Thanks for the work that you are doing.

Signed up on Patreon.

I’ve had solar installed on my roof for 3+ years. Best home upgrade I have made by far, IMHO. I agree that buying them or financing them is much better than leasing. Firstly, you take advantage of the tax rebate, also it’s much better when the time comes to sell the house.

I wouldn’t wait for the tech to advance though. You may lose out on the tax rebate if the current US admin deems that “woke”.

As for my experience with them, it’s been phenomenal. I basically pay $12/month between April and October. My annual electricity bill is down by about 95%.

Own.

Was super lucky that my wife was able to sell property in her home country after we got married and got her mom and her here to US. Also was one of the fortunate ones to have cash during the sub-prime recession so was able to get a super cheap mortgage.

I generally love owning the house although sometimes I miss renting, when something needs fixing. I’m pretty handy, so I do a lot of the jobs myself, but it could be a big chore.

Still, I’d rather have my own property and the freedom to do what I want with it, like installing solar panels, TV antenna, paint any color I like, etc.

My long term plan involves some sort of downsizing, possibly a live-aboard sail boat, although my wife is sceptical on that one. We’re probably going to end up getting a condo in one of the cheaper states.

I would first enquire if this idea can be patented. This could ensure your intellectual property remains with you. This should be your first step, I think. Also, are you able to prototype this yourself?

LOL. No worries, all good now. It was me not the site.

Shut up and take my money!!!

within 6 months running it as a desktop OS with KDE it broke twice during update to the point that it was easier to reinstall than to fix. it maybe better a a barebones setup, but as a desktop, I had issues with it.

I think it was Slackware sometime in the early 2000s

PREACH!!

I’m not sure where did you get an idea that I was complaining about something. I’ve been running Linux for over 15 years. I know how to maintain my system. I was simply saying that I found a distro that’s better FOR ME than the one I was using.

It the breakage happens, hopefully Timeshift will save me. That’s the best thing that I learned while running EndeavourOS.

I am finding that out too. much better than Manjaro’s repos.

While I don’t have much in a way of hard data, it feels much snappier. Also, it seems to utilize less ram. I believe the difference lies in the Cachy’s repo. A lot of the apps I use daily are not installable from Manjaro repos and so I had to use flatpaks and AppImages. AUR was also a hit or miss for me. Catchy, on the other hand had most of the apps I use in it’s repo. Things like Tutanota desktop client and Zen browser as an example.

this!

Manjaro, because Arch-based, rolling release, but with a dev test cycle to try to eliminate breaking patches.

Growing up in USSR we had a saying: a comrad comes to you with a shovel, points to a patch of land and says: “you will dig from here and until supper”.

I bet White House, with it’s ties to Putin’s Russia, means something similar.

totally this!!! Most users just need a browser and an email client at best. They couldn’t care less about the OS that’s sitting on top of. If they could go to a store and see a $1000 laptop with Windows and $800 laptop with Linux being sold side by side, majority would pick the cheaper one if they could still get online with it.

It seems that the JBDC driver has a requirement for having 2 JAR files (JDBC driver and BLOB object) which I have but can’t figure out how to specify the path.

I’m trying to connect to an existing DB hosted on IBM Informix Dynamic Server. Using Postgress is not an option in my case. I have not tried SQL Alchemy yet, but I suspect it’ll have the same issues as it appears to be just a way of accessing other libraries (such as JDBC), which I am already having problems with.

Nuclear is much more green than any fossil fuel based energy. It’s also much more stable than renewables because it does not rely on the sun, wind, tides, etc. Renewables need more development around grid-scale storage. This is where nuclear can be a good transitional stop to an all-renewable energy future.

There are drawbacks to nuclear, of course, storage of waste material is chief among them.