Yay, v15 is LTS

I’m confused how they don’t already? More than 3500kg gross weight capacity is no longer a class B “car” but a class C/C1 “truck” and require a C1 license

“Pumped storage” is already a thing. Using excess grid electricity to pump water uphill.

Though excavating underground cavern for pumped storage sounds exceedingly expensive:O

Hydro is definitely highly geography dependant, and certainly the environmental impact can be severe. Though there’s also been great advancements in smaller scale “low head” hydro where you don’t need to submerge half a valley or block migratory paths. Hence curiosity where hydro stacks up.

I suppose it’s so geography dependant you can’t make a meaningful global average to compare with other forms.

Then again in my particular neck of the woods solar is limited at best, for half the year. While the local landscape is nothing but mountains, valleys , lakes and rivers. So many lakes and rivers.

Another neat thing about hydro is that it’s a renewable base load. Geothermal is another, but that’s also highly geography dependant

Disappointing DW didn’t include hydropower in the price comparison graphic. Also would have been interesting to see where offshore wind stacks up, though tbh I’m not sure the math is even in yet for offshore wind

My gut reaction too. But their readme/faq makes a lot of sound points. Also Nextcloud is one of the main contributors, so you know it’s serious. Also Proton and Ionos (which I admit I’d never heard of, but they seem big)

You might be interested in an immutable distro. Like Bazzite or other Silverblue / Ublue flavoured system. They are recent but not bleeding edge, deploy well tested images that apply as all-or-nothing. Very stable, very featurful :)

Perfectly sound logic, I see no flaws with this argument

Yes

Come to the dark side, we’ve got new Plasma, and exhausting manual configuration

Thanks, I’ll add VSCode/ium to the arsenal. I tend underutilize VSCode since Kate usually does everything needed by a text editor without all the baggage.

You’re not wrong, but… Yuck

I have no hangups about using Wine for games and Windows only special snowflake apps. But a text editor through wine on Linux just feels dirty xD

That’s neat. I might just steal it (already using KDE)

I already use Meld, yet somehow it never occurred to me to press that button xD Thanks!

I think it’s quite fun :)

Their website is actually really good and well worth a read. It is both funny and poignant.

To quote their “why”:

Q: What is the point of all this? There are two points.

The first is that AB 1043’s definitions are so broad that a bash script and a static website can create a regulated operating system. A law that cannot distinguish between Apple Inc. and a shell script has a drafting problem. A law that sweeps in 600+ volunteer Linux distributions was not written with them in mind. A law that was not written with them in mind but regulates them anyway is not a careful law.

The second is that this law was never meant to be enforced against everyone it covers. It was meant to be enforced selectively. The large platform companies already comply. The small ones can’t. The Attorney General has sole enforcement discretion. A law that gives a single office the power to selectively impose $7,500-per-child fines against any operating system distributor in the state — while ensuring that only the largest corporations can avoid liability — is not a child safety measure. It is a tool for selective prosecution. The children are the justification. The discretion is the product.

We are trying to make the selective part difficult. If the AG wants to enforce AB 1043, we would like to be first in line. We are a clear violation. We are documented. We are findable. We are daring them. If the law is worth enforcing, enforce it against us. If it is not worth enforcing against us, ask why it exists.

For actual advice:

• run memtest to verify RAM. Do multiple passes, at least overnight.
• Check cooling? RAM and other things can overheat and cause locks, not just CPU.
• Can you throw a couple of different distros on there, to try different permutations of kernel and drivers, old and new.
• journalctl --follow (with sudo), dmesg -w. I ran these over ssh from a remote machine. Even better if you can run it on a local 2nd monitor. The point is to have them open the whole time since it’s too late to change once the system is locked up

I had / have a similar issue that started at some point on my Ryzen 7 laptop with Kubuntu 24.04. I haven’t tried REISUB yet, but otherwise same symptoms.

RAM is the usual suspect. I ran memtest for 24h++ with no errors Also tailed dmesg and journalctl to a remote machine, and checked journalctl after reboot. No errors reported. Presumably because the system hard locked before it had a chance to log the error.

I never found a root cause, but after I changed the KDE Power Profile from Eco to either Balanced or Power (I don’t remember which) the random freezing reduced from 1-3 times per day to once every few weeks of continuous uptime.

So my guess is some kernel driver bug relating to power states of the CPU ( or GPU nVidia 3060 with 590 drivers)

Doesn’t work in my experience, or I’m typing it wrong. I can use the journalctl boot filter to show the current boot, the 2 boots ago, but not the previous boot where the system crashed.

So I end up filtering by time instead with --since

See the trick is to never turn the computer off, to avoid wearing out the power button :}

That’s a sweet case though, maybe you can find a replacement power button

Ah, the computer of Theseus. My 20year old server of Theseus only has the chassis left of original parts. And an unplugged floppy and DVD drive xD