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    17 days ago

    That sounds like the non-techies would be able to fix it themselves on Windows without you being around, which in my experince isn’t the case.

    It might be different for you with a lot of tech-affine people in your family. But for those of us being forced to be the tech support anyway, it can really make a difference if you have to fix a Linux issue once in a while or have to reinstall Windows for the 5th time this year…



  • That’s a moronic idea anway.

    Yes we can perfectly well ban an anti-democratic party even when 20% or more are voting for them. Why wouldn’t we? Just like we can perfectly well prosecute 20%+ of the population when they actually commit crimes.

    Sorry, but democracy DOES NOT mean that illegal actions are permitted because enough people agree (and a minority is also far from “enough”), just like democracy -contrary to what populism wants us to believe nowadays- DOES NOT mean lies (nicely called "alternative facts as an euphemism) become truths now just because enough people believe in them.


  • They don’t hate them. They just want to cut all support for citizens to have more money available to finance more tax cuts for rich people.

    But to do this you need to somehow convince the masses that money spend on them is a bad thing. For decades trickle-down fairy tales of how spending money on the already rich ones will help the economy and then be beneficial for all worked. But not anymore. So the next phase in desinforming gullible voters is much more dystopian and involves straight out brain-washing to decouple them from reality and make them believe that people actually helping them are evil and need to be fought.


  • With nuclear, you’ve got a raging anti-nuclear crowd.

    No. With nuclear you have very real unmitigatable risks and very real insanely high costs. Which also don’t solve anything as nuclear production isn’t fitting demand fluctuations either, so you still need mass storage (or waste overproduction 90% of the time, combined with already insane costs).

    The raging crowd is the pro-nuclear cult on social media that ignores reality and sputters sci-fi fairy tales all day long in the name of their savior.



  • In that fairy tale reality were European industry actually is lagging behind and needs protection you would be right. But that’s a lie. Those chinese electric motors are European designs. Their battery design was (and still is) researched in European labs.

    Also those cheap Chinese EVs aren’t real. Prices are alwas adapted to market, its buying power and -more importantly- the bare bones versions will not be allowed on European streets anywhere. So in the end we get “cheap” cars for 10% less than domestic producers. When the fuck has 10% higher prices for solid quality ever been a problem. But instead we get flooded with stories of how European production can’t compete anymore… as if wages, energy, raw materials hasn’t been more expensive in Europe since basically forever. Really sad how our industry decayed nearly a century ago… oh, wait. It didn’t because there is an actual global market for high quality production with high standards.

    The only actual difference is that China is actually producing stuff on scale while European companies spend decades on rejecting any innovation because lobbying politicians was cheaper and brought more short-term gains for shareholders and CEOs.

    And they do exactly the same thing now. Sure, protect them from competition for another few years so they can keep worshipping the allmighty diesel. If we are at let’s scrap all environmental goals because they are obviously not doable with an industry refusing to even try. Then that industry will be soon dead indeed and rightfully so as they decided -totally voluntarily- to die off.


  • ARM is shit at hardware discovery in general. So no, chromebooks don’t need a special distro. They however need a kernel adapted to the specific hardware, often down to the model (that’s also the reason Android updates take so long on phones and there is very time limited support… there’s always someone needed to adapt new updates to the specific hardware for each device, so they don’t bother for anything but their latest products).




  • They could just say ‘screw it’ and decide on their own to only build BEV.

    And then they would go bankrupt pretty fast. EVs are more expensive and don’t have a massive infrastructure to refuel them, build over decades (also still heavily subsidised indirectly).

    The company saying “screw it” today just cut their available market down to a fraction of its former size, down to the small amount of “we have money to spare anyway and already have our own home and garage to refuel”-people. The majority can’t afford to buy a car for twice the price because it’s better for the environment. And they don’t even have a spot to park them other than on the side of the street (maybe some countries are better than others in that regard but here having to charge at the few publically available chargers doubles the cost compoared to just plugging it in over night at home).

    So yes, the companies actually need guidelines. They are no startup that can produce a few EVs and then scale up over the next decade. They are full fledged businesses with massive production facilities and tens of thousands of workers. They indeed need to know when to reach 100% EV production as they are depending on gradually changing over production. We will kill our ICE production today and only produce EVs isn’t an option when 80% of the people either can’t afford one or have no valid charging option yet.


  • Decryption isn’t a problem if you use the systemd hooks when creating your initrams. They try to decrypt every given luks volume with the first key provided and only ask for additional keys if that fails.

    I have 3 disks in a btrfs raid setup, 4 partitions (1 for the raid setup on each, plus a swap partition on the biggest disk), all encrypted with the same password.

    No script needed, just add rd.luks.name=<UUID1>=cryptroot1 rd.luks.name=<UUID2>=cryptroot2 rd.luks.name=<UUID3>=cryptroot3 rd.luks.name=<UUID4>=cryptswap to your kernel parameters and unlock all 4 with one password at boot.