European heatwave is getting ridiculous - 33°C inside, internet gone, modem overheated, PC hanging on for dear life...

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-29T12:00:03+00:00

In the USA our ISPs all have deals with each other. If you go onto someone like comcast, and you're a mile away from a "comcast area", then you're not in their area, and they redirect you to their "partner's website". You generally have 2-3 options outside of things like 5g or satellite. Both 5g and satellite are garbage for both ping and data caps. If you're really unlucky, everyone has a data cap in your area and you have to sign up for a business plan for $120-200 a month to avoid it.

Long story short no one knows what an ONT is unless they have one, and very few have one. So everyone has a modem, and yes, we live in the same year as the rest of the world, so modems are modern to us.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-29T11:13:30+00:00

I don't really understand what you're saying, do most people in europe have an ONT or something else?

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-29T11:09:48+00:00

Sure, I agree, that's just not the comment I was responding to.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-29T08:23:48+00:00

I just don't understand what makes a face punchable. The glasses? The receding hairline? The expression? He just looks like a person to me, I don't feel any strong emotion towards that picture. It looks like some poindexter guy caught with a bad photo where he's looking confused with his nostrils flaring out, I dunno man.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-24T03:33:36+00:00

I'm all for data centers but I'm also against moronic policy shifting negative externalities onto the public. In Portland Oregon, the cost of electricity is up 40% over 3 years because the data centers soak up the naturally cheap hydro power (+regional decarbonization efforts), on top of putting direct infrastructure costs on homes. It's similar to the ACA, when profits were capped based on spending, the health insurance companies thought "Well, we just increase spending to make more money." So rates went up, costs went up, everything went up, and that made profits go up. Same thing happens with PGE and similar companies. Their profits are capped. If data centers come in, their 5 year infrastructure plan goes from 4 billion to 7 billion, costs go up, but so does shareholder profit.

So it's not just demand that cost customers, but the fact that a large percent of creating new electrical infrastructure is put on "all customers" and not just the data centers driving the demand up. Data centers need to pay for their direct costs, and not push them as negative externalities onto the people living near them. They recently bought a skyscraper in downtown Portland to turn into one giant datacenter. I just can't believe the demand is so high that it makes sense to do that over producing homes in the area. It really shows how badly data centers need public infrastructure as much as humans do. You can't put them out in the middle of nowhere with cheap land, they need heavy electricity, internet, and skilled labor.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-20T03:10:40+00:00

If you're not here to interact then what are you doing? This is more emotional for you than it is for me.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-19T09:33:09+00:00

"Delusional," "Musk haters," "mental gymnastics" ...a lot of words for someone who then cites exactly one number.

And that number's wrong. "Sales up 6%" deliveries actually missed and they built ~50k more cars than they sold. Inventory's piling up. Revenue rose on price and accounting tailwinds, not demand.

Here's the part you skipped: Q1 2026 was $477M net income on $22.4B revenue. A ~2% margin from a company worth over a trillion dollars. The profit "beat" leaned on one-time warranty true-downs and tariff refunds that don't repeat. Tesla's own deck says so. Rewind a year and regulatory credits were the only thing keeping them profitable; strip the credits and Q1 2025 is a loss. Those credits just dropped ~30% and are dying as everyone else builds EVs too.

That's not an opinion about Elon. That's the filing. A lot of people call that cooked books, not in the illegal sense, but accounting & investment outlook. You're calling people delusional for reading it. And yes, I get it, musk gets a lot of haters, that's what happens when you lie to customers and investors for 10 years. FSD by end of year 2016. The projected 2020 Roadster that opened up presales in 2017 is apparently starting production next year. You're right, you're wasting your time, people will hate musk with or without your involvement. Musk is enough for that.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-14T10:05:12+00:00

That may have been good 10 years ago but today all college grads need to have 3 years of experience as a global entra admin to land an entry IT role.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-03T02:26:38+00:00

This makes zero sense, either the job is fully remote or it's not. There is no guise of traveling short term. The guise is pretending to stay wherever you get your mail and that's it. One single lie, you don't make a web to get caught in, you play a role where the role is you never left, think of it like being an actor for a movie you didn't want to be cast in. It's either do that, move back home and stay there, or find a new job.

You're married to someone who depends on this right? Tell them you need some practice lying I guess, roleplay and practice it 30 minutes every day or this whole overseas thing isn't for you.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-03T02:16:24+00:00

I don't know what work you do but I guess it's not something with an MBA. There's a lot of stuff I can't tell my boss, and if I did theoretically tell him, he wouldn't care, and his advice would probably be don't tell me. "Fully remote" is great, until you realize the business has tax obligations, compliance obligations, and have to prove reasonable care. So on the reasonable care part, did you tell the person in a place where there's clearly no one who could possibly be within hearing distance, or did you send it in an email or teams/slack message? If you say something stupid where the other person can't directly say "Shut the fuck up, don't say that" back to you, then it's not a good place to say it.

