The issue isn't emissions, it's costs. Sadly we don't live in a dream world, and everything has a cost.

Even running excess production into hydrogen production has costs (transport, storage, infrastructure...).

The current (not taking in consideration the new tech currently in testing) beeing highly ineficient creates many cost issues.

Less effieicnt means that more power needs to be used to get that amount of hydrogen, reducing the gains on electricity surplus.

The storage beeing ineficient means a higher running cost, more space used, less of that space...

The transport beeing ineficient also increases the running costs, but also the emissions if the transport uses fossil fuel. Of it uses hydrogen, well it increases the running cost even more. That expensive produced hydrogen is used for transport...

The electricity production from hydrogen being ineficient increases the used hydrogen to get the same energy amount, which then increases the costs because more of that expensive hydrogen has to be used.

So taking all this into account, being "clean" doesn't necessarily make it is viable compared to other storage or energy production tech.

The costs have to be taken in account because resources don't appear magically.

Mining Uranium has a cost. Buying it from abroad has a cost, paying people to maintain all that has a cost...

Amd and nvidia both claim to check that displays support the required features to apply the logo.

However as Monitor Unboxed (Hardware Unboxed second channel) said, there is plenty of trash monitors, freesync or gsync.

Well let's give some counter examples in the softwares I mentioned :

• WhatsApp closed : Owned by Facebook. Well Facebook had multiple data leaks, privacy violations and nothing substantial was done about it. Definitely not trustable (also zero days are getting sold on the black market for WhatsApp (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/zero-days-for-hacking-whatsapp-are-now-worth-millions-of-dollars/ ).

• Telegram closed : not end to end encrypted. Russian app. Not trustable.

• Signal open : well this one is e to e encrypted. Open source, maybe could be trusted. Seems to have passed some security audits (https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243), tho it's based in the US and uses servers, maybe the US may have super computers capable of decrypting such communications. However is signal has switched their encryption to quantum computer resistance it may be too hard even for a state actor. However they also "debunked"/ignored zero-day reports which were not reported through their own tool, and by asking the US for confirmation. I am not sure if the US can be trusted to give confirmation about the existance or not of vulnerabilities when they are very likely to use them (https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/signal-debunks-zero-day-vulnerability.html?m=1).

• Olvid open (servers closed) : is French, e to e, and backed up by an encryption PhD. And why not use a local messaging app witch also is very secure and open source.

Notice how closed source is untrusted here. The economic activity of the tool changes how trustable it is. Military équipement has a huge and strict budget, it has to be secure.

Communication apps are user first. So they do what they can get away with, and that is very true for Facebook.

Florisboard git > discussions (in the menu should be after pull requests)

Well, the whole point of otp tokens/2fa, is to have a second login confirmation. Mostly on another device, like a phone.

Now maybe if you store your 2fa way on the same device, but locked away with a strong password, it may work, and could be safe enough.

But if it's the same password as your device or another account, it isn't that safe.

I used Mesa with her regulators. It worked for me before. Tho I did not open such riven recently, so I did not try it.

It was destroying the dargin then the pilot right after.

Photoshop online?

Well Wayland support and performance may vary. For Wayland to work well on nvidia the most recent software is needed.

Wayland support would get better with a bit more time. Wine has pushed updates in the latest versions for better Wayland support.

For gaming, X11 would work maybe a bit better for performance, however it could also have evolved fast and performance of Xwayland be better rn.

I wouldn't say you need to avoid Wayland, but rather test how it works. On distros shipping Wayland and X11, you can often switch between them at the login screen.

For nobara, well it would be interesting and an "easy" start to fedora. Tho I tried to install it, and I never got to boot into it, while I installed fedora without any issues. Not sure if I made a mistake or an incompatibility with my laptop.

The issue with fedora, is that software without gui aren't available in the gnome store. And only installable though command line with dnf or flatpak. Also the fedora forum help online is a bit of a desert, or soo old that it doesn't apply anymore. Tho it could have evolved since I tried it. However the fedora support page is pretty good, tho it is missing some things on first install for some things. However Nobara would have already got all those issues dealt with.

If you have no experience with Linux, I'll suggest to first discover with a distro, then when you feel a bit more comfortable to try other compositors. Using non "common" compositors may create bugs which may not be very much discussed online. So it can be a bit discouraging for a new user.

Well the battery in my phone lasted longer than my laptop. The difference : one stayed a long time at 100% the other one is constantly pliged and unplugged with 100%-20%-80%..., but also battery tech and management would be different (maybe).

Letting the battery at 100% stresses it and does degrade it with time, charging and discharging also degrades it. But it would be better for the battery health to keep it in the 80-20%.

However if it is easier to let the device plugged in, maybe check if it can run without a battery, and if not maybe it can be changed? Tho not sure if you can find replacement in some years.

Tho maybe the battery station could also be designed to stay at high charge? It isn't the easiest thing to know how it works and how it is designed.

You don't really need to upgrade. But for a new pc, 32gb is advised for anything gaming.

For other things like content creation or work with the computer other than basic computing, I don't really know. It would change depending on what someone needs to so with the computer.

I don't remember the name, but it's a full bloatware app, which still has some use on laptops tho.

But for a display is a total trash app.

It has less settings than the display, while overwriting them with whatever settings are available (the app doesn't even have custom rgb levels...).

With advertising for nvidia GeForce now. With settings for nvidia...(I have an amd gpu...). System management which requires special drivers... And other s*