But the forced obsolescence caused by systemd is fine.

If the guardrails are so ineffectual to prevent the thing from happening, then they're not guardrails, they're guidelines.

What about when fiber installation is run concurrently with copper retrieval?

The system was designed to withstand morons and self-serving grifters.

No it wasn't. The system has glaring flaws in that it requires all members to act in good faith. Soon as they dont, there are zero guardrails.

Who the fuck doesn't do it West to East.

SMHEO

Decades of appealing to the independents is what got us into this mess, they threw away their base.

~nt~

I don't understand why people still believe that C++ is usable as a systems programming language. It is simply not fit for purpose. I know, cause I tried for a uni project. And this was not at the beginning of the language. I'm talking mid-2000s, and C++ was incapable of making more than a few million network connections before crashing outright. And that's just the more obvious part of the networking code. The fact that developers never thought to test their networking libraries still baffles me to this day.

Systems programming needs robustness and safety above anything else. C++ is so riddled with holes it boggles the mind.

You are basing your argument on logic. Logic doesn't matter, this is a legal matter.

There is cheap hardware now. There are very few realistic userspace loads that require DDR5. Waiting two more seconds won't kill you.

You can just buy a 2023-era laptop. It works fine.

Your shit of mouse better not be the fluorescent kind. Jetten is IMO on the right track, though I wish there were more room for community initiatives where a larger battery unit evens out pushing to the grid, similar to how Ecopower in Belgium is a coop that puts up wind plants.

His Orangeness has helped this cause a lot. Even the most die hard anti-Europeans and anti-environmentalists are having to change their tune, they're having to fall back exclusively on racism as a selling point.

Correct, but damn that picture is changing quickly. The biggest issue are landlocked nations with no access to fossil fuels by pipelines other than those from Russia. Hungary, Austria, Serbia, etc.

Everyone else is getting gas and fossils from (mostly) the US by now, and they're less trustworthy than the Russians, so that is a problem.

You can bomb a coal plant too you know. It doesn't matter, you need something to provide for base load, and nuclear doesn't produce as much carbon emissions, so it's a no brainer.

I just learnt that the Netherlands had to fire up a coal plant this summer cause two Belgian reactors are offline. That is in addition to the gas plants they have. Let's hope the new reactors get here quickly...

Plus coal is expensive. It makes no sense other than as an expensive political gimmick.