If you’re thinking of the portable battery marketed as ‘solid state’ then that was a scam - a teardown revealed it was just lithium cells

Sometimes the sun doesn’t shine, sometimes the wind doesn’t blow. Renewables are great and cheap, but they aren’t a complete solution without grid level storage that doesn’t really exist yet.

I built a server a few years ago in a Fractal Design Node (big square box) which has 4 6TB drives in raid 5 for 18TB of storage and a 6 core AMD cpu. It cost around £1200 and half of that was the hard drives.

It’s been really good, so if you’re looking to build one yourself I’d recommend having a look at the case and the price of drives.

There’s a brexit joke in there somewhere

(quoting from wikipedia) In 2023 a group of engineers modified a dynometer to be able to measure how much horsepower a horse can produce. This horse was measured to 5.7 hp (4.3 kW)

Commander Shran returns to Andoria to reenact the events that led to the forming of the Federation

Most of the posh sounding characters are posh, or at least formally educated. Gale is a wizard (clear enunciation for spellcasting), Astarion ws a magistrate, Wyll is the son of a duke, Minthara is a princess.

Karlac and Halsin aren’t posh and don’t sound posh. I’m not sure about Lae’zel, but that just leaves Shadowheart. Maybe Shar has a thing for accents?

Dear Mozilla Leadership Team: Why do you keep making terrible leadership decisions?

I think he said tentatively by the end of the year, so most likely early next year some time

Lots of nice changes here, it’s been a busy week

Martin Owens is working on a new PDF exporter that will allow you to use an ICC colour profile to have correct CMYK colours for printing, basically essential for professional printing.

CMYK on the horizon too

I’m stealing that one, thank you