Very engaging read

...it's gone. Was it short enough to recite in a comment?

Someone should nugde his shoulder, stare into his eyes, and whisper "you have more wealth than 3 billion people combined"

Oh shit it Dutch? Didn't intend to offend, friend.

I can usually kinda tell what a Dutch text says (am norwegian), but this time it was particularly difficult

Historically, much of the renewable energy infrastructure (dams, wind turbines) in Brazil has come at an unnecessarily high cost to human rights and indigenous people's rights.

My country's (Norway) state-owned electrical power company Statkraft operates many projects in Latin America, and has employed shady tactics like divide-and-conquer on local communities.

We need more reneweable power, but our pursuit of it must be equitable. I sincerely hope Brazil (and Statkraft/SN Power) improves in this regard

Sources:

• Brazil, in Norwegian

• Chile, in English

Niceeeee! I've tested a few KF6 apps in a rawhide+nightly copr distrobox on Kinoite, and they're quick

Thanks, TIL!

To my knowledge there's less overhead to running graphical applications through flatpak.

Source: a small test I did months ago

I've been thinking of getting a hybrid inverter (rather than manually moving loads between grid power and inverter/solar power). How much did it set you back?

I'm seriously ashamed of my oil-horny home country. I try arguing against more petroleum extraction whenever it's brought up, but it's difficult when people are convinced that their welfare and quality of life is directly proportional to the amount of carbon we pull out of the ground.

The sentiment is changing, but far too slowly

Join or start a community plastics recycling effort in the style of Precious Plastics.

If you like 3D-printing, make and use a Trashprinter V3 in combination with a plastics shredder.

Hm fair enough