Germany switched it's nuclear off too soon and too suddenly. Spain have managed the transition far better and now have cheap renewables.

They may have fancy caps, but they have not figured out how to create proper iced drinks. I happen to be in Germany right now, and it would be easier for me to find a live unicorn than to find ice cubes in a drink.

Oh wow. What a great excuse! The corruption under the current president is at a scale you've never before seen. For example, the president's son-in-law is peddling influence and making money from his official connections on a scale that make Hunter Biden look positively angelic.

Besides that, are you really excusing your champion's corruption because of smaller-scale, previous corruption? Surely you would condemn all corruption and desire to shine a light on it? Or is corruption not an issue when it's your man and your policies being enacted?

Hmm. Have you been to Europe? While New Orleans certainly has old buildings, it's nothing like European old buildings and homes many of which were build hundreds of years ago in a cooler climate. These buildings were never designed to accommodate forced air heating, let alone A/C air handlers. It's going to require some very interesting engineering to bring mass cooling to Europe to existing structures. I'm sure it can be done, of course. Where there's a bill there's a way.

Which of course brings us to a core issue of climate change. The world's poorest people, who contributed the least to CO2 emissions, will bear the most cost to adapt.

Interesting advice. Here in Canada we design houses for the winter. That means good insulation, primarily. Coincidentally, this leads to cooler homes in the summer and makes for more efficient cooling too.

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Funny, it invariably happens to people that are provably nazis / fascists

It definitely is. Every dollar a person makes on such a site comes from a dollar lost by another guy. And the numbers are staggering. Like a billion dollars. And they way they are set up, those who are already rich can set things up so that they make even more money from much poorer people. The more money you have to play with, the easier it is to win on the predictions gambling sites (not to mention cheat with insider knowledge). Fantastic video on this from a young lady named Dee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know how this scam works. 70% of the takings go to 0.1% of the players (who also happen to be the ones with the most money to start with).

At least on the stock market, there is such thing as growth from companies making money, paying dividends, etc.

I'm not at all surprised to see Zuckerberg getting in on this. It's not enough to addict the world to social media and sell their privacy. He wants every last dollar they have. It's really quite evil.

Yes you absolutely can do it for some modules. For example, systemd-timesyncd can be removed and ntpd or chrony installed instead if you need more functionality than just simple client time syncing, such as when you need your own time source as well as syncing.

Likewise systemd-resolved is often left out and a caching local DNS server can be used instead, or left out entirely.

And I very well could remove systemd-networkd and systemd-container since I don't use containers, flatpak, or kvm.

Can I remove others? Possibly, but there's not a lot of reason to do so. These modules serve valid purposes and address actual technical shortcomings we had before, such as process cleanup which was often a problem before systemd-pam.

Shrug. It's not a boogeyman. No one's out to get you. It's not a government plot. There are many valid reasons why systemd has become a core Linux component. There are plenty of distros (and operating systems) that eschew systemd if you don't want or need features like containers and KDE or Gnome, etc.

that can run your old classic desktop environments like you always used to.

Yes I have done a timer file before, but it's been a long time.

Fortunately Cron still works fine, and will continue to do so. But I'd be hard pressed to remember all the cron parameters without a comment at the top of the crontab to remind me.

Shrug. It's sixes.

Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days. At least given the kinds of video topics I might be interested in. It's kind of discouraging. Some of them actually are now marked as AI generated. I generally stop watching channels that I find or suspect are AI, even if the material appears to be accurate. I just can't support creators who don't actually create.

Further to that systemd is highly modular. Most of it does not run in PID 1. On my fedora system there are half a dozen individual systemd module packages that can be used or not as the system needs and is designed. systemd is not at all monolithic.

All this systemd hate is pretty infantile and entitled, frankly. You're free to build Linux to not use systemd if you want. There are distros that eschew systemd and you can use them and contribute to them. And if a project embraces systemd you are free to fork that and roll back the changes if it's that important to you.

Meanwhile systemd's plain config files are way nicer to work with than any sysv init script I've had the mispleasure of dealing with. I am ambivalent regarding the journal. I still use rsyslog a lot and for the most part it acts as it did before. When debugging individual services the journal definitely is a big help especially because it logs stderr and stdout, although I don't like having to type journalctl all the time. It doesn't exactly roll off the fingertips.

Go right ahead. This is Linux after all. You are free to build it however you want.

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Says the lying americans ?