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[–] scholar 4 points 6 hours ago

Still weird that they stopped selling them on steam and gog...

[–] scholar 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe a little, with a game that wierd it's hard to tell

[–] scholar 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you're thinking of the portable battery marketed as 'solid state' then that was a scam - a teardown revealed it was just lithium cells

[–] scholar 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It could be a haunting experience for him

[–] scholar 19 points 5 days ago (49 children)

Sometimes the sun doesn't shine, sometimes the wind doesn't blow. Renewables are great and cheap, but they aren't a complete solution without grid level storage that doesn't really exist yet.

[–] scholar 2 points 1 week ago

It looks like it in panel 3

[–] scholar 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I built a server a few years ago in a Fractal Design Node (big square box) which has 4 6TB drives in raid 5 for 18TB of storage and a 6 core AMD cpu. It cost around £1200 and half of that was the hard drives.

It's been really good, so if you're looking to build one yourself I'd recommend having a look at the case and the price of drives.

[–] scholar 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pre-Roman Britain was famed for its many aquaducts and quality roads

[–] scholar 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's a brexit joke in there somewhere

[–] scholar 2 points 1 week ago

All true of course, I'm sure I'll manage.

[–] scholar 2 points 1 week ago

(quoting from wikipedia) In 2023 a group of engineers modified a dynometer to be able to measure how much horsepower a horse can produce. This horse was measured to 5.7 hp (4.3 kW)

[–] scholar 2 points 1 week ago

Commander Shran returns to Andoria to reenact the events that led to the forming of the Federation

 

One of the things that Deus Ex captured really well was the pseudonymous federated internet; interactions between random strings on different networks that could go on and on without either party learning who they were speaking to. Alex Jacobson had no idea that the Oracle he was receiving messages from was actually a self aware AI on the net.

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