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New comment by tribaal in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

tribaal — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:40:54 +0000

The SVP is not considered "moderate". They are a far-right party. The fact that they are wide spread and gather a lot of votes does not make them "moderate".

Source: am Swiss

New comment by tribaal in "3.4M Solar Panels"

tribaal — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:51:37 +0000

It's mostly similar to France. My house is in a valley (so reasonable snow) and some good solar irradiation year round.

The roof being at a steep angle also means snow doesn't tend to accumulate much.

New comment by tribaal in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

tribaal — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:52:27 +0000

Exactly - I own a Tesla and an id.buzz and it’s just insulting how bad the user experience is on the buzz.

I don’t need buttons for the rear view mirrors or lights, I need them to do the right thing for me instead. VW not saving the position of the rear view mirrors on my profile is stupid. Having a hardware button for the seat position “profile” is stupid. Having walk away lock locking and unlocking the bus in a loop in you stay within range with the fob is stupid. Having a fob is stupid.

Those are the software issues you need to fix VW, if you ever want my business again.

Edit: and since people seem to care about AC buttons: the id.buzz has AC buttons! But they are right under the infotainment screen… and capacitive :) the Tesla’s screen is much easier to manipulate.

New comment by tribaal in "3.4M Solar Panels"

tribaal — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:46:51 +0000

Another data point: my entire system in Switzerland cost me 1.3CHF/Watt including a 20kWh battery and 5000 CHF of scaffolding costs (needed because of our local OSHA equivalent laws when installing panels on a tilted roof).

It has become ridiculously cheap indeed.

New comment by tribaal in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

tribaal — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:12:52 +0000

Maybe you should visit Geneva then, or most of the "Arc Lemanique".

It's way more diverse than Zurich. Well, if you mean "diverse" as "more brown people" as your comment seems to imply.

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

tribaal — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:11:54 +0000

SteamOS is really a desktop linux. You can switch to "desktop mode" to see the "normal desktop" and you get a KDE where you can run whatever you want.

It's "just" immutable Arch that defaults to Steam's console mode interface.

New comment by tribaal in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

tribaal — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:18:49 +0000

Exactly - it's done in public, and not centrally. Any citizen can go and check how it's done in their own Geminde.

New comment by tribaal in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

tribaal — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:11:32 +0000

As a Swiss citizen I strongly disagree. Most people capable of reading and basic maths (addition!) can understand the counting of our paper ballots. My kids understand how this works since they are like 5.

Any citizen can go and check how votes are counted in their Geminde. Any citizen can check what is reported in the federal tally. I did several times. It's not rocket science.

New comment by tribaal in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

tribaal — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:18:50 +0000

Custom widgets aren’t particularly hard to do in iced, but I wish some of those common cases would be committed back / made available.

Except the above virtualised lists, another case I hit was layered images (sprites for example). Not very hard to write my own, sure, but it’d be nice to have that out of the box as in eg. egui

New comment by tribaal in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

tribaal — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:56:09 +0000

Not contesting your claim, but would you mind sharing what major hardware vendor you mean?

I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponsor is system76 - and as awesome as they are they aren’t a major vendor yet :)

New comment by tribaal in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

tribaal — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:35:47 +0000

Except using the cold output from the heat pump to serve as ac (which of arguably neat) it’s a normal heat pump

New comment by tribaal in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

tribaal — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:33:51 +0000

Ah it does ac on top, neat. Thanks!

New comment by tribaal in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

tribaal — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:24:25 +0000

I have an all in one heat pump right now in my house (in Europe). Not made by Samsung.

Why is this news? Is it because it can heat water to 85 degrees Celsius? Is it because it’s Samsung?

New comment by tribaal in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

tribaal — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:21:51 +0000

This is extremely valuable insight for me, a non-Indian manager.

Thanks a lot!

New comment by tribaal in "Helm 4.0"

tribaal — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:58:45 +0000

Probably an unpopular opinion, but it’s been a couple of jobs that I write “just python” to generate k8s manifests, and it works really, really well.

There’s packages. You can write functions. You can write tests trivially (the output is basically a giant map that you just write out as yaml)…

I’m applying this to other areas too with great success, for example our snowflake IaC is “just python” that generates SQL. It’s great.

New comment by tribaal in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

tribaal — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:30:53 +0000

This is bullshit, Emmentaler has holes here as well.

Source: am Swiss, live in Emmental

New comment by tribaal in "Recall for Linux"

tribaal — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:28:44 +0000

Oh really? Wow! I'll switch over tonight and give it a shot. Thanks!

New comment by tribaal in "Recall for Linux"

tribaal — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:19:26 +0000

I was very skeptical of the claim that gaming on linux is good now, but fully switched over last weekend.

All of the games I play on a regular basis just worked out of the box with no fiddling at all (nVidia graphics card, X11, pop_OS - but I'm pretty sure any modern distribution would work just as well). Fresh OS install (nvidia drivers just worked), install the steam flatpack, click "download", click "play". That's it.

This includes "modern" games such as Borderlands 4 and e.g. Helldivers 2.

New comment by tribaal in "Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch"

tribaal — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:12:10 +0000

Huawei is very present at EuroRust and seem to look for a lot of people to hire.

I guess it makes sense, I was curious why they would want people to work on e.g. Servo since Firefox is already available on Android... now I know :) Their team there made a pretty good impression for the record, they were knowledgeable and pitched their projects quite well (several of them quite interesting).

New comment by tribaal in "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

tribaal — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:39:35 +0000

The EPA seems to disagree with your numbers: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths