I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...
It’s fucking Missouri, so I’m sure the warrant for his arrest will be issued shortly. Those idiots have to have a law against paying for others school lunch debt.
The article doesn’t do a great job of explaining why. It almost seems intentional imo.
“Fiber optic cables are used to provide necessary communications to substations and other vital equipment, helping to modernize grid operations and improve outage response. This real-time visibility and control are essential for integrating renewable energy sources into the grid, as they allow for better management and coordination of these resources.”
“important for ensuring that the generated solar power can be efficiently and safely integrated into the broader electrical grid, complying with industry standards and maintaining system stability” from the dominion energy website. So take that for what you will.
It sounds like they use fiber for controlling grid ops and they don’t think that what Hawaii and New York are doing has been robustly tested.
And in the case of Hawaii, I don’t know that I’d use them as a benchmark for something like this. Their grid(s) aren’t connected to each other (each island is separate) so they are much smaller. They probably don’t even have the same level of grid mgmt needs that Virginia does.
That said, $150-250k for laying fiber seems high but that’s not really my area of expertise. Maybe that’s reasonable.
Windows 10 EoL is fast approaching, so I thought I’d give Linux a try on some equipment that won’t be able to upgrade to Windows 11. I wanted to see if I will be able to recommend an option to anyone that asks me what they should do with their old PC....
It’s the middle ground between windows and Linux imo.
It’s unix-y enough to give you tons of flexibility with the terminal. Homebrew is one of the better package management systems out there. Iterm2 is the best terminal emulator I’ve used.
You get access to most popular software still and the hardware is unmatched.
It’s more expensive and less flexible in terms of OS customization though and you basically can’t game on it. I think there are some good tiling window managers for it though.
It’d really be great if journalists even attempted “educating” readers or providing meaningful context. But then again, would it get this kind of traction?
The interesting story here is that interest rates are raised to SLOW spending and encourage saving. The interest rates spiked to CURB inflation. It has worked, despite most journalists seeming keenness for it not to, for the most part. If consumers and businesses reduce their spending due to higher costs of borrowing, this will bring down prices over time, aligning with the Fed’s inflation targets.
No one explains this to the average person, ever. Ironically, the story here should be consumers are spending money even when saving it should be incentivized because they can’t afford not to… because of profiteering by large companies, grocery chains, etc as well as stagnate wages for the past few decades. This means that inflation will creep up faster than it should because of demand-driven inflation. This makes the problem worse for low-income earners.
It seems to me that THAT type of inflation might require less of an “interest rate adjustment fix”, and more of a wage adjustment fix. Even potentially a regulatory fix to go after price gougers.
I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...
Yea, a lot of companies and even govt agencies have policies against recording meetings except for special circumstances. Edit: to clarify they have policies against employees initiating recordings (let alone automatically recording anything by default)
Once you have it, it’s a record. Now you have to keep it and treat it like one.
A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff....
This doesn’t look like his house, but he defended it so it must be.
He lives up the road from me (I only found out when roe got fucked and a swat team and 3 dozen police were camped out in front of his house).
That said, his excuse could be somewhat valid. People can get dumb with their yard signs up here. The MAGA crowd are a very small minority up here and most people aren’t shy about “counter signage” (eg BLM, pride flags, Biden signs).
If his wife was butthurt about signs hurting her feelings, maybe she did this in protest.
Also, and I hate that I’m defending this piece of shit, but flipping a flag upside down isn’t a “stop the steal” specific sign of protest. People do it for all sorts of reasons.
I’m not willing to “give” them this symbol/protest.
State lawmakers ‘don’t see the mourning and the grieving that these moms’ experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tells Kelly Rissman...
I know this is preaching to the choir here, but this is so gross across the board.
My wife and I struggled to have our kid. That process is brutal. A lot of women miscarry. A lot of women have unviable pregnancies–like this. An obvious-to-everyone-but-conservatives outcome to banning abortions is that women will lose their ability to have children(like this) or worse they’ll die.
My wife has a very high likelihood of miscarriage. Miscarriages can cause all sorts of issues and sometimes doctors need to go in and clear stuff out (this is considered an abortion). If that doesn’t happen, my wife could 1. Die 2. Lose her ovaries/uterus/fallopian tube 3. Never have a chance at more kids again.
Abortions mean people have have happy healthy families. Abortions mean women can bring children into this world.
We were lucky we didn’t have to go down that path, but it’s a serious risk if we try to have another kid.
People act like women go get abortions for shits and giggles. Fuck anyone voting against women.
No way. I just switched to a Mac at work And I love the lack of integration with OneDrive, 365, etc. office on Mac is better because it hasn’t been made worse yet like the windows versions.
I can’t tell if ops joke is “intentionally confusing buffers with registers” and everyone is playing along or if people aren’t making the distinction between the two in this thread.
Which is ironic and humorous…potentially by accident.
Ngl, just had a kid and I spend less on food because we don’t go out as often. It’s more of a hassle. And when we do go out we don’t get drinks or at least one of us doesn’t because we can’t take cabs with a baby.
Even with the multiple kid argument, there are economies of scale. You could almost make an argument that it’s more justifiable to eat out when you are single since most recipes seem scoped for a family and you might waste more food if you aren’t diligent about leftovers
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (www.theverge.com)
My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux
I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...
How to graphically enter Password to unlock encrypted disk
Is there some way I can unlock my btrfs encrypted disk using a graphical unlocking screen....
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school's meal debt (www.cnn.com)
'Google Cast' is replacing the 'Chromecast built-in' brand (9to5google.com)
Well, at least they aren’t outright throwing the functionality in the trash.
Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold. (wapo.st)
Linux is still not ready to replace Windows
Windows 10 EoL is fast approaching, so I thought I’d give Linux a try on some equipment that won’t be able to upgrade to Windows 11. I wanted to see if I will be able to recommend an option to anyone that asks me what they should do with their old PC....
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says (fortune.com)
Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?
I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...
Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff....
North Carolina's protest crackdown now includes a ban on N95s (www.motherjones.com)
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display (www.nytimes.com)
"Thought-Terminating Cliches" (lemmy.world)
MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)
Recognizing when you're living in your best years (lemmy.world)
Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams ban (www.independent.co.uk)
State lawmakers ‘don’t see the mourning and the grieving that these moms’ experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tells Kelly Rissman...
Baby is ready to party (lemmy.world)
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)
I still don't get buffers (programming.dev)
54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail (theintercept.com)
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....