The hypocrisy of this when they’re chugging power for AI…

Oh I’m used to the idea of ordering AC units straight from manufacturer.

In the future, chargeback for that?

To spell it out for you, Just because something is well established in the industry does not make it good.

You miss their point

I am referring to commercial speculation, and I literally laid this out in the second sentence, thanks!

Nuclear, or if you want space stuff, build a station at the Lagrange point and sling from there? I don’t need to be an expert in launch solutions to know that we shouldn’t speculate mining the moon till it’s well researched and that we have more accessible options here for the forseeable future with solar as my choice of example, so let’s not jump the gun on another finite resource?

it’s not the answer to every situation

Actually, better than that, I’m not an expert! There are professionals whose jobs are to design those systems and could do better than I putting together a solution. However, more destruction of finite resources when there is easy access to an unlimited resource should be limited to final resorts.

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More Wensleydale for me then :3

Though, of course, simple scientific curiosity may not justify the enormous cost of the undertaking. That’s where commercial interest comes in.

That’s not what this is about, the author doesn’t care about that, all they see is a finite, exploitable resource that will line their pockets.

However, to answer your question, we already have that technology.

Laughs in electric train

Imagine claiming mining helium is the solution when free energy is right there radiating from the sun.

Got any fun or good examples?

They’ve started phasing that one out, but I’ve found repeating “help” gets similar results.

If you are hitting 2 cigs at once it becomes a much more feasible goal

insert-non-debian-linux-distro and you won’t be able to boot after trying an update. :)

Sure buddy, I’ll take your unsourced claim as an equivalent to my sourced one! /s

In my experience I’ve only seen it happening with old ass , cheap hardware computers.

Do you know what anecdotal evidence is?

a stable system

Until next update, where they may just blacklist your CPU just because

free is never free.

This phrasing is specifically used around the idea of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product.” The kernel is free, in that it costs nothing to use and it does not collect data. Free things still do cost time/effort, which is often equated with money, but those are actually two different things that are being conflated. Now if you’d said something along the lines of “free stuff still costs peoples time,” yeah I’d agree with that, but that’s not what the sentiment your message communicated.

Absolutely no one is going around saying that free stuff doesn’t take effort.