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  • Also because we’re already stressing electric infrastructure with what we use now

    This is propaganda.

    On the hottest day last week Ontario hyrdo demand was ~24000MW, last night it went as low as 12000MW. There is room to almost double the baseload in Ontario, with actually smart appliances and controls (not SmartTM shit) a ton of fossil fuel heating loads could be replaced with electric without needing any grid level upgrades.

  • Methane has to be compressed for both transportation in pipes and storage in tanks, a very energy expensive process. Or it can be chilled down and condensed to a liquid for bulk transportation in ships, also a very energy expensive process. Every single joint and valve in the distribution network has the potential to leak, and many of them do, the same goes for storage tanks. Also pressure regulators (like the one on the side of your house) have to vent to bring down the pressure when the network house pressure is too high.

    Natural gas distribution networks are extremely leaky.

  • Any time you say nuclear power most people think of Homer Simpson and Fukushima. Canada could be cranking out reactors and fuel for local and international use but it's 'too dangerous.'

  • Unless the round trip efficiency of synthesized methane (synthesis, transportation and re-capture) is better than solar/hydro/nuke electricity it doesn't make sense build our own hydrocarbons. There are also the cumulative health effects of burning methane in your house and that it is serious greenhouse gas.

  • The boat salesman says you need a boat.

    YOU pay for the infrastructure, YOU pay for the maintenance, YOU pay for the gas. Why would they stop now?

  • Jazz Jackrabbit

    Epic game music, up there with Sonic for getting stuck in your head.

  • There is one installed but I don't have a phoneline to my house >_<

  • There are NO parties in Canada that represent non-corporate interests.

    When your government commits crimes against its country wholesale, there is nothing you can do that even compares. Abuse self-checkouts, cook your taxes, split your internet connection across 3 houses. You will never do a thousandth of the damage they do to you.

  • As long as it wasn't stuck at 60Hz, CRTs had the better picture up until at least 2010. I get why they went out of favour but if someone made an 80lb, 16:9 4K CRT I would buy it.

  • UT GOTY was one of my main reasons for this project. I played the hell out of that game!

  • I'm using an IDE-SATA adapter so swappable drive bay would be a nice solution. I'm not even sure if 95 would handle 512MB of ram, my original W95machine only had 32MB XD

  • After messing around for a couple of days now I might try a dual boot between 98 and ME. I haven't had any stability issues but this particular hardware doesn't play well with Dos and audio under ME 🙃. Thanks for the info!

  • It's been literally 20 years, but I seem to remember having more issues with XP than ME as far as Dos compatibility. I have already run into some audio troubles so a dedicated card might be the next step.

  • Did you play Squadrons? The mission briefings were still not up to X-Wing/Tie Fighter standards but the flight was 10/10.

    I seem to remember having issues with XP and Dos games but if ME is too problematic I will try 98 and XP. Though if I'm going with XP I'll be using a half built P4 PC that I have hanging around.

  • Oh man, we have 30+ PCs in the building that are used to control big automated machines, they used to run on XP at 1024x768. When they started to fall apart I offered up the solution of using modern machines running Debian and putting the SCADA software in a virtual machine, this was rejected. They instead went with Lenovo micro-PCs and Windows 10. They then paid a programmer to manually rearrange and scale up every machine page page to fit on a 1920x1080 screen. FML.

  • ME is how I learned the work 'kernel' and that it can have

    <unknown error>

  • I got it on Kazaa ;)

  • When I had ME the first time around I do remember there being some stability issues but I never had it totally brick, even with the assload of sus softeware that came from Kazaa and Morpheus.

  • Finding 2 sticks of ram that both worked AND worked together was a slog of boot/swap/rebooting. It really is just plug and play these days.