JohnEdwa

They did that for the second gen meters.

"The first covers newer, second generation (SMETS2) meters, where only the communications module needs swapping out, but even this is likely to cost £1.3 to £1.4 billion (c $1.7 to $1.9 billion) before the hardware cost of each new hub is even factored in.

The other is for an estimated 7 million older, first-generation (SMETS1) meter installations, which have the cellular comms hard-wired in, so the whole meter typically needs replacing. The report authors estimate this will cost another £2.1 billion to £2.45 billion ($2.8 billion to $3.3 billion), at an indicative replacement cost of £300 to £350 per installation."

There’s a space heater called the Trio and a few furnace replacement things. And in general, waste server heat can often directly plug into central heating systems, be it mining bitcoins or Google datacenters.

Funny thing though, if you look at the data, nuclear is safer than wind and solar per kWh in deaths because installers and maintainers keep falling from rooftops and wind turbines.

Because someone thought that people would like a TV where the functionality of an Apple TV box is built in, so you wouldn’t need one. And on paper, that indeed would be pretty neat.

Then inevitably, capitalism happened and enshittified that idea in a heartbeat.

Because it’s way, way cheaper to pay one guy to sit in a room monitoring 50 pump stations remotely, than it is to pay 50 guys to sit in random pump stations 24/7 when they don’t need human intervention for months on end.

Why aren’t the networks properly air-gapped and protected? Read the first five words again.

It’s very helpful if you want to confidently get fed incorrect information on occasions. At one point I tried to get direct link to my profile by searching “JohnEdwa Lemmy”, and that summary claimed I was the admin of sopuli.xyz, the Lemmy instance I use. Absolutely no clue why, as I have never been an admin of anything online.

Apparently today I’m the main developer of Boost for Reddit.

(Refresh) No, it actually meant Sync.

(Refresh) Or maybe I also made Pinpoint. Look, the source is Wikipedia, it can’t be wrong.

I really liked the concept art CD Projekt Red did for a CP77 version. The design itself isn’t all that bad, it just really doesn’t work for “In-Real Life 2024”.

Half of the panels on a cybertruck are just stuck on with glue and can be peeled off by hand.
It doesn’t seem like something all that hard to fix, they are falling off on their own already. If only they invented some mechanical way to hold car parts together instead of glue…

Also who the hell thought Predator was an appropriate name for any commercial product, it’s pretty yikes.

As in not prey. A line of gaming stuff so superior that it exploits the market and eats the competition, competition like the Alienware line. Alien vs Predator, and all that?

The world was a slightly more innocent place two decades ago.