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State regulators last year greenlit new gas- and diesel-fired turbines to meet spiking energy demand that Georgia Power said comes mostly from data centers. Now, the utility is asking to keep coal plants open longer than planned for the same reason. Electric co-ops, too, including Meta’s power supplier, are planning to add non-renewable resources to power data centers and other large power users. 

These utilities are still adding solar and other renewables. But the influx of fossil fuels, mostly to serve data centers, is a major shift that could have serious consequences for climate change.

Morans.

Here's mine, in order of ownership. I'd love to read about others' experiences.

Back in the late '90s I got my first anything with an engine, a fairly clapped out 50cc Yamaha Spy 2-stroke scooter. I was 16 and it was affordable transportation, but it lit the spark of interest in two-wheeled fun.

Then around 2002 I was in college and working part time, I sold the scooter and got a 1997 Yamaha Virago 125. My first 'real bike', with a thunderous 10 horsepower.

A couple of years later I graduated college and wound up getting a car to go to work in, as I lived in Ireland where it rains more often than not, and I could not afford nor have the space to keep the bike along with the car, so the Virago was sold.

Several years of 4-wheeled life pass by, then we arrive at 2014. During the previous 10 years I have moved to the US with my job, got married, and so forth. Now I'm old enough and financially solvent enough to afford a bike as well as a car and a place to live, and I go get my motorcycle endorsement (again, I essentially had to start over when I moved countries) and buy my first (and only) brand new bike - a white 2014 Suzuki v-Strom 650. I lived in Idaho at the time, which provided plenty of access to mountain roads and stuff to ride around on, it was a good fit. I kept the 'Strom until 2018 (I had recently moved to the flat midwest), and then started bike-hopping more.

I traded it in for a used and cheap (because they were very unpopular and wideley considered to be ugly) Honda CTX1300. I wanted to try something with a V4, and the OEM panniers and stuff were very attractive to me. I kept the CTX for just under a year, though. I just didn't fall in love with it. It was very comfortable and would be an excellent machine to ride across America in. Think of it as Goldwing lite. It felt a little bit too 'dad' for me at the time. Also it weighed like 725 lbs.

At the end of the season I traded again, this time getting myself onto a 2016 Yamaha XSR900. That bike was awesome. It had a torquey triple that could get going silly fast, with retro-influenced style. I rode the XSR for several years, and did some simple bolt-on mods like an improved LED headlight (the stock halogen was garbage), nice exhaust, better seat, etc.

I sold the XSR in spring of 2023 and bought a well-used 2014 BMW F800GT. It was a drop of about 30 horsepower from the XSR, but came with a lot of practicality, with OEM bags and stuff. However, this was another bike that I just didn't connect with, and I traded it in spring of 2024.

I replaced the BMW with a 2018 Triumph Tiger 1200 XRx with only 2,500 miles on it. It came with the expensive OEM panniers and is the first bike I've had with factory heated grips and seat. It also has gobs of power with that big triple, something I missed from the XSR. It doesn't get up and go quite like the XSR considering the extra weight and higher center of gravity, but it has more than enough power to keep me happy now. It also is a single-sided swingarm, shaft-drive setup which I think is pretty cool.

I still have that Triumph today, but a few weeks ago I acquired another bike - the 1975 Honda CB750F super sport pictured here. It has 34,000 miles and change on the odometer, but who knows how accurate that is. The state of Illinois doesn't require odometer readings for anything vintage. This is my first inline four bike, and I've been enjoying riding it around. It makes the 2018 Triumph feel like an absolute rocketship. I haven't hard carbs since that late '90s Virago!

The CB had 35-year-old hard-as-rock dry-rotted tires on it, but otherwise it ran pretty great. I've replaced the tires (that was a real pain in the ass, I don't think I want spoked wheels again on a future bike), and have tweaked a few things to make it run even better. Next job on the list is new brake pads and steel-braided lines. The front brake lines appear to be original from 1975 and they're spanked. Also, the front brake light switch is kaput. That's plumbed into the brake lines so I'll replace that when I do the lines.

It certainly helps to have a community of vintage bike nerds in the area to give advice, most shops do not want to work on anything this old.

