Kinda?

I view Oracle as worse than Google.

Well this should put the question of the US annexing Greenland to rest, as we know Donald Trump has historically been very good about following the democratic will of the people.

So far I’m not in love with systemd-networkd…

“Single-family zoning is the manspreading of urban design” had me chuckling. In part because it’s a brilliant argument.

I would also be interested in a defence of capitalism that doesn’t come down to “but the USSR” or similar.

You can run 5g on unlicensed spectrum too, and there are fully open source 5g stacks. The primary issue there is that most phones don’t have the hardware to connect to those networks. But the same is true right now of wifi on 900 MHz.

I really do hate Cold Texas

This is true, but it’s shocking how few people have heat pumps, especially in colder climates.

Still, it’s also far less efficient than using a gas furnace (to the point that most people would actually burn more fossil fuels per Joule of heat from a resistive heater than from just burning the gas directly in a furnace).

Of course, if you’re doing something useful with that energy, using the waste heat is an extra benefit. Like using waste heat from a power plant for district heating.

Nvidia and overheating. Name a more iconic duo.

Window management on macos is a joke

I have the following complaints about systemd:

1. It was created basically by lennart because after RHEL 6 did pretty much the worst implementation ever of upstart he got NIH syndrome about it
2. Red Hat played a lot of dirty politics early on to get systemd everywhere (my tinfoil hat theory is that Red Hat let Lennart’s NIH syndrome run away with it because they thought having more control over the init system would be beneficial)
3. It’s subsuming everything, often with no real benefit over what it replaces.

The first two aren’t actually issues with systemd, but rather are political issues I have around the way Red Hat bullies the rest of the Linux ecosystem. I’m not going to let that become a stopping point for my using what is actually a fairly good piece of tech. The third is actually an ongoing issue, but it’s not enough for me to try throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It is, however, IMO a continuation of Red Hat’s sketchy political play.