“Pumped storage” is already a thing. Using excess grid electricity to pump water uphill.

Though excavating underground cavern for pumped storage sounds exceedingly expensive:O

Hydro is definitely highly geography dependant, and certainly the environmental impact can be severe. Though there’s also been great advancements in smaller scale “low head” hydro where you don’t need to submerge half a valley or block migratory paths. Hence curiosity where hydro stacks up.

I suppose it’s so geography dependant you can’t make a meaningful global average to compare with other forms.

Then again in my particular neck of the woods solar is limited at best, for half the year. While the local landscape is nothing but mountains, valleys , lakes and rivers. So many lakes and rivers.

Another neat thing about hydro is that it’s a renewable base load. Geothermal is another, but that’s also highly geography dependant

Disappointing DW didn’t include hydropower in the price comparison graphic. Also would have been interesting to see where offshore wind stacks up, though tbh I’m not sure the math is even in yet for offshore wind

You’re basically calling bullshit on a charity having increased fuel prices, because you’re not aware of any Iran conflict!

Perfect metaphor

Super aggressive scraping bots who ignore robots.txt

It’s not unique to Gnome, and it’s been a problem for a year or so

I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues

Yes

Come to the dark side, we’ve got new Plasma, and exhausting manual configuration

See the trick is to never turn the computer off, to avoid wearing out the power button :}

That’s a sweet case though, maybe you can find a replacement power button

Ah, the computer of Theseus. My 20year old server of Theseus only has the chassis left of original parts. And an unplugged floppy and DVD drive xD

Add to that doing field work with slow and unreliable internet, and it literally takes 30 seconds to open the context menu in explorer. Gotta wait for corporate.exe to time out first. At least opening the start menu doesn’t literally take 30 seconds anymore, after a regedit change to stop it from searching online first.

Another reason is when developing the Web version first. Draw.io is a good example, where we get a bonus desktop(electron) version “for free” though the product was developed as a web app.