yeah I want a top 50 for regular people that don’t spend $500 on a tiny meal.

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I didn’t realise Drupal is still around! I remember when they forked from Mambo and I had to convert a few sites across. That was probably 20 years ago now! this was Joomla - I misremembered

Stop accepting free with ads as a way to use things you really care about.

A lot of people can’t afford to pay for every website and webapp they use. Not everyone is in a first-world country with a lot of discretionary income.

WhatsApp (pre Meta acquisition) used to charge $1/year and even that was a barrier for a significant number of users, particularly in developing countries.

The only free models that work are either to use ads, to have a freemium service (where the paid users subsidize the free users), or to have someone else cover the cost for you (which is how it works on most Lemmy servers for example).

4.6 million gallons or water

How does it consume this much water? I thought modern water cooling systems were all closed-loop systems?

The companies actually buy a lot of equipment and supplies locally, and use local construction crews where possible (if there’s enough of them available in the area).

One of the things that people are annoyed about with data centers is that even if the company does buy things locally, they often get exempted from sales tax. For example, Texas and Ohio exempt data center equipment purchases from sales tax, and Meta negotiated a 20-year exemption from sales tax for their big Hyperion campus in Louisiana.

Even with gratuity, Waymo is usually more expensive. Their operating expenses are far higher since they own their vehicles.

Seemed expensive, $20-25 to go 1-1.5 miles, but I only needed two rides while there and used it both times so maybe that’s competitive or even a good deal compared to uber.

As someone that lives in the Bay Area - Waymo are always more expensive than Uber and Lyft. Lyft is usually a bit cheaper than Uber. Waymo’s R&D costs are very high so they’re likely trying to recover some of that money. People are still willing to pay, at least at the moment, because it’s still a somewhat unique experience.

You see them even in small suburban streets now, as they extended their service area quite a bit a few months ago. They’re available from San Francisco all the way to San Jose.

Once you factor in environmental cost, renewables have been cheaper for a long time.

Everything dropping in price has helped a lot too, of course. Like the article says, solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries have all significantly dropped in price in the last decade.

What a surprise - the phone that was a photoshopped Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case isn’t real.

There is absolutely no way a phone that’s made in the USA could be sold for only $499.

The Trump phone plan is a grift too. $47.45/month and you only get 20GB high speed data, when you can get 70GB (or actual unlimited, depending on network) from US Mobile for less than half the price.

If the company is only measuring token usage and not actual output, it’s more like measuring a carpenter’s work based on how many hammers they buy.