We Millennials were born in a sweet spot where PCs were widespread enough to be virtually in every house since childhood but also not too streamlined and simplified.
We had a pc that sometimes didn't work properly, we had to use the command line from time to time, troubleshoot and look up errors. When something fails we try to find out why and only after a while we give up and claim it's an error or look for help.
Also you know, stupid people are in every generation.
It's 741 million right now, and to be fair about 91.8% of the population lives outside Europe.
Then again how many of those people would be in the market for a fairphone anyways? Can we include China and India? Not sure if the Chinese government would see kindly to the fairphone (maybe I don't know) and Indians would probably be outside the target since the fairphone is rather expensive (or maybe not I'm not sure)
At this point they're just begging us to go high seas
I love when people are both nitpicky AND wrong
You're joking but everytime I send an email I have to check seniority and make assessment based on ego
Yes it's stupid, yes many Italians are pissed about this too, yes this will sunk our economy even more, yey italy
This is some Tumblr shit
Yes exactly, fear my psychic powers!
Even if the plug would hold the volcano would just split open another hole in the earth and erupt from there
For gay people of course, although ethero can enjoy it too as a bonus. Ok next question
Tbh the fact that they were even ABLE to push something like that without anyone noticing is a red flag for the work environment and workflow.
There's a misconception regarding the "consumption" of water, also a bit of a bias towards AI data centers whereas most used water is actually from energy production (via carbon, fuel or even hydroelectric) which is actually a factor to be considered when calculating the actual water use and consumption.
Regarding energy production and water "consumption" I read some papers and as far as I could understand numbers flactuate wildly. 5-40% of the water that runs through the system ends up being consumed via evaporation (so from potentially drinkable/usable for agriculture water to mostly water that ends up in the sea).
What I'm trying to say is that, yes, we should be very aware of the water that we consume in our big data centers but should also put a great focus on the water used by the energy that fuels the data center itself, much of the discourse ends up being "haha use water for email silly" when it should be a catalyst for a more informed approach to water consumption.
Basically I fear that the ai industry can make use of our ignorance and eappease with some "net zero" bs completely ignoring where most of the water is consumed and how.
And yes there are solutions to avoid using fresh water for energy production: solar/wind, using sea water, using polluted water, more sophisticated systems that actually "consume" as little water as possible. These methods have drawbacks that our governments and industry refuse to face and would rather consume and abuse our resources, I really want people to focus on that.