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Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474 GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit…

Texas data center projects must stop until state audits them
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

So streaming ain't gonna work well until I can upgrade the OS kernel, or get to the front of the Steam Machine queue.
Streaming a flat-screen game from the gaming PC to a theatre-screen in the headset seems to work fairly well though.
Not much actual point in my room that already has a massive projector, but maybe if you shared a space I guess?
You can of course download your flat-screen game and play it on the bus too. It's using the pass-through so you ain't blindfolding yourself to local thieves.
There is a web-browser of course. Chromium. Visited my VR site, which has an embedded 360/stereo player that works on Quest: Doesn't work here. Just does a full-screen-in-the-theatre-window mode. Can't turn it even so it's just looking forward.
Presumably better web-browser VR API stuff is on the way.
As a stand-alone VR machine though, it is is working well so long as you download the game and for those that actually work.
Doom doesn't. but Alyx on-device looks great. Loads fast, no frame-dropping, and the game is great. See some detail suddenly being filled in sometimes. Like a chunk of screen comming into focus. Suspect that's the foviated rendering? Maybe. Or just normal LOD, who knows.
Played Metro Awakening VR for ten minutes. Haven't played that before. Pretty nice looking game.
Seems like Pistol Whip in particular is more clunky than I'm used to for no particular reason. Maybe they'll release a Frame-optimized version later.
The sound is definitely not as good as the quest either. Less bass response. The quest you really feel it when you pistol-whip someone, the clunk of their armour. Not so here, just a little speaker-click.

⚡ It reads the min/max primary key under your constraints, splits the key space into chunk-sized ranges and dispatches one batched job per range — so locks stay short instead of one giant statement
🎯 Every where clause survives the queue boundary: nested closures, whereHas, whereExists and sub-selects are captured as a parameterized SQL fragment, not serialized closures

"There are currently 315 #datacentres in the queue to connect to the UK’s electricity grid, representing 73GW of demand. This is almost double the peak winter energy demand for the entire UK.
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Because of the long wait to connect to the grid, the Wapseys Wood and Quest Park datacentres are seeking to build their own on-site gas-fired power stations."
If approved, th…

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

🔧 Size runs by rows with chunk, or cap the total job count with maxJobs. tries, backoff, throttle, delay and queue routing can be set per call or once in config/queue-sql.php
🎨 dryRun() previews the plan — operation, table, job count, ranges, estimated rows — without dispatching anything

Find and Help your Open Source Friends
- Leonid Bugaev
"So let the large projects close the queue [to LLM contributions]. There is a lot more open source out there.
That was the reason I built Help Wanted in the first place, few years ago. At the time of writing, it has 650,456 issues from 96,576 projects in its index, from the projects who actually WANT help. Most developers will never hear the names of nearly all these projects.”
#OpenSource

CVS/caremark rep put me on hold and went to call the pharmacy. Every couple of minutes he comes back to tell me his position in the queue, thank me for staying connected, and chit chat for a second before going back to the pharmacy hold. Dude, just stay on the other line!

hmm I think #Pocketcast is a bit better as a #Podcast client than #AudioBookshelf.
The queue, skip silence, auto downloading episodes in the queue and chapters make a better feeling.

This project, when fully running from scratch, can queue several million in one of the queues. So the real OTEL adventure for me, as always, is pushing limits. And part of that was getting OTEL working on ZTS with fibers. And I succeeded 🎉 . With this being the first full production run 😎 .
#php #otel

The Steam Frame is released. At a shockingly high price range, but that's RAM for you in these post-ai days.
This means improvement on Linux VR in general with all the latest patches. The home-room is updated, the menus all looking fancy and new. Even if you got an old Vive.
Even more exciting than that, Steam have agreed to serve my place in the wait-queue so one might even arrive here in the coming weeks and thank goodnes it's after payday. If it was a week ago I might have had to give up my place.
Sounds like the Alyx updates intend for that game to run on the machine stand-alone, which would be nice. Able to take that big old complex game on the road to demo at parties.
Anyway. I'm poor again and dunno how long the wait for the package will be, but looking forward to seeing it.
God I hope it's not shit and rescues us from the Facebook-dominated market since they bought Oculus.
#vr #linux

⚡ With the size strategy a queue holding 100,000 jobs gets roughly 10x the weight of a 10,000-job queue, so a midnight batch grabs nearly the whole worker pool while constantly-fed queues sit at their one-worker minimum and keep growing
🎯 The idea: normalize queue sizes logarithmically before calculating worker share. log10(2,000) is 3.3, log10(100,000) is 5.0 — a 50x size difference shrinks to less than 2x in weight

I'M ON THE STEAM FRAME QUEUE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bobthomson70/116902998760672783
Queue heat filter, wiggly non-Arabian library music and a stock shot of a minaret.
Hell, maybe even some camels!
As an old bloke, I can remember the narrative spin from "T…

nophenia (PC) Wander through the dreams(?) of a wolf girl.
Taking a break from the thinky pain games with nophenia, which showed up in my Steam discovery queue and I thought "well that's odd looking" and just bought it on a whim. I don't really want to say too much about this game(?) as it's another one of those things you just kinda have to experience.
Functionally, it's a low poly 3rd person walking sim in which you traverse some surreal landscape…

🕒 Time to sit in the Nintendo Store queue for an hour, I guess 🤭

🔧 The self-healer is the standout: it listens for failed queue jobs and scheduled tasks, spins up an agent in an isolated git worktree on a tackle/heal- branch, diagnoses the exception, patches the code, runs your suite and then opens a PR or applies the fix directly.

📊 From the test suite: queues of 946 / 13,702 / 0 jobs with 25 workers. size gives 2 / 22 / 1 workers, log gives 11 / 13 / 1. The big queue still wins, it just cannot erase the small one
🚦 Deliberately not sold as better: time balances by estimated queued work, size by raw job count, log by size while compressing huge backlogs. For mixed-runtime pipelines, time stays the right pick #Laravel

another quirk upgrading #Jellyfin from 10.11.11 to 12.0, the random play buttons now only queue the first entry on the current page of files. In 10, it would step through random selections from the entire (filtered) library.
Problem persists in 12.1

🔧 The implementation in laravel/horizon#1818 is tiny: sum log1p(size) across all queues, then divide each queue's log1p by that total instead of using the raw job count. No strategy interface, no custom allocator, no new service
🧮 Why log1p? It computes log(1 x), so an empty queue gets weight 0 instead of an undefined log(0). Natural log vs log10 does not matter — the base cancels out during normalization

#today is already stuck in a queue for #GreenMan #GreenMan2027 tickets, which may take an hour or so.
So much better if this were with pint in hand and some #EDM in the background...