Hello Cohost. I am Amy Tobey. I am known as MissAmyTobey on Twitter and @renice here. I suppose I shall give this a try now :)
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Making me log in all the time ain't a great experience. Every time I come here to post or read I gotta log in again and I'm annoyed and don't want to anymore.
Also I'm still emotional about watching Twitter burn. I loved that site, and met a lot of cool people. A few of which I have on Signal now so we can stay in touch but I think everyone's too busy and in their own worlds for it to work. So maybe it's time for me to social locally or something? Beats me. I'm tired and cranky so I won't decide right now.
These servers are super cool but they really hammer home the limits of individual action on environmentalism. He's showing off one server that can suck back 8,000 watts. My apartment gets two phases of 120v at 100 amps, which is a total of 24,000 watts. Breakers are only rated for 80% of their capacity at continuous load, which means my house could handle at most two of these servers.
In more concrete terms, in my last Hydro bill we used about 1,500 kWh over two months. An 8,000 watt load would use that a little over a week.
And, of course, a data centre would have hundreds of these.
We know datacentres use a lot of power - the DoE estimates 2% of the United State's power goes to datacentres. But these numbers really hammer it home. By all means turn off the lights when you're not using them, but don't expect to save the planet that way
2 contacts with the kid's new school have been weird now. The registration person said something like "I feel safe to assume that you're living in you're mom's house..." which, RUDE, because it's my house and she lives with me. Then today I get a call from the principal to talk about the kid's first day and got a weird vibe. I wanted to tell him "just google me dude, and stop making horrible assumptions about me and my child".