Yeah, these days you don’t need the base OS much anymore. That’s why I like the Atomic distros. I’m running Bazzite and it’s great. Someone else handles the upgrades of the base image, and I just run flatpaks or containers.

Yeah, I have the same issue with my 1080. I haven’t installed Debian in decades because everything in “stable” is so incredibly outdated. It’s supposed to lead to a stable system, and in some ways it does. But, in other ways because everything is so out of date, people often have to install from source or find alternate packages, so it becomes possibly even more unstable.

Like which ones?

Are there distros where you can’t do that? I mean, maybe Debian?

I have had only a few issues with nVidia on Linux for a few years. But, I am using an old card. I’d like to live in the nice sunny castle, not the scary one with bad weather. But, at least I have mostly working shelter while I play my games.

Considering their stock price has grown by 27,557% in those 10 years, I don’t think too many people at the company are concerned with their “falling”

https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/NVDA/performance/total-return

It sucks that they abandoned us, and it’s awful that they’re a huge part of the AI bubble,. But, this is like an artist who used to play on Tuesday evenings at your local live music venues “selling out” and now playing stadiums.

Same, I’ve been saying I’ll upgrade when the prices become sane since shortly before the asteroid hit and killed off the dinosaurs.

But, it’s amazing how well the 1080 has aged. I can still play most of the games I want to at 1440p while still keeping the frame rate at at least 60 fps average, and only rarely dipping below 40. Admittedly, I sometimes do have to turn down the graphics settings, but not so they’re immersionly-breakingly-bad.

My next card will definitely be AMD, but I want to make it a good one. So, I’m annoyed that the 9000 series didn’t even have an “enthusiast” tier.

Yes, even wilder is to so blatantly build a strawman.

they have to pay according to how many hours they were powering their devices with how many kilowatts

Let’s see, power multiplied by time is… energy. So they’re paying for the total energy used. If they use 2 kW for their hair dryer and it doesn’t even come close to an hour of usage, they have to pay for that too.

Epstein’s “day job” was being a socialite. He was the guy who knew everybody. If you wanted an introduction, he could do it. He was the guy who made sure that the riff raff stayed out, even if they were rich.

I’m pretty sure that everybody knew he was always around “young women”, but I strongly suspect that most of the people he interacted with didn’t know about the child sex abuse. They were there for his “rolodex”.

But, the end result is that because he was the guy who knew everybody in a position of power, his network shows who has the power. My guess is that at least half the people he had in his network were not into child sex abuse, and didn’t know that he was involved in that. But, I have only the world’s tiniest violin to play for those people. I think they’re guillotine-worthy because of their abuses of power, and how they hoarded obscene amounts of wealth. For far too long, the ultra rich have had a good public image in the US. People should have been furious with them just for hoarding all that wealth. And, the Epstein folks are the ones who not only hoarded the wealth, but spent it to gain power, which they used to warp society to benefit themselves. So, now everybody’s disgusted with them and hates them, it’s for the wrong reasons, but at least they’re hated.

figuring out how much it uses in a 5 day work week, or per month or year

In which case you’re multiplying by large numbers so it doesn’t matter if you start with Joules or kilowatt-hours, so you should start with the SI unit.

Ok even if that is true and they’re both equally unintuitive you’re the one who wants everyone to switch to an unfamiliar unit for no apparent reason.

The reason is that there is an SI unit for energy, and using the non-standard unit is dumb.

Why does it make so much more sense to talk about solar and electric car charging on the scale seconds of power than hours that everyone should change units?

Because there’s an SI unit for energy, and there’s nothing superior about kWh, it just adds to the confusion to have multiple different units that all measure the same thing. You get the stupid situation that Americans have with other units where there’s teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, gallons, ounces, etc. all for measuring volume instead of just using L for everything.

Are you seriously saying that when you’re talking about a solar panel you care about how much energy it produces per hour, not per second, per day, per week, or per year?

If you want to estimate the energy usage of a 400 watt lighting system during an 8 hour workday

Why would you want to do that? And what kind of lighting system in 2026 uses 400 Watts?

