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Probably the dictator bootlickers in worldnews@lemmy.ml

Too bad they messed that up by invading Ukraine. Russia had a lease on Sevastopol up through 2042, now they’ll be lucky to keep it for the next 5 years.

Hans de Goede is singlehandly keeping it alive at this point haha. His blog is really good.

Codeberg is very good, and non-profit.

The goal is to take the car as little as possible. It sounds like visiting the beach and visiting your friend isn’t possible without a car, and that’s not something that you need to worry about. If there are car sharing services available in your city, like zipcar. You can still do that without committing to the $10k/year cost of owning a private car.

Let’s say you use a car 3 times a week, twice to visit friends, and once to go to the beach. Zipcar offers a $11/hour rate, and we’ll assume you spend 4 hours on each trip. That comes out to $132/week, or $6870/year, saving you over $3k/year over owning a car. You’d no longer have to worry about maintenance or car insurance. This would also be much better for the environment, since you can use a shared car instead of dedicating a car to yourself. Any week where you don’t go to the beach, or your friend visits you, would be pure savings for you, too.

This video is a really good video about why car-sharing is so useful:

https://youtu.be/OObwqreAJ48

Source for $10k/year number:

https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-YDC-Fact-Sheet-FINAL-8-9-21.pdf

Yeah, unfortunately transit options depends a ton on where you live. not just which city, but also individual neighborhoods in that city and where your workplace is. Even when you live near rail-based transit, often cities might not bother running proper routes and schedules to make it viable. But we should support public transportation and bike infrastructure efforts when we can.

No source, but I remember hearing that EVs earn back the cost of their manufacturing through their zero emissions within about a year. I extrapolated based on that with the assumption that a car will last about 10 years. I live in Sweden where our electricity is carbon free/ carbon neutral.

consider the cost of the car in those estimates. Cars cost over $10k a year to own and maintain in the US. Local corner stores encourage local business and walkable neighborhoods, whereas supermarket chains depend on government subsidies to exist.

First priority is to get rid of cars in general. Try to use bicycles and public transportation. If you don’t need a car to get to work, consider a car share service to replace your private car/private parking space.

EVs probably have around 1/10th the lifetime emissions of a gas car, which is still really significant.

Some Google searching shows that the monkey King in “Journey to the West” ate peaches that gave him immortality. Google also shows a martial arts move where you grab the opponent’s testicles.

It’s probably a chengyu, but I don’t know what story it’s from.

It’s very nice. The best thing is that most of the heat is generated inside electric co-generation plants. They take normal combustion power plants and send the turbine waste into the district heating network for better efficiency and free heating. Basically achieving over 100% efficiency.

Wikipedia says about half of swedish homes are heated with district heating, with 580 networks nationwide.

I believe some cities and universities in the US have district heating, most notably New York City, but much of it runs on old school steam pipes instead of the insulated water pipes we have in Scandinavia.

I do think this is something that requires more density than most American suburbs have, unfortunately. Single family homes just don’t have the density to make district heating economically viable unless they’re close by to row-houses/apartments. You only see district heating in cities that have at least some apartment buildings here in Sweden.

There’s a Swedish startup named Tilitis making open source, verifiably secure hardware keys, but they’re not well supported at the moment.

https://tillitis.se/

Yubikey probably has the widest support for things like password managers and automatic sign in.

I dont think most people would notice the difference between a home heated with a furnace and a home heated with a heat pump, aside from the electricity savings.

Yeah, district heating is very common in Scandinavia. We’re pioneers in the technology.

Here in Stockholm, we have a wide variety of heat sources, including natural gas, biomass, geothermal, air-source heat pump, and trash incineration. We even had nuclear heat at one point. Some cities also have factory and datacenter waste heat. We also have systems that use winter lake water for cooling in the summer.

Yes, ground-source heat pumps are very common in Sweden. I’ve seen a bunch, they work well. I’ve seen them working well in old houses with air temps under -10 C, but I know they’re installed even in places that get down to -20 or -30.

Yeah, those arguments don’t hold up at all. Those bugs linked are not design related and could be fixed in a few months. KDE is already working on adding reconnect capabilities to plasma.

Race conditions in wlroots is fixable, and not a reason to choose x11 over Wayland.

Claims Windows is easier to use than Linux

points to a technical discussion from Linux developers, and mentions mouse gestures

How is that relevant at all to the UX of Linux Desktop vs Windows? Windows doesn’t even have mouse gestures.

As a Virginian living in Sweden, I think it’s actually true that that the US is more culturally homogeneous than Europe. Someone from the East Coast and the West Coast still watches the same TV shows, goes to the same restaurants, and votes for the same president. It’s hard to tell the differences in accent between the West Coast and the East Coast.

There’s probably a bigger cultural difference between Richmond, VA and Lynchburg, VA (home of Liberty University), than there is between Richmond and Seattle.

In Europe, you can go 100 miles and find people who watch different shows, have different political parties, and speak an entirely different language.

The US was founded all roughly at the same time under the same government, with minor differences based on immigration and former colonial history. In contrast, Europe is dozens of different countries with widely different histories and language groups.

Other countries, like Russia and China probably have more cultural diversity than the US due to their languages and histories, but not as much as the EU.

One of the goals of the EU is to bridge these gaps between countries so that business can be conducted across political and language barriers, to make Europe have as much unified strength as the US. The EU has a larger population than the US, and nearly as much GDP, but you couldn’t tell on the global stage, because it’s not a unified force.