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It should be a great idea, but I feel like the quantities involved are too vastly different.

I'm seeing estimates of 300kW/hectare (30MW/km² or 77MW/mile²) for heating glasshouses. With individual datacentres frequently confirming multiple gigawatts, the land area required just doesn't match up.

This is not to say it isn't worth considering, but it would be a rounding error in the datacentre's heat output before you ran out of space to build more glasshouses.

There's a secondary concern of water consumption. You might extend that to ah but what if we could use that to grow the plants too? but the evaporated cooling water out of one of these systems tends to be anything but clean. Maybe that's a more solvable problem.

I started with an assumption there might have been a when component to that question, but nope, apparently we're taking about 2025 and not 1995.

Somewhat amazingly though, brand new dot matrix printers - not just new old stock, but newly-manufactured units including modern USB and/or Ethernet interfaces - and even the big cartons of tractor-feed continuous paper are still readily available.

As dot matrix printers have not gone the way of the dodo, also neither have carbonless triplicate forms, which they are uniquely able to print on. Seems that's still a big selling point for these printers.

It's an old trope, but it is of those things that pictures truly cannot capture, too. The ship is unfathomably large.

I didn't have a camera lens wide enough to reasonably get the entire thing in frame, from any location in the building.

We took gin, a bottle of tonic water syrup, and a lemon. The tannins in the river water it was mixed with making it look like a cup of tea in no way detracted from the experience.

Your other trick is to decant the alcohol into a stainless steel drink bottle. Saw so many people pulling glass bottles of spirits out of their pack, lotta extra weight to lug about with you.

Compose key, hyphen, hypen. Because while it's a less common usage, visually I prefer the shorter en dash – over the em dash — anyway.

Also for people missing the Unix-style compose key on Windows: https://wincompose.info/. Memorising numeric codes is for chumps :)

If he makes it into the bathroom, my (void) will put his paws on the seat between my legs and try to headbutt me in the nose while I'm pooping.

Like dude, I try to even avoid eye contact with you when you're in YOUR toilet, don't I deserve the same respect?

number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it's called)

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness).

I'm considering a similar one.

Our kitchen ceiling lights now have a Shelly relay in their circuit. I'm considering a smart bulb in the rangehood - unusually, it fits a full-size A60/B22 bulb, so basically any standard smart lighting is an option - so it can be synced with the rest of the kitchen lights.

Also who wouldn't want to be able to have green light while cooking?

Not seen mentioned yet, but Homeworld (1999).

The transition from the opening cutscene to the game proper scored to Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) by Samuel Barber really set the tone for the thing.

I don't remember much else about the soundtrack, but that one piece stuck with me.

"Surveillance-minded" (hereafter, "Helicopter") parents were almost certainly already doing that.

It just required a sharp knife and a tube of contact adhesive previously.

(also Xperia weirdo, checking in)

This year's 1vii - which I did unfortunately pay said $1500 for - still has all of those. Hole-puch free display, SD card slot, headphone jack.

It's lost the dedicated notification LED, but - aside from the change from a 21:9 to 19:9 display which I don't love, but is far from a deal-breaker - that's the only other outward change from the 1ii I had before.

Still the best waterproofing in the industry too, absolutely can't fault Sony there.

Curiously, why on the back?

I always found that a worse location than phones that had it on the side (usually paired with the power button), as you can't unlock your phone if it's lying flat on a table without picking it up.

(Also the way I typically hold my phone, the usually top centre sensor is absolutely nowhere near where any of my fingers naturally sit, and requires awkward bending to reach it)

I know a lot of people like it, but I've never been able to figure out what it was about it.