Absolutely nothing bad could ever come of this

Fucking hell. Where’s the incentive for responsible disclosure, if that’s the sort of (non) response you get?

Well, at least where I live, phones are banned in schools. So that’s a good start.

This is odd advice, when you consider many kids in the same age group probably have access to (or own) a tablet device of some sort. The only difference with a smartphone is the ability to call and text, and portability while staying connected (assuming many tablets aren’t 4G/5G capable).

Or am I missing something here?

I paid a subscription fee for the option

I’m starting to really hate this timeline. Might be time to pick another door.

DCs do indirectly create/support a lot of jobs, though. Construction is an obvious one, but even running a DC requires lots of additional people that often aren’t employed by the DC owner/operator.

I can absolutely attest to the fact that it takes even less than 20 directly-employed people to run an entire DC, including the racks of gear within it. But there are quite literally dozens and dozens more contractors and vendors involved in maintaining the facility and the equipment within them:

• Physical security
• Fire systems
• Building controls
• Electrical
  • HV and LV can often be separate sets of skills/contractors
• Refrigeration
• Mechanical
  • Critical mechanical - generators, etc
  • Regular mechanical - electric gates,etc
• Plumbing and gasfitting
• Water experts (cooling towers, etc)
• Building maintenance contractors
• Gardeners

And the list goes on. My point is that DCs can absolutely be a significant driver of employment and economic activity, just not all directly.

lol - fine by me. My private searx-ng instance already filters out Reddit from the results, and my Pi-holes block all known Reddit domains.

lol - it should be after this. CRWD…

This has been a fun end to the week - still sitting on a call about the widespread outages and impacts from this.

At which point do we acknowledge the cure is as bad as the problem?

Yeah, CS posted this in a support article. Gonna be fun watching their share price on the Nasdaq overnight.

this isn’t reddit.

Correct, hence downvoting here is meaningless.

An excellent question, that I suspect the answer to will vary in many jurisdictions.

We do re-use the water we use in our EFCs, but only a limited number of times. After a specified number of uses, local regulations require that we discharge it into storm water, to mitigate against the risk of things like legionella and other potentially deadly airborne bacteria.

We’re also required to test and treat all stored water monthly.

I already use Home Assistant for a number of other things, so not really complex. Also, you’re assuming Android only.

Depending on the local climate, yes - evap cooling is typically the go. The data centres I work in here in Melbourne use evap free cooling (EFC).

For much of the year, due to our temperate climate, the cooling simply uses (filtered) outside air. During bouts of warmer weather (typically 29C+), we use evaporative cooling. Waste water from the EFCs is discharged into storm water drainage, and reported to our local water authority for billing.

I use Home Assistant, and install that on all my old, re-purposed smartphones (usually as cheap CCTV). Each phone is plugged into a smart power socket.

I then use automation to turn a phone’s charger off when it hits 80%, then back on when it reaches 50%. No overcharging, no overheating, and actually helps keep the batteries in good shape.

Lol. The perils of replying to Lemmy posts while in work mode.

Helluva Thunderbolt cable, eh?

Thunderbolt v3 handles up to 100W. I have a 90W USB-C port on one of my monitors for just that purpose.

Edit: lol. I see my mistake. Edited. I deal in kW and MW for my job. I’ll call it muscle memory.

This dual-port charger can only output 45W of power when using one port at a time, with the output halved at 22W to each device when plugging in two simultaneously.

Yes. That’s literally how max power ratings on devices like this work. And, to be that guy, even when plugging in two devices and getting 22.5W on each socket, the charger is still outputting 45W.

This feels like a paid advert written by Ikea’s press department - not The Verge itself.

If feel this is (unintentionally) stretching the use of the word cyberattack. Rightly or wrongly, most people consider a cyberattack a form of hacking/attack that’s executed via a network or the internet.

I know its true definition any form of attack against data, network, or computing device (including smartphones), but this headline could easily lead people to think their phones could be set on fire by some anonymous l337 hAx0r over the internet.

While technically true, it requires physical exploit first.