That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

This platform* is getting overrun by trolls and tankies. I’m going back to Reddit

What will realistically happen?

Nothing. Companies will just spend a hair more money finding ways to circumvent the new taxes. And, if the new taxes were not easily circumvented- they would just relocate the company to another country with lower taxes.

In the end, the consumer is paying the taxes, and not the company itself, either way.

But, it has no network connectivity! That is against God’s will.

(Thus, no telemetry either)

Very interesting os though. Lots of very cool concepts

Lots of our panels are produced in north america.

My panels, for example, are from Canadian Solar.

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First of all, before anyone gets excited, I get coffee from starbucks extremely rarely. A couple times a year tops.

That being said, I am not a supporter of starbucks.

Ok, now, my main point- For everyone in here just saying the coffee tastes like shit, Try to be more productive towards the conversation. The coffee tastes bad, is an obvious fallacy, as nearly 40 MILLION people drink their coffee. If the coffee tastes like shit, then don’t order a oat milk vanilla pumpkin spice chai latte.

The conversation is around starbucks trying to bust up unions.

Saying- the coffee tastes like shit (when 40 million people drinks it), is not productive towards the conversation, and does nothing to assist with the conversation of starbucks being anti-human, anti-union, and treating their workers like slaves.

Want to replace fossil fuels?

You have two options. Nuclear, or renewables.

Renewables, however, generally don’t produce consistent energy output. So, you need a way to store the surplus, and release it at night time.

The most effective way of storing this energy, is currently pumped hydro. However, it has very specific geographical restrictions, and isn’t an option in most cases.

The other option, is lithium, until a better alternative is produced.

As well, you need to replace fossil fuel usage for vehicles. The only current suitable alternative with an “OK” energy density, charge rate, and output capacity, is lithium based technologies. Typically uses Li-ion, or LiFePO4.

Have a cell phone? Its powered with lithium batteries. All cell phones, are powered with lithium. Typically LiPO, or Li-ion.

One day, this will change, but, until that day, lithium is needed.

So we can continue to use China/Bolivia’s slave labor to get lithium instead?

Honestly, I am all good with getting rid of the drives.

I hardly ever touch CDs these days. I keep a spare USB reader, for making a backup copy of a music CD or movie DVD/Blueray, which I use, maybe twice a year.

I have boxes of DVDs and Blu-ray in the garage, and I don’t ever use them. Matter of fact, if I wanted to use them, I’d have to go find a blueray player to actually play them with.

I do all of my gaming on PC, and I don’t think I have physically purchased a game in over a decade. Steam/GoG are both quite nice.

Proton* Proton is the way. Granted, proton uses wine… but, makes getting games running nearly effortless is the majority of cases.

Also, has a nice website, protondb.com, which tells you how well / if a game works on linux.

The general solution to this problem, is just to remove the DRM, and then run it.

Yup. Where I live we have seen down to -20F (during that time texas almost lost their power grid) and up to 115F.

Its currently 110F. Aka, hot.

Or, -28c to 46C. Currently 43C. And 40% humidity. Feels horrible.

Until GPU manufacturers can find something else to strive for

Machine Learning / AI has been a MASSIVE driver for Nvidia, for quite some time now. And bitcoin…

I built a homemade one. 2.4kwh of capacity.

Should be good for a few decades easily.

Wouldn’t call it cheap. But, it will be around for 15 or 20 years.

https://xtremeownage.com/2021/06/12/portable-2-4kwh-power-supply-ups/

No… no its not.

Other developers appreciate art.

As long as you don’t break it, things will be just fine!

But, the second you break it, it’s going to be a long night for you, with lots of pain.

All of the same emulators you use on windows, works in linux too.

Although, I have honestly not emulated anything newer then a ps2/wii, so, I cannot speak to the switch.

But, https://dolphin-emu.org/ can do gamecube/wii effortless, and runs native on linux.

Likewise, epsxe runs native on linux too. https://www.epsxe.com/download.php

A few years back, I built a HTPC for streaming games to my Livingroom TV.

https://xtremeownage.com/2020/09/29/htpc-retro-build-complete/

This PC has long since been repurposed, into a part of my server rack… but, it did its job wonderfully well. It ran Manjaro.

Now, one cool thing I did, is setup multiple “desktop environments”. IE, I could either load into retroarch, or a desktop environment just by selecting it at the boot screen.

Retroarch, would hands down, be my preferred way to emulate on linux, as it consolidates everything into one easy place. however, years back when I did this, I still had to run ps2 separately. But, it did gamecube/wii perfectly.

It’s very effective.

Just try not to mess up your xorg.conf.

That typically ends in pain.

Manjaro. Its a “user-friendly” version of arch.

Have also used Kbuntu.

Both worked well.