So sad they dropped support for Xorg. Now I had to switch to wayland, if I want to keep using KDE…
I don’t know if I’m ready to do that.

Wait, they weren’t talking about that AC DC tribute band?

I don’t like that I can’t entirely turn off the “image optimization” bullshit,

Did you know, that that is most likely a feature of your camera app, rather than your phone itself and you could simply use a different app?

Open Camera for example allows for a lot of manual control. You could probably also install Google Camera if you wanted, I even have that on my GrapheneOS device, but don’t grant it any network permissions.
The downside is, that the manufacturer’s preinstalled app is most likely to take your actual hardware into account and work with it in ways, that a third party option couldn’t. But that would mostly be part of said ‘image optimization’, so you probably won’t miss it, if you deliberately want to turn those off.

Aaaand I’m pretty sure your phone would allow you to also save RAW photos alongside the jpgs it creates. Those should be free from any “optimization”, or at least it can be completely reverted in editing software, like the Snapseed App (again a Google product, so it gets the same treatment from me as mentioned above).

Never heard it being called that, but this is brilliant.

https://eu3-browse.startpage.com/av/anon-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpicfiles.alphacoders.com%2F476%2Fthumb-1920-476655.jpg&sp=1785091654Ta440ef1fa8d1a665fce87bd761b9d06d82c583f4a7f779b2e5bc346dca1239c8

Ofc, that’s on a whole different level.

Your 42 kWh is huge. Pair that with an approriately sized roof solar panel, and you won’t need a grid much. Seriously, look into that. Not even for living off the grid, but for financial reasons.

Though yeah, having the lights on and appliances running, might paint a target on your house in an apocalyptic scenario. But nobody’s forcing you to use the lights, and a heat pump with ground water or earth collector as a source is pretty stealthy. So you can sit in a dark, but warm, house.

yeah, I get it. I know very few people who really have to make similar considerations, so naturally the thought process is different. Germany is fairly densely populated and even in more rural areas, like the one I live in, the power grid is pretty reliable. I can count the amont of power outages I experienced in my few decades of lifetime with my fingers, and when there is one it usually only lasts a few minutes to hours.

Nothing, a healthy person with a few supplies can’t bridge easily.

Interesting. Where do you live?

Around here (Germany), most people get solar power first and THEN buy a battery, when they realize it’s financially more feasible to use as much of the energy the generated themselves instead of using grid power.

You know, you can charge your house? With a large enough battery and enoug PV power you can operate a heat pump off the grid to control the climate of your home.

The feasibility varies a bit, depending on where exactly you live, but there are definitely useful things you can do with solar power and batteries.

Nothing that a 30W panel can manage though. And I definitely agree to your point about rebuilding communities.

There are power tools that run on batteries these days. I don’t know about you, but a chainsaw seems pretty useful to me.

Yup. “Linux sucks” was how I encountered the guy; he seemed like a friendly, goofy guy. Had a lot of fun watching his Lunduke journal videos regularly back then and they went along well with my beginner’s journey into the Linux world. He always seemed a bit politically naive and tryhard centrist/apolitical, whenever something remotely political came up.

Then I lost track of him for a while, maybe during one of his attempts to ditch youtube altogether. When I came back a few months into the pandemic: boy did this guy get off the rails!

It really saddened me to see, what had become of him.