Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town's worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.
But there's probably a point where cost for that vs height becomes prohibitive.
Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive.
Probably a bit of "hiding in plain sight" that way, too. There are a few big datacenters relatively near me, and they're massive compounds in the middle of even more massive corn fields. Kind of stick out like a sore thumb when you're driving by.
Same boat. Declined their router and just use their ONT. Not that the router makes a difference, but my "wan6" interface has been waiting for an IP address for about the same amount of time as yours.
With the original Xbox, you couldn't play DVD's without the infrared remote kit (even though the software and hardware was capable). The license fee for that was part of the cost of the IR receiver and remote kit.
Didn't the original Raspberry Pi also sell codec licenses as well?
Yeah, the licensing is BS but couldn't they just tack on like 40 cents to the price or whatever? For a $900+ machine, it wouldn't even be a rounding error.
Open codecs are better, yeah, but artificially crippling existing media workflows is kind of a dick move, IMO.
I always start out with a random race, head in the opposite direction of Riverwood, eat everything I can pick up, and just start making and selling potions lol. Then I use the money to buy iron ore and start crafting daggers and selling those. Along the way, I may take a few side quests for extra cash. Then eventually buy or build a house.
By the time I finally go to Riverwood to start the main game, I'm...a fully Daedric-clad stealth archer. Every time. lol. (I don't quite have the patience to level smithing to 100 for dragonbone, so I upgrade that along the way of the main quest).
Yeah, I don't know about pre-installed with Android that aren't ad platforms masquerading as consumer hardware. I'd never use one unless it was supported by LineageOS or something. My comment was more "roll your own" in nature.
In a public park, you can absolutely ask random people to leave your party area. Not the park, but the space you are using. Double so if you've gone through the official channels to reserve that section.
And that goes both ways: If someone is having an event and one inserts themselves where they're clearly not invited, then that person very much has issues respecting others' boundaries.
It all boils down to people respecting each other.
I'll take your word for it, though I assume it is the case. Like I said....it's just the internet doing what it does (for better or worse).
"As an American" (though speaking only for myself) when I see those, I don't even go into them because my opinion wasn't solicited. I also don't throw out my opinions in non-American news/politics communities for the same reason. Also, I wish that was a two-way street.
FWIW that community is just inspired by something that already exists outside of social media. The community owner kept !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world up since it's pretty active, but the new official/recommended one for dull stuff is !Dullsters@dullsters.net . They explicitly wanted it to be more inclusive (not that DMC was only restricted to men posting).
Go into the various "Ask" communities, and you'll see things like this constantly:
Women of Lemmy, what's something that...?
As a man, I .....
Americans of Lemmy, what is your favorite...?
As a European, I....
Definitely mildly infuriating when people just butt in when they're explicitly not the target audience of the question. If I'm somehow doing that with this reply, lol, I apologetically appreciate the irony.
Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town's worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.
But there's probably a point where cost for that vs height becomes prohibitive.