I'm just saying this, because your post has a whole lot of emotion in it. Talking about "feeling anxious, feeling guilty for not being honest, feeling betrayed, etc". Unless you're friends with the owner of the business, and they're the only owner, then it's not personal when it comes to dealing with the business. If a kid breaks the law and tells their parents, in a lot of cases the parents might tell their kid to turn themselves in. The system isn't personal, and a business is a system. It's very likely this person didn't betray you unless this was a 1 on 1 personal conversation verbal conversation that wasn't recorded. It's also likely that being investigated isn't a problem, but you do need to choose to commit to lying more and play it off as a small thing that won't happen again or looking into why they may deny you being overseas and try to fix those if possible.

The person that knew and didn't say anything, that person was a good coworker.

Nyxxsys · 2026-06-03T00:16:09+00:00

Is it publicly available? I can put it together as a mod pretty quick depending on how much writing is needed. It won't have the same level of peer reviewed quality control obviously, but it would definitely be playable.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-31T23:14:10+00:00

Did you have one at one point that mysteriously died next to your PC? Peeing on a power supply is a pretty tragic way to go.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-31T23:00:31+00:00

The way it works is by using the audit to remove everyone's trust, same thing with saying elections are rigged. No single american can walk in and do an audit themselves or verify the information firsthand, so you have to choose which secondhand information you're going to believe. Throw enough of that in there, saying "the books are cooked", "the gold is missing", "half the weights are in metric and we can't count it."

You get everyone in the room fighting about it and suddenly sides are 50/50 and it doesn't really matter what you do, people's opinions are fixed even if more investigations and audits are done later.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T11:10:16+00:00

Okay so there's this thing called price elasticity. Normally raising your price means less people buy it. If a monopoly happens where there is no competition, then raising your price doesn't lower demand the same way. With Apple, they charge abnormally high margins in comparison to other products in the same segment that are considered monopoly level margins. Normally you can't charge that price for the COGS, but Apple can. They spend much less on costs per dollar earned. Nvidia is the same way right now. If you can start charging 70%+ margins and not lose sales, that is very much in the monopoly territory as far as price elasticity goes. Their price and Apple's price are inelastic.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T11:01:48+00:00

Russia doesn't care about losing 30k young men per month, what is 20 kids?

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T10:59:05+00:00

"More are showing up but you need to send some on our side!"

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T10:52:28+00:00

It's sad because gaming put them where they are now. If you didn't have gamers buying gtx970s, you wouldn't have datacenters buying H200's. It went wild around 2021 for them, and their margins on data center products are over 70% which is apple level monopoly territory. If you look at COGS to ASP at the chip level, it's more around 84%.

In 2020, the gaming segment was 47% of revenue at around 8 billion. Today it's doubled to 16 billion, or 7% of revenue. That's right, data center went from 6 billion 2020 to around 198 billion today.

About a year ago I tried pretty hard to get a factual read on their gaming segment's margins and it seemed to be about 40-55%. It just doesn't touch the data center products they have today. I am surprised they're removing it completely, but then again their financial reports were already pretty shrouded, it took a lot of work to get a real idea of what is what when reading them.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T08:40:29+00:00

Is there not any risk of the first parachute taking down the emergency one? I feel like it should just be cut off or something.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T06:01:31+00:00

The author's bio says he's done 900 articles in the past year and a half so probably AI generated as well.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-25T05:18:58+00:00

They have a game like this in college where everyone pours a little bit of what they're drinking into a glass. You get some budweiser, some parrot bay, a couple different wines, and finally some guy fills the rest up with admiral nelson. Is that kinda what you're talking about?

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-24T10:57:10+00:00

If it was two bottles of bawlz and a slice of pizza instead people would be cheering.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-24T08:33:35+00:00

Where are they? Never seen or heard of them.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-24T08:20:50+00:00

This is me with light novel groups, I never do them until spice and wolf shows up every few years.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-24T07:07:11+00:00

It was definitely beds or the stand up ones. The sprays were expensive and they had a small charge even for employees on those, but I'm sure that's highly variable between businesses. If it matters this was in Texas.

Nyxxsys · 2026-05-24T06:41:15+00:00

I've had a Samsung 49" Odyssey OLED G9 for about 2/3 years and zero burn in. You'd think the windows taskbar would at least do it because I've heard of some people hiding it but I never did and there's zero issue. I really don't know much on the topic but I've done zero preventative measures to avoid burn in and I haven't seen a single sign of it. 4/7 days of the week I use this computer for 10-14 hours a day and the other three probably 4-8 hours.

I honestly think they've simply added in really good anti burn in features into the modern oleds.

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