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Comment Re:The options (Score 1) 110

Realistically, what will matter is what currently-clean-on-opset Pete will do to organizations(likely with Brendan Carr's slimy assistance). If they think that just doing journalist-level is going to work there's not much reason to just designate someone who can stay awake while holding a tape recorder to go collect the party line while everyone else skips the event. It's not like they are going to answer any but the most softball questions.

If anything, unless there's someone significantly smarter than Pete moderating the policy behind the scenes, this seems less likely to encourage compliance than the traditional measures; where you dole out little nibbles of exclusive and technically unauthorized 'access' to people you deem largely friendly precisely because the stuff at press conferences and releases is pure commodity(especially now that chatbots can, badly, munge it into other formats so there probably isn't even much future in rewriting or reading from the teleprompter those commodity releases).

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 95

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) 37

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: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 5, Insightful) 182

I have been saying for decades now that the F-1 (student) visa should be able to convert to a resident visa upon graduation.

The whole idea of it not being a resident visa was a cold war notion that after graduating, the international student would return to their country and spread the gospel of how wonderful the United States was, and how their local country needed to oppose the Soviets. I doubt that ever really happened.

Today, weâ(TM)re just training people and then at best turning them into indentured servants for a few oligarchs, or even worse (and now the policy of the Trump administration), throwing them out so theyâ(TM)ll build up some other competing country, while weakening our own.

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) 37

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) 35

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) 95

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.

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