Oh boy, yeah that’s a nasty problem. I have nothing for you unfortunately. 😔

Yup, it’s great. It used to be PulseEffects for PulseAudio. It glues tofether a bunch of audio processing software and libs into a nice GUI that makes them trivial to use. I used to do this with PulseAudio config files.

There’s exceptions for sure. I should have said it’s a tendency.

Exactly right. Dare I say the very right for working people to vote was won by organized labour, so even popular democracy is downstream from labour power. That’s the only real power we have against corporations.

Corporations do not stand up to the government. Remember this. Drop any expectation that the coporate world would save you from a bad government.

My impression is that we go through the motions for more independence, but it is more to apeace the population than it is to be independent.

This is how it feels around here too. Lots of people hope this time it’s different, and so do I but I’m not holding my breath. I’m waiting to see material changes before I praise anyone.

Then the goal of the EU is to cut gas consumption. This is happening as gas boilers are replaced by heat pumps and gas power plants by wind, solar and batteries.

I think this is really the best way out.

Then you get mfkers be like - ‘but Midea is Chinese!’ - completely ignoring the massive difference in real dependence (lesser) created by importing heat pumps, solar, wind and batteries compared to importing and burning gas.

Good info. A quarter (a bit over) provides enough leverage during “negotiations.” To examine that I picture the effect of cutting 25% of EU’s gas supply and use historical examples of what that looks like.

Here’s what import trends look like without RU and US:

There’s a bit of growth in Norway.

And here’s what US imports look like:

Qatar would be in the Other cat:

That was down prior to the US-Israel war on Iran compares to earlier years.

Would be spectacular if the US gas trend reverses direction but I wouldn’t count on it without significant indignation from EU citizens. Industry needs gas, the US provides gas, industry buys it. Individual players in the industry care about their bottom line, not whether this creates leverage for the US to use in other parts of the economy. It’s the same mechanism that created the dependence on Russian gas. The only way this process changes is through state intervention and that won’t happen unless citizens strongly demand it. Cause industry demands the opposite from the gov’t. It’s a shit predicament. I’m pessimistic but would love to be wrong in 5 years.

US LNG producers climb as EU agrees to $750 billion in energy purchases

Probably not before a switch away from American LNG.

I had to check 3 times this article wasn’t from 2022.

It’s that. Which isn’t a negative tbh. Shipping in bulk and distributing locally is more efficient regardless of prices. With local distro, inspections and regulation become possible by holding the distributor accountable. It becones possible, not certain. What won’t change in a significant manner is the amount of product sold cause the deminimis loophole isn’t why Chinese product prices are low.

Oh agreed completely, I was rather asking what’s your thought process (hypothetical or otherwise) in that context if you’ve had any.

I generally am of the same inclination on this but I don’t have a good answer to what do we do if they are about to start bombing. Have a nuke deterrent?

Contrast this with how other countries have responded to American threats. Japan, which relies on the U.S. for 3 per cent of its GDP, nevertheless agreed to a 15-per-cent baseline U.S. tariff – down from the 25-per-cent tariff it was facing otherwise – while committing to invest US$550-billion in the U.S., increase purchases of U.S. energy and agricultural products, and provide greater access for American cars.

The European Union, with an exposure to the U.S. similar to Japan’s and an economy two-thirds the size of the U.S.’s, likewise buckled, making a long list of concessions – no tariffs on U.S. industrial goods, wider access for U.S. agricultural products, and increased purchases of U.S. energy, AI chips, and defence equipment, in addition to US$600-billion in investment – “in return for” agreeing to U.S. tariffs of 15 per cent.

Been watching in dismay as this unfolded. Blatant betrayal of people’s interests. I expected quite a bit more from the EU especially. I expected more than from our gov given how much more exposed and infiltrated we are.

CATL’s that went into mass prod sometime ago are 175Wh/kg.

I really hope you don’t let them imitate it, cause this didn’t happen by accident over here. There’s a lot of money to be made by the finance sector if people are forced to put their pensions into the capital markets. And this isn’t me just babbling from the other side of the Atlantic in abstract. I hold an EU passport and I sincerely hope shit doesn’t turn like it did here.

“It’s more the fact that in America, because you don’t have state guaranteed pay-as-you-go pension schemes, anyone who works and who needs to think about his old age needs to directly be engaged in thinking about investing in capital markets.”

Ah yes, famously something we really love in NA. A system that gave us 50% pop with no retirement savings across US and Canada. You def want that!

Serious - not saying integrated capital markets aren’t needed but the NA neoliberal pension model is not something that’ll encourage social stability.

S0ix is fine. LTT doesn’t know shit about shit. I use it on first gen Framework. It works way more reliably than S3 since there’s little nees for special handling in drivers and firmware. The Framework already consumes 3W when idle. S0ix brings that down to 1-2W. The first gen suppprts S3 and that doesn’t consume less power. So either way I need suspend-then-hibernate or suspend-to-both and that’s what you want as well. You’d have to forgo Secure Boot to enable hibernate. If root is on Ext4 on encrypted LVM, hibernate works even with a swapfile (default on modern Ubuntu). For fancier setups like root on ZFS you’d need to use encrypred swap partition for it. That’s what I currently use. If you want to know more details, have Qs, ask away.

It’s why I found it a bit shocking. Similar events are unfolding in Canada and if we’re to benefit from this spending, especially given it’s coming at the expense of cutting pensions and such, we have to hold these cronies accountable. Boot them from office if they don’t comply.

Has Andy signaled a willigness to hit the breaks on the trans ateamroller?