Peter G

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.

All good points you are making here. One thing I would slightly disagree with is the fact that in Africa they are not offsetting emissions. A lot of the small African communities still consume energy. Mostly, it comes from running diesel or gas-powered generators, which are super inefficient and polluting.

Also, these projects can grow much larger and actually create a surplus of energy, which can then be sold to other parts of Africa and beyond, generating economic and environmental benefits.

Why can’t it be both? I have solar on my roof. I got it primarily to offset the cost of electricity, but it’s also good for the environment which was another consideration of mine.

There are plenty of ways to configure Linux to circumvent sudo. I’ve even seen people who log in as root by default. I do not, however, advise anyone to do that even if it’s just, as you put it, a Molly Guard. It has prevented me personally from doing catastrophic things to my system on a number of occasions.

This would literally render sudo utterly useless. Sudo is meant to require password to accomplish admin tasks. In your scenario anyone using your computer can do anything without knowing the password.

I suggest setting up Timeshift so it can backup your drive daily and keep several days worth. This way when you or an update screws up your system, you can simply restore to the last working version.

The notion of an “agreement” with Putler is laughable! The only agreement he’s capable of not breaking is one he makes at the Hague to spare his life in exchange for peacefully dying in a cell somewhere.

I’ve been using Linux for more than a decade and distro hopped quite a bit. Mint used to be my happy place, but recently within the last 5 years or so I’ve been on Arch derivatives. Endeavour was never stable enough for my liking, but Manjaro has been great. I did have to go back to a snapshot once, fairly recently, but that was primary because I fecked it up and not due to an update.

You mentioned that you have tried several Arch-based distros, so I’m not sure if this includes Manjaro.

While I agree that getting bullied in the news cycle is not healthy, I feel like getting the information about what’s going on around you from memes is also not good. It lacks context and details to enable the user from processing the news with critical thinking. I don’t know what the answer is, but for people who exercise their power of a vote, I feel like they need to be as knowledgeable about the issues as possible.

Supposedly you will be able to use FB Lite app to chat. I got the same message, uninstalled Messenger Lite and verified that FB Lite app works for chatting.