• immich - photo gallery, sync, analysis, and sharing. A private server is a bit to install, but worth it.
• AntennaPod - Podcasts
• HeliBoard - keyboard. One feature is to move the cursor via the space key.

I would add more automatic “poster location” tags and community voted “human” and “bot” tags.

As for a more direct answer, I would make things that contribute to human compassion, knowledge, and how-tos. More stories that help people to build a better world. Fewer stories about people that are popular for being popular.

Guess Europe should do something about that then.

(Disrupt the money flow out of Russia.)

Actually, power draw timing is a huge issue, destroying electrical substations huge, with AI data centers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14318

Large Artificial Intelligence (AI) training workloads spanning several tens of thousands of GPUs present unique power management challenges. These arise due to the high variability in power consumption during the training. Given the synchronous nature of these jobs, during every iteration there is a computation-heavy phase, where each GPU works on the local data, and a communication-heavy phase where all the GPUs synchronize on the data. Because compute-heavy phases require much more power than communication phases, large power swings occur. The amplitude of these power swings is ever increasing with the increase in the size of training jobs. An even bigger challenge arises from the frequency spectrum of these power swings which, if harmonized with critical frequencies of utilities, can cause physical damage to the power grid infrastructure. Therefore, to continue scaling AI training workloads safely, we need to stabilize the power of such workloads. This paper introduces the challenge with production data and explores innovative solutions across the stack: software, GPU hardware, and datacenter infrastructure. We present the pros and cons of each of these approaches and finally present a multi-pronged approach to solving the challenge. The proposed solutions are rigorously tested using a combination of real hardware and Microsoft’s in-house cloud power simulator, providing critical insights into the efficacy of these interventions under real-world conditions.

By Esha Choukse, Brijesh Warrier, Scot Heath, Luz Belmont, April Zhao, Hassan Ali Khan, Brian Harry, Matthew Kappel, Russell J. Hewett, Kushal Datta, Yu Pei, Caroline Lichtenberger, John Siegler, David Lukofsky, Zaid Kahn, Gurpreet Sahota, Andy Sullivan, Charles Frederick, Hien Thai, Rebecca Naughton, Daniel Jurnove, Justin Harp, Reid Carper, Nithish Mahalingam, Srini Varkala, Alok Gautam Kumbhare, Satyajit Desai, Venkatesh Ramamurthy, Praneeth Gottumukkala, Girish Bhatia, Kelsey Wildstone, Laurentiu Olariu, Ileana Incorvaia, Alex Wetmore, Prabhat Ram, Melur Raghuraman, Mohammed Ayna, Mike Kendrick, Ricardo Bianchini, Aaron Hurst, Reza Zamani, Xin Li, Michael Petrov, Gene Oden, Rory Carmichael, Tom Li, Apoorv Gupta, Pratikkumar Patel, Nilesh Dattani, Lawrence Marwong, Rob Nertney, Hirofumi Kobayashi, Jeff Liott, Miro Enev, Divya Ramakrishnan, Ian Buck, Jonah Alben

Batteries don’t have to be lithium based. (Power density is not an issue for a building.)

But will they?

Unexpected. Huge if it works.

Reminder for self: 2030 is 4 years away (not 30.)

Is the lesson not to get hit by a missile?

Lighting the night will be bad for plants and animals.

million satellites to serve as orbiting data centers

There are ~8 billion people on Earth. Elon wants to have something like 1 data center per 8,000 people. Not to mention all of the other data centers.

Sure. Please get the aggressors in wars to stop and only generate nudes.

“The Squad” are Democrats. The other two names are currently valid for my point.

“The Media” always frames things as if the minority group should be winning. Republicans have the majority, they should not be absolved when they are needed to increase the total number of votes to a majority.

Elsewhere in this thread. Anyway, here is what I had said:

There are “electric truck” conversion books from the 1970s. (Only trucks as they used lead acid batteries, which are still extremely heavy for useful amounts of stored energy.) This indicates it is not extremely complex, though possibly still very complex. (My reason for this assessment is from reading a few of them, but never implementing any of it.)

Anyway, here is a title to look for, from 2011, " The electric vehicle conversion handbook : how to convert cars, trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles : includes EV components, kits, and project vehicles" by Warner, Mark, ISBN: 9781557885685 1557885680.

2021’s “Convert It!: A simple step-by-step guide for converting any classic car into an electric vehicle.” by Ron Toms, ASIN B093CH8HR7.

Neither are from the 1970s, but both are likely more useful anyway. There are also likely others that I cannot immediately find. I have read neither, yet.

Sounds like Greenpeace needed to be organized as a million separate legal entities. Just like an insurance company, or a multinational.

I also live in Florida and love to jet ski. It was great seeing you in person last Saturday. Wow, what a day.

Who else was there? Must have been many of us. Just jet skiing in Florida.

This is a good idea. And a good use for AI.

Likely a lot. I posted elsewhere, but there were books on this in the 1970’s.

There are “electric truck” conversion books from the 1970s. (Only trucks as they used lead acid batteries, which are still extremely heavy for useful amounts of stored energy.) This indicates it is not extremely complex, though possibly still very complex. (My reason for this assessment is from reading a few of them, but never implementing any of it.)

As for a detailed answer on the rest: I have no idea.

Is it normal for tanks to have such black smoke? Seems like a tactical disadvantage, while also bad for the troops in the short term (troops that cannot breath well won’t be doing much well.)

Just a reminder that “kit cars” exist. Their existence makes the idea of “open source” cars seem more reasonable to me in that one does not need to make a large company, it is possible (though likely not profitable or cheap) to be a small car company.

Yay! Extra mental load of having to ask the AI “correctly” and then keep up one’s skills to be able to review the AI’s work! Extra bonus for being blamed for letting anything slip past.

At least the junior that fucked up will learn something from the experience and can buy a round of beers (if the junior is paid well enough, otherwise the seniors have to buy the junior a beer while talking it out).