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There is something in between flashlights and a grid scale battery that van power your full electric home.

I just have a plugin battery that I can run the lights, fridges, phone chargers off of for 24 hrs. That is good enough for me, and I think most people. Anything shorter, and it's not necessary to run the rest, much longer, there also isn't because apparently shit hit the fan and we're not necessarily assuming the power comes back on in the next weeks or ever.

1969 is a big year due to man landing on the moon. Cars becoming ubiquitous (they certainly were a luxury item well into the sixties here). 1970s gave us the integrated circuit and arguably the start of modern computing. 1980s the collapse of the Soviet Union, genetic research. 1990s: well, I can go on :P

My late grandmother once told me this is how she travelled longer distances on occasion as a youth/young woman. Was a good lesson for me in understanding exactly how much she had seen the world change in her lifetime.

> PHP-Nuke

There's a name I haven't heard in a while!

Luxemburg. Was there the other day: public transport was great!

Of course you need to help them to alternatives, if they are not that tech-illiterate that they have very specific wishes for software.

It's been a while since I experienced people sharing software one discs by the way, it's been a while since I saw discs at all ;)

> Linux is the opposite of fire-and-forget. Eventually a papercut always turns up that will require the terminal.

When I say it's been fire-and-forget, I mean that for at least two decades.

If papercuts turn up, you are running the wrong distro or secretly a power user that naturally causes problems for themselves every now and then. This won't happen with normal users on a long term stable distro.

Macbooks are great devices, but Linux is a great "fire-and-forget" OS for situations tech-illiterate loved ones. I've done it many times, with much succes and satisfaction (on both ends) without barely any aftercare. All you really need to do is teach them to install those updates and install a major upgrade every few years (or not, Ubuntu will run fine for a decade).

That's what I thought. Rockfall galleries are a staple in the Alps. If you haven't driven in Switzerland, you are in for a treat.

Just like with chimpanzees and us: it's an important 5%! No shade on chimps by the way.

This so-called rationalist movement is better described as rationalisationist movement.

> I doubt a sub-1 tonne car is going to be pleasant to drive at highway speeds

I exclusively drive (sub) 1-tonne cars at highway speeds (and more, because Germany). No problem. Why would that be an issue? Sure, depending on the vehicle, it handles a certain way when I go over 150kph and I am alone without luggage, but I know how to drive, not just press 'go' on a train, don't I?

> But it would be really cool if I could spend my days writing code instead of dealing with lawyers and stuff.

I think anybody in any line of work or life would like that. It's however unlikely to never run into an issue where a lawyer is really needed, so don't hesitate when you realize you need one.

Do we really need two Ellisons?