One thing I’d add is a whole house surge suppressor.

I saw the power lines arcing to either each other or the bamboo outside our house last week during a bad storm.

A whole house surge suppressor is only like $100, I’m gonna get one soon and install it. I saw it’s best to install it as close as possible to the main incoming power lugs, one lead on each leg of the split phase 120/240.

A UPS will protect against surges but it’s just a good idea with how many appliances and devices have circuit boards in homes these days. Like your furnace, oven, washing machine, game console, TV, etc.

I had an insane surge last winter so it’s a long time coming haha. I woke up and half my circuits were off. I measured 170v to gnd on one of the legs. Power company and fire dept had to show up to fix it.

Power is ehh not great where I live.

Edit: for your point about a NAS failure. If that were to happen, since I use unRAID, I could just throw the disks on any Linux PC and my data would be fine.

This headline goes crazy

I’m so fuckin tired of this trope that the people who hate gays and are outright dangerous to us are just in the closet. The number of people this actually applies to is a small minority and yet it’s brung up every time anyone remotely homophobic makes the news. Like it can be explained away that the root cause someone wishes to enact violence is he fantasizes about taking it up the butt, as if there’s something wrong or perverted about that, and not just a way of life for millions of people.

I’m running it fine thru proton on Linux. I played it a few months back.

Other than the limiting the frame rate on only the final mission due to a bug, it worked great.

Get a OnePlus 13. They’re ~$900 now but that will soon drop when the new model drops, or black Friday or whatever.

No bloat, great specs, a new battery technology that lasts for 2 days for me.

Or you could just do your chores and not drop 20k

I’ve poked around on FMHY and most of the direct download sites are total garbage banner ads everywhere and popup galore with slow ass download speeds. Even the big public trackers like 1337x are whack in this regard. Yes obviously use an adblocker which takes care of that problem but if the ~average user goes at this blind they’re gonna end up on some random ass sites from misclicks or get redirected or at best wait way too long for a download or it’s in parts of an archive and they have to wait til tomorrow for another download etc etc.

Private trackers or bust, always and forever

Some of the biggest data centers are pushing 100 megawatts. When I worked on the solar farms out west, an entire industrial site would be around 200-400 megawatts.

For context, those sites would be powering entire towns. The Blythe mesa solar project is over 2,000 acres of solar panels. It’s bigger than the town. Quite a bit of Las Vegas is ran on solar.

It’s not quite as simple as just sticking panels on the roof of the data center. It also needs to be reliable enough to store the energy so it’s available at night when the sun is down. This is still one of solar’s biggest hurdles.

They fired up an old decommissioned nuke plant in Eastern Pennsylvania to power a Microsoft data center

Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that’s all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you’d probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.