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  • Around here, the €1 hamburger 15y ago cost €1.3 a year ago which is more or less the inflation. This year it is at €1.6

    The last 2 years prices for food went up a bit more than the inflation, but not that much more. But as with anything that's basic needs, it impacts the poor a lot more.

    Now if you look at vegetables and other fresh food, it's even worse and I think it's a lot more important than the cheapest burger at McDonald's that was way too cheap to begin with.

  • Other package managers, like nuget, throw errors if all dependencies on a package cannot be met by a single version.

    This is probably the result of it copying all libraries in the same output directory and that .net cannot load 2 different versions of the same library so more an application restriction.

    The downside of this is that packages often can't use newer features if they want to not block the users of that library and that utility libraries have to have his backwards compatibility so applications can use the latest version while dependent libraries target an older version. Often applications keep using older versions with known security issues.

  • I use it to open the spell checker options while I'm typing. It's annoying to have to switch from keyboard to mouse. My current laptop doesn't have the key and I even added another short key.

    The super key, again, is useful so you don't have to switch between keyboard and mouse when searching for an app. It is also the modifier for all GUI shortcuts.

  • This is unthinkable in the EU. If a company isn't sure about the needed force, they need to hire temps.

    If you don't have a technical or economical reason, you are not even allowed to lay off an employee.

    And you have to give notice for a period, which is proportional to the time you worked for the company, or you have to pay this fully as severance and this can be more than a year.

    Protected employees (voted as union representatives) are even harder to fire.

    This does come with the downside that some, almost not productive, colleagues never get fired. But I guess it beats the alternative of having almost no protection.

  • Depends on the grid. If the lines and transformers are already used close to their limit, more smaller buffer batteries and smaller solar installations, closer to the user, could be more efficient and not require grid adjustments. The closet to the user, the less grid adjustments are needed.

    Industrial roof solar should be standard in any new building by now. Companies need the power in the day and it can be used without even needing to use the grid.

  • Especially when you start typing something and it already started searching with your partial input and you your further and notice the thing your search for is first so you press enter, for it to now place another thing first with the extra input 😡

    How can "displ" open display settings, but "display" opens a help page in Edge

  • There is pCloud which is based in Switzerland which has mostly the same regulation as the EU. They specifically state that they won't use your data for commercial purposes. Until the company merges or gets bought I guess.

    Ofc if it's not end-to-end encrypted and all open source and self hosted, you can't really be sure.

  • That is true. I do think we should retire pure ICE cars as soon as possible. If you need to do long distances, a hybrid that could be converted might be a good intermediate solution. If you only need a car sporadically, a car sharing platform with electric cars is a good solution. These already exist in big eu cities. Ofc good and adorable public transport is nr 1.

    Decreasing the amount of cars would decrease emissions short and long term more than the current shift to EV and would make shifting easier as there are just fewer to replace.

  • I put very minimal calculation which at least puts it around the same order and linked a report by Volvo where they try to count the whole cycle of a car with the emissions of the production and transport of used parts and fuels.

    On current electricity mix, an electric car is only slightly better on a CO2 emissions. With only renewables, it can be 2x better.

    But the statement that in China it's at least better than a Prius is just wrong. Until renewables take a serious share of the grid, a smaller well engineered hybrid is not worse.

  • A Prius will definitely pollute less than the typical SUV electric cars on a coal grid.

    Cause:

    • Efficiency of coal power plant and all losses are as bad as ICE cars. The EVs do thermal->mechanical->electrical->grid->battery->wheels and if you count them all up, is not better than an EV
    • Prius is designed for low drag unlike an SUV
    • Prius had regenerative braking like an EV

    But just the numbers:

    • Prius is rated at 94g/kg
    • Coal 950g/kwh
    • Volvo c40 0.2kwh/km or 190g/km even without losses

    I took Volvo cause they published a report with a good compare ev and ICE https://www.volvocars.com/images/v/-/media/market-assets/intl/applications/dotcom/pdf/c40/volvo-c40-recharge-lca-report.pdf

    Even with the current EU energy mix, it takes 77'000 km to be better than ICE, so arguably better. On coal electricity, they are worse. And this is comparing equally sized cars, a Prius will do better.

  • Coal power plant efficiency is less than 40%. You'd also not get 90% of the outlet on the wheels. There is also a lot of loss on the grid, but there is also on the production of fuel. The two pollute almost the same.

    Burning coal however is a lot worse for the air quality.

  • I think the 1.91 also includes the stream deck, but for some reason it isn't included in the list (it is included if you select only Linux). It is about 5.5x Arch so around 0.8% of the total installs.

    So the discontinue versions are around the same number as Linux desktop installs.

  • They already have their SteamOS, which has 43% of the Linux market share on Steam (I guess almost all Steam Deck)

    https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux

    SteamOS isn't included in the combined numbers, but comparing it to Arch which is only 0.15% of steam, the deck is <1% of the total.

    I actually quite like the read only incremental update model of SteamOS combined with flatpak. It makes the OS a lot simpler and I rarely ever change the OS much outside of apps that I can install in home or with flatpak. And if you have special hardware, you are probably already looking at other distros anyway. There is enough choice.

  • It's that capitalization is language dependent, which email addresses shouldn't be as I hope the rules for France shouldn't be different than for Dutch. For instance é in Dutch is capitalized as E, but in French it is É. The eszett didn't even have an official capital before 2017

    In most programming languages, case-insensitive string compare without specifying the culture became deprecated. It should imo only be used for fuzzy searching doubles, which you probably will do with ToUpper for performance reasons, or maybe some UI validation.