Nice to hear that they started operations now.

I found this bit interesting:

The Geretsried project will ultimately provide, in annual terms, 8.2 megawatts of electricity to the grid or about 64 megawatts of heating to the nearby town.

Emphasis mine… so I would guess they focus on electricity production during the summer months?

Such a close loop system has a bit of a low-grade waste heat problem during summer months though, even when using it to produce electricity. I guess we will see more heated public outdoor swimming pools again if this technology takes off.

If would need to be patched in on Linux kernel level, which is annoying to say the least.

It wouldn’t actually come with a case or a PSU, so it is fairly easy to ship. The bigger question would be what your setup is and how comfortable you are with getting things running.

Ok I tried to allow-list some search engine spiders in the robot.txt, however they will probably still just run into the AI scraper block if they act too shady.

But honestly, I highly doubt we will get much traffic from Google search. It’s completely gone to shit these days.

EU / Portugal.

When devs switch their development PCs to ARM, you will also start seeing ARM native versions. It is the same with Linux and Proton.

Given that they did have a beta for Steam on x86 Chromebooks, and Google seems hellbend to replace ChromeOS with an modified version of Android (“AluminiumOS”) these days, it seems likely that Valve will also consider a release for that. I wouldn’t expect them to make an official release for phones though.

After finishing to read the interview it does indeed sound different, but it is odd that this isn’t open-source somewhere like Proton and Fex always were.

I guess that is a streamlined version of Waydroid?

Not very motivated, but I can look into it.

Don’t look online, ask friends and family if someone has an old laptop you can get for free. Very likely someone does, especially if you are ok with a bad battery and/or a broken screen.

A RPi3 can work, but it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86.

At this point we try to block pretty much everything even remotely related to AI companies.

Soon we will probably have to block Chrome browsers when they start to use them to scrape websites without their users knowing (yes that is why AI companies started to make their own browsers and Mozilla is planning the same proudly proclaiming how “stealthy” they can be with that.).

Google search results have become so useless that I see little point left trying to accomodate their search bot 🤷

Yes I am bitter and can’t wait for the AI bubble to pop.

2015 is now a decade ago 🤷

Typically a video-chat server does no transcoding so this isn’t a major issue. But for hosting a Peertube or Owncast server it would.

The old A/V chats in Matrix were just Jitsi-meet in disguise, but this has been largely deprechiated now with Element Calls.

Bitcoin and Ethereum only have liquidity in the market because scammers use it for their pig butchering etc. scams. And all the major exchanges are complicit in that. Many Banks are scammy, yes, but not that scammy by a long shot. Sorry to burst your bubble 🤷

https://movim.eu/ can do that AFAIK, but for now the A/V calls don’t go through an SFU distribution server (coming soonish), so it will not scale to many participants. But if you want to only stream to a few people (like max. 5 or so, depends a bit on your and their internet speed) it should work.

To my knowledge it will come back from time to time (like once a year or so?), but it shouldn’t take multiple tries to close it (but I had the same issue 😒 ).

If 99.9% of PCs were solely made to steal your credit card info, then yes.

No news on our Piefed yet.

I am aware of the site being a bit slow sometimes, but no idea if that is worse for boost users. Do you see the same slowdowns when using one of our webUIs?