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Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 86

Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power.

Simply putting panels between the sun and the house substantially reduces the need for cooling, even if you didn't connect them to anything, because the back of the panel is white and the other side is dark.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I only had so many choices as I wanted to buy something from costco so that I could easily return it if it failed. It was LG, Samsung, or Sony. The reviews all said that the LG was good except for the interface, and the other options were bad including the interface.

Comment Re:bullshit dude (Score 1) 36

the point is that legacy filesystems (e.g. Minix) and operating systems are facing doom because of the Y2038 problem

Oh no! This is of no concern to anyone but hobbyists today.

You could invent some ad-hoc replacement filesystem but then it won't be compatible with Linux.

Unless you added support for it to Linux.

There are still people out there hacking on 2BSD. I am sure they are aware that NetBSD is available as an upgrade path.

Again, hobbies don't matter.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I even have it set to never sleep for efficiency and it still occasionally tells me to wait while it gets its shit together before I'm allowed to change inputs.

All you need is to change channels and inputs

In fact, that is what I was talking about. You may read the quoted section at your leisure.

I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

This one is only a bit over a year old, so it's newer than the one you were using. The entire line has been panned universally in reviews for its laggy interface.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 36

If you say "which should be available in both architectures aren't" then I guess you're using Ubuntu not Debian.

Actually, I'm using Devuan. But I had the same problem on actual Debian.

As for appImages: they deserve no words other than an exorcism formula. Same for Snap.

AppImages work, which is more than you can say for snaps.

Comment Re:Where is the like button? (Score 1) 26

Excel vs Calc is a battle with no heroes. Both have bad interfaces. Both use bad macro programming languages. Both are missing inexplicable functions, though Excel is missing fewer obvious ones that you would want than Calc is so I guess there's a slight edge there, and of course LIVE PIVOT TABLES are massively important to many spreadsheet users and that's an obvious Excel win.

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 86

half the nation can't use home solar anyway

This is nonsense. Of course it can. You simply need to add more panels. Nobody wants to install used panels for money, because the way they profit is by marking up parts prices, and you get a bigger markup at the same percentage on a new panel. But there are absolute piles of used panels out there, I am actually seeing large numbers of them just given away, so this is absolutely a viable business. And that's never been more true than it is now with microinverters, because you can add panels in any numbers you like. One panel, okay. Ten panels, okay. Twenty panels, fine. There's no need for them to match, either.

Comment Re:Murdercars (Score 1) 17

I think the opposite. I think this is an example of why human drivers will be easily surpassed by automated systems. When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone. We've been trying to fix human behaviour for a century and have failed at doing so.

As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 36

Why? The point of multiarch is precisely to allow you to upgrade some software to a different arch

Because multiarch sucks, especially if you're on Debian or a Debian-derived distribution, which most of us are. For some reason Debian is really bad at it and it causes a bunch of problems. Some things which really should be available in both architectures aren't.

What you're preaching is multilib, which had been transitioned away for a good reason.

No, what I'm preaching is more like appImages.

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