It’s worse for the end user, but better for shareholders.

The best software in many categories is open source and it’s astonishing how few people use it. I mainly blame governments in the 1990s and early 00s for embedding Microsoft into their own systems, administrations and most of all: schools. We could be living in a much nicer world right now.

Only true if you’re culling rich people

Until some elected twat does it innit

The contribution from bicycle tires is peanuts by comparison. The weight of the vehicle is a fraction, the forces starting and braking are a fraction. It’s not zero, but compared to that from a 2000kg EV: that from a ±28kg EV bicycle or <15kg non-electric bicycle is pretty dang close to zero, especially when adding to the equation a regular speed of 50-120kmh <> 10-25kmh…

You are correct.

The entire argument feels like a “want a cigarette?” because if you’re smoking yourself you won’t be bothered by other people’s second hand smoke… Drive the speed limit when there is one, it is the only reasonable thing to do. People annoyed by that have a problem, not you.

Except you won’t rake in billions. It’s Brexit all over again: whatever you gain with putting tariffs on shipping and shouting how powerful and important and independent you are, you’ll lose manyfold in general trade benefits… Everyone loses, and EU freight will find another way, rail to Genova and sail through Gibraltar or Suez, for example.

British empire sorta ended with WW2 tho. USA replaced Britain as the biggest world power, including Naval (thus trade) dominance. UK did rather fine despite it, because of the “special relationship” with their former colony, but the UK after WW2 was a lot less powerful and less dominant in the world than UK was before WW2… They for sure did not become a world power from it, they merely managed to sorta hold on to some of their “world power” status in the post WW2 world.

It’s not the same.

Datacenters are rather few single points of massive consumption. Charging hundred million cars requires millions of points of high consumption.

The grid to charge an enormous fleet of EV really is more difficult and expensive to build than supplying a few dozen data centres. On top the EVs need charging in urban environment, while data centres are located in industrial environment. It is easier to lay a few massive cables from a nuclear power plant to a datacenter, than to lay millions of kilometres of mediumthick cables to every neighborhood in a country.

I’m not justifying the enormous energy usage of data centres, but this is a bit like comparing apples with oranges.

If you buy bootlegs, you won’t easily be able to resell online. I got at least one bootleg, didn’t know it when I bought it, but now it’s forbidden to sell it on a well known international vinyl sales website… Record sounds great tho, so it’s fine.

It’s a copy of Marc Moulin - Sam Suffy by the way.

I have the feeling so many people are super enthusiastic about it, it will be a matter of months after it’s included in regular KDE that someone will make a “Linux TV” distro centered around plasma bigscreen while minimizing setup complexity, aimed at using it for TV only… And there’s some (quiet) rumours that steam might be interested in using KDE bigscreen on the steam machine…

Yes the ones that stand a chance are higher segment, turn to biological wine only and to “luxury experience at our vineyard”. But no way French, Italian, Spanish or German wine can continue to compete in lower segments on world market flooded by cheap mass produced wine from South America, South Africa etc while demand declines. Of course it will not disappear completely from Europe, but the risk for certain villages and regions is very real because wine from other continents is silly cheap. If you do drink wine once in a while: buy regional if possible! (That goes for all agricultural products that are available from your own region)

I agree there are few advantages to alcohol.

But for some regions in Europe it means traditions older than the Roman empire, related to wine growing, can disappear. On steep sunny rocky slopes where little else will grow well, and it’s often really deeply embedded in almost everything in such a region: restaurants, tourism, landscape… 80% inhabitants are somehow linked to the winery. Then it’s not anonymous capitalist sounding “industry” but just some guy in a small village whose father’s father’s father … once started an Inn with winegrowing on the side and when all 4 of such businesses in a village go bankrupt the entire village can become an abandoned wasteland in just a few years.

Cheap enormous Bluetooth speakers enter the chat

30 ist das Maximum. Du darfst da auch 15 fahren… mitten von der Straße. Große Fahrzeuge sind Gäste in engen städtischen Raum, sie können sich anpassen. Und wann das viel nervt werden sie vielleicht auch mal mehr pro wirklich baulich getrennte Fahrradwege…

Mach ich immer.

Because you have to get your friends to move to Lemmy too so the USSR/PRC loving weirdos become a lower % of total user base. Not kidding.

Imo it’s mainly the low key developers using some free API and dreaming it will always stay free. This kind of developing is often basically volunteering for big private companies. Users just use whatever is big, easy available. They have less choice. Developers know what they are putting their effort into, re-enforcing it even more while gaining little from it.

That’s how it should be! Thanks

It’s on roads and paths with public lighting mostly! The bicycle front light is not for you to see things, it’s for you to be seen by others. Aimed downwards in front of your bicycle is were it should be… Not up into other people’s faces!

It’s not just cars. Also super blinding lights on bicycles, aimed too high. And the worst of all: straight at your face aiming super blinding lights from fricking joggers on park roads that have public lighting!!