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exactly this. I’m sure some of the larger hosts easily spend six figures per month just on the server infrastructure alone
Usenet is super fast, safe, reliable, automated searching and downloading actually works. I gladly support my host
+1 for Mullvad! They were raided with a search warrant by Swedish Police who ended up leaving empty handed because the customer data they wanted simply does not exist
You’re right about the environmental footprint - proof of stake dropped the energy consumption by 99.95%
Ether (ETH) was never intended to serve as a digital currency. it was only meant to be the fuel or incentive for computational tasks on the Ethereum network. An L2 like Optimism or Arbitrum runs on top of Ethereum and facilitates transactions that are significantly faster (tens of thousands of transactions per second), for a fraction of the cost (pennies or fractions of pennies)
Recently learned this the hard way, by recommending a Dymo to one of my clients. They’ve had constant issues with it. Even with official Dymo labels, it constantly has problems, fails to detect the NFC chip in the roll, claims that the roll is empty or that we’re not using authentic labels… Dymo has now sent TWO replacements and all 3 have the same issues. Insanity
I briefly looked into some hacky fixes but there’s nothing I’d trust in prod
We have them set up with a Zebra now and they haven’t had a single issue since