The scale of this is surprising, but not the act itself.

He was a class act and will be missed by many.

Good luck enforcing that. I agree that the deluge of slop is lame, but I don't see it going away either.

Perhaps with a "massive home" it doesn't work. How many "massive home" people are out there? I suspect that's a standard deviation or three away from the bell of the curve.

An average American home consumes close to 1000KwH of electricity per month. Assuming its sunny, and is rarely cloudy in your area, that would still be only about 7.5% of a typical home's electrical needs. Where I live, that would save me about $8-9/month....or about the cost of a couple of loaves of bread. And of course, very few places are sunny every day all year long.

Granted, not everyone lives in a single family house that uses a lot of electricity in a state with relatively inexpensive grid power. I'd imagine that if you live in a place like California where power is very expensive and there is lots of sun, the value proposition could be a bit better.

Personally, I'd rather have enough solar capacity (and somewhere to store excess for rainy days) and just be done with the grid entirely. That's likely what I'll do for my next home.

And when the ads appeared, I tossed them. Frankly, I should thank Amazon for that as it reinforced that I didn't want any of their shit in the house so now it's all gone. Pretty soon Prime and and their streaming services are going too. They're consistently ratcheting up the rates to the point where it's gotten silly. Going back to using Jellyfin to play media in the home.

Seeya.

But I wonder if there's really room for multiple professional support options for Linux in the enterprise. We've got IBM, Oracle, SUSE, Canonical, and a few others.

Which is your favorite?

Personally, I'd rather the politicians focus on producing a balanced budget (you know, like we all have to do at home) rather than waste time rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

The sales numbers for Kia/Hyundai EVs are somewhat small in the US. Tesla sold about 600k units in 2025. In 2nd place is Chevrolet at almost 100k sales. Hyundai/Kia combined sell about 100k units as well.

The top 10 are:

Tesla 589k
Chevrolet 97k
Hyundai 66k
Cadillac 49k
BMW 42k
Rivian 42k
Honda 39k
Kia 34k
VW 29k
GMC 24k

Total EV sales: 1.28 million units (only about 8% of total vehicle sales and down 2% year over year)

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

If you're in the fray you can either try to influence the outcome or quit.

If your principles dictate that you're at the entrance of a bridge too far, then just say no. There's plenty of work out there for people who know what they're doing. The pearl clutching seems a bit much.

I guess if you think the virtue signaling is worth more than being someone who can influence the outcome from inside, then sure....good on ya.

I don't think this will influence the outcome at all.

That's generally how it works in the US now. You pay a "core charge" of $10-15 on top of the price of the battery. You only get that money back if you return the old battery for recycling. The same thing could be done in the 3rd world and those core charges that are not reclaimed could be used for collecting and recycling batteries that turn up "in the wild." I suspect that pot of money would also be an attractive nuisance for corrupt government officials to enrich themselves in the process while providing little benefit to their citizens.

At the end of the day, people that have little food, shelter or safety security aren't likely to prioritize battery recycling without any significant incentives to do so.

Those countries have the power to regulate battery usage and encourage recycling. Why aren't they doing that?

What's the "so what" of this article? I don't think you'll find anyone here who is going to opine that heavy metals pollution is a good thing. How are you going to encourage countries that don't seem to care about the problem to not poison themselves?

6G isn't even close to being ready so I find Qualcomm's shilling to be laughable.

It'll be interesting to see how these are received by the marketplace. Once the diehard fans get their latest bit of kit, I wonder how many existing Mac users will soldier on with older Apple silicon until prices subside.