My local beaches on the Yorkshire coast have some of the biggest wind farms in the world.
We’re never going to reduce energy consumption. It’s a balance between gas and wind here, just pick how many wind turbines you want, and burn gas to fill in the gaps.
Your ruined horizon is my safer future for my kids. I like seeing them there. I wish there were more.
I think there is reason to think that we will reduce energy consumption.
US energy consumption per capita peaked in 1975 and has trended down even as population has increased. There's going to be a peak in global population, likely before 2100 (and it keeps getting revised sooner, not later).
So it stands to reason that as we become more energy efficient (already happening) and we start to have fewer people on earth (likely to happen in your/ your children's lifetime) that overall consumption will in fact go down.
I mean, I think on an infinite timescale we probably will. A middle-class lifestyle today requires less energy than 20 years ago, simply because things have gotten more efficient (if you buy a fridge or a washing machine or a central heating system or a lightbulb today, it's using significantly less energy to do the same thing). But not _soon_. And part of the shift is very much from non-electric to electric power usage (gas heating -> heat pumps, petrol cars -> electric cars, diesel trains -> electric trains, etc etc). Energy use per capita will peak (may already have peaked) _long_ before electricity use per capita.
Every generation thinks they're building a safer future for their kids, including the boomers. If you want to talk about safety then you need to take sustainability seriously.
In the US, "Boomers" made the environmental movement mainstream, created the EPA, started cleanup of superfund sites, and passed the clean water and clean air acts. There are waterways where I live that are swimmable for the first time in generations because of the Boomers. It's not an either/or proposition.
Boomers didn't create the EPA, that was the Greatest and Silent generations. Boomers were no more than 25 in 1970 and hardly in power. Some of them may have been in the activists pushing for change but they didn't actually pass the legislation.
The question on my mind is will the SoundTouch app continue to be supported on new mobile
OS versions ?
Is it the same app that caters for other speakers too ? If it is, and Bose continue to include their old speakers on the functionality of the app, then I can hardly see how this is a true EoL. They’re really continuing to support the speakers in their app, at least.
They're discontinuing support for SoundTouch Speakers. The SoundTouch App controls SoundTouch Speakers. Put two and two together...
From their announcement:
What will no longer work:
• Presets (preset buttons on the product and in the app)
• Browsing or playing music services directly from the SoundTouch app
Important note: Your system will no longer receive security and software updates.
Please make sure to always use your system on a secure, private network.
Considering that new speakers don't use SoundTouch, I wonder too. I hope that they keep the app running for a while. This kit is expensive and it can't have a short life time!
Nothing more like playing Russian roulette with your own machine, hoping that when it needs to delete, move or rename a file, you sure hope it doesn't begin running either (especially do not run with --dangerously-skip-permissions):
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf /
mv ~/ ./
Or even creating a faulty symbolic link and above your home directory and suggesting to remove it, then it actually removes everything in that folder including your files in the home folder.
Of course, only an idiot would do that, and have it go and delete a bunch of shit. I, unfortunately, am that idiot, so if you're also going to be such an idiot, I recommend putting rm behind any sort of wall, no matter how short it should be, eg https://gist.github.com/fragmede/96f35225c29cf8790f10b1668b8...
Don't forget to manage proper permissions for every piece of data your own user account would need acccess to complete the objectives of the agent.
Like in the "Play some jazz music" example in the documentation, don't forget to login to the Music app using your own Apple ID on the new user or VM you created.
I’m not sure a user account would contain the potential damage enough for my liking, and isn’t the point of this to enable it to “act like you” on your personal machine ? (which I maintain is a terrible idea).
I bet it’s simpler than that: I reckon the management don’t give a shit, and the engineers just got away with whatever they (incorrectly) thought was right because nobody whatsoever was critiquing their work.
HSBC still operate a perfectly functional website for banking.
The more people who continue to use this, the better. It sends a clear signal that customers prefer the open web over restrictive and inconvenient mobile apps.
I’m also hanging on to my bank’s physical RSA fob as my 2FA, instead of using their app based version.
At least in UK, you'll need a physical token to do that. And you can't have both app and token. So if you had an app that is now not working, it'll take some time to get a token and restore your bank access.
How did you manage to do that? Whenever I tried to activate the app it was asking me to create a digital key and warning me that I'm going to lose ability to use physical token.
There is actually mobile banking for these cases. Which at least for HSBC requires your account details, a (Up to? I don't know the minimum) 10 digit (numeric) pin and you have to say "My Voice is My Password" which sounds like complete theatre.
I have been selling my extremely high quality plastic clothing (Veillance made in Canada items and Canada Goose) and been replacing them with wool and cotton.
Ventille cotton can keep you dry without plastic. Developed in WW2 by the UK for hoses and buckets when rubber was in short supply. Wanted cotton is another option but doesn’t breathe.
Mover - a Swiss brand - have an entire range of plastic free clothes of high quality.
Tons of other options but the above are easy substitutes at the high end.
Bonus, unlike even the best plastics these age beautifully and there are no taped seams to degrade.
We’re never going to reduce energy consumption. It’s a balance between gas and wind here, just pick how many wind turbines you want, and burn gas to fill in the gaps.
Your ruined horizon is my safer future for my kids. I like seeing them there. I wish there were more.
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