[–] 1 point 1 month ago

CRTs had flatscreens beat until less than a decade ago, which was nearly 20 years after being replaced by society.

Higher resolutions, refreshrates and lower latency until the 4k 250fps+ race began.

However, i doubt there is much more to gain due to CRT being well into the end of the development S-curve.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    By not building nuclear power plants since the 80s, barring France and China. And continue to rather build fossile fuel power than nuclear.

    We polluted this planet with so much radioactive waste we couldve powered our civilization with dirty nuclear power for a 1000 years.

    And we humans solved the nuclear power waste. The majority of that waste loses its radiation within decades and that last bit we can store under the earth, rather than putting it our atmosphere.

    Wind power has its benefits of course, but like solar, it cant power our civilization without storage and when you throw storage in the mix, it favours nuclear power in every measurement.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I agree that LLMs should be opt-in.

    However i am often working on projects with garbage or huge documentation, or community boards, that in the past would require a good bit of googlefu to figure out.

    Google became absolutely useless for that task. LLMs saved internet search that isnt shallow.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It is always interesting to see that this scumbag corporate behavior is only made possible by the people handing them over money.

    It is the same with advertising, if i didnt know any better it appears like people want advertisements all the time.

    We, the people, are always outraged. However, we, the people, also arent willing to do anything about it. The power is in our hands.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Thats just false.

    Per MWh a windmill (on land) costa about 30℅ more concrete and rare earth metals than a nuclear power plant. It's almost double for windmills at sea (although it is mostly a whole lot more concrete)

    For windmills you need to build out 3 times the required capacity for any baseload usage, due to how wind power works.

    The Netherlands spend 12± billion euro a year for the past 15 years in to wind and solar energy.

    And we're only just now matching the Windmill energy production of 1 nuclear power plant.

    The Netherlands couldve build at least 10 nuclear power plants for the same money and then we would have most of our base load covered by non greenhouse gas producing methods.

    But the Netherlands is now reliant on Norway and the US for its power production.

    Solar energy is fucking amazing btw, but without storage best used as a load reducer.

    Greenpeace did more harm to our planet than they did good.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (9 children)

    Docker has its uses, but it has gone to far.

    I already have a webserver with Apache, mariadb and everything. Why does your PHP based website only come as a docker solution? Fuck you.

    When you go all in with docker, it quickly becomes a mess with rando NICs and containers named "random 32 character string" and dependencies up the wazoo. Ending up running ancient packages because the developer refuses to apt upgrade their shit.

    Proxmox or any other hypervisor platform gives you control. Whereas you have to take it for docker and youre still at the mercy or the developers to keep your shit secure.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yeah, google been shit for over a decade now. Not long after SEO became the norm and Google figured out a way to profit from it.

    LLMs have saved internet searching. For the first time in years, i am getting (usually) relevant information for my questions.

    And not some sponsored or SEO optimized shithole.

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