I used to have a rack in a colo in the middle of Portland Oregon. The 3rd floor was the colo and they also had telecom equipment on the roof, but the rest of the building was normal commercial real-estate.

They spent so much reinforcing the floor, sound proofing the floor and ceiling, building a giant door in the wall (so they could crane in equipment), and helping pay for a new local substation that when P.a.a.S. services (AWS, Azure, etc) started they quickly started to struggle to keep the bills paid.

Soundproofing wouldn’t be needed if the whole building were servers, but the rest would be.

LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.

Alexa is also the linchpin of Amazon Sidewalk which is opt-out and potentially gives a way for devices in your home (like smart appliances) to connect to the internet whether you give them wifi access or not. Pretty handy surveillance tool.

But don’t worry, we’ve only made Jeff Bezo’s powerful enough to rent Venice for his wedding.

Linus is the leader who tells all the Colonels how to do their jobs. Then they order the Drivers to take your data all through the series of tubes.

Also text files. At the end of the day it’s just text files.

The Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary is $1,400 in a hardback set, if you’d rather.

They’re also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.

Good news! There’s an ad bubble too!

Virginia’s exists because the navy was worried that a bridge accident or attack could cut off Norfolk Naval Station from the Atlantic. Submarines cross under the bridge though.

Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.

The year of the Linux Desktop doesn’t happen when people shut up about Linux.

I guess Don Jr is getting his supply from Columbia these days.

I believe the polite way to ask this in their culture is, “Do you come from the land down under?”

The 24.04 beta of Pop! with cosmic just dropped.

More reasons: Sand and solar panels don’t mix. Any build up on the panels has to be cleaned, and blown sand will etch the glass quikly and lower power output considerably. Additionally, you don’t want to stop sand blowing around. Those air and dust currents are importand to the world. You can’t have a rainforest in Brazil without sand blown in from the Sahara, for example.

It’s canonical (to me alone) that the HML is the basis for LCARS in the Star Trek universe.

They denied it until the instant doing so was inconvenient to them.

I’m still holding out for Motörheads

Frozen, premade, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that thankfully came out when I was too old to be given such things.

So we got rid of most of the useful government data and now we’re paying gas fees to billionaires to store the rest. Great.

The Minnesota State Fair is the Bell Labs of novelty booth food.

How many natural language search tools for GNU manuals have been written and called “mansplain?”