Yep. But a nuclear power plant can make its money back on several days of now wind and overcast.
I am all in for state controlled power plants and for the nationalisation of energy companies. What I an against is for the government to give money away to privately held energy companies.
> I've passed on reporting so many bugs, because I refuse to create a Microsoft account to do it.
99% of the time it's perfectly fine to just email the maintainer with a bug report and maybe a patch.
> In fact, I don't understand how sending an email is high friction.
Judging from the fact that after so many years, such a widespread (as seen in the Reddit post and here) issue still hasn't resulted in a single bug report in the mailing list, I'd say most people (including myself) do indeed consider using a mailing list to be higher friction.
If I'm not mistaken, unless you're already CC'ed by a participant, you'd have to subscribe to the whole mailing list just to receive notifications for a single thread. For an "issue" on a Git forge, participation is usually as easy as upvoting and then clicking the "Subscribe" button.
Assuming you're already using MS Github. Anyway, even if I was, a lot of Github project require filling out an absurd Simon Says form. Or that scene from Indiana Jones where he takes a wrong step and falls through the floor. That's nothing to do with email or Microsoft specifically, it's just another reason I almost never bother reporting bugs. Talk about friction.
Yeah, I hate these forms (issue templates) too. Every time I have to fill such a form, I always feel that they are discouraging me from writing the bug description in a natural, coherent way. I'd spend more effort to make sure the description is clear and contains all necessary information, if there's no issue template requirements.
Yes, but most people won't. Most people will submit a bug report with important information missing that means we have to go back and forth. Also, there is often specific debugging information that people would not even know would be useful.
In the current age, its useful because AI will submit tickets using the CLI that don't use the form, so I can immediately close and lock them and go on living my life.
I wish someone would jailbreak the Nissan Leaf (MY2018) head unit. Every time I turn on the car, it shows a EULA asking if Nissan can please collect every detail of my car at all times and sell it to whoever asks.
Every. Time.
Even if I beat my head with hammers to think like a lawyer, I can't imagine how it would be necessary to ask constantly. Doesn't matter if I accept or decline, it still asks again.
I hate to laugh but the thought of you constantly rejecting the EULA for weeks on end, to finally give in one day, press accept and come to terms with it, only to get in the next time and have it pop up.
I can only imagine the amount of expletives that were said at that exact moment.
Me too, but it's more a love/hate relationship, because aside from this issue, and a few other annoyances, I love this car to bits. I've been driving for over 25 years, and this car is my favourite of all of them, including some newer and fancier electrics. I think it's the throttle response. Nissan just nailed it.
I think there are two aspects:
1. like no I don't want my microwave sending random blips of location data to a server and no I don't want hyper-personalised ads on my coffe machine
2. I want my machine to do what I want and not be limited by random limitations set in the software, either intentionally or via incompetancy.
Buy a TV from 2016. Mine's a Samsung from 2016. It showed me a EULA on first boot. I declined it. It's been a dumb TV ever since. One input is a LibeELEC NUC, the other an Apple TV, because Netflix requires a botnet to stream >480p.
4K is unironically a meme. You don't need it. A set of decent floor standing speakers (and room treatment) will elevate your movie experience far more than more pixels ever will.
Yup. If I enable "privacy mode" in my Nissan Leaf I can't turn on the heater remotely.
I requested a copy of the data they harvest. They log EVERYTHING. GPS of course, but also when I turn on the wipers, turn signal... basically the total state of the car at all times.
And all I want is remote heating. Checking the battery is nice for monitoring charge progress, but I could do without it.
So what I do now is drive in privacy mode, and when I park I have to remember to disable privacy mode if I think I might need heating tomorrow morning.
What is retarded is the inability of normal people to understand that this is bad. The same kind of people who say that they are ok with being monitored because they have nothing to hide.
I would be content if they'd stop making phones slippier than a wet bar of soap. My Pixel 8a is ridiculous, I don't know how they do it. If you have dry hands, it's nearly impossible to hold on to.
Yeah, I added a boring case on day 1 and would have trouble describing the feel of the bare device right now.
Found one on Amazon so I dodge Google's exorbitant plastic markup, and it is a relatively minimalist wrap that smooths out the camera bump and makes it more grippy in hand, in pockets, and on flat surfaces.
The behavior of those slippery phones in pockets is almost the bigger gripe to me. Like they are a new class of motion amplifier, trying to rotate and squirt their way out at the slightest twitch.
The curvature on the back of those is such that it's harder to rotate into a position so the thumb can hit the right button than a flat surface would be.
It also means that resting it on the arm of a recliner produces about the same result as just dropping it into the void to begin with: It's going to wind up there either way.
I’ve seen enough parents at graduations and tourists to know people use it. Assuming they need the big screen because their vision is bad which undermines the need for a high res photo in the first place.
As a result, electricity prices set a new record. At peak my price per kw/h was 22 times higher than it was in the summer. Twenty two times.
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