Quick back of the napkin calculation assuming evolving tech.

9ft is about 3m.

A 100kW wind turbine needed a tower height of 30m.

That’s a factor 10 difference.

If we could assume the tower needs to scale linearly in width, depth, and height, that would make a pole cost difference of 10x10x10 = 1000.

I did not make this up but 100kW/1000 is 100W so it would be on par with a 30m high pole.

The wind blows substantially stronger higher up so I’m not comparing to those on purpose, and this was easy to calculate. I also don’t know the cost or real size of this 9ft pole. If it doesn’t need blades it’ll be even lower and it might be cheaper. Perhaps it can be scaled up too.

offlineimap and a few others do this. You don’t need to search for a Google specific tool but the tags might not map that well to folders, though if you treat them as folders it’s certainly imported. These tools are designed to take your (full or partial) mailbox on the go so you can work offline, hence they support incremental bidirectional syncing. Tools like offlineimap see quite some use so they should work as expected.

I love how that last picture doesn’t have artificial lighting but rather a box standing in the back, some visible cables, a boom arm waiting to be mounted, and a great choice of headset.

So real instead of an artificially clean room with professional lighting for the camera shot. Much appreciated.

Did you mount this on feet for a standing desk and is that a challenge with the weight of the slab? Looks great!

As a neighbour, I’d like to thank you for helping EU production of BEV and making people believe in it.

Germans are so hard on Germany. I only hear negativity online from Germans.

Maybe you can start building from what you already have? Working from the ground up is what the rich like because it means accepting worse worker conditions. Don’t fall for that trap.

I honestly think German car manufacturers have done their fair share when looking at manufacturers with heritage. Almost no one did as much!

BMW made the i3 at the time of the Tesla Model S. It was rushed, too expensive to produce, but it was good for its time. It is still a blast to drive! It is light on its feet with a great chassis. They made the i8 in tandem which helped make electric cool and accepted from a driver’s car perspective. The iX is fugly but it’s apparently amingst the most comfortable cars. It wasn’t a financial success and BMW took a different route after but their electric cars are good driver cars for today’s abysmal standards.

Mercedes created a whole separate platform for electric cars. If you look at the EQS prototypes you’ll see that it was gorgeous. The production car is great but very very ugly. People believed Mercedes was going to go fully electric whether Mercedes meant it or not. Their offering after rebates of the EQB was cost-effective when compared to the Ioniq 5. That is a lot of car, great! It alsl sold a lot of those. Innovation on the CLA means it’s very frugal. Mercedes did its part.

These are expensive cars, sure. But some have sold a lot and they moved the industry.

VW publicly turned around their whole company. They didn’t sell but they made everyone believe that they were buying their last combustion engine car. That is a hige driver in today’s market. The roof workers here were laughing when one of them said “I’ll never drive electric” because they were sure there would be no other option. That is a big change. Execution of the ID3 was bad, but no one complained when Ford used the exact same steering wheel in their cars. The electric Porches seemed to sell well to an audience that really wanted to hear the flat six. The Audi etron took the market of rich people who wanted to drive electric but did not want to be seen as such. VW was dragged through the mud for the emisions scandal that everyone in the industry was participating in.

The Germans made BEV feel premium and the future we should all long for. Milking that market failed and backfired.

Compared to KIA and Hyundai that’s not impressive, they executed better coming from a lower positioned brand and making it more chique. Ford created a model 3 clone with the Mach E. That’s ok but not great. Attaching the Mustang name to it made people believe Ford found this to be important. They didn’t move it as far as Mercedes, BMW, VW at all. Their EU BEV offering was essentially based on VW’s chassis 2 years ago? Maybe still today? They failed at producing the F150 lightning. They did net up a new team and were publicly struggling to re-school their engine designers to stay relevant. Most US based manufacturers seem to have missed the mark. The Nissan Leaf made great progress but was not as technologically sound as the i3, many leafs of the day don’t work anymore. They were dull and for people who cared about the environment, not for people who cared about car culture (whether we like it or not, it’s a thing). Nissan just stopped innovating. Jaguar had a great offering but is essentially Chinese and stopped innovating on the platform so are now behind. Stellantis did the Citroen thing of quirky cars which seems to have somewhat worked out? Their 45kmh BEV sold well. Mostly to 16 year olds who should have been cycling but it sold. They kept the lower end of the market with basic innovation. Renault came late with a sensible offering but is there now. They certainly did not create that early belief in a transition. Toyota? The Prius was very important but then nothing. Subaru? Nope. Mitsubishi? Made the i-Miev which was a hit for being a BEV at the time, it was not a great car but not expensive by today’s standards. Battery replacement is a challenge. They did not continue on this path.

