maxhille

Where is fracking being done in Germany today?

You should stop relying on such low-resolution thinking when discussing a complex issue like German energy policy.

It is funny that you are criticizing my ability to reason when you are not even able to (in two comments now) even address the (as explicitly stated in my personal reply to you) single point I was making.

This happened only because public opinion had been shaped by the movements mentioned in my previous comment for the last 40 to 50 years.

Are you implying that 1986 was a Russian propaganda plot? What/who do you mean with "movements"?

Note that I won't even write answers to all the other commenters telling me that nuclear power plants are great (they are not). I will answer you because my reply was about your comment on Russian propaganda:

1. Angela Merkel and her conservative/center coalition shut down the NPPs as a direct response to the Fukushima disaster. The NPPs in Germany were never really important (something like 10% of electricity IIRC).

2. No one in Germany even knew about fracking until we learned that communities in the US now had poisoned ground water because of it. The whole thing was instantly dead forever in Germany. Yes of course the same idiots who want NPPs back also say we should do fracking, but I don't think any of that will ever happen.

So I did not want to discuss whether these decisions were wrong or not, just wanted to point out that making Russian propaganda the reason for this is a far stretch.

Regarding your point about German/European money paying for Russian bombs: You are absolutely right and it is shameful. We should have pulled the plug on Russia 2014. Do note though that Germany had Russian fossils since like the 70`s as part of ensuring peace and transformation through trade, which yes - did not work out so well in the end.

So the Fukushima disaster and US polluted ground water are Russian propaganda for you?

It was always crazy to me that computers were locked down. I almost understand Karen buying an iPhone not coding her own apps, but a dev not able to deploy on their own device just felt so wrong. It made me wonder how Apple was still so popular and seemingly beloved.

AFAIK regulatory changes were needed and implemented recently. Commercial offers for Vehicle to Grid started this month.

My German ID can do that already AFAIK.

In my experience that sentence never made much sense anyway. Of course over the ~25 years of Linux I had to setup/learn a lot of stuff, but usually it ended up being time well invested.

I also have an X13 Gen2 AMD. My idle power consumption is 2.5W to 4W depending on brightness. This ends up in 12h-15h (machine/battery ist 2y old I think).

I think you can improve your power settings.

I heart that at least in the US losing access to Facetime would be a serious loss in social status. So then this would be a real hurdle WRT user choice.

WRT competetive: No reason to state that in absolutes. I play Rocket League, CS2 and Overwatch2 just fine in Linux.

How deep did you look into it? Don't be misled by maybe your manufacturer not supporting Linux directly. As an example https://github.com/berarma/oversteer helped me to set up my wheel better than any rubbish windows OEM software could have.

Lachen, Nacht and Tochter (don't know a cognate for 'cough') still have this sound in Standard German.

I think the worst european country in terms of online freedom right now is the UK, which kind of defeats your point entirely.

Thanks for the reminder. I just disabled AICore and freed 2GB in my Pixel 9 Pro.

Well given Vance's connection to Peter Thiel I don't think it would be less destructive

I am well over 40 and when you don't schedule a call I wont pick up the call. Maybe I will call you back 20 mins later just to - passive aggressively - teach you that being called is annoying ...

I use gaps in sway. My windows have margins anyway because I use a border to indicate the active window and the border uses that margin. Fortunately sway has a built-in setting be space saving eg. in single window cases (where I know the window had focus always).

I set this up many years ago and never changed it.

Give me the name of any country - and I'll tell you why it is not really a democracy.

I mean there are different definitions on what to call an AGI. Most of the time people don't specify which one they use.

For me an AGI would mean truly at least human level as in "this clearly has a consciousness paired with knowledge", a.k.a. a person. In that case, what do the investors expect? Some sort of slave market of virtual people to exploit?

I was using different file watching methods for personal projects over the years and they all suffered in some way. So I built a really simplistic one for my use cases.

https://git.sr.ht/~mh/remake

Of course I won't, but then again I would send you pictures of any other body parts the same.

If someone gets a hand on anything you touched, they have your fingerprint. Last time you traveled to another country - did you have to give them fingerprints? Is the software running your phone closed source? Could you ambush me at night near my house and forcefully take them?

All I am saying is they are so weak as a secret that rhey should not be regarded as one.

I don't think fingerprints should be regarded as a secret.

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Looking at the "CE" logo issue, we know chinese companies try to cheat their products around regulations.

BSD & Co are open source for developers

GPL & Co are open source for users

That sounds like a good way to essentially poison our oceans - maybe we should try leaving some part of the planet somewhat intact?

How do you plan to do the syncing without some sort of cloud infrastructure?

WRT Nvidia+Sway this was certainly true not so long ago. But since the latest Ubuntu release and with a recent driver I am running this combo and it works flawlessly.

Funny coincidence - I just finished the Project Hail Mary audiobook this morning and loved it.

Any recommendations for the next audiobook?

Really interested in why you would say that. I always think of the AGPL as the strictest/strongest possible license...