There is an ongoing drought in the high Andes. Quito and other areas are reliant on hydroelectric power.
They have to balance between hydroelectric power and drinking water.
This is affecting Bogota to the north as well.
Quito is generally ideal for solar power solutions but it hasn't happened at scale for whatever reason.
I stopped distro hopping and started hopping around Mastodon instances instead.
I currently have two active accounts. One is more established but the server goes down for days at a time.
The other is pretty robust but I'm still establishing myself there.
I echo the sentiment that there aren't a lot of Asian people on Mastodon. Although it seems that vivaldi.net is mostly Japanese people.
Monitors are starting to move in this direction. Samsung has a notorious 5k Apple Studio competitor that wants to connect to the Internet and uses the same interface as their Galaxy smartphones.
Standby. Winter is coming for monitors as well.
The movie Hackers.
I just don't understand it. I see some people with $1000 car payments and nothing toward retirement. What ever happened to looking for good deals? We had a kind of "rugged ingenuity" thing growing up where you respected people who took care of their older stuff, and I guess that still holds true today. $1000 car payments, I would have paid off my car in under a year.
Honestly, I'm scared to spend. Which I guess is okay because I'm comfortable with how we live and sometimes you have to spend on life events out of your control.
Yeah, thanks. Between ThinkPads and system76 and Fairphone, it's pretty easy to maintain. Monitor is a Dell U3014. It was over a thousand dollars new but these days it's under $200 used and I've replaced the mainboard in it twice for about $145 each time. Everything was purchased slightly used so that saves a lot.
I kind of don't really drive much. Between biking and living close to a lot of things, I've put about 40,000 miles on the car in 7 years. Car is in its third decade and has about 70k miles on it.
Live below my means, invest the rest.
I don't dress or act like people in my pay range. My house is small and in a quiet neighborhood and cost less than my salary. Car is older but paid off and I know all the quirks and have the toolbox in the back to fix it. It is probably one of the top 5 most reliable cars in history. My work dress shoes are 10 years old and my around the house shoes were new in 2019.
I spend my money where I spend my time. So I have a nice phone, a very nice monitor and mechanical keyboard, and a good computer. And all with the right to repair philosophy. Same for my wife and kids. And also good running shoes, good exercise equipment.
The plan is to get to a point where I can just not work at all and maintain my lifestyle. Three percent rule and all that. And also help launch my kids.
Something about a 25 year roof and a Japanese shit box car in my fortress of solitude.
FWIW I grew up really really really poor like you wouldn't believe so I'm okay with this.
No, you will be added to a list that gets sold around. Better to keep that data point private so you don't become a target.
I'm pretty sure the pollsters aren't cold calling or cold texting people any more. It is more likely than not, a scam.
The only poll that matters is election day.
--Gnome Web from Flathub
--Chromium in the Debian repo
--Chromium in the CalyxOS build
I would love to use Vivaldi and this is likely the best option left since it's all the old Opera devs, but FFS just make it libre software guys. They seem to be financially stable with their team of like 30 people and run one of the largest Mastodon instances and have a great community.
Its got the best interface out of any of the Chrome reskins, especially with the left side tabs. They are trolling Mozilla right now with the whole, "we are the only browser not run by a marketing company or trying to build AI into the browser."
But for me it being closed is a non-starter.
Like for fucks sake just make it libre software. Brave is open and literally nobody is building on top of it (morally bankrupt company though), what does Vivaldi have to lose by becoming libre software? They have nothing to lose and a competitive advantage to gain by becoming libre. There's literally a community waiting to embrace you.
FWIW, I am kind of behind the curve. I used the Mozilla Suite from Milestone 18 all the way until it was SeaMonkey and didn't switch until 2009 or so; then Firefox/Thunderbird until earlier this month. So if you have suggestions, I'm open.
Hah! Beat me to it by a couple of minutes!
Looking forward to the next decade of Luanti and playing with my kids.