Base price was supposed to be $750 for the 512GB model. I would expect $899 at most for a 2TB model back at pre AI bullshit prices to miss the "1k" negative headline they are riding now. The 150 upcharge for 2TB would have been totally in spec, if a bit expensive as those drives were going for under $100 for a while.

Nah, something wrong with the video embed on some browsers. I just tapped the middle play button on the fence video and it stated showing one about hidden solar panels at historical sites.

Most of these fence panels are bi-facial, i.e they have panels on both sides. They catch light reflected from the ground/snow/etc. They cost a bit more than single pane panels, but not a lot more. Like 15-20%.

You dont get nearly double the power, but they tend to work a bit better then single panels facing the sun because solar panel efficeny degrades with heat. When the sun is at its strongest, traditional roof mount panels take a significant efficiency hit. Because bifacial panels are generally positioned more flexibly, they have much better cooling that compensates for their bad angle.

Have no idea what you mean about vandalism. I see solar panels all around in various neighborhoods in a big city and they are never damaged. You will likely never have an issue, and even then the individual panels aren't that expensive to replace. A wood fence would likely cost more to cover the same surface area of one 7ft x4 ft panel.

The show even had it in the contracts that the showrunners/ABC automatically got something like 5% of their company just for appearing.

The public outrage (and mark Cuban apparently) got that cut out after it was exposed, but it was amazingly exploitive.

https://www.inc.com/...

Technology connections did a barn burner video on solar, and opted to do some testing on farmland use. In his comparison, he looked at 100 acres of ethanol corn farmland, i.e the farm land used to only add ethnol to gasoline.

He found that compared to the fuel produced by the single yearly harvest of corn, that the electrify generated by solar panels on it would allow EVs to cover 70x as much distance, and that was assuming the worst case in EV fuel efficiency. Thats how wildly inefficient we use "prime farmland" now to make gasoline additives, but nary a peep is heard about that for some reason.

Another calculation he did? He also found that if we just used ethanol corn farmland, just the land that makes gas for cars in a thinly veiled farmer subsidy program, and covered them with solar panels instead, we could produce 7x the total energy demand of the entire United States. Seven. Times.

This of course ignored interconnects, storage , georgraphy and what not, but the scale is so unimaginable, that they almost don't matter. If we just eliminated gasoline handouts to farmers and slapped solar panels on that land, we could power all of america with solar and use not 1 square foots of other farmland.

The farmland/scale debate is agitprop. Its noise to make excuses to not use the cheap, magic energy machines that make power for free for decades and instead to keep paying oil companies trillions, forever.

I hated it the first time I watched it because it felt trite and asinine. I watched it again years later in a different headspace without the same expectations and it clicked for me.

Its a movie that mixes the deeply mundane with the deeply absurd on purpose, and it does it very well. It has a main charector that is boring as hell as a person but also an iconoclast that is immune from consequence, which the movie just amps up and up and up into mania, all while "the dude" just drifts through it. That conflict is where most of the humor lies, alongside just stunning acting from basically everyone in the movie.

The movie just moves from iconic moment to iconic moment between these insane people doing insane things in sometimes day to day ways, mixing up what normalicy is as a whole. Is it paying for half and half at a grocery store with a check you know will bounce in your bathrobe? Is it offering to blow strangers by your pool for 10k? Is it strapping yourself to a harness and screeching at a painting you fling yourself at to add a new layer of paint? Yes, it's all normal and its all absurd, just like the rest of the human experience.

He also made an indie game and is running a coop games media business now called "second wind" after the escapist owners opted to foot gun themselves and cause literally the whole staff to quit and spin up their own business together. Now all his coworkers are also co-owners.

Good dude who puts his money where is mouth is.

I'd probally skip my own show to watch Korn, so I get it.

Say what you want about the rap-rock era, Korn put on a fucking show.

Jellyfin client needs to run on an OS. I use a raspi 5 as the local PC, then libreelec, to run the jellyfin for kodi client. It works flawlessly.

Yeah that works well. There is also Kodi, which is an excellent and deep FOSS project for HTPCs. It has native jellyfin clients from the jellyfin devs if you want to go all in on jellyfin, but also has its own interface as well for other apps like ad free YouTube/etc.

For an OS, I'd recommend "libreelec," which is just a Linux distro that boots immediately into kodi.

Because the people whining own $6 million lake front homes and are likely just spoiled rotten instead of having a real issue. Even their own decibel readings are directly under the bridge, not from inside the homes. To "fix" the issue, they want to slow the trains down for 6 hrs/day, including during the morning rush hour, which will effect 10 of thousands of people daily.

Its just very rich people being mad about having "the poors" anywhere near their homes. Its why places like mercer island fought bus depots, public housing and the light rail for years. They dont want other people using public space that they feel like they deserve to themselves.

He just had an old buddy on his show a few days ago who was talking to him about how Trump had turned on Republicans, specially about selling out federal land. Rogan agreed, starts ranting about the Epstein files, but then immediately talks about how great Trump is, and how cool he is in person, and just how much he "loves america." His pal then talked about how the upcoming whitehouse fight was shameful, and that government should lead, not put on entertainment, and Rogan just fully stopped pretending to push back at all.

Rogan rants and raves, but he is close friends with Trump. He won't turn his back on him.

Imperative stonager works there too. You've just never seen him because he hasen't accepted a meeting invite is 14 years.

He came out and said him and Trump are solid. I think he performed at his inauguration too.

I bet you can guess the answer.

How about a live album of a concert in NYC that featured the twin towers on fire that was released on 9/11

I found the album a few weeks later in stores, even after they pulled it. Solid.

Cause hulk hogan was a trump boosting racist?

The fruit was rotting on the ground, mate.

Him brashly showing naked pictures of her to people in front of her was sexual assault, meant to damage her mind/emotions/social connections.

Why are you only interested in the damage done to his body, and not the damage done to her life?

Why is her "option of last resort" use of violence not okay when ever other attempt failed to protect her? How else can she protect herself when literally everyone else refused to?

Its a common phrase for an exceptional mind. Its not meant to be taken purely literally becsuse its untestable, but generally remarked upon in hindsight.

You can argue Newton fit the bill even though Liebniz was a peer of his. Einstein and Oppenheimer, etc.

$15 + "get to hawaii." The last half is the tricky part, but I'm still onboard.

"On by default unless you run down a setting buried in a menu" is the thinnest type of optional in computing.