We are talking about dozens of millennia of uranium supply on Earth. Other fuel types and nuclear technologies look to extend that into billions of years. For all functional purposes, it’s infinite. Just as solar energy is functionally infinite.

a supply of energy that is practically inexhaustible on the timescale of human civilisation (what people mean when they say renewable)

As I said: Nuclear is Renewable, in the exact same way everyone uses the term.

Exactly, nuclear is no less renewable than solar. Where does everyone think solar energy comes from? Nuclear.

We might as well capture the uranium decay, as you said, it will release the energy whether we collect it or not.

Hades is pretty fun and comes in under that budget.

Never understood why people rebuy Skyrim over and over; obviously you aren’t but clearly someone is. Buy it once on Steam and call it a day. (Even works as a handheld on the Steam Deck)

The ISS is one of the most expensive pieces of infrastructure humanity has built, it costs something on the order of $150B. My home I personally paid for, out of my own pocket, and it has 3x the power power supply of the ISS.

How about this. You give me 10% of the cost of the ISS and that datacenter rack, and I’ll use the $15,000,000,000 to buy a big AC system to cool the rack. We both make out. You paid 10x less and got 3x as much power capacity, and I got FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS to service and maintain a residential sized power line.

you could absolutely launch and operate a space rack with current tech

If you aren’t getting what I’m laying down. The issue isn’t the technology, the issue is the many orders of magnitude of extra cost.

There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”

Space does let you dissipate heat via radiation (just not convection or conduction). Space radiators are a well understood and often-used technology.

The problem with space data centers isn’t the technology, we have the technology. It’s the cost. Everything in space is orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrially. It’s simply not economically feasible to build a data center in space when you can build hundreds for the same cost on Earth.

14 kW of electricity and reject all the waste heat, then the major concern for me is addressed.

This is a tiny amount of power. My house alone has over 3x that (I have 48 kW of electric service). Feeding my house with 48 kW and dissipating the heat is MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than doing this on the ISS not once, not twice, but thrice on this ISS…just to achieve what my home achieves right now. And don’t think this is some odd amount for a home, this is a basic 200A home service line.

Space datacenters are a meme.

Odd to say that while referring to Musk, a person who famously paid the most taxes by any individual ever in a year; over >$10B in a single year.

A $1,000 theft is a felony, so, yes.

Microsoft managing to make even their Linux software not achieve basic functions like…deleting files.

This was me. Hit the update to 11 button because I have always liked new things. About a week later went back to 10, then about a year ago saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship to Mint. Shoulda done it earlier!

Always happy to see more people exercise their rights.

I still find it fascinating Linux adoption in China is basically 0.

Well, they won’t be doing any invading for awhile, or ever. Being submerged in winter is lethal without an extremely timely heat source to warm you back up.

A memorable short story: https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire

I had to set the power profile in Linux to ‘power saver’ to keep the fans from going nuts. The biggest change is the CPU doesn’t boost, but for my purposes that is ok and the quiet is better.

Love to see they are working on making this better.

I’m a four star chef

Doing your job at home too can be a big annoyance. That I certainly get. I’m a programmer, and damn do I not have any desire to program at home.

Because cooking for one person is a damn PITA

The secret is to cook for 6, then put 5 portions in the fridge for later.

alleges Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.

Epic gives away games for free that cost money on Steam. The fuck is this person talking about?

Edit: Vast majority of people have crap password management practices. :)

I would say: Keep it simple and use Steam’s in-home-streaming. Both computers will be busy playing the game (the beefy computer rending and streaming to the thin client). So it doesn’t do exactly what you want, but it does let you stream easily.

The Swiss arms industry drastically shrunk while the world scrambles for arms. This strikes me as a PR move to stem the bleeding while changing nothing of substance.