That’s a lot of phaelenopsis.

Good eye; I didn’t think about looking at the trees. It looks pre-Fall, but this is the South; I wouldn’t be surprised if there were still leaves on the trees into late September.

This looks like a farm to me. That bunker is almost certainly a converted ice-house, but could also be slave housing. I’d guess ice-house, as that’s what they look like in the mid-Atlantic. Also, I’d have expected fortifications to be built outside the city, given the nature of warfare in the mid-1800’s. Surely they wouldn’t have built those barriers in a more suburban area? The barriers looking fairly intact is what makes me suspect a “before” photo.

The Energy Star program had been around for around 15 years at that point

And, for computers, was almost exclusively limited to monitors. In 2009, the Energy Star specification was version 4.0, released in 2006. In that specification, the EPA’s objective was to get 40% of the computers on the market to have power management capabilities 2010 – 40% by the year after Bitcoin was introduced. Intel’s 2009 TCO-driven upgrade cycle document mentions power management, but power use isn’t included in any of the TCO metrics.

All of the focus on low-power processing units in 2009 was for mobile devices and DSPs. Computer-oriented energy savings at the time was focused on processes, e.g. manually powering down computers or use of suspension and hibernation - there was very little CPU clock scaling available for desktop computers – you turned them off to save power. DVFS didn’t become widely available – or effective – until 2006, and a study published in 2009 (again, the same year Bitcoin was introduced) found that “only 20% of initiatives had measurable targets.”

So, yes: technically, there were people thinking about these sorts of things, but it wasn’t a common consumer consideration, and the tools for power management were crude: your desktop was on and consuming power – always the same amount of power – or it was off. And people did power down their computers to save energy. But, like I said, if your desktop was on, it was consuming the same amount of energy whether you were running a miner or weren’t. There was a motto at the time bandied about by SETI@home, that your computer was using energy anyway, so you might as well do science with the spare CPU cycles. That was the mindset of most people who had computers at the time.

What a neat rocking mechanism! Unless there’s some historical reason to not refurb it, it’d be a beautiful restoration.

For non-Americans and people who may not have paid attention in history class (or simply don’t remember), CptEnder is referring to the Battle of Atlanta during the American Civil War. The photo is of Confederate fortifications against the Union.

I haven’t seen this photo before - do you know if this is before or after Atlanta fell? Looks like maybe a before, to me.

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I will go into big caves. Caverns. This one is big enough, but the water shifts it into “nope” category.

the practice of deliberately wasting enormous amounts of energy for the purpose of being able to prove that you’ve wasted enormous amounts of energy.

C’mon, that’s being disingenuous. Back when Bitcoin was released, nobody was giving a thought to computer energy use. A consequence of proof-of-work is wasted energy, but a focus on low-power modalities and throttling have been developed in the intervening years. The prevailing paradigm at the time was, “your C/GPU is going to be burning energy anyway, you may as well do something with it.”

It was a poor design decision, but it wasn’t a malicious one like you make it sound. You may as well accuse the inventors of the internal combustion engine of designing it for the express purpose of creating pollution.

For very loose definitions of “bridge the gap”.

Sensor size is an advantage no mobile phone well ever be able to make up for, and it’s more important than almost any other component in a camera system.

Sure, you can Photoshop or AI enhance any picture taken with the shittiest phone and make it seem professional. You’re always going to be making up dynamic range and detail with fake data.

The best proof of advancements in the field of AI is Zuckerberg himself. He looks more and more like a real human every time I see a new picture of him.

OK.

Well, that’s good. It’s one of the things that frustrates me most about the 3, and it’s good they addressed it.

But on the RAZR, the apps don’t have to be custom built for the cover. In my Flip 3, they do.

You can run any app, from any store, on the Flip 5 cover?

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I don’t like the Samsung apps. I don’t want them on my phone. I can’t uninstall them; many, I can’t disable, and several I can’t turn off notifications.

That’s bloat.

K, I just checked it. Any way to make sure I’ve got the right thing? It just looks like another store; I don’t see anything that will let me run any app (like, a clock from f-droid) on the cover screen.

I’ll check; there’s a significant difference between the 5 and the 3, though. All I have for a front screen is a bar - it covers less than half of that side of the … door? Section? Anyway, there isn’t much real estate.

But I’ll check for that app, thanks.

Very nice. I don’t think there’s anything better than being your own boss.

That’s either a professional level dad joke, or holy wow, does he not know how much you make?

That said, I’ll build anyone a website for £500, no matter how large. But that’s the base model. It’ll be a template taken from a catalog, and Hugo. My maintenance fees are only £250 per hour.

Yeah. Flip 3 owner here. When I buy a new phone it’ll probably be a RAZR. Mainly b/c I’m sick of the Samsung bloatware, but also because I’m not seeing much innovation.

They solved any screen issues by this 3, maybe a tiny bit of improvement could be had at making the fold disappear, but TBH I don’t even see it anymore. It’s been robust. But what I really miss is the external screen being able to run normal apps, and not just specialized Samsung External Screen API apps. The newest RAZRs give us that.

I could also get apps on the external if I got a Fold, but I’m carrying a Flip for the small size, and the Fold is a step in the wrong direction for that.

God, I love Art Deco. And what a masterpiece example!

OK, this is hilarious.