Fujitsu Esprimo here... 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, ... Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports... Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up
Why not a second hand small "business" or office pc? There are so many on the market now because businesses are replacing because of windows 11, while the hardware runs perfectly fine with Linux for probably many years to come. Buying one of those is cheap and reduces e-waste.
Surprising. They experimented with similar stuff in Belgium, it didn't work out. The rubber wears out quickly (expensive) and the safety effect appeared very small. Possibly even leading to false feeling of safety, making it more dangerous
It's a niche where AI helps because there's just decades of so many forums and videos full of how to do stuff in excel and with AI you get the right answer quicker with less noise around it. I use ai assistance for excel formulas all the time, works pretty good for that.
"object of a threat in which nuclear weapons are used". Just the threat of using nuclear is enough for assistance... The vague part is mainly what "assistance" might be. That what is "assistance" part is very vague in NATO too.
Well, this picture is just poor city development. Living in appartement buildings 3-5-7-9 floors high is all very fine, IF
The neighbourhood is (pedestrian) permeable enough. The space around it must be pedestrian/cycle friendly and green. The blocks in this picture are way to wide, forming too big barriers for local slow traffic
there is a bit of variation in colour, size, shape. A neighbourhood with such blocks can surely have 4 identical buildings, but not 30... It feels uneasy to humans this way. We need a taller or oddly shaped or nicely coloured one once in a while, as a reference point, as things that give the neighbourhood a bit of an identity
The buildings themselves are high enough quality (well insulated, every appartement has 1 or 2 real balconies, ...)
there are plenty of playgrounds and sports facilities and cars are in general carparks in garages at the edge of the neighbourhood, not on the streets
neighbourhood is well connected to the rest of the city
there are plenty of jobs in the area. Probably the hardest part.
Yeah it's a bit nuts that in a "democracy" 1 nutcase has all the buttons and can seemingly decide almost anything by "executive order" outside of parliamentary control, not even fake voting on policy in parliament.
Renewable energy also requires mining, processing, production, waste management... It's still a waste to use energy as if it is free, it never is and never can be, all energy usage has a footprint on the planet.
The (urban) issue is the space they require when not in use. Public transport and cycling require a lot less parking space. Shared (quick easy short term rental) electric vehicles are quite a good thing too.
Shit might hit the fan harder and faster in USA, but don't be fooled: Canada and every other country in the world will be gravely affected: less trade, prices inflate, some goods become hard to find at all at any price, etc. US $ after all is the big reserve currency and all international trade was de facto protected by US military hegemony. Probably countries like North Korea or Iran will see least influence from all this.. It's insane to watch this happening. Their main goal really just seems to be to create chaos. And from chaos... rises whatever authoritarian state they want to create after declaring some state of emergency shit and after the superwealthy gobbled up all the failing companies at bargain prices. It's like they're organising a reenactment of the "shock therapy" that crashed the Russian economy on a speedrun after the soviet union fell apart.
SSD's as far as I know mainly degrade from writing, not so much from reading or idling. If you fill an SSD, delete all files, write again, delete, etc, that is when they can wear out fast. If you're just stacking on top slowly filling it and occassionally reading from it, it should theoretically last for many years. I don't buy brands i've never heard about before and I read many customer reviews. Slightly higher price for way better reviews wins. Reviews like "it's too slow" are not very relevant to me. Reviews like "I used it twice, got very hot and smelled like fire, broke, lost all my data": those are the important ones. I never buy latest generation tech, I buy older generations. They're cheaper, but more importantly they have more review information available about what you can expect from it slightly longer term.
I avoid buying anything from aliexpress, amazon, ... out of principle, don't want to support those foreign (Europe) giants. Any other webshop might get my order if they seem okay to me.
Teams is fine for video calling and screensharing. The mess begins when organisations, as MS encourages them to do, try to embed everything there is into teams. Then it can very fast become a black hole where no one finds anything anymore
Fujitsu Esprimo here... 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, ... Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports... Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up