My reason for using arch linux is to have as little bloat as possible. So, pacman. Yay sometimes for AUR stuff, but my need for it is rare.
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iglouto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran, subject to Strait of Hormuz openingEnglish
6·3 days agoA ceasefire with guarantee not to repeat aggressions is either a lie or a defeat
It’s almost always possible to find anything amazon offers on other european stores. It’s not a one-stop-for-all, but that’s an unnecessary convenience.
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
23·15 days agoI’m not sure we define unpredictable in the same way. I mean not being able to rely on a continuous source of power (batteries mitigate but don’t solve this issue) is problematic.
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
37·15 days agoI am not sure if you mean it that way, but I will take this comment as a good joke!
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
67·15 days agoMy focus isn’t on which type of energy is cheapest. An energy grid that is not predictable is worthless. Wiknd power, solar power, are great complements, but a grid using only those is not viable. Hydroelectric is great, but limited. Geothermal is not really viable in mainland Europe.
I’m worried about a realistic transition from fossile fuels to non fossile fuels. Nuclear is realistic, renewable as a main source in Europe is utopic and unrealistic.
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
56·15 days agoNo, what are you talking about? A nuclear power plant takes less than a decade to build.
Renewable energy at the scale of a country is impossible to achieve in such a short time in Europe. We dont have huge geothermal taps, which countries having achieved 100% renewable energy have, and we consume a lot more energy.
Cheaper is great, but it’s not continuous, it’s not scaleable in a short period of time, and requires a fuckton more maintainance capability than a dozen nuclear power plants.
I will reiterate: A full renewable energy grid in Europe is impossible with our current tech, especially in a reasonable timeframe. That’s why instead of solar power plants, countries prefer to subsidies local, individual solar panel installations, for instance.
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
34·15 days agoIt’s not a perfect solution, and ideally we would all be on renewable, I am not disagreeing with you there.
But a full renewable grid in Europe is simply not realistic with the tech we have now. A full nuclear grid is.
Keep researching renewable and nuclear (fusion would be the ideal option, even above renewable), but use the best we have now.
We have uranium in Europe. But we can also import it from many countries all around the globe, ao strategically much more diversified than rare materials needed for renewable.
Educate new professionals. Build them securely, not fastly. Still a better time perspective than a full renewable switch. Plants will always be easy targets, nuclear or not. Modern plants do not catastrophically fail like Chernobyl. Do yoh really think France has not thought of the security implications with their plants all over the country?
Now for nuclear waste… Yeah, it’s a problem. Also being researched. But it is little waste. It’s manageable until we have the right renewable tech or nuclear fusion.
As for the cost, again, it is expensive upfront, cheap to operate, cost efficient to renew.
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
1013·15 days agoIt is much faster to build nuclear power plants that can cover a country’s needs than to fully transition said country to renewable.
It’s expensive upfront. But it is cheap to operate afterwards, and cost efficient to renew. Look at France.
Germany made a major, major mistake when then phased out of nuclear energy.
We have uranium in Europe. We just don’t exploit it. But even if we did not, there is plenty of countries in the world exporting uranium, on all continents. It’s much less of a strategic issue than relying on rare materials for renewable, or on gas/oil.
iglouto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemiesEnglish
1425·15 days agoNuclear is a much better option in the short and medium term.
And renewable doesn’t solve the supply chain issue, a lot of materials for construction and maintenance need to be imported as well.
iglouto
politics @lemmy.world•Project 2025 is a massive success with ICE in airports, civil rights eroding & elections in flux
16·15 days agoThen the 2A is obsolete and needs to be amended out. At least the gun violence issue will see some positive.
iglouto
Europe@feddit.org•Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch churchEnglish
2·16 days agoIs he? I mean, his main occupation in all the fictional depictions I’ve read and seen is to be a Musketeer… The full name of the company literally being “Musketeers of the King”. Doesn’t seem to be against the elite to me!
iglouto
Technology@lemmy.world•Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification SupportEnglish
1·16 days agoDoes this systemd change facilitate future verification softwares? Definitely. Will it become a part of systemd? Extremely unlikely. Should systemd rebel and refuse to include anything facilitating these disturbing laws? Eh, probably.
But let’s not blow this change out of proportions. This is a way for systemd to not aggressively fight the laws, without enabling them either. This field changes nothing, and you will still be able to use distros that don’t even employ the field at all. They might become illegal to use in the land of the free, but that’s a separate issue that this change does not impact.
iglouto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Anti-car candidate Emmanuel Grégoire elected mayor of Paris 🎉English
1·17 days agoI’m not your search engine. If you don’t see it and refuse to search for it, that’s your problem. I’m not here to convince anyone.
iglouto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Anti-car candidate Emmanuel Grégoire elected mayor of Paris 🎉English
1·17 days agoI’ll let you have a look at the difference of opinions between LFI and every other left party. All those differences are issues they refuse to compromise on :)
iglouto
Technology@lemmy.world•Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification SupportEnglish
73·17 days agoDo you really draw the line at a date of birth field, when every linux system has fields for full name and address for every user account?
iglouto
Technology@lemmy.world•Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification SupportEnglish
102·17 days agoBut my clickbait!
iglouto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Anti-car candidate Emmanuel Grégoire elected mayor of Paris 🎉English
2·18 days agoIf they don’t need them, why aren’t they winning? Only time they won recently was… When they compromised and united. Crazy how that works.
iglouto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Anti-car candidate Emmanuel Grégoire elected mayor of Paris 🎉English
31·18 days agoIf they had no cards, LFI wouldn’t need them. You’re contradicting yourself.

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