This article fails to mention (I presume, after skimming it) that all these data centers aren’t using water because it is magically better suited for this job, it’s just cheap and abundant.

This “new cooling design” doesn’t mean shit when it doesn’t address the reason data centers are using so much water

Again, they’re not using water for its properties. Heat transfer efficiency is low on the list of priorities. Cost, both upfront and running, is the deciding factor

Ah, I see you’re unfamiliar with the long, long, history of proposed and shot down reasonable and informative alternatives. Well I’m not gonna argue socioeconomics with you, so I hope you look into the many times this has been tried already and failed. I’ll try point you to some books about it when I get off work

I don’t know how to be any clearer.

LOW COST > HIGH COST.

It’s money. The goal is to save as much money as possible. Businesses, corporations, contractors, investors. All the people making decisions are trying to save every bit of money possible.

Surely you realize heat transfer efficiency isn’t linked to the cost of water. Which doesn’t even show up on the balance sheet.

100 * 0 = 100000000 * 0

No GDP alternative will ever have any legs because any formula that takes average buying power, health, and/or quality of life into account would place the English speaking countries and the US near the bottom of the list. Can’t have that

Thanks for the link, unfortunately it’s paywalled. Any word on the condition of the person who was run over? Or the identity of the attacker? Is it actually ICE as the video caption suggests?

Fun fact, Hezbollah was designated a terrorist organization for this exact reason. Killing terrorist invaders killing innocent people on your land makes you a terrorist.

You’re right OP, Apple is wrong to provide the longest support lifespan in the industry realm of consumer products

It’s not this audio that exposed her as a psychopath, it’s every singe public appearance she’s made since his death. Without skipping a beat she capitalized on her husband’s assassination immediately after it happened. Organizing events, “fundraisers”, podcasts, hook ups with the vice president, twitter beef with other grifters doing the same, etc, etc.

I’m never going to tell anyone how to grieve but you can’t convince me someone this excited about her husband’s public execution is grieving

Some good silver linings here, but what everyone needs to remember here is that nobody would be supporting this at all if facebook wasn’t intentionally predatory and bad for (all) people’s brains.

If regulators in Australia had a spine they would call for an end to those practices, and now that’s infinitely harder to do

That’s just the consequence of being popular. Lemmy isn’t impervious or even resistant to this

That is genuinely the funniest way to upset the president of the united states

So here’s a very simple boiled down summary of what’s been happening in the last ~15 years, and has gotten exponentially more extreme with every subsequent year:

Game doesn’t sell well = All the devs are laid off, CEO gets a new yacht.

Game sells really well = Most devs are laid off, CEO gets three yachts

There’s too many knock-on effects to list, but specifically in the videogames business: Quality of games goes down. Prices go up. Burnout in the industry goes up. Exploitation of foreign contractors goes up.

There’s a metric fuckton of environmental, economic, and societal damage being done as well but I’m not qualified enough to explain/express them. The effects of all this will be felt by out-of-the-loop-ers in the years and decades to come

is this $11,500,000,000 in real money or speculative money?

It is my duty to remind everyone, whenever HP is mentioned, that they create biometric apartheid systems for rogue terrorist states

So thankful this is the first time I heard of his run

Good luck explaining DEI to a gamergater. Coming from a Ubisoft employee, no less. There ain’t a chance in hell

I’m going to pokémon go to headquarters six seven and do the harlem shake

Universal bootloader locking should be illegal. At this point i’d be happy to just be able to buy a more expensive “ownership edition” of my phone

Can someone explain the “we hate systemd” meme for me? I’m not exactly new to Linux but the context is lost on me. Does anyone actually hate systemd?