EVs are a highly modifyable variable load, as the vast majority personal vehicles sit idle nearly the whole day. When a fraction of those can be directed to charge based on grid needs, it becomes a net-asset for stability.

In Ontario, just the half-assed time-of-use pricing and small numbers of EVs in the fleet are likely contributing to the more more stable load over night. They used to have so much Nuclear surplus they were selling to NYC overnight at negative pricing on a regular basis.

That seems to be a lot of peoples approach, but if they cared about time or bandwidth they wouldn’t be spidering Dow into your commit history multiple times a day. They have more patience and resources than your human readers.

Sure. Its just the thousands of obscure page edit history pages that ai crawlers hit every hour that cause the problem.

The issue with wiki’s and source forges is that there is a maze of links to all past versions of everything, each generated on demand from a cpu-expensive database query. You basically have to limit the pages anonymous users can spider into. Forgejo has a setting to block expensive pages from non-logged in users for example.

Without actually ripping chips off boards, you would be stuck with a pizza oven sized computer that sounds like a jet engine, uses more electricity than that pizza oven would, and doesn’t have a video-out port on the GPU. They really are tailored to a particular kind of use case and unless you are running your own ai models or /maybe/ something like crypto mining, its going to be pretty useless.

Kobos are just running Linux, albeit somewhat stripped down. You can run open source software on them just fine.

Fast nvme also makes some difference. Using an old computer with only 8GB of ram can be more painful because any swapping is doubly bad.

You act like there isn’t this absolutely overwhelming market of people currently doing their computing on an iPad, maybe with a keyboard folio. For them, a real laptop with 8GB of ram is a really good upgrade.

Those people are doing everything in a web browser, and they are pretty good at unloading tabs when unused, so they don’t run out of ram. The people just get used to having to wait for a page to reload when they switch tabs. That’s just the “Chromebook” experience.

Is this the third time they invented netbooks? The second time they called them “Chromebooks” and they sucked with their locked down os.

“Automation” has ALWAYS been about disenfranchising skilled workers, not actually eliminating labour. The luddites were not fighting against machines that made cloth autonomously, they were fighting factories that could make cloth staffed by enslaved children and desperate poor. Its always just an excuse to shift work toward precarious emplyment by people who can be more easily exploited for higher profit.

Best solution is probably what those commercial pirates do -buy a bunch of cheap android boxes and pre-configure with your choice of client and VPN, then hand those out. Something goes wrong, they bring it back.

Regressive doesn’t mean you pay less as you get richer. Regressive means you pay a smaller portion of your income as you earn more (the opposite of a progressive tax like income). Higher income people spend less and less of a portion of their income on consumable products and services (and more on sheltered investments or property), so spend a smaller fraction of their income on sales tax. That is the definition of a regressive tax.

*even though it is a regressive tax, it still should be applied fairly or eliminated all together. No more exemptions for silicon valley.

Regressive or not, it should be consistently applied. The Internet got these weird exemptions back in the 90s to encourage development of tech companies. Tech companies don’t need sweetheart deals anymore.

How does this comment even make sense. If you get it free, no tax. If you donate, no tax. If you actually purchase a service, the same tax should apply as any other service.

The exemption on silicon valley’s sales tax is a defacto subsidy of billionaires.

Neither the OSI definition, nor the FSF definition require you to allow your trademark to be used freely, nor do they require you to only host FOSS software for your FOSS software to qualify as such. The client and server software published as GPL and APL qualify as FOSS by both orgs that define the term. Vaultwarden is better for self hosting specifically because it is superior software for self hosting.

Vaultwarden benefits from the development ideas in Bitwarden server, and especially the client app ecosystem that I am sure costs a small fortune to maintain. To go alone, vaultwarden will have a lot of work ahead of them and need to maintain a development community capable of maintaining the whole thing.

My question is move to vaultwarden, and trust they will still develop the open source client apps, or just preemptively move to another system. The UX isnt perfect, but it seems a lot easier to use than kerpassxc. Time to do some research.

Absolutely! Journalists really need to start describing these as what they are rather than the marketing term. It is much more accurate to call them “ID Checks” or something like that.