It's the generic all purpose business plan these days:

1. Announce in media you have signed up purchase order to buy a giant pile of nvidia jank.
2. ???
3. Profit!

Our network operations room has a debian 12 box with a pair of radeon cards that drives six 4k tv's and an ancient old 1080p monitor to display network graphs and video surveillance feeds. We run a different DPI on the 1080p one.

I don't recall it being hard to get running. The worst thing for us was figuring out the wacky KDE system of each permutation of monitors having it's own physical layout config. Drove us crazy as we got each additional TV connected.

Yes they fucked up, but also there is nothing else left, Google is worse for the reasons mentioned against Firefox and... Here we are

There's always been a section of borderline mentally ill crazies on slashdot.

I wonder sometimes what sort of lives those guys ended up living from the mid 2000s that were posting the netcraft copypasta, enraged rants about open sores and Lunix etc.

Perhaps trolling a technical community was the least harmful thing they could have been doing with their unreleased anger.

Pretty well every major server vendor still uses VGA for the video output. A few months ago I built yet another rig for my lab desks with a multiport VGA / USB KVM and a pikvm because all the stuff that is important still uses VGA. Pretty sad really.

They should have changed it to an E as in their new defacto slogan, "Be Evil".

Bruce Simpson from my country of New Zealand did a great video earlier on in the week on this.

There's some comparisons of some of the images and other common objects in the sky.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D...

Nah, I didn't. I'll be charitable and say perhaps you misunderstand the situation. You can replace peak time generation capacity with a battery charged up with quiet time capacity.

I'd love it if I could do the same thing with internet capacity that we provision in my day job.

Power usage has a daily pattern something like this:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdb-excel.com%2Fwp-conten...

The battery lets you take some usage from a period of low usage ( like approximately 5am on that image ) to charge up your battery array and then discharge it back into the grid at the highest usage point ( like 6pm on that image ).

A whole lot of engineering is worrying about the worst case of your metrics, so taking some usage from your best case and using it to make your worst case better is a great improvement.

After using it for a week or so I haven't come across anyone that seems that nuts yet. Where do the crazies hang out?

It's not a polished drop in replacement for reddit, but lemmy is looking better all the time. Folks can either create their communities ( subreddits if you like ) on public instances or host them on their own gear or VMs and everyone else can access them via federation on the other instances.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.michaelaltfield.net%2F2023%2F06%2F11%2Flemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities%2F

The userbase has been increasing at a pretty high rate since /u/spez initiated reddits suicide attempt.

For over a decade I've been wanting a web standard so news agencies and whoever could digitally sign their published articles so the users could trace the source back to its origin for content that needs to very trusted and verified...
Now it's probably too late with the current media landscape crumbling under the aggregators of this world, but still worth a try maybe?

And capitalism's use of AI without thinking of the impact on society even more so...

Since the first time I heard they were phasing out nuclear BEFORE phasing out gaz, coal, etc. and transitioning to solar, wind, etc.
I was utterly confused by the lack of thinking behind this decision!