Because some people think the world needs nuclear weapons :-(

We conceded that part. The question is: What about nuclear weapons needs welding?

According to

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-sci...

    Pieces of cast plutonium are then welded together to form a pit

Note if the world (ex. Russia) ever gets interested in the fast breeder reactor, or even if we try to get the absolute most out of the LWR

https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurean-advanced-fuel...

there may be revived interest in casting fuel elements out of mixed U, Pu and Zr like so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEfhx5ovuYk

a technology which has been quietly used in marine nuclear reactors for years. This competes with the oxide fuels ordinarily used in civil LWRs and that the French have developed to make mixed-oxide (part U, part Pu) fuels. Problem with that is that quality MOX fuel is made of U and Pu alloyed in a high-energy ball mill but that makes nano particles that are highly effective at getting in your lungs and causing cancer. That is a problem with casting too, but making MOX fuel means you need to pick up fuel pellets with gloves and carefully stuff them in a tube whereas you don’t have to get anywhere near a cast fuel rod.

And a real IPv6 (128 bit) address would look like 164.32.74.105.164.32.74.105.164.32.74.105.164.32.74.105

I worked for a large bank some years ago and while still using old IBM Mainframes which waste lot of energy they consume way less than those miners.

Good news. Bitcoin and this enormous waste of energy should get forbidden anyway. It does hurt the environment and has no real advantage over existing infrastructure.

While I mostly agree, there are subtleties here. Due to transmission capacity inefficiencies there are places in the grid where generation exceeds available load and power pricing drops very low or runs negative in price. For example, there are areas in California where a combination of physics and politics causes generation to have nowhere to go. Under these conditions I dontnhave much issue with people mining bitcoin. If there were more productive loads that could be utilizing that power, they would be.

> Under these conditions I dontnhave much issue with people mining bitcoin

At a penalty rate, sure. The problem is those negative rates invite productive power users. If you immediately balance them with useless crap, you never get the productive stuff.

There is an analogy to Dutch disease, except with power prices: crypto and its ilk are the disease.

Can you provide examples of productive stuff

- Water desalination

- CO2 scrubbing

- Making synthetic fuel out of CO2, or any kind of "storage fuel".

Aluminium smelting.

- pumping water uphill

- splitting water for fuel

And those locations should either attract good use cases like data centers or should be incentive to solve this issue in a way that we can use it.

Like building more power lines or converting it into transportable energy like H2.

Bitcoin plays in a different market and does the opposite to this .

Should? So why don't they?

If you like to design good UX, you shouldn't look at any cookie consent forms.

After Ubuntu began to use all those snaps I tried Debian in 2020. Switched to Debian Buster (10) and soon back to Ubuntu because it was not usable for me. In 2023 I tried again with Debian Bookworm (12) and I'm not missing anything. It's a great distro.

Ok if I'd like to buy 5 licenses instead of the one I need or do you know any legal way to get just one single PC with Windows 10 LTSC?

In the EU it is legal to buy a second hand software license. I presume you can buy one from these.

I did a quick search, but all of them seem to ask you to contact them for a quote. They claim 50-70% price reductions.

I think most replaced them with ultra wide screens

Are you sure the BGA is soldered correctly? Regarding the soldering, almost every 2nd component looks pretty bad.