Even if we stopped giving out drilling permits and closed all marginal wells tomorrow, emissions would continue to increase. There are lots of oil and gas facilities that have permitted wells that they haven't drilled yet, and newer facilities that will probably emit more as they age.

Actively reducing emissions in aggregate over the whole country, not just reducing the rate of increase in emissions will either require a lot of time or decisive action from Washington to force states to cancel permits and ban drilling, which is pretty clearly not going to happen without a massive shift in political leanings in the House, Senate, Presidency, and the courts.

It fucking sucks, but without massive political pressure I don't expect much on the federal level anytime soon.

In the meantime, vote for state candidates this cycle that say they will do the most, and pressure them to do the most they possibly can and don't ever let up.

Yeah, I dunno. I feel like Matrix advertises these features, but they are simply not ready for primetime. You can have a really good experience if you don't need spaces or if you don't want mobile access, but between this issue and sooo many issues with marking things as read, I just can't recommend it to anyone.

Don't get me wrong, I love using it to bridge all the proprietary messaging services I need to use, and for the few native matrix rooms that I'm in, but all the rough edges frustrate the hell out of me.

It does for me. And it has for over a year. I have to reset the cache every day or it slows to an unusable crawl. The web client works fine, though

Edit: github issue: https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/issues/6617

Schildichat is the only client I can use on my phone that implements both spaces and threads and doesn't have a memory leak.

When I was working in IT, this would have been a very useful tool for doing some on-site troubleshooting with various tools or for one-off reimaging machines that were missed during a big update or something. Instead, I had a bag of USB sticks with labels on them, which was annoying to use and to maintain.

It won't have the same performance as a PS5, but the new Minisforum MS-A1 with a user-upgradable CPU is a really interesting proposition. The Ryzen 8700G is pretty good, but I would expect solid upgrades to be available in the next few CPU generations.

I currently have an Nvidia Shield Pro (2019), and it's fine. I have Moonlight installed and can stream from my desktop PC using Sunshine (I do this on my Steam Deck, too), but I don't expect that Nvidia will make a replacement, and I don't know if I would get it if they did.

The software outside of Steam's big picture mode isn't ready for a full Linux couch experience, but it's close. The two projects to watch are KDE Plasma Bigscreen and Waydroid (some people are starting to get Android TV working) which would be a nice bridge to use apps designed for a TV UI until native Linux versions become available.

Awesome! I'll give it another shot this week.

Is this in a bedroom? Get some under-the-bed bins to put everything in that isn't plugged into the wall or necessary for the operation of your computer. If it's not in a bedroom, you have space for more storage furniture, I can guarantee it, so get some.

The top shelf can then be used to display choice things or for plants or books, which will look way less cluttered.

Probably not, but she won't gut the EPA either, and the Biden administration did send out truckloads of money to deal with oil and gas emissions in the form of Climate Pollution Reduction Grants, so she is clearly the better candidate on this issue.

I just started using super-productivity to help with this kind of thing

Your best bet is to get one of those hubs that has more ports and just not use them. The extra ports usually share bandwidth to some degree with the USB ports anyway. Also, I would highly encourage you to buy a used enterprise hub. The WD22TB4 from Dell is a good option. It has two Thunderbolt passthrough ports and can be found on eBay for about US$100.

Also, the fact that they're backed by a bunch of web3/crypto companies is not great. They say they're not a web3 company, but it sounds like they're building UI and tools specifically for Sui wallet and crypto games and letting users opt-out of these "features".

I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole.

Oh 100%

Also, people are influenced by the beliefs of their community, even if they don't agree on everything.

For those instances, I'd suggest that it has to do with a few factors:

more rural areas tend to be more right leaning,

https://source.washu.edu/2020/02/the-divide-between-us-urban-rural-political-differences-rooted-in-geography/

right leaning people are more likely to be more racist,

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/08/12/deep-divisions-in-americans-views-of-nations-racial-history-and-how-to-address-it/

and right leaning people tend to be more uncomfortable with things they are unfamiliar with

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188699900135X

My experience in the US is that as soon as you leave a densely populated area, the good, interesting food options drop off a cliff. In car dependent suburbia, these are often the best they have

Yeah, I need something to collaborate with my partner in realtime. We've got a hacky setup in Obsidian using dataview to join separate notes to a read-only one, so we don't have collisions, but I would love something better.

Soundiiz -> last.fm or spotify playlist -> Newsbin or torrent + lidarr

If it does now, that might be an option. It didn't when I got rid of Apple music.

That is true. Waydroid might work. No idea if you can get lossless through that.

I don't think the Apple Music Windows app does lossless or hi-res either

I know you said you don't want to switch, but I was in a similar situation, switched to Qobuz, installed qobuz-dl and navidrome, and now Qobuz is just an input for my self-hosted streaming service.

