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In this household, we mostly ignore most subscription services, and use public services where applicable.

Some services, primarily Spotify, lack public alternatives, but fortunately Spotify does have a family plan.

Alas, email forwarding is fairly broken since DKIM/DMARC/SPF/SRS came into the picture.

As for not allowing people to save their data before shutting down, I agreee. That's a consumer rights issue though, and not a technical one.

Well, the phenomenon is real enough, but I'd go as far as to say that's just lousy managers, rather than extrovert ones.

How would you even solve porting without breaking legacy systems? You can point the MX records to another provider's server (or your own), but porting single email addresses won't really work.

The production of silicon is hardly environmentally friendly [0]. There's also plenty of other materials included, and then there's chemicals required to produce the panels themselves. There's been a few incidents where PV producers have dumped waste straight into rivers and so on, but luckily they seem to be infrequent.

Recycling will, of course, bring the levels of waste down from old panels themselves, but we're still looking to replace a lot of fossil fuel-powered plants, and there's no way we'll get around the fact that we need more raw materials than we can obtain from recycling old panels. We'll also still get a lot of waste from the production of the new ones.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon#Production

> Why do people appear to prefer the opposite (massive distance between lines)?

Readability. Having text crammed into as little space as possible is efficient, but many people have problem reading it.

Firefox' performance and battery life on laptops/mobile is horrendous when compared to Chromium-based alternatives. Especially on slower devices.

I've got an older laptop that I use for simpler stuff only. Video playback is horribly slow when compared to native clients, and the CPU fan sounds like a fighter jet if I try to open some of the heavier pages in Firefox. Chromium-based alternatives run just fine (albeit with twice the RAM usage, but that's not a problem for me).

And that is _excellent_ news! We're still in the expansion phase when it comes to Solar, though, and there's no way we'll be able to get rid of fossil fuels using renewables only. Sure, we do have new and exciting tech in the pipeline, and maybe one day they'll suffice.

For now, we've got very few alternatives when it comes to base power generation. Biogas is probably one of the more interesting renewable power sources for base power (if we can ramp up production), but other than that, and leftovers from the wood industry, we're stuck at hydro and nuclear if we want to avoid fossil fuels. Last time I checked, there's no large-scale rollouts of modern power storage going on.

I'd wager their impact will be less than that of climage change if we look a few hundred years into the future.

Regardless, both those disasters were more or less man-made. Chernobyl was caused by serious design flaws, and (as far as I know) people who refused to admit something was wrong until it was too late. Fukushima was built below the line indicated by stones setup to warn about tsunamis. I don't think there's any doubt such considerations need to be taken into account when building the next-generation nuclear reactors.

We don't want the toxic waste from Solar panel production nor the industrial waste or the noise pollution from windmills either.

At some point we'll have to chose the lesser evil, and most of the good rivers have already been dammed so more hydro isn't really the solution.

A combination of renewables, nuclear base power, reduced power needs, smart grid load management, and synth fuel production during peak production seems like the best bet for something that might actually work.

+1 for ZFS. It's quite easy to shuffle around, but there are some compatibility concerns between different versions.

Could be. For the record, my USB drive (and I'm running Debian too), doesn't do that. Part of the desktop environment, perhaps?

Or, even better, install uBlock origin, and use one (or more) of the "Annoyances" lists.

Thank you!

It's a shame AmigaOS' volume system never caught on. It would have solved the problems the article describes re. drive letter assumptions: "Assign A: DH0:" - Problem solved!

I feel really old now.