A good Wifi 6 access point can actually easily saturate a 2.5G ports. The theoretical limit is just under 10G per PHY and you will often see multiple PHYs in the better models.

There might be no need for FTTR, but that doesn't mean it isnt desirable. Power consumption alone is a good argument. 10G Ethernet over CAT5/6 typically requires 2-5W for the PHY, compared to less than 1W for a SFP+ Fibre module. Here, that would easily sum up to 10-20EUR per year for a permanently runningdevice.

With Wifi 6 in every room, 10G connections would actually be desirable for the access points, with Wifi 7 even more so.

Are you aware that the primary cooling methods of lakes in summer is evaporation? Standing waters are surprisingly good at keeping their temperature...

Have you tried thinking that plan through? There are two efficient methods for cooling (locally): flowing water or water evaporation. In summer during a heat wave, both fail. That's not even an issue specific to nuclear power stations, all thermoelectrical power station share that problem. Just letting water sit in a ditch doesn't help all that much.

God, this is such a BS, it's not even funny. Just to put that number into perspective: The cost for on-shore wind energy is currently around 1.2m EUR/MW. 500 billion EUR is enough money to build a capacity of ~400GW or five times the current peak load. That would in fact be enough power to replace all primary energy needs 1:1. Also just for fun: Germany is currently paying something like 60 billion a year for importing fossil fuels. Suddenly, even that BS number doesn't sound all that much, given that it is *poof* gone. Seriously, if you want to make a case for nuclear power, at least use real numbers.

The most important part is missing. TOTP authenticators are not phishing-resistant. They don't ensure that the website asking for the code is the one the code is intended for. That's also why remarks like "TLS already can do mutual authentication" are completely missing the mark. If I connect to s1ashdot.org and get a valid HTTPS certificate, the user doesn't necessarily notice the difference. With FIDO tokens, the public key authentication is also bound to the domain.

The broken function has been around for many years, the latest installation of pushing it down everyone's throat is second quarter of this year. But I guess the typical American nowadays can't tell if a video title sounds like it is written by the current US president, so nothing lost.

If Google's management at Youtube at any kind of diversity, they would know how most multilingual people around the world react to this. AI translations can be a great help if you interact with someone you couldn't interact before, but getting it forced down your throat for a language you know better than the AI?

The only reason why the jobs are obsolete is because the managers don't care about their own products, but just what business school taught them. Copywriter or editors for a magazine with actual content are essential for creating good content. AI absolutely cannot replace that, it can't even do a very good job for grammar correction for many languages. The common theme is replace work with a soulless automation because no one cares about the qualify of the actual result.

Let me give you a very personal exampe of why it sucks. Youtube recently decided to force down translations for video titles down the user's throat. It has exactly one control: the UI language. Most Americans might not understand the problem, but if you are ever fluent in another language, the quality of the automatic translations are infuriatingly hilariously bad. It says a lot about the culture in Google's management that they pushed this change through and no one thought that spending a bit more time on it might be a good idea. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that Google cancelled their DEI policies a while ago...

What gives you the right to be a threat to every other car on the road? That's what the "I don't need a break every 3-4 hours" argument boils down to. With modern high-speed chargers, going from 20% to 80% can certainly be done in 15-20min and if you don't skimp on the battery, it will last you 3 hours. So the difference between an EV car and an ICE is less than 10% if you ignore road safety. Otherwise it is the amount of break time sane drivers will take anyway. Ironically, one of the most vocal ICE lovers I know used to take trips with an older car that needed a forced break for overheating issues...

The core of the issue are two fold: perceived exceptionalism on the side of the ICE driver and unwillingness to change. Long distance trips with a EV are certainly possible, they only require a bit more planning and enforced breaks. But ICE drivers are exceptional human beings that can concentrate on a task for half a day without needing a break unlike professional drivers or traffic controllers.

EVs are vastly simpler than hybrid cars, which are kind of the worst of both worlds.

I'm sorry, but WTF. 99% of Word users never use more than 10% of the functionality, none of which really changed in the last 20 years. Situation is a bit better for Excel, but even then, real user functionality hasn't changed in a very long time. The only part LibreOffice can't do is important Desktop Publishing Word files 1:1, but even Word fails that across versions. I have no idea why you would even *need* hardware acceleration for an effing office suite.

No one is forcing Apple to host all apps listed in the app store. The market fee is also completely out of proportion for most apps, just look at the amount of profit Apple makes from the App Store. Just to avoid any confusion: Google isn't any better.

So you want a school admin to coordinate possible alternatives for 20+ kids in a class? Good luck. There are much easier alternatives like having a special communication area etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm generally in favor of restricting the use of mobile phones in schools. I have enough experience volunteering for after-school clubs to understand the impact. But we all know that the devil is in the details and there are enough moronic admins running around already that believe e.g. a blood sugar monitor must be restricted.