Sadly they dont. At least not nearly to the extend that they should be.

I’m sorry but I will put some distrust on numbers coming out of China, especially for big infrastructure projects. They could very well be true but still unobtainable in any country that considers environmental or worker protections. Its a lot cheaper to build big projects when you can simply disregard a lot of the impact.

IF the numbers are true and obtainable without violating human rights that would still only put nuclear on par with solar. Not cheaper. And the same logic that is written in the article the image is from would also apply to solar panels.

… state-owned nuclear developers receive cheap government-backed loans to build new reactors …

… government also requires electric grid operators to buy some of the power from nuclear plants at favorable rates.

… national mandate to expand nuclear power means that companies can confidently invest in domestic factories …

Do these things with solar and see the prices half immediately which would put them way below the Chinese cost per Watt again. As I said before: without government subsidies nuclear can not compete with solar and wind.

petroleum derivatives

That would exclude coal. But yes fossil fuels are generally regarded to be carbon based.

I used the term to describe fuels extracted from the earth that will eventually run out as they are not renewable (on a human timescale). I made no claim about harmfulness there, just ranking the types of fossil fuels by badness while including nuclear.

Nuclear is the least bad fossil fuel. It is infinitely better than coal and still miles better than gas/oil. That doesn’t make it good, and in no way better than renewables. Nuclear is a fossil fuel.

Also shut the fuck up with that “only works if there is sun” argument. Have you looked outside at least once? All live on earth is fueled by plants “that only work if there is sun”. There is enough sun!

most reliable

Solar+wind+batteries are cheaper by at least a factor of 10. They are also decentralized so more resistant to disasters and attacks. Nuclear is the slowest power source to adapt to new demand and spikes. It is also a single point of failure for a whole region that can take 10+ years to replace.

least harmful

How many places on earth have become uninhabitable because of solar power? Sure there are toxic mines where rare earths that are needed for solar panels and batteries are mined, but what do you think is needed to build a nuclear power plant? And where do you think uranium comes from?

Nuclear is not the (near) future of terrestrial power production. That is not disinformation, that is economics.

We could not have had electric cars for 50 years because there were no viable electric cars 50 years ago. The lack of electricity was not the reason.

Also nuclear energy is simply not cheap. Modern reactors (those that are actually good and don’t explode and don’t produce eternal poison) are so expensive that no energy company wants to build them (unless they get a shit ton of subsidies).

If we build more reactors 50 years ago we would have a lot of 50 year old reactors that were designed to last less than 50 years. And upgrading or demolishing them is expensive as fuck.

Especially if there exist loads of versions of the joke that were made pre-AI. Who hasn’t seen the gandalf with an AK-47 meme that was made 20 years ago?

Every game with a billion Dollar budget like battlefield will have a turd like EA attached.

If you want to be morally superior and boycott them you will have to make some drawbacks in production quality. No game by an Indie or AA studio can be “almost exactly like battlefield”.

Had to check for unknown WiFi signals for a client. So I was walking around with my laptop in hand and a WiFi antenna. So cafeteria, toilet, staircase, server room, chill out lounge, parking spot and rooftop. It was pretty funny trying to assign all the WiFi networks to the cars in the parking lot and to the other buildings and stores around. That day I learned just how far away you can still see WiFi networks if you use a reasonably strong antenna (just a usb-stick basically).

Novigrad from witcher 3 is pretty big,especially for a medival setting. Games like cyberpunk or GTA have huge cities but they feel smaler because you get around in cars and motorbikes. In novigrad you walk.

Yeah and after your phones Bluetooth was recorded multiple times at your home, it can be linked to you. And when it is recorded somewhere else they can create a movement profile of you. This only works if they have a lot of data collectors at many different places. Like people walking around with their glases for example.

No. Because if enough people buy the shit product, it will become the only product available. And then you can choose between an ad-fridge or no fridge at all.

Or spend it in a single night in Luanda, the Dubai of Africa. There are a lot of Oil tycoons from the US and other countries in Luanda so there are some very expensive options.

The landlords needs to give a written notice to the tenants at least 24h before they can give permission to the vampire. And the landlord needs to be present as well. Unless the vampire is a registered repair man, then the notice is enough.

Is it realy so incomprehensible to see how useful it is? I feel like most people in this threat just close their eyes and scream. Yes you can call, yes you can find a different solution to every problem. But it is still fucking convenient to just know where somebody is without you having to ask them having to actively respond.

I think most do. Everybody here only looks at the “controlling, jealous partner” and never at the actually “loving, healthy, concerned partner”.

There’s no upside

• Know when they come home or if they are stuck in traffic
• “oh you are still in the store can you get me …”
• security if they get kidnapped

It is insanely useful to know where your partner is. It is not necessary. It is still useful. I would not allow my partner 24/7 location information. It is still useful. I don’t trust any app/manufacturer that allows such a feature. It is still useful.

Its an exaggerated non-issue

Linux is not a uniform userbase. Many systems will be affected by this. Many users will be fine because they use a well used and maintained distro. Many servers and embedded systems will not be fine.

That raspi running your pihole that is never updated? Yeah that might just stop booting next time there is a poweroutage and you wouldn’t know what’s up.

You can’t lose stuff you bought just because the publisher shut down the servers.

I mean that’s exactly how it works right now. And depending on the exact wording of any laws passed as a result of this petition only the game itself or some or all micro transactions will have to be made available after official support ends.

Public servers will either sell micro transactions themselves to finance servers or make all in game content available to everyone for free. I can see publishers having a problem with that.

Most likely, if they are forced to allow public servers after they shut down the official ones, they will pull some other bullshit. Like claim the game is still available, but the 300$ cosmetics you bought are not allowed on public servers because they are separate from the game.

Beeing able to access the file doest mean you know where it is. What happens if that file isnt recent any more? Android hides the file system from the user. “Recent files” is a prime example of that.