed it. Haven't bought another Google product since. Haven't signed up for another Google service since. Always looking for how to get off Google.

And I used to WORK FOR google. I was a huge proponent of them, until they utterly mismanaged fitbit.

Now I'm using Garmin. I don't think I'll ever forget what they did to fitbit.

And this is, quite frankly, insane.

The web hasn't gotten better in the last 20 years. It has gotten enshittified. Wikipedia was just as good, navigation wise, 20 years ago as it is today. Google was obviously much better 20 years ago than it is today.

What we use all those KBs for is a mystery, except if it is to support the enshittification, user tracking, etc. It certainly isn't to make the sites better.

It was increasing, but from 2025 on it seems to be decreasing; point is that their solar buildouts are so vast that they simply don't need as much coal any more.

And the kwh from solar is cheaper.

> they are incredibly laid back and think hard work is a waste of time.

Having worked with quite a few Filipinos, I think you're full of of it with that statement. Typically crazy hard working folks. They're everywhere, but you don't notice them. In office jobs, I've seen Filipinos reduce a 5 person team to a 2 person team just by their presence, as they churn through the task faster and more correctly than natives in whatever country they are present.

> keeping people on recurring medications or treatments is too profitable to give up

If someone could, they would, create the cure. The problem isn't that we're not researching enough. It's not that it's being kept secret. It's simply that it's complicated and we don't have the knowledge to create a cure, yet.

It amazes me that some folks thinks we can just snap our fingers to cure something.

The only 3rd party driver I can remember ever having used for Linux is nvidia ..

Well, that and some wifi firmware bits and bobs a long time ago.

Norwegian here, can confirm ...

Air has gotten significantly better in urban areas in the last decade. Given that about half the cars on the road now are electric - it's not only measurable, but very very smellable.

Whenever I go abroad now, I can *smell* the difference.

I'm afraid the battery powered busses in Oslo, Norway are dogshite during cold winters. We've been complaining about them for years. Same issue as described in this article. Pushed through before tech was properly ready.

And I'm saying that as an electric car loving Norwegian who has two electric cars and wouldn't go back to fossil cars no matter what. :P

I've already watched Soul Hunters on youtube, introducing my daughter to B5. We'll watch The Gathering after season 1, simply because it's important for the story - but a bit crap compared to the series itself.

The Gathering is there, s01e01 (Midnight on the Firing Line) is missing, s01e02 and s01e03 are there (although they're calling The Gathering episode 1, instead of episode 0, on youtube, for some reason, and all the other ones is shifted by one too).

Hope they ensure that Midnight on the Firing Line re-appears.

This makes my head hurt. I've never even heard of electric can openers. The linked can opener is a very advanced non-electric one. I mean, people should know how to use a pocket-knife can-opener.

And if you don't have that, a knife will do - as long as it's not a nice, sharp knife that you value.

As a kid, my parents had a 30" TV or thereabouts. I remember seeing a huge 42" one. It was SO BIG. Fast forward 15 years, and I bought myself a 50" plasma TV. 7 years ago or so I bought myself a 60" one. I've been salivating for 80" ones for a couple of years now .. and I see 100" TVs that are within "reasonable price range".

My point is simply that as the TVs get bigger, there's simply room for more pixels. And of course one wants it to be more detailed the closer you are.

Silly premise. The future will bring us 8K, and heck, much better resolutions than that too. There are quite a few things leading to it not being popular *yet*.

1. Something needs to drive it, without jitter. That means whatever storage medium the movies/series are on, needs to have enough processing power to decode the video and ship it to the TV. This is less of a problem now in 2025, but my original Popcorn Hour box had problems with 1024p. And that was in 2015.
2. There need to be enough bandwidth, everywhere, for folks to actually be able to watch content over streams. Sure, lots of us have GB connectivity and fiber et al - but that's far from everywhere. Even in 2025. If you don't have enough bandwidth - why would you be interested in this?
3. Even Blue-Ray would not be able to store a movie w/o heavy compression, and what's the point of 8K if you have compression artifacts all over the place? A 2 hour movie needs 100G+ , and if it's not compressed to hell and back - probably quite a bit more.
4. Connectivity. You need to be able to deliver this over a single cable, which needs to be standardized. This might have happened by now - but it needs to be everywhere. Specially designed non-standard stuff won't cut it.
5. Pricing. Very few people will fork out $2K+ for a TV. I still don't even have 4K TVs as they were too expensive last time I refreshed my TVs. Next TV I buy will of course be 4K - as the prices are now OK. For 8K TVs to become mainstream, prices needs to become reasonable.

But we'll get there. We just need the rest of the "delivery technology", standardization, etc. to catch up, in addition to prices to drop. Give it another 10 years.

> If your only goal is to hide things from the police, who have a warrant.

How comfortable would you be with Chinese developed encryption systems, where the Chinese company held the keys, if you were say American or European?

Now, how comfortable do you think it makes non-americans that an american company holds the encryption keys. Especially with the current US administration and how they treat other countries ...

CAD $50K for four years?! That's something like 36000USD.

To study at the University of Oslo, the tuition (semesteravgift) is about $100USD per 6 months, or .. $800 for 4 years.

Of course, there are books and living expenses in addition, but the tuition is .. cheap.