Tesla made the most positive moves for BEV. Much hated now, but we have to give that to them. In an industry where no one thought a new manufacturer could stand up, they created a car brand that made BEV cool. It came with its own blend of quality control issues and challenging worker conditions.

The Chinese leapfrogged the market with the intent of leapfrogging. Heavily subsidised to enter the market, ready to push other players out. They focussed on electric know-how and it worked. Again, not an established manufacturer and different worker conditions.

German execution was not fast enough. The established manufacturers are not well equipped for disruptive events. We must remember that people were not ready to switch. It was and is expensive. But in the grand scheme of things, I find German manufacturers to have been an important piece of the puzzle in the switch. I hate the lobbying for combustion engines and would rather hear about lobbying for BEV R&D. We should ensure worker conditions can stay or improve whilst producing what we need to limit climate change.

Go Germans. Please produce BEV driver cars.

Our experience so far shows that using Linked Data can give you many apps that work together on parts of the data.

Depend on semantic data models (vocabularies of URIs such as foaf), use triples in your applications, and share these same triples whilst looking at the serialisation (such as xml, jsonld, ttl) as an implementation detail, and you’re a long way towards interoperable apps and information sharing.

If you have many interoperable apps and they can share data, then you’ve went a good distance towards and open market where software can compete. If the data is also openy available to you (as it should) then you took large steps towards sovereignty too. You’ll have a choice of applications to use and you can easily move the data between the applications.

Feel free to ask questions should you have any.

Interesting read. I’ve glanced over sections and read others.

I’ve been involved in the use of some of these frameworks. They are good reference frameworks but they are most often overly heavy to get started and/or the implementation is most often not supporting what the marketing material suggests.

Good integration projects start from limited partners with limited datasets exchanging with each other knowing they want to exchange with more partners in the future. Limited can be two to seven and they can even be in the same organisation. Perhaps it works with more, I have not been involved in that. They contain only the necessary roles and know how they’ll expand. These frameworks are great to get the expansion options in place. However, to get something going we’ve seen that a cheap and structurally correct solution to data sharing gets the ball running more quickly and for longer, then an expensive and heavy project which needs all sorts of approvals (even if it would be superior).

Projects that start with the weight of all the roles filled in by different actors need substantial funding to get started and I don’t think they generally last after funding dried up. Projects faking their way through the extra roles and providing the most limited interpretation of some of these roles with the project having some (even vague) shared benefit seem to survive past the grant stage.

Get some basics right and get going is my advice. Identifiers, shared and extensible data models, and a clear way of sharing data.

I like these frameworks, they help set the stage, but my gosh do they see problems where there are none when a project is just getting started.

To my understanding there are multiple european places to shop. https://b-europe.com/ seems to work fine. It doesn’t show all options though so it’s not perfect. When you call them you could get extra options. You may want more time between connections or such and they can combine that where the online interface doesn’t.

Just based on the headline it’s nit that much different from what we get now. We already get compensated on missed connections for cross country bookings and although I get multiple tickets, I can have one booking for a long trip.

Price and reliability have been the biggest hurdles.

Concept of the bag on the left, bag on the right.

I’d also like more pictures of the bag. 😁

Totally switch to a terminal first like you suggested and see if you can work your way from there. My suggestion goes after yours. Always try to fix the running system first.

It’s probably wise to check man pages and other introductory documentation for most system administration tasks. Even though they’re super low-level, they are in my opinion better to send than just pulling the power plug.

Even with a frozen system you can often still ensure data is written to inspect on the next boot. You may have a key labeled SysRq which likely needs an Alt modifier to trigger.

Alt+Shift+SysRq+s to sync data to disk. Alt+Shift+SysRq+u to unmount the disks. Alt+Shift+SysRq+b to reboot the system.

Execute them in that order.

This can help ensure the data about the mishap is written to disk so it can be inspected after the forced reboot. I also check the logs in /var/log but I suppose all of those are in journalctl too these days.