Are you seriously saying that when you’re using your 2000 watt hair dryer, you want to pretend that you used it for an hour, and then scale that back to the few seconds you actually used it? Are you seriously pretending that your 800 watt microwave oven is on for a full hour at full power while you’re heating your nuggets, so it makes sense to think of it in terms of kilowatt hours?

The reason most people think kWh is intuitive is that they’re used to it because their electrical utility uses it. It’s the same reason that Americans think Fahrenheit is more intuitive, while the rest of the world thinks Celsius is more intuitive. It’s why Americans think miles make more sense for measuring distance, while the rest of the world thinks kilometers are easier to use.

No they’re not. You’re just used to them.

Why would I care about “Joules per hour”? What matters is power (Watts), and total energy used (Joules). “Kilowatt hour per month” is just an awkward way of saying “Joules per month”

Astronomy uses special units because the SI units are more than 10 orders of magnitude different. You’d have to use really exotic prefixes like “zetta” or “yotta” if you wanted to keep using metres.

The difference between a kilowatt and a megajoule is just 3 orders of magnitude. You just have to switch from “k” to “M”. People are already familiar not only with “M” but with “G” and “T” because of Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes, etc. There’s nothing about kilowatt hours that’s more intuitive or easy to use.

This appliance uses 1 kilowatt. Running it for 1 second uses 1 kJ. Easy.

Are you billed by the hour, or by the month?

I know it’s not the main point of his video, but I really wish he’d looked into the CapEx vs OpEx stuff a bit more.

For example, when talking about how much fuel his car uses in its lifetime vs. the cost of buying solar panels, he makes it clear that the solar panels are a better investment than buying gasoline. But, what he doesn’t talk about is the difficulty for a lot of people in coming up with the money up-front to make that investment. Especially if you’re poor, finding $25 per week to put gas in your car is easier than spending $3000 up front to put solar panels on your house. I know later he makes the argument that it might not even make sense to put solar panels on your house. But, that up front cost is also there for buying an electric vehicle vs. buying a car with an ICE (fuck ICE). The Nissan Cube he showed had a starting price of $18k when it was last available new in 2014. The Ioniq 5 starts at double that, at more than $36k. As far as I can tell, you can’t get a new electric car for less than $30k, whereas the cheapest gas cars are only $23k or so.

A big reason for the status quo is that paying small amounts constantly is possible when you’re poor, but paying a big up front cost to go electric isn’t. What’s worse (and goes with the last half hour of his video), is that we’re in this situation because the fossil fuel companies keep getting subsidies, whereas any subsidies for electric cars or photovoltaic panels keeps getting shut down.

Also, I know it’s an American channel so it has to use things like “gallons”, but please when talking about energy, use Joules, not “kilowatt hours”.

Wind sometimes runs out (as in, calm weather) and wind turbines do eventually run out after a few decades. But, 3 gallons of gasoline-equivalent per minute seemed a bit small for my intuition, so I did some back of the envelope calculations to compare it to pumpjacks for oil.

I’m doing these calculations in metric, because the US traditional units are insane, and nobody should subject themselves to that.

3 gallons is about 11.3L, so 11.3L per minute is 678 L per hour, or about 16 kL of “gasoline-equivalent” per day.

Apparently a pumpjack pumps about 5 to 40 “barrels” of crude oil per day. A barrel is 159 L so that’s 795 L to 6360 L per day.

So, the back of the envelope “how much ‘energy’ does this big mechanical thing produce” seems fairly similar, ignoring a whole lot of complexity.

The mail (a web service), the calendar (a web service), YouTube (web videos), YouTube Music (web music), Google Maps (a web based mapping service)…

You get the picture.

Android spies on you when you’re doing things locally on the device. But, the rest of these are web-based services.

IMO they’re just being lazy. If you just reboot you don’t have to worry about resolving the dependencies for things you upgraded.

Fuck that reboot. It’s almost never necessary under Linux. Unnecessary, forced reboots in Windows are one of the last straws that made me fully switch my last remaining Windows system over to Linux.