Another option might be the LTSC version of Windows which doesn’t have as much of this nonsense.

Or game on Linux instead if you game of choice isn’t riddled with anti-cheat “software”.

When you stop trying to prove to people that you’re an adult.

Another thing I noticed recently is how many people can’t even go for a walk without looking down at their phone the entire time. I get that carrying a phone is pretty essential for most people, but people used to at least keep it in their pockets. Now they are either carrying it in their hands or actively looking at.

Actually, I wonder if the size of phones now is worsening the problem because they are too big to fit in their pockets? Probably a secondary cause though I suspect.

Name reminds me of rockbox, which is a Linux-based firmware for digital audio players. I’m not sure if they are intentionally riffing on the name but this looks to be a similar idea but for gaming handhelds.

“Sense” seems to be responding to backlash in this case. They are still supporting TP’s extreme right-wing anti-education propaganda, by a school of all places!

EDIT: It read like the school were organising it themselves but it seems it was by a student club? Kind of weird that such a thing exists and they can host “high-profile” people, but there might be some indication the school itself wasn’t aware of it.

The relocated gathering will be restricted to members of a TPUSA-affiliated student club and a single guest apiece. School officials were careful to note that taxpayer money won’t foot the bill, and the visit carries no official district stamp of approval.

This is for freight trucks, not the “trucks” that people drive to their suburban supermarkets.

And in the case of freight, the lack of charging infrastructure is a significant problem, but hopefully the war will drive government and private operators into action.

These men come to me with tears in their eyes telling me they are more straight than anyone else, maybe ever.

Women have a significant issue with losing muscle mass in older age, increasing the chance they will be frail and have limited mobility. Lifting weights throughout life is protective of that (and for men too, but to a lesser extent since they tend to have greater muscle mass).

The main issue is that while a subset of the West are giving up meat, the consumption of meat is increasing in developing countries which is a typical trend as countries get richer. Also, there is a subset of Westerners increasing their meat consumption massively because of idiotic social media trends, but hopefully that is temporary.

I’m hoping that plant-based meat and/or cell-based meat eventually match or exceed meat in quality and price, but we are not quite there yet. Not that I’d eat anything that smells or tastes like meat personally, but people seem to be addicted to it.

their pedestrian warning system is also louder than fossil fuel cars.

Hasn’t been my experience, not that I disagree with your overall argument. Might differ by country and regulations etc.

People online are actually “real” people as well (assuming they are not bots) so yeah, at least some subset care. Do I care personally? Not in the slightest.

Better get going on those taxes Neddy!

the averge person spends most of their time during daytime away from home, so its far less practical to have solar at home.

Only because of hostility to work-from-home policies; plenty of people spent their days at home during the pandemic, and there’s also carers and the elderly that are home most of the time.

But this is definitely a “why not both” scenario as both will have benefits and aid in greater decentralisation of the grid, reducing the risk of down time (whether intentional or otherwise).

Typical of Channel 9 to frame this as a bad thing. Yes, they should get more trains and drivers to meet the demand but running at full capacity, especially given the alternative, is not a bad thing.

I’ve done the hardware mod on an older chromebook and it’s about the least risky mod you could possibly do. And it looks like your model just requires disconnecting the internal battery cable temporarily which is similarly easy to the method I needed (removing a screw).

Probably a little bit of risk from possibly fragile connectors, but that should be okay if you take care.

I’ve never used Mint before; does it not come with a graphical app store?

It does, but I think even slightly experienced Linux users will just turn to the CLI for consistency and because it’s easier to explain in steps to other people. But he should have mentioned the GUI for new users, agreed.

I suspect much of it is a fear of change. People are looking for a remotely plausible reason to dismiss it, even if it doesn’t apply to them, because it means they won’t have to modify their behaviour. You can see this with plant based diets, public and active transport, and cooking and heating technologies such as induction cooktops and heatpumps.

The plus side is that the moment people actually make the change, they rarely go back. See also congestion pricing across the world, where the view of it is negative right up until it’s implemented and it almost immediately becomes popular.

It’s just the nature of the issue. Transmission lines are primarily going through rural areas, so consequently that is where the opposition is centred.

And there’s a strong streak of anti-renewable and anti-transmission sentiment in the regions, much of it inflamed by disinformation locally and online.

NIMBYs are slightly different problem in that it’s primarily about protecting property values rather than mostly ideological opposition in the regions. Which attitude is worse is up for debate, but yeah, I’d prefer both groups had less power to oppose needed infrastructure.

“Without rail, Australia will fail”?

Anyway I suspect long haul trucks will win out for the medium term at least. Not because it’s the best solution, but because it can be rolled out more quickly. I do hope we pursue rail for the long term good though, and not just for freight but for people moving, particularly as jet fuel takes up a greater proportion of our emissions.

It’s also better to build what we can near the cities since it reduces the need for more transmission lines which are costly and prone to opposition from rural types (unless it happens to go through their farm and they make a killing on it).