Oh, Canning is the process I was thinking o.

There’s broadly two types of pickles. One is fermented. The other cooked a brine.

Is this fermented or cookedbrined? Looks like a cooked pickle recipe to me but I’m not an expert.

I’m willing to try it.

No, the billionaires will continue to hoard.

ETA I just checked and with an EV (short trips) my house averages about 25 a day (past month only no heat no ac) of which 16 is the overnight car charging rate. I’d be tearing the place apart looking for a server rack.

Outdoor workshop having 200a service isn’t that surprising. It’s a shop, you need power for things. Maybe they planned a big electric heater and a dozen big power tools like saws and or lathes. Or welding. Chances are the cost between 100A and 200A wasn’t much. Saved money not populating breakers.

Figure out how to read the meter; they usually have some kind of display for instant consumption. Turn all the breakers off - that should be zero. Flip them on one by one and watch for spikes. The noninvasive option is to buy a clamp meter but you have to know how to use it and how to be safe in a live panel.

Non-LED lighting can add up fast. Electric clothes dryers are arguably the least efficient use of electricity in a home. Portable AC is pretty bad too. Well pumps can draw quite a bit - make sure the pressure tank is working and the well pump isn’t running a lot. There’s efficient models but they’re expensive. Side note - put that UV on a battery backup. It doesn’t need to be much but any water usage during an outage, or simply a longer outage means the lines are potentially contaminated and need to be disinfected. You could have a fridge that has bad seals or a freezer that’s set too cold - I pushed my freezer one setting cooler and it runs A LOT so I set it back to default.

Things like older TV can draw more than you think. Passive draw from standby appliances can add up but you still need a lot to make a difference. The blowers on the furnace and water heater if you don’t have a chimney are going to be pretty beefy. Old furnaces have fans that are not too efficient.

Hour by hour analysis could be useful to look at. Look for a Green Button in the billing portal.

You could also enter the dark side and set up something like the Emporoa Vue and Homeassistant and get all the data.

Lighter is helpful. The bigger screen models are great until you slip it in a bag and it morphs into lead.

Lit Apple logo is back to basics.

Touch screen - I guess enough degrees of separation between this team and Steve Jobs; I heard he was the reason it never happened. I have a touch laptop for work and never use it. It just gets manky with fingerprints. I’m sorta moderate on the greasy fingers scale, but I’ve see what happens if the user is a hand lotion type of person. Eww

It’s not because the bots scrape stuff they shouldn’t, because that’s the point.

It’s because these companies are responsible for an enormous increase in in the amount of linkfarming slop content that is garbage data to them.

Exactly! And they held her up as some kind of symbol of women’s liberation.

I remember that she was getting a lot of positive press because she was public about pregnancy or something but returned to full time work like 5 days after she gave birth which is dystopian as hell.

A real “girl boss” in a position of power and wealth and public visibility needs to use that platform to take a year or two of maternity leave and spend that time caring for the child and fighting to get those rights to everyone.

That’s not enshittification; enshittification is (to simplify) making a product worse to increase profitability.

In this case the CEO is conducting loyalty tests. It’s more of an HR issue. Groupthink.

The number of AI datacenters that are actually datacenters and not just fields of gravel is low.

I’m not a coder, but I do a bit on the side. I’ve done some vibe coding “give me a script that does the thing” but it’s scary because I have absolutely no idea what it does. Reading code at least for me takes a really long time and with ADHD it just doesn’t sink in. Writing it, I know what it’s doing. When the code breaks, I don’t just ask the model to fix it. It goes off the rails if I do. I need to understand why it broke before I can ask for a proper fix.

So - I agree with your assessment. I don’t think the alll in on AI vibe coding people had the kind of coder mindset in the first place.

My landlord told me it would be expensive to buy my house too and yet

I think that’s exactly right.

Paul Kedrosky was on Zitron’s podcast some time ago and said that he’s not sure that the return on the datacentres will be enough to pay for interest on the debt issued to build them - and it’ll never pay back the original capital. That should scare everyone. He also talks about how the bond markets - including USA bonds - are affected by the sheer size of AI debt. It’s quite worrying.

Disabling 8.3 filename creation has been a recommendation in the Best Practices Analyser since Server 2008. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/ff633453(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

I had a GPO to disable it corp wide back then and didn’t have any reports of issues.