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  • octobob@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlAI to make us more private?
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    1 month ago

    Yeah agreed. What’s going on in my state of Pennsylvania is they’re reopening the Three Mile Island nuclear plant out near Harrisburg for the sole reason of powering Microsoft’s AI data centers. This will be Unit 1 which was closed in 2019. Unit 2 was the one that was permanently closed after the meltdown in 1979.

    I’m all for nuclear power. I think it’s our best option for an alternative energy source. But the only reason they’re opening the plant again is because our grid can’t keep up with AI. I believe the data centers is the only thing the nuke plant will power.

    I’ve also seen the scale of things in my work in terms of power demands. I’m an industrial electrical technician, and part of our business is the control panels for cooling the server racks for Amazon data centers. They just keep buying more more and more of them, projected til at least 2035 right now. All these big tech companies are totally revamping everything for AI. Like before a typical rack section might have drawn let’s say 1000 watts, now it’s more like 10,000 watts. Again, just for AI.









  • Not sure how true this is only because I think it can vary wildly.

    I have more problems telling Linux to not play audio through my dualsense controller. It’ll just default to using it for the most random things, like my music player or gamecube emulator or whatever. I don’t plug headphones into it, I have a DAC, so not sure if it’s playing there and just needs a headset plugged in it or what. But I think that’s OP’s goal.

    Kinda wild all things considered since my controller is plugged in via USB cable


  • I swear to god working in an engineering field for the past 10 years or so has dramatically changed my grammar. Do you know who has the absolute worst grammar and spelling of anyone I’ve ever met? My boss. “First 2 channels shoul dBe woired for 0-10vDC” was a note he left on my desk yesterday. Do you know who’s the smartest person I’ve ever met when it comes to electrical? Also my boss.

    It’s never a 1 to 1 comparison of intelligence fwiw. Everyone in this field spits out emails in half-cobbled together sentences and phrases and it just works somehow. When I type out multiple paragraphs and overexplain things, half the time they’ll just come down to the shop to talk instead.

    But yeah I have realized that this will bleed out into the rest of my communication haha. I’ll look back at texts I send quickly to my fiance and see that I’m skipping words or saying shit wrong. Oh well, the ideas are communicated just as well most the time.


  • Pittsburgh’s great! I’ve lived here my whole life, bought an old home from 1890 here during covid that’s right along the Allegheny River. I can see it from my front stoop. I’m also surrounded by woods and have only one neighbor who’s about a hundred feet away. But I can still walk around the city or bus most places pretty easily.

    I’m currently renovating the home slowly as I go, but I love it to death. This is me and my fiance’s forever home for sure.

    Pittsburgh is a great mix of Appalachian country, rust belt, and small city all in one. Like I can drive maybe 15 minutes up the road and I’m in the sticks, or I can bop around the city. There’s also the suburbs of course, but I have no reason to go to them unless I’m driving thru them.

    I’ve worked in factories for the past 10 years or so in electrical manufacturing of control and power systems for the big steel mills around the country. I love that the industry is still here if you can drive. Like I get to work in 20 minutes, can’t beat it. Most industry is quite a drive outside other cities.


  • Yikes. Lane correction legit freaks me out. I thought it could always be turned off long term but I guess not.

    It would be a disaster using that in the city I live in (Pittsburgh). Like I’m sorry that our roads are based on deer trails from the 1800s that go through woods and winding up and down hills. With all the city traffic to go with it.

    Downtown can be even worse. Like you legit have to break traffic laws to get around, there’s no other way. If one of them cars “corrected” me on a tight narrow street when I go over the double yellow to pass someone on a bicycle, that could end terribly for everyone.

    It’s like the people that designed these cars only ever have to drive on perfect grids with multiple lanes or the highway.



  • Why even lump pedos in the same sentence with the gays

    This is an age-old hurtful stereotype. I’m hoping you don’t believe there’s any connection, because I have heard that before from bigots in my life and it just makes me see red. Same as the whole “homophobes are just closeted gays let’s point that out as if it’s a sickness”.

    I’m just tryin to exist, not be considered “harmful” to anyone