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»We're off grid and have 7kw of panels, and 40kwh of 48v lithium batteries, with a generator for backup, which is rarely used since we are frugal with electricity and switch everything off when not in use.«

Good for you, but this is neither a concept for large cities nor for the industry.

I find it hard to believe that WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram have almost the exact same number of users. This seems to be skewed data.

Would you call it free speech if the whole world was able to track your position anywhere in the world 24/7?

> What you should do instead is write all your code so it is little-endian only, as the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x, and if someone wants to run your code on s390x, they can afford a support contract.

Or you can just be a nice person and make your code endian-agnostic. ;-)

Compare the price and carbon density of the French electricity grid with that of California to understand why that rebuttal is justified.

Capacity doesn’t matter, generation does.

»In 10 years it has not just amortised it's costs, it has made me money, and qualifies as a tax right off.«

Great, so basically the tax payer is subsidizing your energy consumption.

Sounds like a fair system.

Yeah, just build a 300 GW transmission line from the US to Europe. It will basically costs nothing.

> It is just so much simpler with electricity.

Yet the market still thinks differently. Lots of countries still keep subsidizing EV despite them already being mature technology for such a long time.

We didn't have to subsidize the smart phone to make it successful, we shouldn't have to subsidize electric cars either.

Unless you produce it using the Sulfur-Iodine cycle in a high-temperature nuclear reactor.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur%E2%80%93iodine_cycle

and: https://www.jaea.go.jp/04/o-arai/nhc/en/research/hydrogen_he...

I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted, but it's spot on.

Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.

A new software stack isn't free. Someone has to maintain it.

And if the new software stack just improves a fraction of the ecosystem, it isn't worth the effort.

> As always with Zig posts, here come the haters. I really wonder why you even care about it.

It's another language stack that would need to be maintained within Linux distributions for years to come (security support, architecture support etc).

Upstream developers always seem to assume that there is no cost associated to introducing new software stacks. But in the end, someone has to maintain it. And they keep forgetting the purpose of software is to serve users, not developers.

And I'm not sure what's so revolutionary about Zig that couldn't have been solved by improving other languages.

For Zig in particular, the language isn't even stable enough that you can compile packages like Ghostty with any recent version of the Zig compiler. It has to be a very specific version of the compiler.

SysVInit on Linux isn’t true Unix though as the way it abuses runlevels to start daemons was never intended by the original designers of init.

SysVInit is abusing runlevel scripts for starting daemons which has always been a hack to be able to resolve dependencies between daemons.

Learning Linux or Unix from scratch shouldn’t include using crude hacks.

Australia is still highly dependent on coal. They’re not a prime example of how to decarbonize an electricity grid.

If you want a good example, rather look at France!

»US electricity demand jumped by 135 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2025, a 3.1% increase, the fourth‑largest annual rise of the past decade. Over that same period, solar generation grew by a record 83 TWh – a 27% increase from 2024 and the biggest absolute gain of any power source. That single jump in solar output covered 61% of all new electricity demand nationwide.«

This article equates generation with consumption which is a fallacy.

Lots of solar and wind generation is actually produced without meeting demand meaning that the generated electricity often has to be wasted.

There is no way of changing this. It’s how commodity markets work.

Electricty is a homogeneous good which is traded at one price independent of origin.

Why should an operator of wind turbine sell their kWh for less if the current price is high? That would be stupid.

Good luck trying to enforce this!

France was not affected and guarded the rest of Europe because the have reliable, dispatchable power.

It’s not really surprising that an electricity grid becomes fragile if you remove large rotating masses which can act as power reserves which can react to power variations immediately.

Can you elaborate on that a bit, please?

I have never found myself in the situation where my terminal emulator would be too slow and I‘m using it for the majority of my day-to-day work.

I honestly never ran into a situation where I would habe blamed the terminal emulator for being too slow.

Having to introduce a new language stack to distributioms just to be able to build a terminal emulator is what I would consider over-engineering.

I grew up in a socialist country and anyone equates socialism with failure is 100% spot on.

People who think that living in socialism is in any way desirable simply don’t understand what socialism actually means.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but the fact remains that the German government has full control over Deutsche Bahn and any mismanagement can be blamed 100% on the German government.

You are contradicting yourself.

On the on hand you claim that a government-run railway company is better off than a privately run (Japan tends to disagree here).

On the other hand you admit that the problems of Deutsche Bahn stem from the fact that politicians have had too much influence on it.

Guess how you can keep politicians out of companies? By keeping them private.

I will never understand why so many people think that companies are magically doing better because the government is running them. That’s just a myth.

Both the government and private entities can be good or bad at running companies. However, the huge advantage with private companies is that customers have options thanks to competition.

Anyone who still has memories of telephone companies run by the government knows what I’m talking about.

As for Deutsche Bahn, the government has full control over it meaning the company is run by the government. Whether it’s officially a German Aktiengesellschaft or not, doesn’t matter at all.

Your argument is often brought up by proponents of a government-run railway so that they don’t have to admit that Deutsche Bahn isn’t doing well despite being run by the government.

> All travellers and myself had to look for Ubers, which the government also tries to suppress.

No one is trying to suppress Uber. They are just obligated to adhere to the law like anyone else in this business.

Debian's RISC-V machines are rather slow.

It takes several days to build the gcc-15 package in riscv64 but just a few hours on loong64.

> I don't think LoongArch is the same thing with MIPS according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

Where did I make that claim? I never said that.

I actually bootstrapped openSUSE for loongarch64 last year:

https://hackweek.opensuse.org/projects/bootstrap-opensuse-on...