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abenga··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
You have 20 years after buying them to set up a local supply chain.
abenga··on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
I remember the 2010 Olympics were aired on pre-enshittified Youtube (in a few countries). You could click on icons to go to a live stream of different events, zero ads, no cutting to studio announcers (stayed on the fields), zero fuss. It was glorious.

I feel like living in a country advertisers don't care about makes your digital life better. For example the NBA league pass is very cheap in my country, all teams. For an amount I'd be glad to pay per month, I can watch all games for all teams on demand, without blackouts. And during game breaks we either watch the stadium feed, an animated NBA logo, or highlights and countdowns of other games.

abenga··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
Is the fact that is a mistake a comfort to the kids' parents, siblings, or friends? Are they somehow less dead?
abenga··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
Sucks for you, but you can't then turn around and expect someone else to invest these for you when they don't want to.
abenga··on macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
I of course expect my lawyer and doctor to thoughtfully apply their knowledge to help me. Why should they be any different?
abenga··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
Is all this nonsense being pushed everywhere now because everyone's eyes are on the war?
abenga··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
Why would using Google maps cause brain damage?
abenga··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
Maybe that cost is meaningless for GP (right or not).
abenga··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
(Yes, I see your /s, just adding to your comment)

It's weird that supposedly clever people cannot see beyond "this number goes down/up now" to "this is not immediately beneficial, but it keeps our company healthier in the long run".

abenga··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
It does. If you paste (to slack, email, whatever) after taking a screenshot on Gnome, you will attach your screenshot. It is also saved on ~/Pictures/Screenshots.
abenga··on Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
We've had this ever since Corporations were invented.
abenga··on Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
What vast improvements in ICE? From 20% to 40% efficiency?
abenga··on MinIO repository is no longer maintained
> support the people who care enough to use your project.

You make that sound like they are helping the developer. The help is going the other way, it seems to me.

abenga··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
If consumers stop buying gas guzzlers, the impact of personal transportation on the climate will reduce. Are you suggesting the 1% controls the minds of the 99% to do things that are harmful to the environment? Past some point, there is at least some level of personal responsibility?

Several car companies had plans to stop making ICE cars at some point in the near future. Everyone stopped buying their cars and they have had to backtrack (e.g. Porsche). We have all collectively decided that environmentalism is hot air (tee hee) and we'll just continue with business as usual.

abenga··on Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
Your car and fellow road users' cars generally have your life, your passengers' lives, and other road users' lives in its hands while in use.
abenga··on Stop generating, start thinking
Someone somewhere knows though.
abenga··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Implications are straightforward. You are giving unfettered access to your digital life to a software system that is vulnerable to the normal vulnerabilities plus social engineering vulnerabilities because it is attempting to use human language, and the way you prevent those is apparently writing sternly worded markdown files that we hope it won't ignore.
abenga··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Overprovision solar and add batteries for the night, then. Whatever amount of money and effort is required to make space data centers feasible (launching, cooling, etc) cannot possibly be lower than just building solar powered terrestrial data centers + batteries or alternative power sources. It is just not as sexy a story to sell to investors as magic space computers.
abenga··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Why not use the unlimited free energy on terrestrial data centers then? You can use solar power as we speak, no?
abenga··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
It's probably straightforward for someone who works with it. For a newb like me, it needs effort to understand. I think unit files are self-documenting and straightforward to understand the first time you see them.
abenga··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
Probably not, but it looks a hell of a lot harder to understand than a unit file.
abenga··on Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Does that matter?
abenga··on Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
The X people are the Wayland people, it's not an external occupying force.
abenga··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
What's the actual reason then?
abenga··on The hidden engineering of runways
There's Farmcraft101 if you are interested in DIY builds and repairs. There was a series of videos repairing an excavator from scrap to finish, and he is currently doing a series of videos adding hydro generation to a pond. Interesting metal fabrication, hydraulics, power, etc content.
abenga··on Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
Your publisher probably did. (Figuratively speaking, it always seems to be publisher corpos getting the money in such cases).
abenga··on The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla
If I want to buy a four-door Toyota sedan, I could buy a Prius, Corolla, Camry, Crown, or Mirai (not even counting Lexus or Century models), diluting each model's car sales, while overall vastly outselling Tesla. Ditto for cross-overs, SUVs, etc.
abenga··on Xous Operating System
You are assuming everyone knows everything about things that were released in the past. At least some of us are learning about this today.
abenga··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
For me, it's the knees. When everyone is leaned back you can't even comfortably use a tablet to read, while I can comfortably sit upright for a few hours (of course taking a walk from time to time). The person in front reclining their seat forces me to either manspread into the seat on the left or right (if I'm not on the aisle) or stick my feet in the aisle and getting in the cabin crew's way as they move back and forth.
abenga··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
Leaning back doesn't help knee room, the person in front leaning back actually reduces it by the seat back leaning against a tall person's knees.
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