Yes, your total energy consumption drops, but your electricity consumption rises as a result. Electrification of stuff that relied on burning fossil fuels means that electricity consumption goes up even while total energy consumption stays the same or drops. I’m not necessarily saying that nuclear is the solution, but it’s a solution that can at least buy us a few decades for renewables and energy storage to catch up to demand.

Are you slow? nobody is arguing that you can hot swap a GPU. That’s not what people are correcting you on.

YOU claimed that PCIE is not PLUG AND PLAY

NO. PCIE is not plug and play.

That was your comment. It was wrong. You were wrong.

Dude… you’re the one that said PCIE isn’t plug and play, which is incorrect. Plug and play simply means not having to manually assign IRQ/DMA/etc before using the peripheral, instead being handled automatically by the system/OS, as well as having peripherals identify themselves allowing the OS to automatically assign drivers. PCIE is fully plug-and-play compatible via ACPI, and hot swapping is supported by the protocol, if the peripheral also supports it.

Agreed, it would be not a great idea, but also pretty useless unless OP is actually building a rackmount server which has power supplies that use 240V, at which point they would need 10/2 and an L6 receptacle, probably an upgraded panel… and really good home insurance.

Consumer grade PC power supplies that are rated for use here top out at 1600W, which is juuust enough to run on a dedicated 120V 15A circuit (though I’d feel more comfortable with 20A). Just dumping 240V into it doesn’t automatically double it’s power output, it would just use half the current from each phase

Except that’s exactly how it works. Your house has two live feeds coming in that are 180 degrees out pf phase with each other. When combined, they create a 240V total potential. Your stove, clothes dryer, and water heater all use 240V circuits. A 240V breaker is actually two breakers adjacent to each other (because each alternating ‘blade’ in your panel is separate phases) with their switches linked together, so when one trips it forces the other off as well.

To OP: you can get a 240 breaker from Home Depot or wherever, but you will also need to replace your receptacle with one that can handle the increased power as well as 240V. You will also need to upgrade to 12/2 wiring on that circuit most likely. Also also… unless you have a 1500W or greater PSU, it doesn’t make a difference if you have 120 or 240. Also also also, you can run multiple PSUs with multiple 120V standard household circuits, just without a joined breaker they won’t all trip together.

Don’t forget the taxes that pay for said roads

Same in Ontario. I’ll get a paper copy if I ask for one, but otherwise new scripts are faxes direct to the pharmacy. Even paper copies are a printout though. I haven’t gotten a handwritten prescription in well over a decade now

The truly infuriating part is there’s likely lots of people out there that got them on the first try or by accident

Do you have any Asian/Indian/other ethnic grocers? Stores with a butcher counter? Are there farms nearby? you can troll whatever grocery stores you do have near you for last day of sale meats/produce and as long as you cook or freeze them the same day or the next day, they’re perfectly fine. From some of your comments, you live out west, maybe try to find a few friends to split a pig, that can get the price per pound way down.

I can’t tell if you’re over-thinking, under-thinking, or just plain havent invested time into grocery planning.

1. an 8kg bag of basmati or jasmine rice can be found for $15 (freshco), if you have one cup (dry, 200g) of rice that will last you 40 meals. It’s about 200 calories per serving and has vitamin B as well as a handful of minerals.

2. Chicken can be found for $3/lb (food basics) or less if you are patient and shop around and is ~120g protein per lb of meat

3. Add in some beans $2.97 at walmart for a 900g bag of dry kidney beans, each serving gets you fiber and protein, also 25 servings.

$110 per month and you have staples and 60+g of protein per day. That leaves $35 per week to shop sales/flash food/etc for fruit, veg, and other meat.

It’s PR bullshit to give an excuse for backtracking basically

You’re a bundle of neurons piloting a skeleton inside a wetsuit

Probably something with a .ru TLD

Gallon jugs aren’t as common as 4L bagged milk here though

With the current theory of how the moon was formed, it was in fact close enough to be touching the earth at one point… technically

More honest answer, it’s generally breast meat but loaded up with binding agents, salt, and water. It’s pretty obvious with the worse ones when you even slightly overcook them, and the chicken practically vanishes from inside the nugget because the water has evaporated.

A EULA is a contract and is by default “negotiable”. The buyer has the option to attempt to engage with the seller and negotiate an agreement. However, the seller has equal right to decline said negotiation with the understanding that the product will not be sold to the buyer.

What would be far more productive is stricter regulation on what products can have a EULA attached, and what that agreement can contain (thus having the government pre-negotiate the contract on behalf of all the buyers collectively). These laws could also require a company engage a third party consumer advocacy group to negotiate the terms on behalf of the buyers as a collective, so as to keep that portion at an arm’s length from the government.

This would still not preclude an individual from trying to negotiate, but a seller still has the right to say “I don’t want to sell this to you.”

The province that can’t come up with anything better than to dig stuff out of the ground and sell it is complaining that we’re bringing in too many educated people…

For as long as Google is part of FAANG, they will have a nearly unlimited supply of fresh grads to burn through, and fresh grads still line up to work there to get that name on their CV.

Go full ancient Greece and compete nude /s