Exactly! The people writing the article and most people commenting are the insane ones. We don't need to stop improving lives for everyone, we just need to stop fucking up. Human development requires energy. Once we have that energy, almost anything is possible, including keeping the Earth healthy.

Accessibility in Linux is very far behind Windows. There is work being done, particularly by Red Hat, but for almost everyone else it is low priority and therefore doesn't happen. Installers are particularly low priority for accessibility.

If you really want to use Linux, you will likely need someone with good eyesight to do the installation and the basic accessibility configuration. I tried the built-in screen reader in Gnome, and it was unfortunately not very good.

Did they? Where can I get third party clients for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or Teams?

Chips and Dips, along with early Slashdot, had a bunch of Malda's personal links. Duckpins was an animation he made as an undergrad. He also linked a personal site for a couple of Windowmaker plugins that he'd written. I can't remember what the plugins were! I do remember that most plugins were mail notifiers or clocks.

I mapped ADVENT instead of learn Fortran 77, in 1981.

The only thing systemd-resolved has to do with an init system is the strange name. Naming is one of the things that bothers me about systemd...

Uninstall systemd-resolved if you don't like it, but it is actually a really good resolver.

I hate systemd because when it breaks, it generally just stops boot without any diagnostics. It used to take nothing more than a fstab entry that it didn't like (which worked with non-systemd boots) to cause this problem.

I put up with systemd because the old SysV script boot was a horrible brittle mess that would also fall over first chance it got. It desperately needed replacement. It was debuggable but very slow.
Today the lack of diagnostics from systemd is much less of a problem because it very rarely breaks. Perhaps systemd-bsod will finally give decent diagnostics? Although it sounds like it only works for kernel errors.

Either way, systemd haters like me could have written a replacement. We didn't, and the old ways just weren't good enough. We can grumble all we want, those who do the work get to decide which work is done. systemd today is a huge step forward for Linux by every relevant measure and until someone writes something better, this is what we have.

There are a lot of similarities to the PulseAudio project, which was also a mess which got better over time, but unlike systemd never really got good enough. Then someone (thank you Wim Taymans!) actually put in the work to make a great replacement, taking the best ideas from PulseAudio and implementing them better. Perhaps it will happen to systemd as well.

One thing is for sure, grumbling does not help. Only working code helps. systemd has working code 99.9% of the time.

Some are here, even from Duckpins days. ;-)

I have huge affection for these beasts. I cut my teeth in High School on a DEC PDP11/70 and AT&T SysV, and a little RSTS/E in 1979-82. We switched systems by loading different cakelid platters into the washing-machine drives, and toggling the magenta keys.

I've thought about the Blinkenlights 7/10 scale emulator, tha uses an RPi, but I envy you and hope you have fun.

M-x viper-mode

You cannot really compare pumped hydro, a storage solution, to regular hydro, a power source.

An interesting take, to be sure. I don't see it, at all, but maybe others will. https://www.youtube.com/live/U...

Food and energy inflation is currently lower than core inflation. Do what you will with that information. I can keep repeating that if required.

The gas backup plants are already there. They will simply run somewhat less often.

Comparing to hydro is not reasonable; hydro has all the advantages and costs very little. Unfortunately, constructing hydro in the UK starts with constructing a mountain to put it on, which somewhat increases the the cost.

https://www.theenergyshop.com/...

Around 28p per kWh which is 35 US cents per kWh.

The UK price is mostly set by natural gas. There is rarely enough solar+wind+nuclear+coal to set the price.