Why not just make solar roofs over things like parking lots and sidewalks? That way it can provide cover and power, you can use off the shelf panels, and they are unlikely to get damaged.
Inkscape is good for making icons, assuming you want vector icons.
All of that AI crap they keep pushing certainly doesn't help the energy consumption though.
A lot of people see articles showing how to do something and it uses the terminal and they think that's the only way to do it. In reality, it's just easier to say "copy and paste these commands" than it is to walk someone through how to do it in a GUI.
People could always switch to a privacy friendly web browser.
Tesla should have changed their signs when they opened up their charging network to other brands.
I would never pay that much for a game. I just wait a couple of years and buy them when they go on sale for under $20. I'm not going to pay a premium just to be a beta tester.
There is so much good, open source software that I haven't had to pirate any software in years.
As far as movies and TV, the piracy won't stop until the enshittification stops. Usenet and torrents won't go anywhere.
What, you expect the flash drives they hand out for free at trade shows to be decent quality?
They are intended to be used to distribute advertising materials, not be rewritten multiple times.
Maybe they should shut down phone service when someone calls in a bomb threat and shut down the postal service when someone mails one in too.
There needs to be a much more severe punishment for the person who makes the fake call, especially if anyone is hurt as a result of it.
It seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.