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by kkfx 2y ago
Sorry, in general I comment quickly and my English is still poor enough to be not so clear in some cases, I'll try to do better when I see issues, but still sometimes I remain unclear :-) Anyway really dream a modern system like Emacs
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by kkfx 2y ago
Yes, but any other app need to explicitly integrate it, and it the biggest issue in modern software. Let's imaging such project is an Emacs package, you do not need any change from notmuch, mu4e, gnus, meow, ... to use your package, yo
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by kkfx 2y ago
Two small notes: - p.v. modules, inverters, batteries in China have seen falling prices and not cost little enough to be very convenient, oh, the opposite happen in the west where after decades of high prices slowly lowering we even witness
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by kkfx 2y ago
For ideas, personally I manage my contacts in two separate entities because I still have to find a way to merge two different worlds: - on desktop my contacts are org-mode notes, in contacts terms I use them just for email completion in not
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by kkfx 2y ago
I do, self-made (legal here, France), composed of: - 12x Trina Solar Vertex S 400Wp (TSM-400DE) - solar inverter Fronius Primo 5kW - battery inverter Victron MultiPlus II-GX - 8kWh LFP BYD LVS - smart meter (zero injection setup) Victron&#x
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by kkfx 2y ago
Technically yes, but a laptop as a desktop replacer is sound only if you need to use it also on the go and most of the time you are on the go. Otherwise a desktop is much more sound: while some laptop can be docked (any most can be used as
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by kkfx 2y ago
I see them, simply: who makes the money? If it's the State than the State made the money it's economy need period. Money are just units of measure of a substrate. An army is not made with money but with humans, foods, buildings, v
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by kkfx 2y ago
I can understand as well: most teachers simply do not want to face a big load of potential issues and have not enough time to train their students enough so instead of teaching for their courses they'll have to replicate "The Miss
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by kkfx 2y ago
Ehm, I'm from the EU, being a former globetrotter, living in the EU and... Situation here and in other places of the world it not much different. Yes most adults do know where Tokyo is and where is Central Asia or Perù, but... In subst
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by kkfx 2y ago
I suspect that most people have issue on mere work tools, they do know by names tools from another era, while they never really used them, but they do not know the modern tools, so they create in their own minds strange hybrids between the
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by kkfx 2y ago
It's not much the phone but the network. How many insist using craptops with crappy softphone webapps connected via crappy wifi because they think a damn desktop with a normal cat6 to the router is "an old thing"? How many ev
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by kkfx 2y ago
The world is complex but... Why taxes exists? Try to answer. In a working Democracy taxes are a mean to redistribute wealth to ensure that those who do more have more, because hey, we need incentives to work, but those who do less still hav
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by kkfx 2y ago
Well... I'm not a teacher BUT I was a student and I have lectured some courses about IT to different age cohort and well, I exactly told "you need a system with easy replaceable storage, we start with GNU/Linux", I spent
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by kkfx 2y ago
My two takes: - due to climate change alone AND business predatory practice alone infrastructure are very vulnerable and there is no easy fix at infra level; - p.v. and batteries for large slices of the inhabited planet where they are meani
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by kkfx 2y ago
Ehm... So you try to mitigate some Windows problems automated the solution, while we have GNU/Linux who do not have such issues natively...
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by kkfx 2y ago
Off topic but... Why post ARS links in the long form instead of https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030357 ?
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by kkfx 2y ago
Well, in Germany, Nederland, Belgium Visa, Mastercard works so, I imaging is just a matter of choice from the bank side. In Italy RSA token (small key chain with an LCD display) was fairly common as another option and some banks have solved
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by kkfx 2y ago
Another example of why we need FLOSS and open platforms, so instead of calling via Skype and maybe using Windows he/she use GNU/Linux and call via Ring or host a small GNU SIPWitch, and maybe also offer wireguard to hes/shes
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by kkfx 2y ago
no need to "insert" most smart cards nowadays are NFC and most smartphones have a reader built-in in their battery so all you need is just flipping the "book cover" to allow reading, even without extracting it. On a desk
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by kkfx 2y ago
A bank card to pay stuff, witch is a smart card, NFC capable, you can use (as is common in various EU countries) to authenticate yourself on your internet banking. Similarly various countries offers eIDs (some I know Estonia, Belgium, Italy
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by kkfx 2y ago
You need it. While your bank already gives you (typically) a card you can also use as is for auth for them. Your country probably have some e-documents already, no need for extras to authenticate the public sector services and so on. The po
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by kkfx 2y ago
How many have a smartphone with a cover able to hold cards? How many have wallet in their pockets? Where the trade off in usability? Having a sole pin and a card to access various services instead of passwords and copypasting OTP or somethi
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by kkfx 2y ago
The modern auth invented just to push mobile + cloud model is DISGUSTING. We have since decades smart cards for various things, from payments to IDs, why the hell not keep inserting readers in keyboards and laptops bodies, selling cheap des
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by kkfx 2y ago
Hem... How "private" can be something existing on someone else computer, not just as mere data, but also the code to use and visualize them?
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by kkfx 2y ago
Many years ago there were marginals and "hated" researches about the switch from metallic pipes to plastic ones, back than those researches state plastic pipes cause colibacteria proliferation and might release some chemicals. I f
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by kkfx 2y ago
> some people like being around other Liking does not means is cheap or sustainable though. > few dense core cities are better than endless suburban sprawl because by taking up less per person, there's more left over for nature.
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by kkfx 2y ago
In mere existence terms... It exists, my cars almost detect correctly all speed limits it see around, almost because sometimes it detect wrong one or for a wrong road tract (like a temporary limit due to some road works, kept after that j
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by kkfx 2y ago
Well... I agree having a shared doc repo so anyone can commit changes/patches to docs, witch is well... Not much different than what most wikis offer already, and while useful wikis prove that's not enough to have good docs and li
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by kkfx 2y ago
I do not understand the question, trying to speculate I can say that the "downtown" model was needed in the past, where anything was on paper so it's useful to have a specific place where all paper works are done, while other
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by kkfx 2y ago
You can't have "universal collective transportation" simply because it's hyper-inefficient. A bus is more efficient than a car if at least half-loaded, but to cover any possible people needs you need to travel nearly emp

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