I am sympathetic to both the just-want-it-to-work view and the want-to-customize-all-the-things view.

I just built new kernels for my Devuan systems (one on daedalus, the other on excalibur) so clearly I like to customize. But I would rather have someone else do it and I'm only doing it because even excalibur's kernel is too old to have the features I want at the moment. I had a boot error with Debian which I couldn't conveniently troubleshoot because of systemd, which is the only reason I even installed Devuan. Working early boot logging, what a concept.

I don't see any reason you couldn't make deep system changes on a system with an A/B setup though, and in fact it should make it less risky to do so.

Maybe you could even set up an A/B/C system... where C was testing

I agree that $150/year is laughably small. I can't imagine why anyone would sign up for this, unless there is also some payment for the electricity supplied by the battery.

But most Lithium batteries don't "wear" in the way you imagine, although it does depend on the exact battery chemistry. Most lose capacity from spending time at very high and very low charge states.

Think of it this way: in an EV car, during a typical journey, the battery is charged and discharged hundreds of times.

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the takeaway: many states do enforce such prohibitions. some really, really don't.

PGE is shit at it, though. I've reported a night time outage that went longer than 15 minutes before my report and they told me I was first, and it wasn't on the outage map before I reported it either. So I have no personal knowledge of SCE, but I do know PGE can't find their ass with assistance.

It's really not that much like Android. Not even all Android devices have an A/B system, although they probably should. For the devices which don't, the system is mutable if you have root access. Also, Android has its own unique display server system. This doesn't.

The USA cannot be run by "other" democracies because The USA is not and never has been a Democracy.

Lots and lots of people have noticed before that the USA is not a democracy, but there are lots and lots of people who profit from it not being one, and surprise! Some of those people own the majority of news media in this nation.

If the license doesn't prohibit leaping to law enforcement when the alleged purpose is to "intervene before problems escalate to law enforcement" then fuck you Jeff Patterson, you lying fuck.

AMD CPUs and GPUs and Nvidia GPUs will no doubt be fabbed here eventually.

And since Intel keeps failing at processes (18A yields are pathetic and they are already signaling that 14A will follow suit) they will probably need to have their chips made there as well.

What does Transitional Medi-Cal have to do with this? Besides, the republicants are cutting Medicaid.

TSMC had two facilities in AZ which had nothing to do with Trump, then he took credit for a third facility on the same campus as if corporations don't expand to fill anticipated demand.

TSMC built in the US not because of tariffs, but because of China.

Many of us California residents are asking for the production and distribution to be separated, with an independent entity managing the distribution, and being restricted to only managing that aspect of our power system.

In California, regulation basically prevents making any substantial profit from anything but production of new generation infrastructure, so PGE is highly motivated to prevent as much of that as possible. Hence their economic attacks on distributed solar infrastructure.

This program is currently opt-in.

I do wonder why utilities don't seem to recognize outages until reported. They have plenty of information from smart meters to know when they occur, and what the affected area is. My understanding is that the data is sent about every 15 minutes, so they should really never take much longer than that to know an outage has occurred and what the scope is.

That's true! The comparison to a nuclear reactor is senseless, but on the hydro dam side: No additional distribution infrastructure is required, in fact the power is available nearer the point of consumption so it actually reduces infrastructure demands. Output can be switched more rapidly than hydro. No water has to be pumped uphill to recharge it. There's no single large infrastructure target attractive to terrorists or other enemies. The owners pay for installation and maintenance, The People don't have to foot the bill. There's no carbon or methane release caused by flooding an area and creating anaerobic decomposition there. Power is available to at least someone even if only local infrastructure is available.

The comparative drawbacks all occur in battery production, but that is only expensive (whether we're talking about economic or environmental costs) once as recycling batteries is cheaper than producing them from scratch, especially since we got technologies that allow us to stop baking electrolyte.

Lots of services in particular just did not function correctly without a bunch of tweaks to configs to undo changes made for use with systemd. The problem wasn't so much with UI stuff as everything else. If stuff worked properly in Debian with sysvinit without tons of tweaks there would be no reason for Devuan to exist, and I would never have switched from Debian without systemd to Devuan as I'd have had no reason to do so.

The training set is itself presumably typically infringing whether the output is or not.

I personally don't think the output is infringing, but there is a plausible legal argument to be made that it is if the output is similar enough to copyrighted input.

I used to get pretty much all the cheap humble bundles unless I was completely uninterested in them, so I have a moderately sizable steam library, so I know there's plenty of games on steam which would run fine on a chromebook. They are all either old or indie (even vaguely modern versions of Bejeweled will cause the fans to spin up on your GPU at higher resolutions) but there's tons of games which would work fine.

Which then brings us to... there's way more than 99 of them. Probably most of them are visual novel type "games" by now, but those games wouldn't suffer at all for running on a very limited PC. Was someone (google or valve I guess) preventing those games from being used for fear some kid might see hentai on a google device or what?