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Changes since the 2025051900 release:

• Private Space: set correct state on user start or stop for secondary users
• Private Space: make sure nested profiles in secondary users have their storage put at rest when the parent profile's session is ended
• Keyboard: remove dedicated language switch key from the phone layout since it's already shown by the OS itself and uses up too much space with the emoji key already next to the space bar

As you might have noticed, there was a bit of drama lately around the moderation of !europe@feddit.org and feddit.org in general, with a result being the creation of !Europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

So, I just checked the modlogs for unrelated reasons and stumbled upon this:

I have never engaged with this new community nor have I participated in any discussion around the aforementioned issues before the ban. I made one comment yesterday that refers to the discussion and one comment three days ago arguing about the way the feddit admins argued their point and stating the holocaust was on a much larger scale than the genocide against Palestine.

I don't know if I want this situation to be remedied though as this to me looks like guilty by association (I engage a lot with communities on feddit.org since I'm german and it's the largest german instance with a lot of relevant communities, so, duh) but I want to know if I oversaw something or if this is the style of moderation in the new community or the whole instance.

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Changes since the 2025050700 release:

• add NFC auto-turn-off setting to go along with the existing addition of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth auto-turn-off settings
• Private Space: add new setting for disabling delayed locking of storage to make locking work like secondary user end session feature we enable, similar to the toggle we add for disabling secondary users running in the background (standard Private Space doesn't work this way to keep fingerprint unlock available after it's locked/stopped)
• Private Space: add new setting for blocking sharing the clipboard to and/or from the parent profile and other nested profiles within it
• Private Space: add support for the Install available apps feature we currently enable to support installing apps available in the Owner user to secondary users
• Private Space: add support for secondary users including all standard features with the exception of auto-locking support since our implementation of that is too complex/invasive to properly review and test while we're focused on Android 16 porting
• kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.1.138
• kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.89
• Keyboard: move the emoji key to the left of the space bar for the phone layout instead of putting it behind a long press or replacing the enter key with it when put into the emoji mode by apps like AOSP Messaging
• Keyboard: stop replacing the emoji key with the .com key for the email and URL input types
• Vanadium: update to version 136.0.7103.125.0
• add support for testing Android 16 Beta 4.1 feature flags for development builds

One scheduled speaker has also pulled out of the New York-based event and specifically pointed to Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.

I've heard of similar tech being used to decipher text from the dead sea scrolls, it's awesome to see these advances happening.

I bought Armored Core 6 shortly after it was released on the PS4 (one of the few games I paid for full price for). I enjoyed it very much the 1st playthrough. Stopped during my 2nd or 3rd playthrough.

Its on sale now on steam. Thinking about getting it for my steam deck, but I was wondering how different of a game it is now. Have there been any cool updates? More build options? Multiplayer still active?

How easy is it to mod on a deck? I forgot about mods!!!

There is so much discussion and uncertainty on species when its really very simple. We can add categories under species for more specificity but the definition of species must be objective and true. A species is any group of creatures that can reproduce and produce fertile off spring. This is a clear line that objectively determines where 1 species ends and where 1 species begins.

Now we can use another term either subspecies or breed, which can be described as a population within a species that predominantly reproduces within their subgroup. Problem solved? This allows for cases where 2 subgroups of animals can reproduce with each other but rarely do and completes the tree/pyramid of life.

AMMAN/DAMASCUS, May 20 (Reuters) - Syria’s leadership approved the handover of the belongings of long-dead spy Eli Cohen to Israel in a bid to ease Israeli hostility and show goodwill to U.S. President Donald Trump, three sources told Reuters.

Israel announced its recovery of the trove of documents, photographs and personal possessions relating to Cohen on Sunday, saying its spy agency Mossad had worked with an unnamed foreign intelligence agency to secure the material.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30081001

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Sighted a few dags ago near Vancouver, BC

Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China's Anhui province, smashing to the ground near visitors to the site.

Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof collapsing, narrowly missing a number of people.

Mit dem Hubschrauber musste am Mittwochnachmittag ein 81-Jähriger Mann aus dem Landkreis Regen ins Krankenhaus gebracht werden, nachdem er aus ungeklärter Ursache gegen 15.30 Uhr von der Scheiben kommend kurz vor der Ortschaft Lohberg (Landkreis Cham)nach rechts von der Fahrbahn abgekommen war.

I tested Procreate for iPad. I have no prior experience in drawing other than art lessons in school, so I was plesently suprised on how well the image turned out. Of course it was inspired by Bob Ross.

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