I voted.

But we still have those in Europe?

Geopolitics. Coal is available in tons of places and cheap to use and extract.

I do.

But replacing those with greener alternatives is easier said than done. Petrochemicals are used to make detergents, lubes (industrial and otherwise), tar for roads, plastics, etc… Importing all those things is a massive undertaking I’m not sure we’ll benefit from, either financially nor ecologically…

Sure, let’s just import it all instead

It’s so hard to tell how far a bird is by eye that I and, I think, most people would be easily fooled. Especially in clear weather.

No, I’m a happy i3wm user.

Because I’ve tried to get GNOME to do what I wanted. (Also it was too slow on the machines I was using at the time).

And that’s besides the point: on linux you can just use a good DE without messing with much – KDE, cinnamon, etc…

The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

While all of this sounds true, none of the EU states has a health minister of the caliber of RFK… At least that I heard about.

Nor who has enacted policies as stupid as he has.

So this data might not remain true very long…

I wrote my original acidic comment in the hope to shake some sense in the US and make them realize how nonsensical these policies are, I’m European and well aware we have our own crackpots, I have some familial relationships with a few of them…

I’m sure half the population (vote for which one in the comments!) will just get fake papers or an exemption from their pastor…

Europe needs to quarantine, if not ban American tourists and immigrants…

I agree, I was just giving another example to raise awareness about that feature of rust.

Cargo also has a --git option but I suppose it’s not default behavior

Yes, I only listed means to store or produce energy because upgrading powerlines won’t fix power fluctuations : that is due to imbalances between production and consumption, no amount of upgraded to transmission capacity is likely to help.

Load management might help, however. But it’s typically hard to get people to consume more when needed and power shedding is expensive on the electrical operator… Especially since those oscillations were unexpected. Also those things already exist in many European countries.

France already has bidirectional power lines to trade electricity with Spain.

They were used to rapidly restore power in northern Spain after the outage and that interconnection actually caused a very short blackout in southwestern France.

The infrastructure France thankfully refused to allow is fossil gas lines, saving Europe decades of gas usage to justify the investment.

While that is indeed not the most objective source, they are actually correct. Even if their stability argument didn’t hold water (it does), they should keep the nuclear plants active and upgrade transmission lines to export to Germany through France and displace coal plants in Germany’s electricity market… And literally save on radioactive waste which coal plants produce tons of.

What does “upgrade the grid” mean to you?

Digging tons of rock and salts to store energy with batteries?

In Europe there are very few remaining sites to build hydro power, and those have serious ecological consequences too… I don’t see to many alternatives. Biogas options are nearly tapped out. There is potential with geothermal using new digging techniques, but they’re mostly in the testing stage still.

How is using batteries better than using said rocks to power nuclear reactors?

There is a limit to how much one can add uncontrollable energy sources to a grid…

You can have arbitrarily many git “remotes”: GitHub, gitlab, your own custom forge, etc…

Git a cmd tool only. Your can remote wherever you like.