One thing: You need to be aware that wherever alternatives to fossil energy are discussed, there will not only be normal disagreements but also:

• astroturfing
• trolling
• misinformation
• bogus and illogical arguments
• emotional manipulation
• toxic comments

Why? See, alternatives to fossil energy cut into the profits of fossil companies. They earn money with burning stuff which makes our planet inhospitable. So, they are a bit at odds with the further existence of our civilization. But especially, their existence is at odds with the existence of cheap clean energy. So, these companies will do basically anything to disrupt green energy. Including trolling forums. If they are trolled, it is because green energy is effective.

Much better to install Linux, install a virtual machine (GNOME Boxes) in which you run what you still need Windows for, and access files via a Samba service as shared files.

Or just switch to Linux, and copy your files. It is good for daily use.

Dumb question: What exactly is “ricing”? I’d also be curious to learn about the etymology of that term…

Yikes.

I am already uncomfortable when my mom talks with her phone to search Google. But hey, she is 83 years old and her health is declining. Maybe she does not need so much privacy any more.

But here is a sad story: I have two friends, a couple. Both are automation engineers. They could not have kids, which was their life dream. So instead, they re-purposed their energy and built their dream house. A beautiful house. And, of course, with a lot of automation and logic programmed by them. Shutters which open in the morning and close when it is stormy. A shower which plays the right morning radio program. Extra settings for when parents-in-law visit.

But what makes me uncomfortable is voice control by speech recognition. All that cortana/siri stuff. For everything, even switching on the light. I don’t like that when I visit people. For me, it is like somebody is always listening, even to stuff that is meant only for my friends ears.

I have not told them, but I don’t like that house.

The firmware is made by the phone makers, and partly needs to go into the ROM. And if they don’t make it available, you can’t run Linux on them.

For example, on some phones in order to install Sailfish, you need to update Android first. Plus, that firmware is usually proprietary and not available as source code.

It is easily conceivable that smart phones become so locked down that it is not possible to install something else.

The problem for all these things is proprietary firmware.

What are good pocket PCs running linux?

I had a Nokia N900 and now own a Gemini PDA running Sailfish and it is quite nice to have a programmable device wit a physical keyboard (it runs Python, Guile, and cross-compiled Rust CLI programs). A small PC running waydroid would be fantastic.

The company’s development and expansion of its services will rely in no small part on massive data center projects, which will require the same amount of energy to operate as New York City and San Diego combined—energy that currently isn’t even available.

In that case, there is a little but fundamental problem. It is based on basic physics: You can fake securities or earnings, or you can print money. But you can’t fake energy because that violates the laws of physics.

On the other side of the deal, OpenAI will have to pay about $60 billion per year to fit the bill for the agreement. It currently generates about $10 billion in revenue, which, statistically speaking, is less than $60 billion.

ok.