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Have seen this one here in New Zealand too.
Was a company selling house insulation for $14.88/m², and the owner was a similarly reprehensible individual:
Also Futurama, though the "musical" episodes there tend to be only a single song.
How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back is a masterpiece though.
That is fair. I guess my statement was ambiguous but of all the things I'm least bothered by its inclusion. At this point in my life I'm not actually sure I still own anything that could plug into a 3.5mm jack though.
Also to keep the computer symmetrical you actually need a third hole to match the location of the Kensington lock slot on the other side :D
I might be in the minority here, but I'm perfectly happy with the USB-C only setup. My work laptop is a Dell, but has the same design as that top Mac with just two Thunderbolt ports on each side of the chassis.
Headphones? Bluetooth. My machine actually has a headphone jack, which I have not used once since receiving it.
RS-232? That's also Bluetooth, not as if USB-C to RJ45 serial console cables aren't widely available though.
Ethernet? Well in the rare event I need one of those it's more often going to be a Thunderbolt SFP+ adapter because most of my work is with fibre. In the rare event it is copper I'm quite often needing to use two at once, so would need at least one dongle even if the machine did have a port built in.
HDMI? Well you can buy a tiny adapter (about the size of a book of matches) that has a USB-C socket on one side and a HDMI plug on the other (about $13 on Amazon: https://i.imgur.com/iwmsa4L.jpeg). I already have to have a USB-C to USB-C cable in the bag for charging, it can do double-duty as a video cable.
The trick is to be smart about the dongles you do carry. The predominant style with a short cable terminating in a bulky body with whatever socket on it is almost always the worst style, sitting right next to your laptop getting in the way of whatever you're trying to do.
The biggest advantage though is having USB-C ports on BOTH sides of the machine, so the charger can plug in on either side. I think people have forgotten how much it sucked not being able to do that. You'd be surprised how many machines that have a 50-50 collection of USB-C and other ports put all the USB-C ports on one side so they're never in the location you need them to be.
Fully aware this isn't going to work for everyone, but people really need to stop pretending like it only has downsides because that absolutely isn't the case.
The facilities team at our office would previously build a C-shaped box out of MDF or plywood to sit a regular, fixed-height desk on top of.
To be fair they did a nice job, they were sturdy and would have recesses for the desk's legs to sit in to prevent sideways movement. But the problem then became "what about when those people wanted to sit", so tall office chairs - that didn't match the rest of the chairs in the office - had to be bought, undoubtedly at considerable expense.
The new, all-standing-desks use-it-if-you-want-or-don't-it-doesn't-matter-to-us regime seems to just avoid a lot of unnecessary shifting of furniture.
It should be a great idea, but I feel like the quantities involved are too vastly different.
I'm seeing estimates of 300kW/hectare (30MW/km² or 77MW/mile²) for heating glasshouses. With individual datacentres frequently confirming multiple gigawatts, the land area required just doesn't match up.
This is not to say it isn't worth considering, but it would be a rounding error in the datacentre's heat output before you ran out of space to build more glasshouses.
There's a secondary concern of water consumption. You might extend that to ah but what if we could use that to grow the plants too? but the evaporated cooling water out of one of these systems tends to be anything but clean. Maybe that's a more solvable problem.
I started with an assumption there might have been a when component to that question, but nope, apparently we're taking about 2025 and not 1995.
Somewhat amazingly though, brand new dot matrix printers - not just new old stock, but newly-manufactured units including modern USB and/or Ethernet interfaces - and even the big cartons of tractor-feed continuous paper are still readily available.
As dot matrix printers have not gone the way of the dodo, also neither have carbonless triplicate forms, which they are uniquely able to print on. Seems that's still a big selling point for these printers.
It's an old trope, but it is of those things that pictures truly cannot capture, too. The ship is unfathomably large.
I didn't have a camera lens wide enough to reasonably get the entire thing in frame, from any location in the building.
Compose key, hyphen, hypen. Because while it's a less common usage, visually I prefer the shorter en dash – over the em dash — anyway.
Also for people missing the Unix-style compose key on Windows: https://wincompose.info/. Memorising numeric codes is for chumps :)
If he makes it into the bathroom, my (void) will put his paws on the seat between my legs and try to headbutt me in the nose while I'm pooping.
Like dude, I try to even avoid eye contact with you when you're in YOUR toilet, don't I deserve the same respect?
number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it's called)
I'm considering a similar one.
Our kitchen ceiling lights now have a Shelly relay in their circuit. I'm considering a smart bulb in the rangehood - unusually, it fits a full-size A60/B22 bulb, so basically any standard smart lighting is an option - so it can be synced with the rest of the kitchen lights.
Also who wouldn't want to be able to have green light while cooking?
Not seen mentioned yet, but Homeworld (1999).
The transition from the opening cutscene to the game proper scored to Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) by Samuel Barber really set the tone for the thing.
I don't remember much else about the soundtrack, but that one piece stuck with me.
"Surveillance-minded" (hereafter, "Helicopter") parents were almost certainly already doing that.
It just required a sharp knife and a tube of contact adhesive previously.
(also Xperia weirdo, checking in)
This year's 1vii - which I did unfortunately pay said $1500 for - still has all of those. Hole-puch free display, SD card slot, headphone jack.
It's lost the dedicated notification LED, but - aside from the change from a 21:9 to 19:9 display which I don't love, but is far from a deal-breaker - that's the only other outward change from the 1ii I had before.
Still the best waterproofing in the industry too, absolutely can't fault Sony there.
Curiously, why on the back?
I always found that a worse location than phones that had it on the side (usually paired with the power button), as you can't unlock your phone if it's lying flat on a table without picking it up.
(Also the way I typically hold my phone, the usually top centre sensor is absolutely nowhere near where any of my fingers naturally sit, and requires awkward bending to reach it)
I know a lot of people like it, but I've never been able to figure out what it was about it.
Using the phone as a touchpad has come in handy on a few occasions for me. Also just niceties like having your music on the PC pause automatically if you receive a call.
It should further be pointed out that it's not even required that one end is a phone. You can connect your laptop to your desktop and share content between them just as easily.
In ours, the coolant is referred to as "PG25" (distilled water with 25% propylene glycol, plus corrosion inhibitors and other additives). It's widely available, and pre-mixed so it just gets poured straight in.
Your problem is going to be quantity. it might be cheaper per unit, but buying less than a 200 litre drum (if not a 1000 litre IBC) will prove to be a challenge.
I'd suggest a rethink, honestly.
There's still fuckery afoot in HP's lineup. You really need to find the sweet spot of a unit that's old enough to predate their BS with non-HP toner, but new enough that consumables and parts are still readily available.
I rescued from e-waste a CP5225dn (2012 model, though mine was manufactured in 2017); an A3 colour printer with network (10/100, baby) and automatic duplex. It's not blazingly fast, but it has enough features, consumables are still readily available, and the print quality is honestly quite respectable.
As for firmware updates? Well there hasn't been one of those since 2015. Pretty sure they're not about to start releasing new versions now :)
Thanks for the heads-up, added the internet archive torrent to seed up to 25MB/s