Sounds like all they did was change the interface to existing nand type storage. As you say, uSD has been around for awhile and already things like the pi use them for "hard drives".

If you live in the midwest, then you must have known alcoa DID build their own power plants next to their alum smelters generally. Why, because cost effective. Why pay a utility more than what you can do it for yourself. So large customers know this and so do the utilities. So pricing for large customers is limited to no more than what they can do it themselves for. Capitalism. Recently musk did this in their memphis build out. Initially it was only until a substation was built, but the plan changed to make them permanent for extra capacity/backup. So the utility is on notice, charge us more than we can do it for ourselves and we will make our own juice. Residential on the other hand pretty much has no choice, until recently. I do predict that if they push utility rates much higher you are going to see well heeled individuals and possibly HOA sized things build their own solar farm with battery backup. Because prices of this sort of thing may be viable at a small scale and exclude the utility. Which will just push up prices even more on the poorer areas. This may be less likely to happen with the phase out of the solar/battery credits though, which was usually subsidizing the well off to install solar/battery. A neighbor is getting in under the wire. A 50K system is going to be 30K. So "we" paid 20K of his system.

And it does not appear as if most are bringing their own gen's, at least not in the PJM district. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews... A "thing" that you almost never hear of, the auction of power prices in an interconnection district has made national news. PJM prices went up significantly in the last auction because of heavy dc demand. And even musk's memphis gen's are there supposed until they can get the substation built. Those temp gen's unfortunately do not meet much in the way of pollution standards as he got a waiver since they are temporary. Although there is talk they will be semi-permanent as that dc is going to grow almost without bound. M5 comes to mind with needing a new power source and don't get in the way.

You may want to check your numbers. I just ran some for my utility. At my tier (Tier 3 of 5) residential, I pay about 2X for most things over a commercial company at the 20MW level. That is almost the highest tier commercial. The highest gets even more fees waived. So no, commercial at least for my utility pays less per kwh than me, all in including customer charges, transmission fees, demand fees etc. The only thing we pay almost the same is power supply adjustment, which is the actual cost my utility pays for energy from the generator. But even there, that high commercial tier gets about a half a penny less per kwh than me at 5.322c/kwh at the moment.

Just the latest example of externalizing costs. Tech is quite good at it. Walmart and other consumer facing companies who externalized health care with low pay was another. It is what good biz does. Externalize the cost, keep the profit. Now good government would shut it down quickly, but in capitalism, government is always a step or two or three behind. Trump's government actually encourages this kind of behavior, so until he is gone, you can forget about the little guy's electric bill being a concern.

More likely, there will be an offline discussion like last time where NO US personnel were present when Trump/Putin had a tete-a-tete. There was a Russian translator at the 2019 meeting and likely was taped by the Russians. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-pol... Wonder who is "pinky" and who is the "brain" in their discussions of world domination?

Tesla's real problems maybe coming soon. An article on the verge concerning the Florida wrongful death suit that tesla lost. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2Ftesla... Take a read. Some key quotes,

"Well, I mean, they did make an overture to settle the case, and for a very large sum of money. Now, it was a fraction of the verdict, but the condition of the settlement was that it would be secret. And my clients were not interested in a secret settlement. They knew that this was a case and a cause that was bigger than themselves. And it was important to them that we shine a light on what Tesla has done."

Interesting tesla DID offer a settlement and a big one. And the big one, "Sometime later today or tomorrow, whenever the clerk finally approves it, all of the admitted trial exhibits are going to be publicly filed on the federal docket in Miami. Documents that only I and the lawyers involved in this case have seen, which shows Tesla knew about people’s constant misuse of their system. They knew how they were misusing it. They knew why they were misusing it. And they knew when they were misusing it — going back a decade."

So the spotlight comes out. And maybe timely as

"Round two, Maldonado v. Tesla, Alameda State Superior Court, 75 days from today. Tesla’s going to find out. I’m the plaintiff’s lawyer in that case. And I am not limited in California to a 3x multiplier on punitives. If I had asked that jury in Florida for a billion dollars, they would have given it to me. But I couldn’t ask them for that. Florida law says punitives can only be three times compensatories. I asked for $104 million in compensatories. They gave me $129 [million]."

Man I remember not so long ago not seeing a photo of the prez on the finance pages 5 times every day for batshit behavior. Saner times. And really how do we know what to think. Tan Bad, Tan Good, Apple Bad, Apple Good, China Bad no GPU's for you, China Good, you can have GPU's, Fire Powell, Not firing Powell, ... I'm exhausted.

Reminds me of another blowhard, trump, who now says he is going to sue Powell(Fed Chair) I guess because nananana you won't lower interest rates. No wonder trump and musk were bro's for a short while. They think alike, but then that thinking alike quickly blew up.

They do that here too. But you miss my primary point. Almost everywhere except residential electric, using more of something gets you a discount. Costco/Sams live on that and that is consumer. Even Home Dept/Lowes does "packs" where buy 1 light switch 99c ea, buy 10 80c ea. Volume discounts. Instead many utilities including mine penalize you for using more. And yet they reward industrial. It makes no sense. Well it does, residential has few choices, so they are stuck. So utilities can gouge and do. Large industrial does what alcoa used to do, build their own generation. And of course musk has now done that in Memphis, and even got waivers so he could pollute more with his "temporary" and yet semi permanent Nat Gas gen's.

I'm going to have to disagree. It does take a spine, because what the dc guys argue is give us power [and tax] breaks because we are bringing in JOBS. And JOBS are like for the children. Always works. Of course they always whisper the puny amount of jobs they will generate.

And the true irony is that for common residential rates, they use tiers. I think we have 5. Tier1 is like a nickel/KWh and is only a couple hundred KWh, tier 2 is like a dime, tier 3 is around 15c, tier 4 is 20 and tier 5 is maybe 30, never hit that one. Meanwhile commercial get price breaks for using more.

Especially considering Austin is the liberal green capital of TX. Truly it makes zero sense the way they have screwed over the 1st adopters. Let's just say I have pointed out to several people in town who have considered panels and now they realize what a shitshow tens of thousands of dollars could become. I went from being an advocate to a watch your back.

Somebody mod this informative. The summary now makes sense and why Linus was upset.

What, One of the few O/S'es you can have on RISC-V is linux. Windows not so much.