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Comment Re:And the price? (Score 3, Insightful) 74

The era of cheap electricity from Russian gas has ended. The EU has to find other sources.
Renewables are probably the best way to do that right now, while increasing its independence from outside countries. Because those countries surely use that energy as a political lever.
Weaning off of oil is the next objective.
Giving money to authoritarian states isn't the right way to lead them to democracy, we've now learned that.

Comment Re:Good luck with that... (Score 4, Informative) 17

Out of the 7 Thunderbird extensions I use, only SysTray-X used to break on each update, until the developer realised that the max version had to be set to 999 (or * like it's done on addons.mozilla.org). https://github.com/Ximi1970/sy...
Since Firefox and Thunderbird switched to WebExtension APIs, extensions almost never break, as the APIs are stable. That wasn't the case with XUL overlay extensions.

Comment For the EU it's not just a promise, they have to (Score 2) 60

"The new regulation obliges the fossil gas, oil and coal industry in Europe to measure, monitor, report and verify their methane emissions according to the highest monitoring standards, and to take action to reduce them." https://energy.ec.europa.eu/ne...

By the way, "When using fossil gas for electricity generation, lifecycle methane emissions must not exceed 3% of delivered volumes, because in climate terms, it would then be better to use coal for electricity generation." https://energy.ec.europa.eu/to...

Comment Re:Yeah but... (Score 1) 221

I've been trying to make the switch to fedora/libre/Firefox for a few months. It crashes more than windows/office, which is actually pretty stable.

It's sad, but Linux does not seem ready for the desktop in 2025, when there has never been a greater opportunity.

This is called a Hasty generalization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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