I have said this before somewhere, but this feels like something that would be very well suited for places where electricity prices have gone extremely low due to “too many solar panels”.
Also, in places with excess geothermal output etc.
What are these companies really basing their installation locations upon?

I am going by mainly 2 points:

• DDR4 being dropped in favour of DDR5
  • What if the places with high quality output end up just staying on DDR5
• DDR4 being taken by the cheaper manufacturers
  • Ever since seeing how well my old SK Hynix DDR2 has lasted, I have been kinda partial to it. paying $10 - 15 extra to get something that I won’t have to replace for the device’s lifetime (~20 years) makes sense to me
  • The new modules made by the cheaper ones might not end up being as good and reviews may be hard to find as most enthusiasts that do quality testing, tend to do so only when the tech is new (and now that is DDR5)

Sadly I am not in a location where people just discard useful parts.
If I were to try buying 2nd hand here, I would most probably end up with stuff that has some or the other kind of of damage.

For instance, in one of the companies I worked at, their policy for getting rid of stuff was:

1. If unneeded but working, then send to another department
2. If malfunctioning but fixable, get it fixed
3. If not worth fixing, then auction it off
4. HDDs? repurpose or shred

And the auctions occurred years later after much red tape…
Mostly bought by other companies, who get to do more red-tape stuff to buy it.

While on one hand, this is a good thing, reducing wastage, it also means that I have no way to get 2nd hand stuff for hobbyist usage.
In case we do get 2nd hand stuff, it is usually through a 2nd hand dealer, who then ends up with a higher asking price than what it’s worth.

Also, I am not expecting there to be any AI enthusiast nearby me.

It’s a bit different in this case.

The responsibility of providing electricity falls onto the nearby power plant, which then also has to increase their production.
But the maker of the new electricity consumer does not need to pay for the capital or anything else really, apart from the electrical rates (and some minimal fixed rates) that they are using.

Some governments are coming up with interesting, seemingly effective regulations, though.

Yeah, just checked the 2 sites I use for computer components.
1 had no RAM listed.
The other had 32GB DDR4 at 2x the price and no 128GB kit (96 was the highest, 64 for DDR4)

Yeah, the main problems right now, seem to be electricity consumption, causing price hikes in surrounding areas.

Oh no.
So even if I manage to somehow get DDR4 for lower prices, I can’t expect the SK Hynix modules.

Guess it’s going to be a few more years before I can get a RAM upgrade, or maybe never at all.
It might end up being similar to how DDR3 ended up being more expensive than DDR4 for multiple years.

Guess I should have bought the 128GB 3600 kit earlier.
Are DDR4 also affected?

Perhaps some down’n’dasher that didn’t like your lack of respect for them.

Definitely good in the long term.
Now everyone using it knows that they need to have a backup system in place.

Maybe someone who has been de-federated from my instance, considering I don’t see a downvote.

Although the encryption is a useful feature, I don’t really expect that from mail.
And if were doing internal communications with a company with that level of security and privacy requirement, I would be using their on-premises mail server.

I have been considering Proton, mostly. My main goal being, not randomly losing access to my mail account due to some AI bs.
Though I am not sure if they might end up requiring stuff like “Video ID”.

And if it comes to paying for a service, I will also start comparing it to the cost of a domain name and a static IPv6 address, because I already have plans to run a server.

I have version 2.52 and it is already the default.

That’s lovely.
And I just realised what I needed was an Internal and External Tooth Lock washer. I didn’t know before, what it was called.

A pity that the US pricing is to high for my country, on top of which, it might be shipped from the US, adding expense.

Oh, so that’s what the “freeze ray” is being used for.
Nice

Also, YouTube.
I would be much more inclined to click if it were Odysee or PeerTube.
You need to give me a much more compelling reason than “I’m using DP instead of HDMI” to click on a YouTube link.

Tuta

So, can’t use that with Thunderbird, I suppose?
Well, at least the open source client would be useful.

No. Your dark mode suck.
My dark mode looks cool.

The CRT makers who chose black as the default background (instead of the shitty white background CRTs) and amber as the colour of choice for monochrome, knew what they were doing.

Just because paper is white (which is also only the case because of multiple extra processes) doesn’t mean that monitors need to be too. Papers are reflective, while monitors are emissive and should not have the same standards.

You can also get the qalc program from the qalc or libqalculate package, which is a calculator in which you can simply type in the expression in a line and get the answer.

That might also end up showing you what kinds of goals you want to be setting.

If you feel like making a more elaborate thingy, which can take full inputs like “1 + 2” (I know I wanted to, back when I made my first calculator), you can check out this link for starters https://www.calcworld.net/infix-to-postfix-converter/

Except that instead of storing the postfix output in another string (as is done on the website), you want to be segregating each and every value into separate variables (perhaps in an array), while separating the values from the operators.

Once that is done, you can then take the values 1-by-1 and apply the operations.

It becomes fun after that.