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From the newsletter: "There was no existing panel that satisfied all of these needs, so we instead developed a semi-custom LCD display module with BOE, the same panel maker we use for the Framework Laptop 13. The “semi” part is that we customized the backlight for higher brightness and liquid crystal chemistry for better contrast and color gamut while leveraging an existing TFT mask set to avoid needing to pay a few million dollars in tooling fees." Looks like they had to make some compromise. P.S.: I personally like what they did and especially the resolution of 2k, for me the best compromise between work, video and gaming. I will for sure get one (when they support enough memory for my needs).

Just stop eating meat or reduce where possible and stop or reduce animal product consumption would help much more. Money is not the solution, but the problem IMHO.

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We currently run a Java Monolith that is build on every push to master on Gitlab pipeline, when successful the fat JAR is copied to S3 (including all resources) and then a config file is pushed to S3 to ask DEV servers to run it. The machines are pure EC2 instances with the service registered in systemd with auto-restart after 5s. A simple shell script downloads the config file, the fat JAR and runs it. We detect the environment and machine we're at using the EC2 meta- and user-data, which is set when the EC2 instance is launched. All of this is basically simple plain batch script using JQ and other standard tools. It is a little more complicated, because we have graceful restart by first asking a specific instance in each cluster to update itself and when it reports that is is updated, the next instance will be asked to update. All the EC2 instances in a cluster are behind a simple Global Accelerator and are in multiple regions. The service has an API that is invoked by Gitlab with a token to ask for graceful restart, then it will report back to GA that it is unhealthy for some time, so it can finish pending requests (close sockets) and then it simply terminates, the rest is back up to bash script and systemd. To deploy or redeploy to an environment is as well a simply click in Gitlab UI and especially important for On-Call, so you can see which version was deployed to which environment when by whom. Additionally some JIRA tickets are automatically created. Eventually this only needs Gitlab, EC2 instances, Global Accelerator and Bash scripts, while allow us to be multi-region and have stateful connections, we can even ask clients to directly connect to specific instances or ask GA to redirect certain ports to specific instances. Basically GA is our load balancer, router, edge location. It is stable, fast and easy with the smallest amount of pieces involved. We can remove individual instances, update one instances in a specific region for testing to a new version and so on.

Building new nuclear plants is no solution, because it takes much more time than building Wind or Solar power plants. Apart of that "I" do nothing, my government does, my only choice is to elect the correct party, which I did and plenty of Germans did as well, which is why the Green party is now the second strongest. When you give a shit about your children, then you are right, in any other case you are totally wrong. The problem is the same with smoking, you do not see anybody dying directly of smoking, therefore this is no problem? However, for things where it helps you argumentation you let this kind of deaths count, like for global warming or* coal pollution. Nuclear waste will be there for the next 100,000 years and our children need to care about it, that should be better than having wind or solar plants?

The risk increases non linear with the amount of plants and with the amount of nuclear waste you have. For the waste we have no solution that works, except for storage, which has tons of risk. For the plants itself it is just a matter of possibility when an terrible accident happens. So simply put, there are around 17 meteors every year that hit ground and can cause a disaster, when they hit a nuclear plant of just some storage for waste, not taking tons of other risks like humans, earthquake, war and alike into account. Eventually, a nuclear plant is no more than gambling for your future, because it is guaranteed that an accident will happen, just not when. This does not even take all the other problems into account like the cost. Nuclear powers is unbelievable expensive, compared to solar or wind. They just is cheap on the paper, because you do not care about all the hidden cost.