Why? Plenty of dams are perfectly capable of producing power 24/7. It may not even be possible to let the reservoir fill up during the day and drain it during the night, especially during a drought or flood period where the amount of incoming water very much dictates what you do with your dam and when.

You make a lot of assumptions about how dams are operated. Those assumptions aren’t always true.

We can’t really expand on hydroelectric dams; we already have dams in just about all locations where they make sense. If there’s no convenient hydro dam near you you’re probably going to have to go with something else for storage.

Also, those dams are usually used for power generation; for storage it’s more common to use pumped hydro where you store energy by pumping water to a higher reservoir and release it by letting it flow to a lower one. A major downside is that pumped hydro only works in select locations; not every hill is suitable for installing a pair of large cisterns.

Another option is compressed air energy storage, which stores energy by compressing lots of air in large tanks and then releases it by letting the air back out. Cleverly designed implementations can even make use of the thermal changes the air undergoes at its density changes. They also need specific local conditions; huge high pressure tanks are hard to build so we usually use things like salt caverns as tanks. One interesting option is to use depleted natural gas fields.

There’s also other options like flywheels, which should be a bit less picky about location.

And lastly, not every battery needs lots of rare earth metals. Sodium batteries are currently starting to hit the market; they are more stable and less reliant on rare materials than lithium batteries. They are also bulkier but that’s not much of a concern for a grid-level storage facility.

And modern mid-range photo cameras come with crazy features. Autofocus that can detect human and even animal eyes and instantly focus on those. Lenses with whisper-quiet and crazy fast ultrasonic focusing motors. Image stabilization both in the lens and in the camera.

Oh, and your photo camera can record video, too, because why wouldn’t it?

I know. My point is that Razer and Logitech are known to be well-supported. I don’t know if that is true for other manufacturers.

Doesn’t seem that outlandish for a resin printer.

How’s Linux support? As far as I know, most other companies don’t get the save level of support that Logitech and Razer do.

Maybe that’ll change when Keychron finish their zgm firmware project and some mice with it hit the market.

Humans, animals, who cares? In fact, let’s just go full phylum-agnostic!

5,000 deaths from nuclear power. (humans)

140,000 deaths from renewable energy. (wildlife)

70 million deaths from a single dose of mouthwash. (~100 miillion bacteria per ml of saliva, assuming vaguely 0.7 ml of saliva in the mouth)

Seriously, though, renewables are technically more lethal than nuclear but that’s mainly because NPPs are usually designed for extreme bulk production and (AFAIK) most renewable deaths are due to construction accidents. Just look at that rooftop solar number. All in all, both renewables and nuclear are pretty safe as far as pure mortality goes. Beyond mortality we of course run into the nuclear waste issue but that’s another story.

Coal is comically bad on so many levels it’s amazing how insistent some people are on maintaining it. It even manages to lose to nuclear on the metric of radioactive pollution. That’s… impressive, I suppose. I’d prefer it if it could be impressive in a history book.

Even without Nvidia openly shitting on consumers I wouldn’t buy from them again.

There’s also the dangerously badly designed 12VHPWR connector, selling frame generation as a performance gain, lackluster Linux support, the 4080 having so many known potential compatibility issues that diagnosing a manufacturing defect took me two damn weeks… Honestly, I haven’t seen much quality work from them in the last years.