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To restart a nuclear power plant, you must go through every planned maintenance activity that was cancelled or not done in the mothballed time frame, you have to inspect every pipe, every pump, every valve, test every breaker, snubber, and emergency diesel until every single device is satisfactory. On top of that cyber security regulations rolled out between 2003-2018 world wide for nuclear you would also have to do a mountain of paperwork to either confirm with NEI 08-09, the EPRI TAM or equivalent. You will likely have to upgrade your digital infrastructure entirely to get to that point as well. You would also have to hire in seasoned employees in operations, maintenance, chemistry, health physics, engineering, licensing, procurement, and security. Going from a barebones security staff guarding a long term storage yard to one protecting a full nuclear power plant would also take time. It would be 3 to 5 years to accomplish everything if money was not an issue.

All of this spend is on top of no electrical generation. And what parts were sold to other plants that now need replacements. So every industry that supports those parts and manufacturing would also have to spin up more resources. Economically there would be positive effects.

The reason the American plants are restarting is a lot of private capital, a lot of government money and a willing regulator. 2 billion usd is a steal compared to 25 to build a new one.

I'm hybrid, but most weeks get called to site due to the nature of my job. Supposed to be 50/50 but often it's full in office. Air gapped networks that look like museum pieces are fun...

I live pretty rural and starlink has been worth the price over the last few years. When you compare it to dialup or hughesnet or viasat, it just works.

Guess I'm more paranoid than fairly. Id class this in a wait and see category maybe try it out on a secondary device for a trial run. You'd have to have the need to their services to justify the cost or just not care about cost.

Telnet will live on, in areas it probably shouldn't like industrial controls systems, switch management, regulated industries, printing, etc.

Don't use biometrics a pin has been shown to have more 5th amendment protections. Have your phone automatically reboot at a regular time every day. When your phone reboots a lot of the exploits that can get into your phone are locked out because they rely on reading the active memory.

Have some oe on something similar, we created two laptops that ran Linux to mimic something in our plant, the issue with them though was drivers, we got the bleeding edge and components like the network card and graphics card just didn't work for a month or two until new drivers came out. It was red hat from maybe 2020 time frame.

It could be that they chose something bleeding edge and the hardware drivers were built for windows but might be a couple revisions behind for the Linux equivalents. It could be the development cycle for windows vs that of Linux and how they integrate with new hardware. Just a hypothesis.

I still have to use Fortran 77 on vax machines at work. It's... Fun. Hope it lasts long enough for this replacement project to finish.

Patches have been a mess the last couple years. Makes me think someone or a group of people either quit, were fired, or got pulled into the ai side of the business. The mistakes being made are that of junior programmers without a proper lead or review and testing team. That plus removal of features and addition of too much telemetry into the os and office products.

Work in a large organization. Though it's a special industry in terms of being heavily regulated. One person can push over time to change management opinions on their scope of work and what the policy is. Junior engineers become seniors and leads over a decade or longer. If you're jumping every 2 years to a different company, yes you won't be changing much.

Well there's now a polka about diarrhea after eating spicy food. And a rock ballad duet about macaroni and cheese with a female singer and a screamo male part.

Yup totally won't mess with their algorithms.