Stick with verified flatpaks on flathub (they also host unverified packages, avoid those), and Appimages directly from the software maker’s site, if they offer them.

The Gnome Software Store and the Mint software store both have the option to not show unverified flatpaks, which I would suggest using.

Worse than something people don’t utilize? Im calling bullshit.

A regular hybrid is always using its ICE to charge its battery. A PHEV can either charge via the grid, or with its ICE.

The minority of people who do opt to mostly charge their PHEV via the grid and do not constantly take long distance trips are able to fully utilize a PHEV’s advantages, and thus they help bring the overall average down for the PHEV category, but since there are so many more who do not, the average is still quite poor despite PHEVs having the real potential to be much better.

a non-PHEV hybrid, by not having the grid as an option, does not have the benefit of that mindful minority of people helping to bring the average down as much, thus it is worse than PHEV, but still better than ICE.

A regular hybrid still generally have reducd emissions compared to an ICE vehicle if used in an urban setting, and due to how small their ICE engines tend to be, they usually use less fuel even on long-distance trips compared to the average ICE vehicle.

The point of the study is not that they don’t emit less than ICE vehicles, it is that, overall, due to how most people use them, they don’t save all that much carbon over their lifetime compared to non-hybrid EVs (which, I will mention, also pale in comparison to public transport). And in the case of PHEV’s, they could be used to great effect, but the majority of buyers appear to not do so, thus making them similar in carbon reduction to regular hybrids.

If you would rather not watch the video itself which goes over the studies and their conclusions, the creator provided sources to all the studies in the text description, which I will provide here for you to look through:

The studies appear to show that regular, non-plugin hybrids are even worse at lowering emissions than the poorly utilized PHEVs :\

Overall it seems to suggest that hybrids aren’t a terribly good solution for lowering emissions overall, since only PHEV’s have the capability to drastically lower them, but only for a minority who are mindful enough to take advantage of that ability.

Per the study, most owners of hybrids are not effectively utilizing their hybrids in ways that actually drastically reduce carbon emissions, only a minority do.

As I say, you appear to be in the minority by being mindful of plugging it in regularly.

Plug-in hybrids can reduce emissions if mostly used for short urban trips, and hybrids can use less gas overall compared to regular ICE vehicles since they tend to use small engines, but the study suggests that the people who use plug-in hybrids like they’re intended (i.e, plugging it in frequently to avoid the engine turning on) is a minority of users, unfortunately.

Heck yeah :)

Also, I just need to mention that you have a fantastic username.

Well said, Quill. :)

Orwell fought in a Marxist militia (the POUM) during the Spanish Civil War against Franco’s fascists, and got a bullet to the neck for it. He then had to quickly flee Spain while still recovering from the wound when the Stalinist Marxist-Leninist faction turned on both the Marxists and the Anarchists, and began to round them up for imprisonment or execution, justifying the betrayal by calling them ‘secret fascists’ that were somehow collaborating with the enemy (which was obviously absurd).

That event fully soured Orwell on Marxist-Leninist authoritarian communism, inspiring both Animal Farm and 1984, as well as motivating him to make that list of ‘communists’ which he thought sympathetic to authoritarianism and the USSR. I can’t say I would’ve made that same choice, but I can certainly understand why he would’ve wanted to prevent USSR collaborators from gaining more power after what he’d directly experienced.

Saying that, as with most figures of that time, he also had some pretty fucking bad takes, such as being pretty homophobic and antisemitic, and may have included some people on that list for being either of those things (he also possibly could’ve written that list while pretty deluded with advanced tuberculosis, as some later figures have postulated). That’s not to say we should throw out the baby with the bath-water, otherwise we’d also have to dismiss the entire works of most historical figures, such as Bakunin (Antisemite, racist) or Marx (Antisemite, Racist), and certainly Engels (Racist, Antisemite) instead of sifting the good from the bad (though Engels in particular has little to offer, other than justifications for authoritarianism).

tl;dw: Despite being cleared by the FCC to sell in the US, Netgear routers have a backdoor from the factory that is constantly listening for the correct SSH key, allowing anyone with it to infiltrate your network (likely for three letter agencies to use). Virtually all consumer router manufacturers have extremely poor security practices, but one way of combating this for now is to make your own router with something like OPNSense.

They also discuss the direction all of this is heading in, taking into account the new laws being proposed around the world trying to attach your identity to your device to remove anonymity, they suspect that eventually ISPs and governments may mandate the use of approved locked-down routers or wireless access points that have those backdoors in place, both for easier government surveillance and for the benefit of corporations, who would prefer to remove anonymity to access and gather more valuable user data to create more in-depth profiles for selling to advertisers, and to limit the user’s ability to block certain devices from accessing the internet, like modern TV’s that send screenshots every 3 minutes to the manufacturer to help identify what you’re watching.

Despite being cleared by the FCC to sell in the US, Netgear routers have a backdoor from the factory that is constantly listening for the correct SSH key, allowing anyone with it to infiltrate your network (likely for three letter agencies to use). Virtually all consumer router manufacturers have extremely poor security practices, but one way of combating this for now is to make your own router with something like OPNSense.

They also discuss the direction all of this is heading in, taking into account the new laws being proposed around the world trying to attach your identity to your device to remove anonymity, they suspect that eventually ISPs and governments may mandate the use of approved locked-down routers or wireless access points that have those backdoors in place, both for easier government surveillance and for the benefit of corporations, who would prefer to remove anonymity to access and gather more valuable user data to create more in-depth profiles for selling to advertisers, and to limit the user’s ability to block certain devices from accessing the internet, like modern TV’s that send screenshots every 3 minutes to the manufacturer to help identify what you’re watching.

You’re quite right, though I’m being a bit more uncharitable personally, and assuming they are only marketing it as 99% since they are explicitly blocking very popular utilities as a selling point. Were they not doing that, I get the feeling they would’ve just said it is fully Android compatible despite it not being true for the reasons you outlined.

The C64 Ultimate, the new production model that Commodore sells, has Wi-fi built in.

It was removed by the mod here. It was the astronaut ‘Always was’ meme saying that the DPRK was the most actually democratic country in the world. Glorifying a dictatorship.

It apparently will be able to remotely control some aspects of the C64 ultimate.

You could perhaps contribute to their documentation if you can’t contribute code. Or simply help spread awareness (where appropriate) that it is our best long-term alternative.

I think they gave Tramiel’s son an honorary role in the company.

Bitwig included a version of their DAW with a midi keyboard I bought that’s restricted to 8-tracks (called Bitwig 8-track) and a limited amount of plugins. I had been considering their paid versions in the past, but I found I enjoyed the limitations, so I’ll likely not upgrade it. Works a treat on Linux, too.

They actively hardcoded all web browsers and most social media (except WhatsApp) to be blocked from installing, hence the 99%.

The social media I understand, but the web browser block is going to severely limit market appeal.

Ehh, if they had foresight, they wouldn’t be putting a hardcoded block for all web browsers on the Commodore phone. Instead, it’s mostly just Peri commercializing his personal ideas of what a phone should be based on his past videos.