This topic was about the larger power market, so big industrial things. But even for people putting solar panels at home. Make it more expensive than getting regular power and see how that progresses... There are of course always some fanatics who will want it for the cause, but most people do it because it's also economically advantageous for them.

I've been trying to find how much % of (renewable) power generated these days is from home solar installations, but it seems hard to find....

But try to follow the topic a bit, we were talking about the big players on the grid, not small home solar installations that don't take part in the system discussed here.

I love how the title is basically also the problem.

Who the fuck has some obscure library that is the basis of many other tools as their "favourite project", even though it might be a fundamental part of many other things that are actually the favourites of people.

My premise of how things currently work, so what the current incentives are for more renewable energy is completely flawed?

Sure, make renewable energy not profitable and see what happens...

I get what you WANT the world to be like, but it ISN'T like that right now, and it's good to have aspirations on how it should be. But can we just accept what it is, and what implications that has for how things work?

If you can get your dream up & running overnight, go for it. Until then making sure green energy is profitable is the way forward for it, whether we like it or not.

It may not be the answer, but it is the current reality. If we want more renewable power right now, it needs to be profitable.

You can wish it's different, we all do. But reality is what it is, so that's why you should care :).

Because that's what makes companies invest in renewables. If it's not profitable, no new investments, and our world goes to shit (even more).

That's also a pretty naive take on it.

First of all, you can indeed shut of the renewables easily. But that means that adding renewables to the grid is even less profitable, making renewables less desired to be built.

Hence in for example Germany a law was passed that prevented renewables being shut down in favor of worse energy sources, but that then leads to the issue we mention here.

It's a tricky situation with renewables. But on the other hand, society is slowly adapting to using them & improving the infrastructure to handle such issues, so we'll get there eventually :).

I get that the lemmings here are enthousiastic about linux, but even as a developer, every time i work with linux, i end up facing the most annoying user hostile problems >_<...

Since this is gaming related, and i just faced one today: I bought a Legion Go (steamdeck like device), and put bazzite on it (steamos like os). And was trying to run visual pinball on it, which actually has a linux build. Try to run the linux build: shared library libbz2.so.1.0 not found.... Google around a bit: a yes, because that's a fedora distro, unlike most other distros, they named it libbz2.so.1 . But many apps assume libbz2.so.1.0 also exists so try to use that. Fair enough, i'll add a link with that name. Ah yes, this is a distro with a readonly filesystem. Lucklily as a dev i realized i can probably put the link in the folder of the program itself, and that indeed worked.

But ffs linux world, why do you fuck up such basic things like just agreeing on how you name basic shared dll's (googling for it i found people struggling with this when using python, so it's not something that rarely happens)....

I love the control linux offers, and got NAS and a little server running linux, and for the handheld it'll probably give me more battery life or performance too, so linux for sure has some benefits.

But if you have to be an expert just to get things f'ing made for linux to run due to stupid stuff like this.... whyyyyyy??????

It's sad to see factual comments like yours getting downvoted, because some just don't want to hear this truth.

It doesn't mean you support these kind of things happening, just that you understand the reasons they're doing this shit...

And @ all the haters, get a life... you can disagree with the current rules, and how they're enforced, but you can't deny reality.

I've always loved the themes doctor who tries to address in its episodes, but it's sad in the most recent seasons they seem to have lost any form of subtlety/intelligence...

It used to be episodes showing you a moral dilemma, raising the question and often making it clear there is no perfect solution. The characters would make choice, maybe not the ones you'd make, but from understandable motivations. Sometimes the bad guys would have understandable motivations, and you'd feel sorry for them.

Lately it has been so black & white. More like "see this guy, he represents trump, trump is bad, he is bad". No dilemmas, no raising questions, not letting you think for yourself or challenging your beliefs. More like "this is good, this is bad, don't think more about it please".

I also don't think doctor who has become more woke, but it has become so much less intelligent, no longer considering the viewer as a person capable of reaching their own conclusions. Everything has to be clear and black and white. And if you don't agree with the protagonists you're bad.

Haven't heard much about that yet, indeed also sounds bad. But it's anycubic so who cares :p.

But yeah, it's indeed not the best trend. But it also up to open source to actually compete with this, and not just chase shiny features, but also usability...

Just wondering, is this "trend" you're talking about just the Bambulab situation, or are other manufacturers doing the same? I'm not super up to date on 3d printing news, so not sure if i missed more such changes.

If it's the bambulab situation, it's not entirely unexpected. When they started people were already worried about exactly this seeing how closed their ecosystem is. Then again, they did make a printer that just works better than the competition, and that's in the end what attracts users.

Personally i have diy 3d printers that i built myself, really happy with them, but for people who just want to print things, many other filament printers are just too annoying to work with. Not everyone is into diy, and many people just want to make cool stuff and not care about the printer, and bambulab really made the next step towards achieving that.

So if the open source community wants to compete with that, they must make printers that are as user friendly. My diy 3d printers are like running linux. Really great and customizable if you like to work on 3d printers, and really reliable now i as an expert built & tuned them. But most people just want to buy a machine that works, and that's not these open source printers. And as long as we just focus on making 3d printers for expert diy'ers, we'll end up in the same place as linux is for OS'es: used by experts and for specific advanced usecases, but beyond reach for the common user that's then stuck on systems like apple/windows that are more locked down, but actually just work without having to understand how the entire thing works.

As with Star Citizen, just add it as a non-Steam game and viola.

You need a viola these days to run a game on linux?

And people are wondering why Linux is less popular :p

So someone saying "why does my 500$ vacuum have a lidar but not the car" isn't suggesting that?

I guess in some technical way you're right, but it for sure is the implication...

Wow, what's with all the hostility against him.

It's maybe because i also know a bit about lidars that his comment was clear to me ("ha, try putting a vacuum lidar in a car and see if it can do anything useful outside at the speeds & range a car needs").

Is it that much of an issue if someone is a bit snarky when pointing out the false equivalence of "my 500$ vacuum has a lidar, but a tesla doesn't? harharhar".

Indeed, any number multiplied by 0 is zero, but infinity is not a number.

So then it starts to depend on what the 0 actually means, and what the infinity actually means, and depending on the context 0 x infinity can be all kinds of things.

Nope, look it up, it's undefined.

You can define things that boil down to 0 x infinity that equal anything you like. It's undefined and is dependent on context. Infinity isn't this one number, it's a concept that encompasses a lot of things, and the way you achieve an infinity matter.

yeah, but 0 times infinite is undefined, so who knows what'll happen ;)

Indeed, that's why i hate it that so many people here are raging about this while it's something both sides are doing...

I get all the Trump & conservatives hate, but sometimes this community is raging over something that's just done by both sides... So being outraged about it is pretty hypocritical....

Is indeed a fine example. Keeps raising the same questions: is it ok to rewrite books? We're supposed to be outraged when maga does it, but it's ok if we do it?

Indeed

And that also bothers me about threads like this... both sides in the USA seem to be guilty of this, so to now call it propaganda & nazism when the right is doing it... It's of course true, but the left wing is doing the exact same, so you can't really be that outraged.... You're both doing the same thing :s