Which begs the question why not magnets at the top of the building to help pull the electricity up?

Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town’s worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.

But there’s probably a point where cost for that vs height becomes prohibitive.

If the costs of engineering a tower is more than just buying more land, then why build taller?

Figured it’d be something like that. Explains why they get built out in the middle of nowhere since land is cheap.

Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive.

Probably a bit of “hiding in plain sight” that way, too. There are a few big datacenters relatively near me, and they’re massive compounds in the middle of even more massive corn fields. Kind of stick out like a sore thumb when you’re driving by.

Same boat. Declined their router and just use their ONT. Not that the router makes a difference, but my “wan6” interface has been waiting for an IP address for about the same amount of time as yours.

They replied to my request post but unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it’s practical right now. Basically because of inline hashtags and not wanting to try to separate those out. Which, yeah, I get that.

They mentioned the new version would let you filter by software type, so that will probably accomplish the same thing for me.

Yeah. There’s other precedent for that, too.

With the original Xbox, you couldn’t play DVD’s without the infrared remote kit (even though the software and hardware was capable). The license fee for that was part of the cost of the IR receiver and remote kit.

Didn’t the original Raspberry Pi also sell codec licenses as well?

It’s almost to “PTSD” since I twitch every time I see a sparkle emoji.

That and tagging a bunch of communities to spray it out everywhere.

Yeah, the licensing is BS but couldn’t they just tack on like 40 cents to the price or whatever? For a $900+ machine, it wouldn’t even be a rounding error.

Open codecs are better, yeah, but artificially crippling existing media workflows is kind of a dick move, IMO.

Except driver’s licenses. Those are far too easy to get, especially for some people lol.

I have yet to play Skyrim with any mods even though I’d really like to. Only thing I have are the DLCs.

Getting it to run under Wine has been challenging enough (though it’s a lot easier these days) so I didn’t want to even attempt to mix mods into it.

In a nutshell, Mastodon has a different culture than the threadiverse. I’m not a fan of micro-blogging and would be content not having that cross over. It can continue to do so for those who want it, but it would be nice to be able to block it out if you don’t.

I always start out with a random race, head in the opposite direction of Riverwood, eat everything I can pick up, and just start making and selling potions lol. Then I use the money to buy iron ore and start crafting daggers and selling those. Along the way, I may take a few side quests for extra cash. Then eventually buy or build a house.

By the time I finally go to Riverwood to start the main game, I’m…a fully Daedric-clad stealth archer. Every time. lol. (I don’t quite have the patience to level smithing to 100 for dragonbone, so I upgrade that along the way of the main quest).

^^ Every time I play Skyrim

Ah, okay. Thanks. Was hoping it was just a client thing that caused them to show up.

Gonna put in a feature request to see if it’s possible to hide those.

Wait, do other clients filter those out? I’ve only been running Tesseract for a few weeks. Granted, I don’t see the hashtag spam super often so I don’t recall if I was seeing it this much before I started using this or not.

It was in the feed under one of the Lemmy communities shown in the screenshot. When a mastodon post tags a Lemmy community, it gets posted to it.

Not trying to shame a specific user since it’s bigger than just them, so don’t want to link to it directly. But the hashtag / community tag soup is common enough to get annoying.

Modern Classic problems require modern solutions.