Reality is, they will just rebrand employees.

You’re not a developer anymore, but a customer satisfaction consultant. Same job as before, but technically not a developer!!

Also, this is a great way to reduce headcount while seeming innovative to the market ghouls.

“Freedom of exclusively my speech”

Opposed to the Chinese corporations which are famously basically charity organizations?

What exactly is your point? Your moving goalposts to completely different planets.

Producing literally hundreds of a single type of airplane with orders for the next decade or so isn’t exactly “nothing to show for”.

And even if you discount the actual sales, getting billions in development budget from the US government is pretty good for business.

I’m not arguing against the need, I’m saying that the economic incentives for private investors are not really great.

The thermos approach is unfortunately almost the best we currently have, because every storage solution would have to pay taxes twice, once for buying, once for selling. Not VAT, but Stromsteuer.

Also, these dips don’t occur that often, are usually not very long and it’s kind of a reverse game of chicken. The more storage we have, the less profitable each one gets. All that makes it rather unattractive to install grid scale plants.

Yet, you spout innuendos as if you’re knowing what you’re talking about.

You could easily throw the components into an old tower case.

Getting the PSU to fit could be a bit tricky due to the rather short cables.

Workstations, like real workstations, are another beast and not what’s typically referred to as “office PCs”, those are indeed rather sff builds.

Again, optiplex sff 3060 as an example, it has two SATA ports, one x16 and one x1 (I think) PCIe, and looking at the PCB, apparently there’s a version with m.2 slots. Sure, not exactly server grade storage, but if you manage to find some version with m.2 slots or invest 10€ for a cheap SATA card, you can get enough storage attached.

GPU wise, absolutely no idea. My optiplex has a wx3100 that I got for cheap and its self reported power draw never goes under 5W, but since this machine is a desktop, it doesn’t run all day.

Sorry, but you’re either pulling those numbers out of your ass or haven’t kept up with the real world for 25 years.

The numbers I’ve posted above are measured using an external meter. I’m German, I have a vested interest in knowing how much power my devices pull.

And you don’t think, office PCs pay attention to power consumption, given they are intended to run 8h a day?

My optiplex sff runs at about 10-15W in idle, and it’s an i5 6500. The t variant in my elitedesk runs at 5W.

I mean, that sometimes did happen.

Germany propped up the Commerzbank after 2007 by essentially buying a large part of it, and managed to sell several tranches with a healthy profit.

Same is true for Lufthansa during COVID.

The mastodon devs decide what to merge, though. If they don’t see the value of a feature, they won’t merge it.

If you want to extend the protocol, sure, go ahead. But you’ll be alone on it, since no one outside of your protocol island can use that specific feature.

What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don’t. I guarantee it.

Most people don’t read news for a living. You can’t fact check everything you read online. That’s physically impossible. And if you’d be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don’t read any further. Not because you’re too stupid, but because you’re not that interested in Trump’s latest shenanigans or Italy’s economic outlook.

All this gate keeping is bullshit, but I do have to agree that we are really bad at actually engineering.

If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.

“Even deader internet theory”.

I get what you’re trying to say, but I’m not sure it makes sense.

I mean, that’s literally every field you’re not an expert in. And most of us are experts in less than one field.

You don’t know about medicine, car engines, electricity or tax laws, you have your guys for that. Even in our field, we have guys for databases, OSes, networking, because quite frankly nobody understands those really.

So I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. That having experts is good? Yeah, I guess? Did we need to have that reinforced?

I’m not sure what these things have to do with each other. How exactly would cryptography have prevented SBF, you know, a crypto bro.

God I hate cryptography so much for making me feel stupid every time I read anything about it.

I want to feel smat!