Apart from static discharge, or a broken power supply, I don’t think there’s anything your computer could do to the SSD to actually break it. Worst case you just need to reformat it.

(I guess if it writes to it constantly it could wear out, but that’s different than a hard shutdown)

He got blown up a few times, among other things. I don’t think the original survived Mythbusters

The water they’re evaporating is not the same water flowing through servers. There would be a heat exchanger so that all the anti-corrosion additives stay in the closed loop side.

Any additives at all in the evaporative side would just get concentrated more and more as water evaporates. Pure distilled water would be ideal since there would be no residue to periodically clean, but at the scale they need it, they basically have to use lightly filtered river water as far as I know.

This was much more recent, in 2022: https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

Edit: Wow, I completely forgot where this video went. The ping storage is only the first 10 minutes. I won’t spoil it, but it goes hard(er)

I watched a whole video on someone storing data as in-flight ping packets to the highest latency servers they could find. I don’t think we’re lacking in creativity at least.

The classic…

Middle-manager: We have 3 options, but only enough resources to finish 1, which one should we prioritize?

CEO: These are all great! I look forward to seeing the final version of all 3 next week.

Eh, my bad. I figured that was somewhat optional given it’s English and already kind of an adaptation. Fixing it is more effort than I’m willing to put in tho

The whole Wikipedia page on English Haiku makes it seem like there’s a lot of room for interpretation

/*
 * this five line comment
 * is formatted C plus plus
 * and is a haiku
 */

Inevitably whatever is under the glass gets wet anyway… because it’s raining.

Since I already host a bunch of stuff, it hasn’t been a big burden for me. I get to laugh any time one of the popular instances goes down or has some admin/mod controversy, but the tradeoff is I have to manually subscribe to everything since I don’t have an “All”.

I mostly did it because this is the only way to truly own your lemmy identity. I hope one day it will be possible to link accounts on different instances together so that migrating doesn’t lose your history.

and if a display driver can’t be written in 1 line that doesn’t make the thousands of lines unmaintainable slop

That’s not what I’m saying.

I’m saying if there’s 1000x more lines of code than necessary, it’s unmaintainable slop. I could understand 2x or even 10x the lines of code just being a difference in architecture, but even 100x is getting crazy.

I think only EnterpriseFizzBuzz surpasses the 1000x inefficiency metric that this meme is implying.

Selfhosting Lemmy has been surprisingly nice

You made an assumption that the user was at fault

I made an assumption about what your goal was, and made no claims of fault or right/wrong. You can do whatever you want with your own computer. Bye

Look, I was trying to understand your issue, since I’m a developer and am curious about this kind of thing. I stated my assumptions to try and make my initial point of view clear and give you the opportunity to provide more information if my assumptions were wrong.

From what you’ve stated I don’t believe your problem is related to DCC/CI at all, and is likely something else with sleep states failing. Whatever is failing on your system is extremely unusual and is not something that I would expect a “Grandma” to ever encounter. If anything, older hardware should be better supported.

I’ve not experienced any of this across many different linux systems… The default screensaver and lock screen work perfectly fine in KDE Plasma, and my monitors turn off when they should. I’ve even had no issues with HDR and variable refresh rates. (And the DCC/CI brightness controls for my TV work out of the box unlike windows).

I’m sorry you haven’t had the same experience. It almost seems like there could be something broken with your hardware if your monitor is continuing to detect a signal after things are asleep.

While you’re correct in a general sense, the linux kernel is what I was referring to, not the whole ecosystem of linux programs and repositories.

If Hello World can be written in 1 line and someone comes along and presents a version written in 100-1000s of lines without any new features, I’m going to argue it’s unmaintainable slop.

I recall having to install 3rd party software to get DCC/CI working on Windows to change monitor brightness too, so I don’t see how this is a fair “grandma” comparison.

I’m assuming you’re trying to turn your monitor off while there is still an active HDMI signal for some reason? Otherwise why wouldn’t you just let the monitor put itself to sleep when it detects no signal like everyone else I know?

That’s really unfortunate… I would have expected it to be perfectly fine if there wasn’t any disk activity at the time. Whatever left things in a pending state before sleeping seems like it’s got a serious bug.

A little off on the lines of code… it’s only around 20 million. I’d be a little worried if there was billions of lines of code, it would be unmaintainable slop.

The exact quote is

“the propulsion force generated was less than the motor would have generated if it had been connected to a standard marine propeller.”

Based on that, the input power is a constant because they are comparing against the same motor. I would assume the power consumption is constant rather than bursty for either propulsion system, so there isn’t any peak-vs-avg power to be concerned about either.