I’m not arguing against the need, I’m saying that the economic incentives for private investors are not really great.

In these locations cost of living is usually also pretty high. Making 100k in San Francisco is not a very good salary.

The thermos approach is unfortunately almost the best we currently have, because every storage solution would have to pay taxes twice, once for buying, once for selling. Not VAT, but Stromsteuer.

Also, these dips don’t occur that often, are usually not very long and it’s kind of a reverse game of chicken. The more storage we have, the less profitable each one gets. All that makes it rather unattractive to install grid scale plants.

The reality is, that most reading is just as mindless entertainment as soap operas or tiktok doomscrolling.

All those crime, romance and drama novels that fill book shelves all over the (western?) world are essentially garbage. It’s just that reading has a higher social prestige than TV or gaming.

Yet, you spout innuendos as if you’re knowing what you’re talking about.

And literally everyone without billions in their bank account will suffer from that. But line go up, so it must be great!

I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if they re-invent Aktion T4 and kill all the undesirables. It’s just much more efficient, you know?

I’m really asking myself here: what is Elsevier doing for a living?

Like, what value do they bring to the table at this point? Pushing submissions through a shitty chatgpt wrapper?

How many men are killed because they are men?

The violence men face is different from the one women face.

You could easily throw the components into an old tower case.

Getting the PSU to fit could be a bit tricky due to the rather short cables.

If you oppose “killing innocent civilians” and “fighting back”, then that implies that the guys “fighting back” have a good reason and are therefore the good guys.

Let’s be real here, the Houthi would have shot at Israel ten years ago, if they had the means. Gaza is just a justification for them. Again, they want to kill all jews. Not just Israel, all jews.

As bad as the IDF is behaving right now, sinking civilian cargo ships isn’t exactly a good strategy for protesting these dead civilians.

And shooting aimlessly at Israeli citizens also doesn’t help.

The flag of the houthi literally says “death to the Jews, death to America”, if those guys are the ones you’re rooting for…

I seriously don’t understand why, after over 20 years of shoddy outsourcing, anyone would ever greenlight this shit?

I mean, even from a shareholder’s perspective, unless I want to sell my stocks within the next year or so, I should oppose these stunts. And since most stocks are owned by institutional investors, that are kind of interested in long term growth, this should be a no brainer.

Workstations, like real workstations, are another beast and not what’s typically referred to as “office PCs”, those are indeed rather sff builds.

Again, optiplex sff 3060 as an example, it has two SATA ports, one x16 and one x1 (I think) PCIe, and looking at the PCB, apparently there’s a version with m.2 slots. Sure, not exactly server grade storage, but if you manage to find some version with m.2 slots or invest 10€ for a cheap SATA card, you can get enough storage attached.

GPU wise, absolutely no idea. My optiplex has a wx3100 that I got for cheap and its self reported power draw never goes under 5W, but since this machine is a desktop, it doesn’t run all day.

Sorry, but you’re either pulling those numbers out of your ass or haven’t kept up with the real world for 25 years.

The numbers I’ve posted above are measured using an external meter. I’m German, I have a vested interest in knowing how much power my devices pull.

And you don’t think, office PCs pay attention to power consumption, given they are intended to run 8h a day?

My optiplex sff runs at about 10-15W in idle, and it’s an i5 6500. The t variant in my elitedesk runs at 5W.

The problem is, that the AfD slowly drifted from very conservative to far right, and for a pretty long time, they managed to seem sufficiently “bürgerlich” not to be legally extremist. It was perfectly clear that they were nazis, even years ago, but not provable.

Add to that the two unsuccessful attempts to ban the even more right and NPD. They were afraid to fail again.

Regarding the current 19%, Germany’s political, economic, and media system somehow paint itself into a corner. The politicians are largely out of ideas, they’re all fighting about petty conflicts, there’s hardly anything being done. Not that bad laws are enacted, nothing happens. The country runs on autopilot into a very obvious wall, and the politicians fight who can sit in the pilot’s seat. It’s a simulacrum.

The economic system is eroding away. The old German model doesn’t work anymore, and the old conglomerates just switched to subsidies and rent seeking, no investment, no changes. Volkswagen wants to scale back EVs in favor of ICEs.

The media are dominated by public access outlets, who are largely afraid to be critical, because someone could call them biased, and private media spreading hate for clicks.

So, Germany is currently in a pretty bad situation and many many people see that, but don’t see anyone actually doing anything about it. But because they are bombarded with hate, they choose AfD. Absolutely stupid decision, but these people just lost every bit of trust in the system. And honestly, I blame the system.

Yes, which is exactly what I wrote above.

That’s absurd, 1km/h is not the correct unit for acceleration.

Simple answer: the local police.