But pushing for more renewables can also be a way to stop fascism. Those texan oil barons are funding Trump exactly because they want to keep their business. Putin is funding all those right wing parties because he wants to keep selling gas. And the Saudis, Qataris and other dictators are also not to keen on not selling oil and gas.
I’m sceptical. Even if somebody would present a working fusion reactor today, what would the timeline to replace everything based on fossil fuels even be? Build several thousand of expensive fusion reactors in every country of the world, even in geopolitical rivals like China, Russia or North Korea or war-torn third world countries? Replace every car with an electrical one? Replace home heating everywhere? Rebuild every ship and airplane worldwide?
Seeding is something to help your fellow pirates. You donate your bandwidth to help them get their files. It’s totally in character for meta to just leech everything, take stuff, not give back anything and then to run to the bank laughing
They are getting downvoted, because they are obviously wrong. Of course the government is “creating” the money. But it can’t just print money and spend it. Countless governments tried it and it always led to hyperinflation - and therefore the budget of course has to come from taxes
Which is kind of crazy, if you think about it: The federal budget is coming from taxes. So the deal is that Trump is destroying valuable services of federal institutions and only 20% of the “savings” are getting passed on? While normal people will have to pay for stuff like the weather forecast?
It is nostalgia. As the article correctly describes: If you just want your physical copy, the humble Audio CD is where it’s at. Every other audio format is worse. I also collect vinyls, but that really is not about the audio quality and if they weren’t so unspectacular, collecting CDs would make more sense
Netflix is creating shows for distracted viewers, Spotify is creating “ghost artists” to stuff playlists nobody is actively listening to, writers writing books nobody is reading and podcasts are produced that are downloaded and never listened to. Great.
Money absolutely would help and I wish the EU would put additional funding into this.
Not only the EU. Let’s be honest: curl is used at Google, Meta, Apple and every other tech company. There is no reason why the EU should be the only entity funding them. Just funnel some of those tens of billions of revenue every quarter into the software that is essential to run your business.
I would like to have a PSION as a portable writerdeck, but they are surprisingly expensive. Used ones can fetch 100€+
It’s not really unfixable. Square Enix just doesn’t want to spend the money to update an older mobile game
Even if you’re capturing carbon - the average American is producing ~14 tons of CO2 per year. That is quite a lot to store if you have captured it.
I’m kind of disappointed that this one is free and doesn’t have a subscription model
If you think about it:
In the meantime, spez totally trashed his site, destroyed valuable communities and pushed away the mods that keep the place clean. Really, really great business strategy there.
Don’t waste your time with stuff like this. Install an alternative app - OpenStreetMap is great and does have the correct name.
Be careful there - you’re pushing electricity in your grid and there is a reason why only one system is permitted in Germany. Don’t hook up two or three without talking with an expert.
That won’t really work as that is the worst scenario for solar. I can give you real world data from southern germany. I don’t have balcony solar, but a 13,4kWp solar system on my roof. Here is the data from this year:
As you can see, days are getting longer in Feb, generation is going up. To get a rough estimate, take my data and divide it by 16,75. That won’t give you a lot of heating, esp. with a normal space heater. Even if you had a scenario, where your 800W solar system would produce 800W in the winter, your space heater will suck 2000W. Take a look at its power cord, you’ll see how much it uses.
So yeah, 800W is not much, but will cover your running appliances like your fridge, freezer, router or computer on sunny days.
That kind of depends on what you’re building. Standard is currently 800W (2 standard solar panels). Older models use 600W, other models are using 2000W and limit it to 800W. That doesn’t make much sense, but skirts our local regulations that limits them to 800W, but of course generates more energy.
It then also depends on where you live. Can you point it to the sun? Do you live in sunny Spain or in northern Norway? In Germany a 800W system can produce 800-1200kWh per year. Our average electricity price is at 0.35€, so you’ll save 280€-420€ a year. And those systems are dirt cheap, there are deals out there where you can get one for 200€. That is quite a good ROI for something that you can install in an hour.
If you want to know more, here is a calculator https://priwatt.de/service/ertragsrechner/
Why? Can you explain a little bit?
Let’s be honest: That totally is a monopolistic tactic of Microsoft and regulators would do great to force this open. Force them to release a Linux Office. Force them to really make their file format transparent so that everybody can write working parsers
I still remember 2020 and 2022, it’s not that long ago. So Covid started to hit the US in spring 2020. And take a look at inflation rates:
Yeah, it took some time, but you really can’t deny that there was “barely a blip in inflation” and that it came only after the war started.