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She likes putting guests on the hot seat.

What we are going to do is build thousands of more datacenters while all that fresh galcier water changes the salinity of the oceans and raises sea levels.

Can we do something? Yes. Should we do something? Obviously. Will we? Doubt. Will the majority of humans currently alive today have to contend with the impact of climate change at ever increasing severities for the rest of our lives, regardless of what actions we take today? Almost assuredly. Any environmental work we do (and should do) today is for the benefit of future generations, not our own. We are so fucked.

This isn’t doomerism. It is realism that goes counter to blind optimism. It also doesn’t change the fact that we’ve got to get to work.

We’re so fucked.

But OpenSuse is a thing, and European as fuck. Start there.

Any RAM or storage in those things? That solar panel looks useful.

Stock photo of Trump shitting in his diapers.

I installed Pop!_OS on a Thinkpad in 2020 and have been using that install as my daily driver without issue. That includes multiple LTS release upgrades. The key is to stick with LTS releases. It’s boring because you do not get the latest and greatest features, but the payoff is rock solid stability.

EDIT: As far as distros, I stick with Pop!_OS for myself, Linux Mint for my wife (we’re both IT professionals), and LMDE for my servers.

Server or workstation?

I always disliked this “which country got the most medals” bullshit. The US media does it every Olympic games, and I think it’s gross.

The art of the deal.

If coffee goes, I’m done with this shithole existence.

He also wants tapioca pudding and to fondle a teenaged girl. That doesn’t mean the adults in the room are going to get him pudding.

It’s time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.

I threw up in my mouth a bit.

2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species

Modernizing the electric grid and fast tracking the development and adoption of sources of clean energy?

Nah! That’s crazy talk. It’s not like other countries like – I dunno – China, have done that recently.

A truly ignorant, judgmental, and narrowminded take.

My firm helps keep a good percentage of this country’s shitty infrastructure from collapsing and the budgets these projects are working under are laughable. But that’s ok. I sleep better at night knowing we’re spending all our money on Palantir instead.