As soon as one of these Obsidian alternatives has real-time collaboration and a mobile interface, I'm ready to switch.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

To be pedantic (but I think it matters): it's the software companies that don't support Linux, not the other way around.

I think about this a lot, and my take is that Linux is waaayyy better if you have perfect or close-to-perfect knowledge of how the operating system works and what software is available. Similarly, I think an argument can be made for Linux being better if all you need is a web browser and you're not using really unusual hardware.

Where things fall apart is for people who have very specific needs that are complex, even if they only need it 1% of the time, and they don't have the technical knowledge to solve it with the power-user tools available. Microsoft has spent decades paying developers to handle these edge cases and ensuring GUI settings discoverability.

At the same time, schools and workplaces have taught people the design language of Windows, and the network effect of having so much of the world's end-user PCs running on Windows means that there are vast resources available targeted at people without technical knowledge. At this point, for better or worse, Microsoft's design language is the global default for non-technical people.

If a person never has to touch a setting because all they need is a browser, they don't hit any friction and they are happy. If they need to do even one thing that requires them to dig into settings or touch the terminal, the difference from Microsoft's design language is enough for that one frustrating experience to give them a bad taste in their mouth about Linux as a whole.

You could also use nixos-anywhere + disko. This is what I use. If you have SSH and root access to a linux machine, you can live swap to a NixOS installer, load a configuration over SSH, install and reboot. It gives a similar experience to Ansible.

Came here to say this. Red light + directional lighting basically solves the problem.

They sued one specific switch emulator.

Pretend there is a comma and maybe an exclamation point like this:

I use justweather, i like its material, you widget!

I got the Cable Matters 8K model 102101

I have a 7900XTX and I use a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter to get HDMI 2.1. I can use 4K@120Hz and HDR on my LG OLED TV just fine with that setup. The only real limitation is 3 display outputs vs 4 if I could use the HDMI out for what it is meant for.

You have to decide what is more important to you: Linux compatibility or ray tracing and CUDA? There are other differences, but those are the big ones.

I did use the 20L. I have a similar issue with the 5L cross-body bag. I dunno, maybe it's not just my height, but my shoulders, arms, and chest. It's not a problem I have with the other backpacks I use from Timbuk2, Osprey, or Arc'teryx.

I like the idea of insert + backpack. For me, I don't want to compromise on the backpack comfort and usability, so I use an Osprey Radial backpack and I plan to use a Boundary MK-1 camera cube with it, but I have yet to purchase it.

I like a lot of Peak Design stuff, but their backpacks are designed for small people and are pretty heavy at the same time. I'm 6'4" and a bit barrel-chested, and the padded part of the straps stops right at my armpits, which is extremely uncomfortable.

I've got further now. I was able to get a rootfs image, but the boot image build failed because for some reason that script can't see that tomlq is installed even though the initial script can see it just fine.

build log

EDIT: I installed tomlq with pipx

I just started playing with this. I got as far as attempting to build the image in your mobian-recipes repo. It failed with this:

2024/08/13 15:30:32 ==== Install base packages ====
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease
Get:2 http://repo.mobian.org trixie InRelease [28.6 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main Translation-en [6149 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/non-free-firmware Translation-en [4796 B]
Err:2 http://repo.mobian.org trixie InRelease
2024/08/13 15:31:08 apt |   The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
Reading package lists... Done
2024/08/13 15:31:31 apt | W: GPG error: http://repo.mobian.org trixie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
2024/08/13 15:31:31 apt | E: The repository 'http://repo.mobian.org trixie InRelease' is not signed.
2024/08/13 15:31:31 apt | N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
2024/08/13 15:31:31 apt | N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
2024/08/13 15:31:31 Action `recipe` failed at stage Run, error: exit status 100

I've had old Ugreen devices with a similar setup. Notably a KVM that fried my keyboard bc they failed to follow USB spec.

A-to-A cables are, in general, a hardware design smell. It's best to avoid devices that don't care enough to follow the spec.

I don't know about everywhere else, but in Colorado we are implementing "intensity" (emissions/production) regulation.

The intensity limits that are used currently are based on estimated emissions and reported production projected into the next decade. It's a very crude system based on flakey data, but we're working on getting better data for the next time we decide on an allowed intensity level.

There are soooo many problems with this setup, I could go on for days about it, but in lieu of enough political will and funding to start shutting down oil and gas companies, we're going to do everything we can to reduce the emissions from the oil and gas sector.

I hope enough people get mad and organize to make that happen.

ZFS all the things. On my workstations, I wipe / on every boot except for the files that I specify, and I backup /home to my NAS on ZFS and I backup my NAS snapshots to Backblaze.