Interesting map. Any idea why right is split as

center -> center-right -> right -> far right

and left split as

center -> left -> radical-left -> far-left

Is there a different shape in the parties’ identity and stance or is this due to translation perhaps?

Oh you will suffer in the best way possible. You like the Slimbook now but in five years something will degrade, like the battery. You’ll think about getting a new one and you’ll look forward to it but nooo, you will not get a new one. You will look online and there will be parts available and you’ll repair it. Then you’ll need more disk space or ram so you’re hoping to get a new one but nooo, you will upgrade it. And then something will break and you finally see the part is not in stock so you mail them just in case but instead of an automated reply you’ll get a real response and they’ll get you the part you need. Sure, replacing a glued keyboard is a bit exciting but turns out a lot can be replaced. Not sure how old mine is but I like it, it just keeps running.

You can have a mesh-like network with auto switching between endpoints on Flint 2 too. I set it up here over the weekend with a clean OpenWRT flash. Even managed to keep IP addresses the same so no worries for any home automation.

It takes some clicks or commands to get there. A wired connection would be nicer but you can use wireless network mode Access Point WDS to create a wireless backhaul too. Fast roaming is supported so I think it behaves similar to mesh.

Multiple VLANs should become a thing for this network in the future.

I believe the parent post is nicely sketching out what a “best” move is. I have seen no better approach myself. At the same time I see what you see. The best approach isn’t all that great. If you’re lucky and find the right people it could work. There’s a lot of luck involved there.

That’s why I do think there should be some regulations indicating what is tolerated. It seems to me parent poster may agree (and thus also woth your take).

Since GDPR you can tell the school you don’t want pictures on platforms you disagree with. You may miss out on seeing the photo’s, you might come across as crazy, but you can (and you should). We were given a choice at the cost of extra paperwork and some limitations.

Even without the addiction problem of these platforms we should nurture and find a good society around us. It’s a valid take to try and find likeminded people.

I don’t think that’s the end of it. Given the state we’re in, the network effect, and the fragile ego of developing kids, I suppose we need a stronger push.

AI enforced age verification or logins which allow you to be followed anywhere is not the solution in my current opinion, it’s a different problem. The problems are the addictive and steering nature of the platforms which seems to be hard to describe in a clear way legally.

I wonder how “these platforms” should be defined and what minimum set of limitations would give us and the children the necessary breathing space.

I’ll reply to this random one with that statement. There’s no winning move as a parent.

Problem is being locked out. If your kid is the only one not on social media and all other kids are, your kid will be socially left out.

All kids are on a chat platform you don’t support. What do you? Disallow it and give them a social handicap that might scar them, or allow it and take the risk?

The same goes for allowing images on other platforms. Since GDPR schools seem to care. Yet if it’s a recording that will be put on social media you can explain your 4 year old why they weren’t allowed to participate… It sucks.

I don’t know what the right way forward is. I don’t think this is it. Something is needed though. We should at least signal what we find acceptable as a society. Bog stupid rules which are trivial to circumvent might be good enough, or perhaps some add campaigns like we did with smoking (hehe, if it’s for something we support then adds are good?).

Regardless, the current situation clearly doesn’t work. It would be great if we could find and promote the least invasive solutions.

A quick lookup or from memory for these interesting suggestions:

ZapMap : based in Bristol ElectoVerse : London ABRP : Part of Rivian now, US Google : US

I really like ABRP but I suppose this will get cripled at some point as it’s now part of a car manufacturer.

The camera is heated so that should not be the biggest problem. I don’t think they have the software to make it work.

I have not had obstacle detection work on the other modules aside from a person being nearby being detected. With that feature you will not see it working from close by, but it will destroy children’s toys, drive over poop, destroy its own antennas by driving under tables, drive against tractors, …

It could be capable one day but not with this software (team).

This company overpromises and underdelivers as if it’s a Chinese competition to do so.

Source: own the lawn mower and blower

Really depends on what is considered nice about MacOS. Just had a new on-boarding with someone who really liked their Mac keybindings and it seems getting those dialed in is nicer (easier? better?) on KDE. I’d also generally gravitate towards Gnome for Mac users though.

As a piece of advice for OP: Accept the use of keybindings over the touchpad. Mac has done a great job and I have not seen a Linux laptop/distro combination that nails it. Search for the pain-points after switching and ask about it (kindly) on a community like this.