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New comment by timbit42 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

timbit42 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:14:52 +0000

China doesn't have much oil or natural gas but they have lots of coal so that's their backup until they can get enough renewables built.

New comment by timbit42 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

timbit42 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:47:59 +0000

As long as they remain more efficient than resistive heaters down to the lowest temperatures you experience, it's a win. Heat pump efficiency is still improving. You can get heat pumps that can handle down to -35°C now with even better ones in the works.

New comment by timbit42 in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

timbit42 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:18:31 +0000

I know why he uses Fedora but I think it's long term is questionable. It's only a matter of time until IBM F's with it.

New comment by timbit42 in "Apple at 50"

timbit42 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:12:26 +0000

The Apple seed died a long, long time ago.

New comment by timbit42 in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

timbit42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:06:34 +0000

Some of the ideas have been around a long time but they weren't integrated together into a whole until over a hundred years ago by John Nelson Darby and was then were popularized by the Schofield Reference Bible 1 hundred years ago.

New comment by timbit42 in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

timbit42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:31:41 +0000

The book of Revelation doesn't mention any antichrist. Only the epistles of John mention antichrists and the definition of what they are. Any proposed link between any antichrists and the book of Revelation was created in the past few hundred years.

New comment by timbit42 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

timbit42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:18:25 +0000

Look at a hybrid.

New comment by timbit42 in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

timbit42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:58:24 +0000

And you can do that while charging as there is no need to sit and hold a pump handle.

New comment by timbit42 in "World Happiness Report 2026"

timbit42 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:45:29 +0000

GDP per capita doesn't show wealth disparity, which is much higher in the US and causes unhappiness.

New comment by timbit42 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

timbit42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:28:17 +0000

The big concern is burning oil products into the atmosphere: that means fuels. Using oil to produce rubbers and plastics is less of a concern.

New comment by timbit42 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

timbit42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:12:32 +0000

A 2004 Gen 2 Prius used as a taxi in Vancouver was still going on the original traction battery at 1.5 million kilometres without any failures.

https://driving.ca/vehicle-types/hybrid-vehicles/hybrid-high...

https://vanmag.com/city/people/vancouver-taxi-driver-worlds-...

New comment by timbit42 in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

timbit42 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:27:09 +0000

Canadians do not elect parties. We elect Members of Parliament. This is why it is democratic for MPs to cross the floor from one party to another. It has happened over 300 times since Canada became a country.

If an MP is not free to vote in the best interests of their constituents, and rather has to vote along party lines, then the failure of democracy has already occurred. Crossing the floor, in order to act in the best interest of your constituents, is a big move that one doesn't decide on overnight.

We should be more tolerant of individual MPs not always siding with their team, without them having the fear of being removed from their caucus.

Notice how none of the floor crossings happened right after the election. They took time, they saw how government was working, and they took action based on their experience.

New comment by timbit42 in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

timbit42 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:08:28 +0000

After 12 years of three Republican presidents (1921-1933), bringing about the Great Depression the last of which, Hoover, taking a hand off approach which didn't help, there were 20 years of two Democrat presidents (1933-1953). Not even one generation.

New comment by timbit42 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

timbit42 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:40:52 +0000

That's false. The Amiga could run the Mac OS better than any Mac could, even with the same CPU because of the Amiga custom chips. Also, Amigas had faster CPUs available than the Macs did, and the Amiga OS was still multitasking in the background.

New comment by timbit42 in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

timbit42 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:28:13 +0000

Then remove that feed.

New comment by timbit42 in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

timbit42 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:31:37 +0000

What's to screenshot? It only imports and exports Markdown.

New comment by timbit42 in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

timbit42 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:07:27 +0000

Then instead of asking here, ask whoever controls what software you can install.

New comment by timbit42 in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

timbit42 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:51:03 +0000

Why do you follow people on the Fediverse? You can follow hashtags instead, or some mix of that. That's what I do. That way I get what I'm looking for without getting all the unrelated cruft of following people who post on a wide variety of topics.

New comment by timbit42 in "The home computer war"

timbit42 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:28:42 +0000

Do you think you could squeeze them into an 8K or 16K ROM? Better would be Forth or Logo.

New comment by timbit42 in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

timbit42 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:50:06 +0000

Does that mean giving up social security you spent you life paying into?