10 000 TWh/yr is one third of the current total electric energy generation of the whole planet, is not a small amount.

Source, page 39 of the full report:

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025/electr...

I was born in 1985 and sometimes I wish I was born 10 years earlier to get to experience the heydays of the 8 and 16-bit home computers.

This is something that I have been noticing for years. Whenever I try to imagine "the past" (any time period before I was born), I tend to imagine it with fuzzy colors and film grain, like and old movie. It takes me some conscious effort to remember that the past looked the same as the present!

You walk to Einstein and Laszlo. They tell you they are building nuclear. You lol. I come to you I tell you the scientists say they can do it. You lol. Your IQ is..

I work in fusion research, which is a way more realistic goal than AGI and yet is perpetually 20 years away, so please try to find a better analogy :P

Poverty is a social and political issue, not technological. We have more than enough resources on this planet to fix it, but we don't.

This is a actually the fallacy of communism. It can never and will never be "fixed" like that.

I won't be fixed by magical AI either.

In which bizarre world is an RC script easier to understand than a systemd service file? There is nothing simple about RC scripts.

> But while it was once common to walk into a store and find a wide array of computer-oriented furniture for sale, or visit a home and see a PC-like device semi-permanently set up in the den, it seems to be something that almost never happens anymore.

My experience is the opposite: due to the increasing popularity in PC gaming, furniture stores now carry gaming-oriented desks and chairs that they didn't sell before.

> My recollection is that, usually, it crashed more often than that. The 50 days thing was IIRC only the time for it to be guaranteed to crash (due to some counter overflowing).

I had forgotten about this issue (never got a Windows 9x survive more than a few days without crashing), and apparently it was a 32-bit millisecond counter that would overflow after 49.7 days:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-da...

> (this one is arguably necessary, but they made it complicated, especially if you want to send logs to a centralized remote location or use another utility to view logs)

It is not complicated at all. Recent enough versions of systemd support journal forwarding, but even without it, configuring rsyslog is extremely easy:

1. Install rsyslog

2. Create a file /etc/rsyslog.d/forwarding.conf

    $ActionForwardDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat
    *.* @@${your-syslog-server-here}:514

3. Restart rsyslog

4. Profit.

Consoles still exist, but they have evolved to use PC hardware.

Switch is more like smartphone hardware, though with differentiation and innovation in the form factor, hybrid docking design, and joy-con controllers; and it's clearly still a game console, running a custom OS and software and supporting game cartridges.

The influence goes both ways however - both the Steam Deck and Steam Machine are attempts to build a PC that resembles a game console (the former being Switch-like and the latter as something of a "GabeCube.") Steam Deck's Game Mode UI and Steam's Big Picture mode try to provide a console-like experience as well.