The biggest barrier to widespread adoption is the portion of the toxic parts of the general community. You know who they are, you see them all the time. They exist across all distros, and they seem to go out of their way to make the experience as miserable as possible when new users are asking simple questions.

They often are some of the first people new users interact with when needing help transitioning over. They seek out those beginner questions to act superior, and just turn the average user off to the point they decide to never try it again.

Without strong moderation to reduce that dipshit commentary, the Linux community will always be working against mainstream adoption.

The answer is of course Neelix. That's just objectively obvious.

Note, I said previously signed NDA. They're not going to send an NDA and test information at the same time.

But I guess most people don't have experience with NDAs in the first place, especially not in relation to software testing.

I'm always amazed at some people's stupidity.

The company isn't going to randomly send you an invite to a beta that hasn't been publicly announced. Any external testing at this point would be with people that have extensive experience, and have a previously signed NDA.

We try to forget those movies exist at all.

This specific thread is talking about transacting business and banking online. You should be more careful to keep your arguments separated. Otherwise you not only look like an idiot but you also prove you can't multitask for shit.

Are you stupid enough to actually think the Internet is a closed system?

Penne of course. Spaghetti is a shit pasta shape. There is always a better shape available for every sauce and situation.

Their endowment as it sits essentially allows them to operate for something like a decade without any external money. And you can guarantee they'll get a bump in alumni donations if external funding is removed like that.

Instead you just have to trust that anything you're doing is actually with who they claim to be. No encryption means no identity or security guarantee.

Much more likely is that it never existed. All the "savings" are programs that already paid out, or have contract penalties for early termination, were lies based on misunderstanding how the programs worked like tax rebates being counted as money already paid, etc.

DOGE has already had to walk back savings claims multiple times when it's pointed out publicly that they can't do basic math or know how the systems work to base their inflated numbers on.

Idk, kind of feels appropriate that the White House pages should post like the President would. Not just the filtered PR responses. Some people might wake up to how ridiculous it is. If even one person realizes how idiotic the President must be for those types of posts then it's a win as far as I'm concerned.

The cult members will believe whatever anyway no matter what is posted, but if even one person wakes up to the reality it's a win.

And notably, Japan does not have broad fair use copyright exceptions like the US. There are a very specific set of circumstances where it applies, and Generative AI for sure is not one of those.

Please may be useless. Thank you isn't useless. That tells you that the prior response gave them the answer they were looking for. No response at all could mean that, or that they gave up, or any number of other things.

Why bother with that? That's gonna be $1000 just for the box alone, and still lock me into the Synology ecosystem.

I can build a NAS with more capability for less than that. Like taking a Jonsbo NAS case and have the freedom to do whatever I want with it, with plenty of space to move everything else I'm running over to that as well. Even their N5 would likely be less expensive, and I'd have room for 12 HDDs and 4 SSDs then.

The only obstacles are a general lack of real world experience.

Both Thorium and Uranium were being researched in the 60s, but only one can readily be made into nuclear weaponry. So that's where the research was focused, and not just in the US. Thorium molten salt reactors aren't a particularly new idea, they date back to the same time period.

Now that nuclear weaponry isn't the focus, we're finally seeing real research like this in alternative nuclear sources. Thorium is much more abundant than Uranium, and is fairly readily available worldwide. The byproducts are much less reactive, and the amount of nuclear "waste" is a fraction of uranium. Even there though, the nuclear waste issue has been blown way out of proportion. Most nuclear waste is not long term, only a small fraction is the stuff that lasts thousands of years, and the US already has more than enough storage built to store all long term nuclear waste for every reactor in operation several times over. But most of the programs to actually implement these processes have been cancelled because of various anti-nuclear and NIMBY groups. So instead in most cases... That waste just gets stored on site, at the nuclear plant. Which isn't particularly an issue, but I think we can all agree is the worst option of all if you're worried about potential contamination.

And yet, it is still true. Renewables that work via environmental factors like wind and solar will always be reliant on something else to help store excess power, and those storage options are still very limited. Battery storage is taking off, but it is still nowhere near the level to run an entire city for an extended period of time like overnight.

We still need a base load option that's reliably available at any time and quickly scaleable to handle burst demand. That is currently handled by fossil fuels, and can be directly replaced via nuclear, essentially as a drop in nearly 1 for 1 replacement.

The problem with current battery tech, even the experimental stuff, is just the sheer capacity needed for something that can get close to powering a city through renewable gaps, like overnight for solar. It necessitates looking at alternate "battery" options outside of traditional battery tech. Battery storage can help extremely well for outages and instability, but providing a city amount of power for potentially 8-12 hours of renewable downtime is an entirely different story.

Things like pumped hydro storage, or solar heat batteries are good examples of alternatives. Your "battery" isn't storing electricity directly, but instead an energy form that you can then take back out later to generate electricity from. Unfortunately most of those also have specific requirements that aren't very universal, like most city-scale renewables.

The best is almost always going to be a combination of things, but that is rarely the cost effective option, and sadly that's what really matters with our current systems. Fossil fuel options are almost always the cheapest to build and operate, largely because they don't actually have to deal with their pollution.

I had been considering upgrading, my current 4 bay Synology is physically full and running out of storage space. Moving that to a larger Synology box and adding drives would be easiest, basically plug and play.

But now instead I'll probably just switch to a more traditional NAS instead. Run TrueNAS, or maybe give HexOS a look. If I'm going to have to convert from my current proprietary Synology filesystem anyway I might as well rebuild from scratch. As it is I've shifted all the services off the Synology and Docker to a dedicated Proxmox box.

I get so tired of these shit takes that obviously haven't put much thought into the topic based on the clear barely surface level perspective, but love to repeat the same talking points confidently.

1. It's a research reactor, it will be relatively small because it's not intended to provide a production power source.
2. It can operate 24 hours a day, independent of weather or most external variables.
3. Its power is variable and can handle varying loads on demand.

Most renewables like solar and wind cannot handle the second and third points well, of at all. And options that can like hydro and geothermal power are very location dependent.

You need to stop thinking of nuclear as an alternative to renewables and instead as the replacement for the fossil fuel plants that provide base power generation 24/7/365 like coal, gas, and the peaker plants.

Renewables alone do not solve modern societal power needs, but we can replace fossil fuels immediately with better options, like nuclear. As it is uranium power plants are extremely misunderstood by the public from decades of disinformation from the fossil fuel AND renewable industries and a fundamental misunderstanding of radioactivity by the public. Thorium specifically goes around that by removing the uranium Boogeyman, and meltdown risk. Most molten salt reactor designs operate on a Fail-Safe design principle that doesn't require power to continuously cool the fuel to prevent meltdown like most current uranium reactors do, instead requiring power to prevent that failsafe, often via an ice plug actively keeping the fuel in the system for operation.