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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • As much as I’d like to shit on him, I believe he talks about building energy generation capacity (aka GW or TW) in a certain time period (i.e. one year). Like building 1000 100MW power stations every year, but in space.

    Can’t tell if it makes any sense economically though, getting anything in scale to space is still kinda very expensive.

    And if you try to make whatever you need to get to space light, compact and efficient, it usually quickly becomes very expensive itself.

    So “solve other parts of equation” probably means “give me money”.





  • My story I guess.

    For a long time (until end of 2023) I used ahoy Win7 on cheap 2012 laptop (2-core 1500 MHz 6GB RAM), and influenced by mentions of Linux efficiency tried dualboot installing Arch, Manjaro, Ubuntu, maybe even Mint. Also much earlier (maybe 2009?) couple of times tried Puppy Linux on CD my dad gave me a long time ago. Ubuntu stuck, and sometimes I primarily used it, returning to Win to games (my major use case for PC). So when I finally built an actual PC I was already familiar enough to try and actually commit and install Ubuntu as sole OS. And it kinda just worked. Probably important thing is CPU and GPU used are both AMD.

    Yes there are some quirks, some bugs (i.e. sometimes frozen apps in Wayland lock whole system, or still don’t know how to get screen recording to work properly), also that snap drama I don’t understand, also trying to use some things from Windows through Wine is pain in the ass and a huge timesink (and no guarantee it’ll eventually work), specifically modding software for Win-only games. But generally, thanks to Wine and Proton, and probably also more attention of gamedevs to Linux userbase, my gaming needs are covered.

    Also I joined Lemmy during big Spez drama, so I’ve had general influence of “another example of Win enshittification”.

    Also my sister has Win10 laptop, and I really don’t like some things like integrated in start menu internet search, or clusterfuck the Control Panel (where are all settings should be) has become.

    A lot of ‘Also’ here, sorry.