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Fair enough. I wouldn’t want to insult the Librarian.

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

Someone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.

Yeah it’s odd, maybe the monitor has a sort of usb-c -over-displayport ethernet adapter ?

Mining for nuclear is an ecological disaster, and is often done in poor countries under awful conditions, especially lung cancer due to the radon emissions of uranium.

Best way IMHO is copy all the files to another disk, double check and then format the partition into your favourite filesystem, and copy everything back. NTFS can be a bit of trouble.

AI, Apocalypse of Intelligence

Agreed. I think TfL actually has begun looking into it but it’ll probably take years before the temperature is going to drop.

Agreed, but here it is done highly effective. The 1.8 degree temperature difference is a huge plus too - they can now also save serious amounts of power on ventilation.
TfL, you listening?

Man, what a disappointing article, I remember El Reg for being real sharp journalism, not a partner page piece of crap.
Take this revolting example:

Many of these PCs were bought during COVID and now we are four [or] five years after they were bought and they will have to be replaced.

Have to be replaced? Just for being 4 years old? Aside from the environmental impact, and aside from W11 being more shit than diarrhoea from a ceiling fan: these PCs work perfectly fine. For both my enterprise and entertainment purposes. New mainboards wouldn’t add much, and neither would W11, which biggest novelties are a broken control panel, a misplaced start menu and - for additional money - an unneeded and immature “AI” that will basically target me ads.

VBox could be nice, but Oracle is on a licensing hunt for people who install the extension pack on potentially work-related systems. Technically it is free for personal use, but is like explicitly inviting the vampire into your home - nothing might happen, but you wouldn’t know until the moment you have 2 tiny holes in your neck.

“While nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution for AI’s power needs due to its non-existent impact on the environment…”

nonexistent is key here.

Easy, switch it off!

They didn’t build it. They buy from local suppliers, power that could have been used by people and companies already there. Now it’s just a lot more, while a serious part of the power consumption goes into debatable purposes like overhyped AI stuff.

Edit: and fwiw, recently Microsoft themselves announced that they are far from their reduction targets roadmap, so not sure where you got the happy flow news from

Probably, or employees’ families maybe?
“That’s a nice little nephew you got there, it would be a shame if something happened to him “.

Well, he did lose on Jeopardy, so I guess to balance it out he must have all the answers?

AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves

Stahp! I can only get so hard!

Yes, they will. We’ve seen it before in mostly less serious cases: Diginotar, Türktrust, Symantec, etc. As brittle as the CA system can be, when there is real enough trouble, CAs do get revoked.

I agree, it’s far from perfect.

You are technically correct, best kind of correct