Lineage OS user. Don’t care.

Thanks, that’s a bit more meat. Should probably look for their publications.

Paywalled.

Her parents have been harassed. She herself will not return to Germany for fear of persecution.

I recall several other cases in the press where people were persecuted and fined.

To recap, there is recently introduced very broad legislation which can be enforced selectively and is being used to harass and silence dissenting opinions. As lemmy.world operators are censoring a piracy community for fear of liability and hence are likely to do the same for political communities I will be moving on from this instance to a more permissive one. EOT.

It is illegal in Germany to voice a nonmainstream opinion. See https://linkezeitung.de/2022/06/16/meinungsfreiheit-deutsche-staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-gegen-alina-lipp/ for a case citing the relevant laws. Other countries like Czechia and some Baltic countries have similar legislation. It is not yet illegal to bypass blocks of censored mass media like e.g. RT, Sputnik News or any Russian TV channel.

Lemmy.world is hosted at Hetzner in Germany.

The same country where lemmy.world is hosted, but there are multiple countries in the EU on track to implement 1984 down to the letter.

Latest Nature explains it was not superconductivity.

Thanks, good info. Never had any problems with pfsense or opnsense with Intel server NICs personally. Other than being fried.

In the country I live I can literally go to jail if I voice opinions other than “unprovoked Russian aggressive attack”. Presumably the more timid local Lemmy instance owners would fear liability.

Not exactly a new user. My lemmy.ml account is three years old.

Time to get serious about running my own instance. I now have to wonder what kind of political opinion I might voice which could make the instance operators liable. This is not tolerable long-term.

Same. Quad port Intel NIC.

I had no problems communicating a higher limit. They are not AWS but you can get 100s of instances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

The Haber-Bosch approach to breaking the nitrogen triple bond takes a lot of energy in terms of high pressure and temperature which is not present in the product, hence wasted. Ammonia is a fertilizer either as gas or as ammonium nitrate, and too precious to burn.

Another random fact: half of the combustion enthalpy present in liquid hydrogen has been spent on its liquification.

Haber-Bosch for fertilizer, Fischer-Tropsch for synfuel.

But, really, we need something with mild conditions and preferably something directly electrosynthesis driven. Large potential for improvement in both.

Happily, I’m abnormal that way. I also dabble in PV DIY. Building houses from scratch, no. Servicing a modern car is also not worth it. Sadly, no open source EVs yet available.

HA for personal MTA is way overkill, just run a second instance with higher MX record value. Antispam is a given, backups are snapshots, maintenance is just system updates. Of course, you could just run an appliance which does it all for you. I’d say it’s way easier than in 1990s.

Thing is, renewable isn’t at all cheap.

I heat with locally sourced hardwood which is affordable and cozy, but not scalable. Refitting the 1972 house for a heat pump would cost north of 100 kEUR, if you can at all find the labor, and make you depend on very expensive, increasingly unreliable grid. The city might get deep geothermal in 3-4 years so that we no longer need natgas, but cost is unknown and this is also not an option for most.

The little PV I installed ROIs in 2.5 years, only because I’ve built it myself and is operated guerilla. Adding some 3.5 kWh backup storage is 2 kEUR minimum, if illegally self-installed, buffers a night, lasts about a decade and never ROIs. Professional, legal PV installs ROI in 15-20 years, assuming you can find the labor. And, of course you still rely on the grid.

EVs are still noticeably more expensive than ICEs. And so on.

Let’s be honest to ourselves: transition is high capex and not necessarily low opex. The old, lavish lifestyle is unaffordable for most in the renewable future.