I have an old mac mini running nextcloud on Ubuntu, I did upgrade memory and plug in external ssd

Remember that Microsoft offers a nicely packaged version of openjdk for download

There’s something stupid-sounding about this sentence, though I can’t quite pinpoint it.

You must be picking up on the deepfake AI generated sentence

And now they are growing alfalfa in California if all places to export to Saudi Arabia

This is really fascinating, in Denmark a lot of the potatoes in the shops are all of a sudden coming from Egypt. Especially early in the season before any of the European potatoes are ready , and especially this year which is apperantly a bad potatoes harvest here (both too wet and too dry).

These Egyptian potatoes are also very clean like they have been grown in desert sand. I’m wondering what they’re using as nutrient source , some of them claim to be organic so I guess no artificial fertilisers?

Would this eventually turn the desert green again when these fields are abondend when pests and weeds take hold? I guess after they stop pumping water there might be a chance if there are enough stuff growing to hang onto some moisture form the air. ( more likely all the nutrients will be washed or blown away)

Too bad that last reply wasn’t signed by Fritz Ubermensch

https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor seems pretty active? Edit: nice link !programmer_humor@programming.dev

A bottle off rum for the morning standup?

It is also an incentive to shift demand when there is plenty of renewable power: charge your car , do the laundry and so on

Rest of the 2 Meter sessions are also worth a listen!

Needs rice

That’s just very effective propaganda from the church to discredit the authority of “witches” as healers, midwives, etc

Interesting! Thanks

Here in Germany, fluoride is mandated by law to be added to table salt, so I assume it is good to have in general.

Isn’t that iodine?

Some explain these people that climate chance is going to cause a lot more migration if not addressed

I’m on renewable crack, you should try it sometimes. I promise it is only slightly addictive.

My point is that nuclear is only good for base load unless there is storage and if you want to use renewables to cover peak demand then you also need storage. but if you have storage then there is no reason not to use 100% renewables

You can also chose to use 100% nuclear, either enough to cover peak demand (and throw away the rest when not needed) or in combination with storage. It just going to be so much more expensive…

Nuclear is not an option since it can not be scaled up and down fast enough to follow changes in demand (or the changes in very predictable renewable output) , so you’re left with pumped storage, grid interconnectivity , and demand shifting until we can cheaply use the excess in renewables to make synthetic fuels.

And calendar too!

Use ddrescue to copy to a working disk, if I remember it will try a number of times and eventually skip the broken sectors so that at least you have a working filesystem on the copy.