Did they add a solar tax?

No: regulatory burden and worse rates for prosumers.

> worse rates for prosumers

Put alternatively, better rates for consumers. How should one portion the cost of the electrical system as a whole to different groups of people? If someone seldom draws electricity from the grid, and only when it is likely more expensive how much should they pay? What about the limit where everyone is a prosumer and has this usage pattern?

I would encourage people to buy batteries. But many small producers have less lobbing money than huge corporations.

It works really well and it's just a single static binary file (ffmpeg is needed on your $PATH), easier to use than ffsubsync which needs gcc to compile random stuff, and that stopped working randomly

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

Inkjet printers and coffee pods machines are other home oriented devices that are normally sold at a loss where official consumables are crazy expensive

The scummvm project has been working on porting most of the director games onto it. You can track its current status here:

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Director/Games?hl=es-ES

Also newpipe let you create a playlist of videos and only play the audio track in the background or play a given video in the background

I used to have that similar T470 laptop 5 years ago and it worked really nice. Given that it was company owned, it came out with Windows 10 enterprise, but never felt it underperforming.

It's hard to come by that gnome is slower than windows 10

You can use yt-dlp with sponsorblock timings directly [0] to get rid of all the sponsorship segments from the final video, no need to use it later via mpv.

[0] https://yt-dlp.net/guides/sponsorblock

that is awesome

Or use tvheadend + comskip