I'll agree that I would have liked links to the source articles/studies, rather than just other AP articles, but they weren't hard to find. The article mentions each of the source organisations and mentions scientists involved in the studies. That information makes for easy searching.

I will add that highly sceptical of someone proposing a conspiracy theory about "these people" and their "climate fear mongering" to justify his complete lack of effort to look for any evidence ("proof" is a term we scientists try to avoid) he demands. One could flip it around and ask that he provide his evidence for climate fear mongering.

But never mind me. To be a fly on the wall while he shares his opinions with the technicians...

Some, but I wouldn't say a lot. Most is running...something else.

Being hooked up to a machine running Windows, and probably a very outdated version, would not make for a well-rested me.

Good point. I've looked at, but never jumped in to, other SBC ecosystems for exactly this reason. When I've needed something more powerful than available with a Raspberry Pi, or that needed reliable storage, I've went with a cheap Intel-based NUC.

I would tend to agree with ArchieBunker's statement that the Raspberry Pi isn't aimed at saturating network links. On the other hand, the NanoPC also has GPIO pins just like the Raspberry Pi, and I think you are saying that it perfectly capable of saturating both of its 2.5x link. That is really interesting.

For my needs (a home server that sips power but can still run the usual home services (Plex, file-serving, home security and automation)), the NanoPC T6 seems like a better fit than the Raspberry Pi. Built-in WiFi/Bluetooth would be nice, but I doubt I would miss it.

If the software ecosystem is anywhere near as healthy as the Raspberry Pi's, it's a nobrainer.

Except Invidious doesn't use the API. See here for an explanation.

I'm Canadian. Worse, Albertan, putting me in the belly of the beast.

The trucker rallies were a very vocal minority of Canadians...that about one-third of Canadians supported. Why the support? Because people are tired of the pandemic and want it to just go away. The problem is that it isn't. So they fool themselves into thinking that the pandemic is just public health measures. I want it to go away too, but it's hard when I, and half of the people around me, are sick. But why did the rallies happen in Canada? Social media and several complicit police forces.

The Canadian housing market has always been open to foreign investment. The problem is that the well-regulated Canadian financial markets weren't hit anywhere near as badly as the US financial markets in the 2008 real estate crisis. Our real estate markets didn't fall much, if at all, while things were going tits-up in the US. The stability attracted investment money, and our real estate markets have been doing well ever since, especially in our bigger cities, like Toronto and Vancouver, but also just about everywhere in the country. But why didn't Canadian government bodies clamp down on foreign investment? Because home-owners like myself are benefitting, and massively. I feel for people that don't own property, but at the same time, my real estate investment (my home and the land it is on) has made me $1m over the last few years. Show me a solution for those looking to buy into the market that doesn't destroy my property value and I'll give you all my support.

I wouldn't say 'skeptical'. More like 'cautiously evaluating'. It really depends on what service you want to see cloud- or locally- hosted, and the competence of your cloud-hosting service vs your own staff.

Our experience has been that the cloud services we buy have been much less troublesome than anything we host onsite, and far less troublesome than what we develop ourselves. The software we develop and that our customers self-host accounts for most of my headaches, and we are frantically porting those services to the web so that we can host it on our customers' behalf.

When I started here, we had everything on-site. It was a nightmare. I constantly had to go in to the office in evenings, weekends, and even vacations. Since moving a few key services to cloud-based providers, I don't make unscheduled trips in to the office...at all.

The alternatives are cheaper, not more expensive. Renewable electricity generation is so much cheaper than conventional fossil fueled generation (and nuclear), that almost all newly built generation capacity is renewable.

EVs are cheaper than ICVs. The gap is getting hard to ignore and it growing every year. A really inexpensive option is still missing.

As of two weeks ago, I'm off-grid. Why? Because it was cheaper than paying for a grid connection and then having to pay every month for the life of the property. And we didn't have to sacrifice anything. My wife is a total princess and definitely will not walk so that a child may live. She's completely content with the move...because nothing has really changed.

So the question is why are you arguing for expensive conventional technology, when the new renewable alternatives can guarantee a better quality of life for most.

I'll see your anecdote and raise you one: The chiropractor who owned the office across the hall from me caught it and died fairly early on. He was in his late fifties.

But we have so much better data than anecdotal crap.

Before I left the city to live where my commute is a five minute walk, my commute door-to-door was the same whether I drove, took public transit, or cycled. All were about 30 minutes. So I cycled year round, excepting only the days that were colder than -25C or when there was more than 3cm of fresh snow, when I would take the bus.

Essentially, I got my cardio for the day in for no time and no money. I've been in better shape since, but not much and not without a much larger investment of time and money.

I did my reservation in September 2021. It was $125 (CDN). About a week ago, I got an email that my "kit was ready" and paid for the kit ($600). It hasn't shipped yet, but I expect it will this week.

It really depends on your geographic region. At this point, I don't think it is a scam. If I haven't got my kit in a couple of weeks, I'll change my mind.

You need to brush up on your high school chemistry.

You do know what Wine stands for, right?

From Wikipedia: "Wine provides its compatibility layer for Windows runtime system (also called runtime environment) which translates Windows system calls into POSIX-compliant system calls, recreating the directory structure of Windows, and providing alternative implementations of Windows system libraries, system services through wineserver and various other components (such as Internet Explorer, the Windows Registry Editor, and msiexec)."

It's more of an alternative implementation of the Windows runtime than an emulator. Fine point, for sure.

In any case, Wine and Proton are impressive bodies of work. And some of the implementations of the system libraries and services are superior under Linux. Some of the scaling tricks, for example, are better than one can get on Windows using the same hardware. I don't really game, but when I looked at what was going on in the Proton world, I was truly impressed, but not quite enough to dive back into gaming.

Yes.

Like languages (spoken or programming), when you know only one, picking up the second seems overwhelming. Once you know a few, it's not such a big deal. If you know only Photoshop, learning another just so you can use Linux is laughable. And Gimp, despite its many advantages, really isn't good enough to replace Photoshop.