I would think just using tor was enough to get you on the naughty list.

If Big Data hasn’t got most of Lemmy on a watchlist by now, one of us has fucked up.

Come on, we don’t need tracking devices embedding under the skin.

Just use an AirTag. Much cheaper.

Pretty sure it meets their strange definition of antisemitism.

Even the semites are antisemites.

I do like Mini PCs, but I kind of wish there was an easy way to get a solid GPU into it. There’s those weird docks but they’re far from standard, and it would be nice if the GPU had a similar form factor, so you could just stack them up like a MiniPC on top of it like an old hi-fi separates system.

Slap a storage box on it as well for some HDDs, baby you got a server going.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202505

Both Linux and MacOS look fairly flat overall, with a few spikes for Mac. What did happen was iOS and especially Android went to the moon.

Most people had a PC for a bit of light office work, emails and storing pictures. All of that can be done on a phone and more besides. It’s not great that a handful of Silicon Valley techbros are holding everyone’s data to ransom, but that’s what the masses are doing.

I think this is the official bit.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-boiler-upgrade-scheme/what-you-can-get

It must replace an existing fossil fuel system, and you can’t be left with a hybrid system (e.g. heat source plus boiler)

Meaning it must heat water somewhere, using the heat pump. Can you even get a system that heats water and air? And would that be included in this scheme? Some guy on reddit says they’re excluded, he may be full of shit.

I’m assuming there’s a much more detailed guide than this for installers, full of technical jargon about what is and isn’t included, but I can’t find that.

I thought that was methadone, or did Trainspotting lie to me?

I’d like to thank a childhood of having no friends to offer me any drugs for keeping me away from a lifetime of addiction.

The nudity section was always such a gamble.

Was it going to be somebody attractive? Was it going to be Lolo Ferarri with her horrendous beachballs? Or was it going to be an elderly Belgian naturist with tits like windsocks?

How dare they?! It’s well known that the director’s son had a roommate at university who once walked past a Hamas member!

Fucking antisemites, the lot of them!

Looking further into it, the “heat pumps” we’ve been pushing seem just for the ones that heat water, and then pump that round your radiators/out your taps.

The exclusion is for anything that moves air.

“Having trouble quitting heroin? A little bit of heroin can really alleviate those cravings!”

This thing has been trained on social media. Is that really wise?

You can get a grant to install heat pumps, but ONLY if they can’t be reversed and used as air conditioning.

Also, I’m keeping my combi-boiler until they literally stop pumping gas to homes. Fuck water tanks.

Well look on the bright side. AI is about to become really good at drawing penises under fat bellies.

I really don’t know how we got to a stage where delivery companies can just throw something in the general direction of your house and call it “delivered”.

This is why everything should be bought with credit card, because then the contract is between them and the store, and they’ve certainly got better lawyers than you. Chargebacks scare most shops into just sending another.

A bizarre decision.

Every paywalled news site is a news site I don’t read.

I mean, nobody likes adverts, but I think even fewer people like paying.

I got curious and looked it up. It’s called Gristedes. Nobody outside Manhattan will ever have been in one, because they’re all there within a few miles of Central Park.

I don’t know why he’d close them, because I can’t understand how the conservative brain works.

The US may have effectively banned it, but everybody else is buying loads of it.

As far as I can tell it’s operating at capacity. China’s installing it for the same reason everyone else is. It’s cheap as chips. Power stations take a lot of planning and management, while you can take a few acres of fields and effectively turn it into a money generator with no moving parts.

I’d have got some myself, but my house faced the wrong way to get in on the free solar panels boom, and the up front costs mean it won’t pay itself back for like 20 years. I was tempted once the prices went through the roof when Russia invaded Ukraine, but I moved to a tariff priced every 30 minutes or so and the benefits vanished. I might as well let a local farmer build it all instead.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?time=2000..latest&country=CHN~OECD+(Ember)

(chosen OECD because it makes the numbers easier to compare, and doesn’t cherry pick EU countries which are actually better than places like the US)

A lot less coal, which is about twice as bad as gas for CO2 emissions per kWh.

Places like the UK have got rid of coal completely. The last remaining coal power station shut down last year. When you look at the graphs for the UK, we’ve actually reduced electricity consumption as a whole, despite a growing population and the growth of electric vehicles.

Still plenty to be done about gas. I can see why China still uses enormous amounts of coal. They don’t really have any oil, so it’s the cheapest fossil fuel they have access to. In fact, cost is mostly why solar is getting popular, because it’s become extremely cheap. You can’t rely on it completely though, unless we all agree to turn off our power at night. Power storage is not a solved issue by any means.

China also never embraced nuclear power. They really got big on the world stage right around the time Chernobyl happened, and it was already getting too expensive even then.