Fucking christ, now the mini PC I cart around to look at drawings and schematics at work is going to freeze up and be slow even more than it already is for some crap I don’t need

By hand. Haven’t had a dishwasher or air conditioning for at least 10 years

One thing I’d add is a whole house surge suppressor.

I saw the power lines arcing to either each other or the bamboo outside our house last week during a bad storm.

A whole house surge suppressor is only like $100, I’m gonna get one soon and install it. I saw it’s best to install it as close as possible to the main incoming power lugs, one lead on each leg of the split phase 120/240.

A UPS will protect against surges but it’s just a good idea with how many appliances and devices have circuit boards in homes these days. Like your furnace, oven, washing machine, game console, TV, etc.

I had an insane surge last winter so it’s a long time coming haha. I woke up and half my circuits were off. I measured 170v to gnd on one of the legs. Power company and fire dept had to show up to fix it.

Power is ehh not great where I live.

Edit: for your point about a NAS failure. If that were to happen, since I use unRAID, I could just throw the disks on any Linux PC and my data would be fine.

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Yeah I’ve ridden out economic highs and lows. This past year, data center orders were an all-time high and everything else was very low. Next year both are record highs. I’m not sure if you got the impression that I think AI is this awesome economic boom or that I even like it. I think it’s all a bunch of hot air that probably is going blow up in everyone’s face and that sucks, but the world will still keep moving. Even during 2008 or covid or the dotcom bust, there was still people working, myself included. Absolute worst case scenario, I lose my job and can’t find another (unlikely considering how much experience I have in industrial), I can always just go wire houses with my buddy. I’ve done that for years on the side.

Like I was pretty much just commenting on the news, pleased to see it might turn into more manufacturing for the company I work for, while most of the comments on here missed the point entirely and thinks that it’s saying “AI should be called manufacturing” and not that some of the biggest buildings in the country are going to require infrastructure manufactured in the states to build them.

I know this type of talk isn’t about “me” and moreso what will happen to the economy and working people as a whole, but that will primarily affect things like the tech industry, which goes through this boom or bust cycle anyway. I don’t see the AI bubble popping as everyone suddenly losing their jobs.

Well obviously they’re not “my” orders, I just have a job testing and doing QA on the electrical systems. They’re also for AWS, meaning yes right now they’re ramping up real hard for AI, but AWS is like the backbone of the internet. If the bubble burst tomorrow, it’d be more of the same. To be quite honest we struggle to keep up with Amazon’s demands, and we’re one of like 12 panel shops that build shit for them just for the data centers.

That portion of the business is like half our company’s workload. We’d be fine, the rest is for heavy industry which is what I primarily work on. I’ll take all the overtime I can get right now though.

This is talking about speeding up manufacturing the raw materials needed for data centers, like grid equipment such as transformers, switchgear, cable and wire, control panels, semiconductors, rare earth metals, servers, GPUs, etc etc.

The company I work for is booming right now building control panels for data centers. It shows no signs of slowing down, they’re projecting orders from us into 2035.

That’s what the manufacturing they’re talking about accelerating, not saying that AI is manufacturing or whatever.

This headline goes crazy

I wasn’t crazy about i3. I really like hyprland though. Been using it for about a year now.

Wind waker is my favorite of the series. To each their own

I’m so fuckin tired of this trope that the people who hate gays and are outright dangerous to us are just in the closet. The number of people this actually applies to is a small minority and yet it’s brung up every time anyone remotely homophobic makes the news. Like it can be explained away that the root cause someone wishes to enact violence is he fantasizes about taking it up the butt, as if there’s something wrong or perverted about that, and not just a way of life for millions of people.

I don’t think many people in the 70-80 age range are out there committing crimes.

Also I had lead water pipes for years. Other than some stupid stuff I did as a kid like run from the cops to avoid an underage, I wasn’t exactly committing any serious crimes. Crime is more often than not a result of the circumstances someone grows up in, like poverty, friends and neighbors, no opportunities, etc.

I’m running it fine thru proton on Linux. I played it a few months back.

Other than the limiting the frame rate on only the final mission due to a bug, it worked great.

Get a OnePlus 13. They’re ~$900 now but that will soon drop when the new model drops, or black Friday or whatever.

No bloat, great specs, a new battery technology that lasts for 2 days for me.

Or you could just do your chores and not drop 20k

Have not ever used words like this tbh

You can still just use individual emulators

I walk around the shop and bullshit with others, maybe clean or organize stuff. Or help build panels if I’m caught up on testing. We’re so busy right now tho those days are kind of long gone. Currently working overtime indefinitely til like 2027 at least.

Some of the biggest data centers are pushing 100 megawatts. When I worked on the solar farms out west, an entire industrial site would be around 200-400 megawatts.

For context, those sites would be powering entire towns. The Blythe mesa solar project is over 2,000 acres of solar panels. It’s bigger than the town. Quite a bit of Las Vegas is ran on solar.

It’s not quite as simple as just sticking panels on the roof of the data center. It also needs to be reliable enough to store the energy so it’s available at night when the sun is down. This is still one of solar’s biggest hurdles.

They fired up an old decommissioned nuke plant in Eastern Pennsylvania to power a Microsoft data center