The ones they know about . . .

Your ignorance is rather impressive in a way. If you'd like to educate yourself as to the actual technological progress in he world the journal of the International Electronics and Electrical Engineers Association is a good place to start:

spectrum.ieee.org

So you're happy to just ignore the fact that millions of people around the world are happily making this work already and instead pretend that your objections are somehow going to stop deployment of renewable energy in the Third World. That's a, well, "unique" attitude.

All of your pseudo-'concerns' are being dealt with, by whatever method is most appropriate for the locality.

As far as solar panels in Tornado Alley, go ask the operators of the giant solar and wind farms being constructed in Texas. Besides, there's nowhere in Africa which gets tornadoes or hurricanes like the southern US anyway.

One of the issues with integrating renewable energy into the North American grid is the 'sunk cost' of all that cruft of installed hardware. Another is the accounting/tax requirements, and yet another is the organizational structures of the US energy system. Transformers are expected to last 20+ years for example, no executive is going to forgo their quarterly bonus by replacing "dumb" transformers that haven't been fully depreciated for "smart" ones that can deal with variable energy flows.

There aren't any of those obstructions in Africa. Much of the continent is essentially "green fields" construction, which is always an order of magnitude easier to deal with.

I think open source does not need to embrace AI coding, it needs to apply extra scrutiny to it otherwise it will become slop.

"Where are my engines Tory?!!"

"One's over in the swamp over there and one's over that-a-way on the beach."


Didn't they blow up a second stage during testing a few weeks ago? Two KABOOMS in such close succession?!!

A child-surveillance conservative is a liberal who was bullied in school.

One of the best things of running Linux instead of Windows is that even if I choose to install a binary driver, it doesn't come with a bunch of "companion" apps and background services and a 4GB LLM, a game launcher, an update program, and whatever other nonsense people want to shovel onto me.

Because if it did, distros would revolt and/or ship a version that was just the driver.

You're a graphics card. Act like it. All you need is a driver, nothing more, nothing less.

When did bsd.slashdot.org drop the red header scheme?

I guess we can add a whole new category to the Darwin Awards.

They actually do both, they're known to use their Manna-clone system that orders warehouse workers around to "find problems" with the performance of anyone involved in unionizing and fire them as an early line of defense. They've done this with unionization attempts in the US before (at least one of those warehouses did successfully unionize despite that). Shutting down the FC and moving out of town is their nuke-it-from-orbit option when all else has failed.

Penalties are light and unlikely enough in many jurisdictions for employers to consider it a cost of doing business though. See what Amazon's been doing in their warehouses in Quebec and BC for examples. Coincidentally, guess which Canadian provinces have the most videogame dev studios...

Maybe a system where everyone gets a share of collective productivity but has to take a turn at work could make those people feel better. So everyone gets their lifetime supply of food/shelter/healthcare/transportation/entertainment in return for their 5-10 years working or whatever the economy actually needs, so there's no shortage of human labor and nobody feels that there's an unfair division of labor either.

Of course the problem with that is another problem contributing to the current situation, there are people who seek maximally unequal shares of wealth for themselves and would fight an egalitarian utopia tooth and nail. Rich and powerful people who can contribute to the 10,000 year old effort of tricking the proles into propping up the aristocracy.

It's not the worst idea ever but it's worse than better options the billionaires want to distract us from with discussion of UBI, like universal basic services and democratic socialism, ideas where they don't retain as much of their wealth and power as they might with UBI.