ooh, Electrical Engineer here, I can answer this one!
No.
As a computer engineer, donโt listen to my advice, once things go above 12v they get scary for me
Ever short a car battery? Even 12 volts gets pretty scary pretty quick when you send it at like 700 amps.
The same way an EMT knows you should wear PPE when riding a motorcycle.
Anyway, the ones that do this shit tend to be hard R republicans and I know they didnโt fix their lonliness because right before they will say โi use arc btwโ.
I misread and started wondering what Arch Linux had to do with republicans who sabotage physical infrastructure
Pardon me, but the qualification to answer this is if youโre lonely or not. Not whether youโre an electrical engineer.
I mean there is some overlap there, but we donโt know your situation.
Nah, I donโt have to be lonely to tell if these idiots shooting at my transformers are still lonely after. Pretty confident they are still starving for attention.
Am lonely though.
Attempted electrical substation sabotage is an easy way to fix your loneliness forever. And also all of your other problems.
Not sure how much food a person needs after being reduced to a cloud of ionized particles and a small pile of soot.
I, personally, prefer to sabotage major data centers, such as the Switch data center in Vegas. Their HVAC units are a particular weak point since they entirely lie on the outside of the buildings they cool. Plus the facility is so big, theyโll never even know you were there!
Lmao that place looks like a supervillain fortress complete with ominous red glow and super high walls with aggressively angled wrought iron.
It also has fully kitted out paramilitary-looking security that donโt screw around. They donโt just have like, one sad Securitas agent dinging the perimeter while catching up on How I Met Your Mother lol.
But seriously, chances are a lot of good data goes through there too. Donโt shut off our connection to the outside world it kinda sucks here. :( :( :(
I seriously wonder what kinda data flows through there though. Boggles the mind to fathom.
The armed guards make it a challenge! If anything, get some drones and attach some explosives, like theyโre doing in Ukraine!
You are posting this on a website. How do you think that works? The internet relies on data centres around the world. Unless you actually know whatโs being hosted on that data center, this is an unfathomably stupid move.
No please! Electric substations are necessary to transmit power, and we actually need more of them if weโre going to build the amount of renewables we need.
If youโre looking for parts of the electrical system that I feel less positively about, that would include data centers (especially for AI and crypto mining) and coal-fired power plants.
Of course, industrial sabotage is a crime, and with all the high voltage and current going around, itโs a particularly dangerous one at that. Would not recommend
Datacenters arenโt the issue, like it or not theyโre required for modern society. The issue is data centers powered by unclean power sources.
Unfortunately, poor people are also supported by those same unclean power sources.
What you want to do is first add new, clean power sources.
I know itโs less fun to fight the revolution by building things, but in the long term itโs more effective than smashing things.
Itโs so funny to me that people will unironically bitch about data centers while posting to a website from their computer or phone. You do know that data centers do literally everything in your modern life, they arenโt just used exclusively used for one stupid type of generative AI you dislike.
Until theyโre replaced by other generators, those coal-fired power plants are supporting everyone just like the substations are.
You rely on data centres to post this message.
I have legit had people arguing that because itโs decentralised that it doesnโt need a data centre. Not realising that many lemmy instances are hosted on public cloud, and that all of them need network infrastructure housed in data centers.
P2P architectures run on a routed mesh mostly on network edge donโt really need DC server farms. Switching packets, especially minus porn and cat videos donโt take much DC space or power either. Lemmy isnโt that different from Usenet via uucp on dialup, even considering todayโs scale.
Lemmy isnโt P2P though. If it was our clients would connect directly to each other instead of to an instance like how bittorrent works. The Usenet analogy is a lot better, but you are forgetting that modern Usenet is still hosted on large server networks inside data farms. It being decentralised doesnโt actually reduce the computer power needed at all. If anything it actually makes things more complicated. Sure individual instance servers can be smaller, but once you add together all instances it will add up to the same. Some instances like mine require multiple servers working together to host them, and itโs not even the largest instance out there on a relatively niche platform.
Go to prison. Get a cell mate. No more loneliness
