Is there a way it could eventually function like a P2P version of archive.org, so that if anyone has a copy of a page (at a point in time I suppose?), it's available to anyone in the network?
If I understand correctly, right now it's more of a self hosted tool for personal archiving (which is great -- I'm a user myself), but something even more resilient harnessing network effects would be great to see.
I thought we're pretty clear that it's thanks to absolutely colossal mass, which... Can't really happen on earth since it requires the mass of a huge number of earths.
> Then we need to find another way to generate fusion power, or admit that it's impossible to do on this planet.
Yes. Here are the currently known alternatives off the top of my head:
* Fusion bomb
* Inertial electrostatic confinement (14 year olds have done this for highschool science fair projects)
* Virtual cathodes (Polywell, technically also an IEC variant)
* Magnetic confinement (Tokamaks: the big expensive doughnuts)
* Field-reversed configuration (technically also magnetic, but these are magnetic "smoke rings", Helion Energy does this)
* Z-pinch (again magnetic, but different)
* Laser confinement (NIF)
* Muon-catalyzed fusion (no chance of this becoming mainstream unless we can convince muons to stop decaying)
IIRC all of these have demonstrated that it's physically possible; some even show promise.
(I've been wanting to write a plasma physics simulation to see if I can improve on the Fusor design since I was at university; now chatGPT writes acceptable code, I keep asking myself why I've not yet made this happen…)
Somewhere around 2 full days. I usually stick it on the charger when I sit down at my desk, and less than 30 minutes is plenty to get it back to 100%. 0 to 100 might take around an hour.
I use an Nvidia shield and it has a Jellyfin app (along with basically anything else on Android, which is why it's been perfect for me). User friendly while still being flexible enough for most anything I want to throw at it.
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