Storage uses relatively trivial amounts of power. Even the servers that run Gmail and Google Drive are probably a rounding error in Google's energy bill. You can pack a 2U rack server full of SSDs an… (View Post)

Of course the Telegraph is wrong. Datacentres being used for file storage and email do not consume particularly large amounts of energy, it's AI and other compute-centric workloads doing that. (View Post)

Glare from modern LED lights is a serious problem the government doesn't see to have any wish to tackle. A good chunk of the population have light sensitivity (which can get worse with age) or astigm… (View Post)

This sort of behaviour isn't limited to mobile games by any means, a lot of PC games are now use very underhand tactics to milk players. One game I play occasionally is Word of Warships, and while it… (View Post)

The imperial German navy threw everything it had against the RN at Jutland because they understood it was the one chance to break the blockade that was strangling their country. When it didn't work t… (View Post)