Re: One way to cut the demand in half
And then these thing will be used to enforce the law.
A'la Corporal Downspout.
icon: Similar species according to pTerry.
Posts by Evil Scot
550 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2011
Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots
Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study
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Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out
Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace
OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush
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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
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Monday 9th February 2026 12:31 GMT 
Re: Apples and oranges?
Looks at Ubiquity Wi-Fi access point. There are some things that Coper is still good for. Glass / plastic is an insulator PoE needs metal.
Does the router power the Media Converter? No.
Does the router have a battery backup? No.
Is there a domestic UPS that could monitor battery state and supply power to two physical locations? Yes but it costs £1000s.
(I have a CPAP machine the first thing you know when the UPS battery fails is you cant breath considering a 10kWh home battery)
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Re: No one would believe
As someone who has witnessed "Edy Hurst's comedy version of Jeff Wayne's musical of H.G. Well's literary version of 'the war of the worlds' (via Orson Welles' radio version and Steven Spielberg's film version)." as performed in the Leicester space museum's planetarium. You have nothing to apologise for.
Just glad someone got the reference.
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We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills
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Re: Cloud based - forget it
It could be said for all "microprocessor based" thermostats.
They are aware of the latency of heating the water in the system compared to heating the home.
Five minutes for the water to be heated...twenty minutes later the house is warm.
I wrote software to program industrial thermostats at the turn of the century.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
