With my NAS, plex and Usenet I reinvented streaming. It’s awesome.

You should read up on penalties for HIPAA violations, they don’t fuck around.

I’m not saying that won’t happen but if it does Microsoft will be absolutely fucked as they got caught committing several million HIPAA violations, not to mention any exposure to classified material on government computers.

No, you don’t understand, these guys are tech bros, they’re special, for reasons.

It sounds like drivers still need to be compiled for ARM. I’ve been waiting for years now for Dymo to release one for their label printers so I can buy new computers.

“Can I just stop you right there?” like you have something important to say, and then just walk away leaving them confused as hell.

I wish this canard that fusion is right around the corner would die, we’re nowhere near. Where are people like OP getting their information from?

I don’t think you know what disingenuous means.

Pirate what you want, but trying to spin the argument this way is just disingenuous.

I’m not following you. Spotify is notorious for paying out very little to artists, so therefore they don’t deserve my business, fuck 'em.

Instead I like to support the artists directly.

As to your second point, I’ve never had a problem discovering new music.

I’ve seen quite a few download codes included with vinyl releases that have 24 bit wav/flac files available. Some will even offer 88.2/96kHz files.

You could argue that the quality difference isn’t detectable between those and an MP3 rip of a CD though.

you suggest they get $0?

They make more from what I suggested than they do from Spotify.

Spotify can die in a fire for all I care. Sail the high seas and if you like an artist buy physical releases/merch/tickets.

How about we regulate all the other power sources as heavily as we regulate nuclear?

I can’t believe I even have to mention this but you realize that nuclear power has safety issues that wind and solar do not? Hence the regulation.

And even leaving aside cost, what about other benefits?

Such as?

You’re linking to a pro-nuclear trade group.

Capital costs:

Nuclear: $6,695–7,547

Wind power: $1,718

Solar PV with storage: $1,748

Global levelized cost of generation (US$ per MWh):

Nuclear: 140–221

Wind: 24–75

PV: 24–96

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#

Spike Milligan’s headstone reads, “I told you I was ill”

Damn, that’s a lot of porn.

Literally every source I’ve come across has nuclear being massively more expensive than renewables + storage, at least in the West.

The market decides what to invest in in a capitalist economy and they will tend to go for the thing that makes them the most money in the shortest time possible and that’s why new nuclear isn’t happening much.

If you’re advocating for public ownership of utilities so there’s central planning and long term thinking instead of profit chasing, that’s an interesting debate to have.

This isn’t true but I’m happy to be proved wrong.

Sure, I get that. My priorities are clean energy that is as cheap as possible and nuclear just can’t compete on cost.

It has value in terms of research but I’ve seen no evidence that we’re even remotely close to hooking a fusion reactor up to a grid.