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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Portland or Seattle would for those criteria well as long as you don't mind rain. Both very progressive cities, weather is generally mild (rarely above 85, rarely below 30, usually less than 2 weeks a year with snow).

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why on Earth would they make it Nvidia exclusive given how thoroughly that company has screwed the pooch on open source drivers and consequently how dominant AMD has come to be in Linux gaming?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

The demographics you describe in 1 and 2 are de facto an incredibly small minority compared to other, more typical forms of immigration. Just think about what percentage of the population is wealthy enough to emigrate, let alone engage in borderline sex trafficking.

As for #3, yes, we have a party who is currently succeeding in pitching populism and proto-fascism dressed up in culture war nonsense. The job of progressives is to address those same economic concerns in a manner that actually works rather than the trickle down myth from the right that has so thoroughly gutted the middle class.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just saying, if 45's acts are deemed political activity protected from prescription, 46 is still in office and is handed carte blanche to engage in all manner of unseemly counterfuckery. At the extreme, I believe Seal Team Six was mentioned, but I'm sure Biden could find lots of fun and creative ways to abuse unfettered executive power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, but if baseline generation goes up there are fewer peak demand events that exceed available baseline capacity so fewer revenue generating opportunities for peaker plants. But I agree the real answer is less overbuild and more storage- unfortunate given today's Tesla news.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This.

For those not in the industry, the drivers for this are green tags and production tax credits (more common in wind).

Green tags are basically attaboys for funding the generation of renewable electricity, and are tradable.

Production tax credits are a $/MWH tax incentive for generating renewable power, and are, again, tradable.

In both cases, then, there are incentives for renewable projects to keep producing power even when the wholesale power price at the point of interconnection is negative, as there are generation incentives that still make it better than idling.

From an environmentalist perspective, this is fantastic, as virtually all of this renewable generation represents offset coal and gas peaker plant generation.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Best part here is that it's a nonsense statement. Generated electricity is measured in watt hours (be they kilowatt, megawatt, or gigawatt).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Might want to make the bottom prong of that E a bit longer, I spent a few moments trying to figure out why we were barfing our fangs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Niche, I know, but I'm waiting on full functionality in Input Leap (Barrier fork which was a Synergy 1.x fork). Right now it sounds like it's 90% of the way there but lacks clipboard sharing. I'm running Wayland on my desktop, but this soft kvm is pretty fundamental to my workflow on my laptop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Framework machines are great, and certainly upgradeable, but $300 they are most certainly not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if they every fixed the issues with M&K controls on games in Desktop mode? There are a few games I play a lot that just don't work well with a controller for me, so this was a killer for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Most of us on the left here would like nothing better than to be rid of most red states. On the whole, they take more federal tax dollars to prop up than they contribute, and their backwards ass attitudes hold the rest of the country back.

HOWEVER...

  1. Most progressive voters would rather not abandon all of the disempowered minority groups in those states to their fate.

  2. A "national divorce" as described by the space lasers lady would be incredibly messy and potentially devolve into a war and further violent and messy balkanization of the country.

  3. Finally, having an impoverished, highly inequitable theocracy for a neighbor sounds like a massive headache.

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