The big problem with farming work is the location. I live in a rural area surrounded by farms and if you don't have your own transport, it's impossible to work there. Increasing numbers of young peop… (View Post)

I find it frustrating we have graduated licences for motorcycles, but not cars. If someone under 24 cannot be trusted to ride a fast motorcycle, on which they may die if they make a mistake, they sho… (View Post)

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)