Where I am the charging infrastructure is terrible and electricity prices are bad. I was considering a hybrid but I guess if it’s no better I’ll just grab a regular ICE

Changing the social definition of the concepts of gender, and how people view themselves are completely distinct.

I can paint new directions on the face of a compass , but it’s still going to point where it was going to point regardless.

North is a social construct, but no amount of conversation therapy is ever going to move the north star.

Why does gender identity being a social construct mean conversation therapy would work? I don’t follow the logic behind that assertion.

I see no reason why you can’t be biologically predisposed to identify as things that are socially constructed.

I think an argument could be made that since gender is a social construct anyways, the idea of “alpha”, “beta”, and “sigma” males are different genders.

Lol, so if I’m hearing you right, people who yap endlessly about “being alpha” are “beta to alpha trans”?

Here, take this cigarette!

Dan you sound like a rad dude ad I’d love to have a beer with you

Any thoughts on a set of APsystems DSL3-L inverters? That’s what I’m quoted for. I’m in Canada so no idea what the inverter market is here

This is amazing, because I do have HA running and I do want to pull data. I’ll look into what their plan is to see if I can make any last minute adjustments.

Assuming data is sent in the clear over any medium which I can get a receiver for I think I’d be ok, I am planning on getting a software defined radio on my HA in the near future

Yes, I’m looking at the paperwork and I’m realizing that you’re right, 80% at 25 is the warranty guarantee, so I’m guessing they’re confident it’ll typically be much better than 80 at 25

I’m getting some new panels installed this year, and I think they’re suggesting they’ll be at 80% after 25 years.

It looks like there is disagreement between the title and content of the article. Title says 75.9, content says 79.5

Either way, does this suggest that new panels might do better than expected over a 30 year timespan?

Ok, I think I see your position more clearly now:

You’re thinking about people who are interested and installing based on technical interest and curiosity.

In those cases, I think you’re probably right. There is probably some base competency at play. A desire to learn. Probably someone in their sphere to support.

I’m thinking more about the type of people who would buy a Chromebook. Or my cheap ass parents who want to squeeze another 5 years out of an ailing laptop. They don’t want to spend any money and just want to use Facebook and YouTube. Send some emails. Connect to wifi. Print their boarding passes. Not have their machines riddled with viruses within minutes because their windows OS isn’t getting security updates anymore. I think this is actually a massive use case, and I want Linux to be accessible to them without needing to use the terminal for anything.

I can’t even begin to count the number of times I’ve seen absolutely terrible advice posted and taken regarding how to do things in Linux. Can’t connect to something? Easy, make a blanket iptables rule to permit everything. Something can’t read a file? Chmod 777. Install isn’t working? Just install as root and use root as your general login from there on out.

It’s hard to learn Linux.

But it’s even harder to FORGET what you’ve learned, to empathize with what it was like to not understand it at all. That’s why it’s SO HARD for us who’ve been using it daily for a decade to empathize with newcomers.

It’s why people literally can’t fathom why people are afraid of the terminal.

It’s why, even when someone takes the time to explain why, people go, “nah, that couldn’t possibly be it”

It’s like when gun people can’t comprehend why people are afraid of guns. The answer is obvious they just can’t hear it.

Edit: I think I better understand that there are more nuances around the cases now, and I think I’m being unfair by making blanket statements about what is and isn’t obvious

Right, and so if you have no idea what ANY of it means you just bail back to windows.

IMO, caution, wariness, concern, and unfamiliarity manifest as revulsion.

EVs. Solar panels. Heat pumps. Anything outside of CIS heteronormal relationships.

I’m my experience, after the age of like, 25, people (in GENERAL… Obviously many expectations) feel like they’ve got life figured out and push back against pretty much anything that challenges whatever they’ve grown accustomed to.

Nobody bitched about the DOS prompt when nobody knew how to use computers. Young people learned it. Old people insisted computers were a fad and pushed back entirely.

In my calculation, it’s just typical and predictable human response. Open to other theories though.

I mean, the answer to this is obvious if you can empathize.

Gui has baked into it hints on cause and effect. The terminal is a freeform incantation machine where you need to know and utter magic spells.

sudo rm -rf /

Is just as magically nonsense as

sudo apt-get update

If you don’t know what ANY of it does, your capacity to fuck things up is unbounded on the terminal. In a GUI, rightly or wrongly, you expect your capacity to fuck things up is bounded by the context at hand. I do not expect that I can nuke my system clicking through Firefox.

You can claw the terminal from my cold dead hands, but I’m not offended by the notion of a GUI.

Why? Because developer attention scales broadly by usage. Well used projects get more love. If we could even break 10% home adoption of any Linux distro and the runaway effect of net new developer input would destroy closed source operating systems, and I’m here for it. If that means adding a fucking Ubuntu checkbox to let people enable Wayland without strictly requiring the command line go fucking nuts.

I admit the “essentially” qualifier is doing some heavy lifting.

But you’re ultimately expending some miniscule amount of someone else’s resources in a way that they received no benefit, especially where the expected path to those resources (which you’re avoiding) do provide benefit.

It’s a razor edge either way. If you’re on principal avoiding using the resource out of fear of “supporting” because you could accidentally generate a fraction of a penny on advertising impressions or bump the stock price a trillionth of a penny due to contributing to a reported active user count, it should be clarified that in this way, neither of those things will happen. The opposite will. You’ll burn a fraction of a penny of AWS time.

And yah, there is a risk of content switcharooing. I think in the context of a content aggregator that is heavily engaged by recency, it’s not something I PERSONALLY would stress about. If it stays stable for another 48 hours, it’ll almost certainly never be accessed again via Lemmy.

At least that concern is valid.

Absolutely!

Lemmy will do just fine without the link police admonishing posters

Content posters? Actually need those guys for a sustainable system.

We’re not oblivious ;)

I hate the “I have some personal issue with your link source” routine because it’s a negative pressure against posters and god knows Lemmy doesn’t have enough posters to begin with.