Make a habit to use timeshift or similar backup utility if you continue “exercising your skills”. Those allow you to roll back to last known good config.

It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish with this mode. If your goal is to do basic documents, web browsing, media consumption, or email/chat/etc, then the Motorola latest phones are more than capable. I’m pairing my phone with a portable display and a foldable keyboard/track pad combo (Bluetooth). It is perfectly capable of day to day light computing. I’ve even done some very light python programming using PyDroid.

My Motorola Edge+ 2023 has desktop mode when connected to an external display.

I’ve had solar installed on my roof for 3+ years. Best home upgrade I have made by far, IMHO. I agree that buying them or financing them is much better than leasing. Firstly, you take advantage of the tax rebate, also it’s much better when the time comes to sell the house.

I wouldn’t wait for the tech to advance though. You may lose out on the tax rebate if the current US admin deems that “woke”.

As for my experience with them, it’s been phenomenal. I basically pay $12/month between April and October. My annual electricity bill is down by about 95%.

Own.

Was super lucky that my wife was able to sell property in her home country after we got married and got her mom and her here to US. Also was one of the fortunate ones to have cash during the sub-prime recession so was able to get a super cheap mortgage.

I generally love owning the house although sometimes I miss renting, when something needs fixing. I’m pretty handy, so I do a lot of the jobs myself, but it could be a big chore.

Still, I’d rather have my own property and the freedom to do what I want with it, like installing solar panels, TV antenna, paint any color I like, etc.

My long term plan involves some sort of downsizing, possibly a live-aboard sail boat, although my wife is sceptical on that one. We’re probably going to end up getting a condo in one of the cheaper states.

Shut up and take my money!!!

within 6 months running it as a desktop OS with KDE it broke twice during update to the point that it was easier to reinstall than to fix. it maybe better a a barebones setup, but as a desktop, I had issues with it.

I’m not sure where did you get an idea that I was complaining about something. I’ve been running Linux for over 15 years. I know how to maintain my system. I was simply saying that I found a distro that’s better FOR ME than the one I was using.

It the breakage happens, hopefully Timeshift will save me. That’s the best thing that I learned while running EndeavourOS.

I am finding that out too. much better than Manjaro’s repos.

While I don’t have much in a way of hard data, it feels much snappier. Also, it seems to utilize less ram. I believe the difference lies in the Cachy’s repo. A lot of the apps I use daily are not installable from Manjaro repos and so I had to use flatpaks and AppImages. AUR was also a hit or miss for me. Catchy, on the other hand had most of the apps I use in it’s repo. Things like Tutanota desktop client and Zen browser as an example.

this!

Growing up in USSR we had a saying: a comrad comes to you with a shovel, points to a patch of land and says: “you will dig from here and until supper”.

I bet White House, with it’s ties to Putin’s Russia, means something similar.

totally this!!! Most users just need a browser and an email client at best. They couldn’t care less about the OS that’s sitting on top of. If they could go to a store and see a $1000 laptop with Windows and $800 laptop with Linux being sold side by side, majority would pick the cheaper one if they could still get online with it.

It seems that the JBDC driver has a requirement for having 2 JAR files (JDBC driver and BLOB object) which I have but can’t figure out how to specify the path.

I’m trying to connect to an existing DB hosted on IBM Informix Dynamic Server. Using Postgress is not an option in my case. I have not tried SQL Alchemy yet, but I suspect it’ll have the same issues as it appears to be just a way of accessing other libraries (such as JDBC), which I am already having problems with.

Nuclear is much more green than any fossil fuel based energy. It’s also much more stable than renewables because it does not rely on the sun, wind, tides, etc. Renewables need more development around grid-scale storage. This is where nuclear can be a good transitional stop to an all-renewable energy future.

There are drawbacks to nuclear, of course, storage of waste material is chief among them.

All good points you are making here. One thing I would slightly disagree with is the fact that in Africa they are not offsetting emissions. A lot of the small African communities still consume energy. Mostly, it comes from running diesel or gas-powered generators, which are super inefficient and polluting.

Also, these projects can grow much larger and actually create a surplus of energy, which can then be sold to other parts of Africa and beyond, generating economic and environmental benefits.

Why can’t it be both? I have solar on my roof. I got it primarily to offset the cost of electricity, but it’s also good for the environment which was another consideration of mine.

Very cool design!