i followed a "install any linux distro in 5 minutes" guide and after just 14 hours i finally have an OS that is running properly

as a long time hater i must say its very nice and i like it a lot, especially considering microsoft is hellbent on making windows the worst OS as quickly as possible. i will say, im a big nerd and this stuff comes to me pretty easily but i still think hoping normies will adopt this is kinda insane

anywho, its the year of linux or so i keep hearing

also if anyone knows why my keyboard keeps disconnecting every 30 minutes or so, i would very much like to know why. its an anne pro 2 that i am using with a wired connection

The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

The idea that heavy freight would be the last redoubt of diesel has been repeated for decades, often with confidence and rarely with evidence. In December 2026, that idea finally collapsed. Battery electric heavy duty trucks crossed 50% of new sales in China, a segment that had long been treated as immovable because of weight, range, duty cycles, and the presumed need for liquid fuels. This was not a pilot program, a niche urban category, or a short term policy artifact. It was a market-wide shift in the most energy-intensive road transport segment in the world’s largest vehicle market. If battery electric trucks can dominate new sales in China at that scale, then many of the assumptions that have shaped global energy debates are no longer fit for purpose.

It is important to stress that this transition was not driven by environmental virtue, although that played a policy role. It was driven by cost, reliability, and industrial strategy. Chinese manufacturers built electric trucks from clean sheet designs rather than retrofitting diesel platforms. Charging infrastructure scaled alongside vehicles, often in depot based or corridor focused deployments. Grid upgrades and storage deployments ensured that electricity supply kept pace. Once electric trucks became cheaper to operate and competitive to purchase, adoption accelerated rapidly. The idea that heavy freight must rely on diesel or hydrogen simply failed in the face of real world economics.

Not finalised but it seems like 2027 may see an Australia-style ban enter force on TERF island.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42099131

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Been looking into some different hardware options, but don't quite know what the usability is like between different standalone devices versus using an app via bluetooth, etc. Some basic description of user experience might be useful.

Seems like some potentially useful tech to get experience with asap.