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Used Vivaldi and it was always slower and more clunkier than Chrome/Chromium but it had its advantages. The team behind it was old Opera team and tried/tries to bring that feel back to the browser with some success. I had been user of old Presto based Opera, the Blink version wasn't really what I looked for and the change of ownership was really questionable.
Despite XIX century reforms dismissing serfdom in some regions, generational poverty of peasants kept them in serfdom like conditions up until end of WW2. And even after WW2 you could end in Ukraine with forced exports of food resulting in genocidal famine.
That Eastern European immigrant has family history of half a millennium or more in slave like conditions.
Tried LabPlot recently and had issues with csv import with datetime data not really recognising date and time series format even after using advanced import options and setting it myself manually. Tried to find some solutions, the LabPlot manual website is just a bunch of youtube videos [1]. That is really not helpful, I am not browsing manual to be forced to watch clips of what I already tried. Developers really need to think about making traditional manual.
There is also a AlphaPlot, a more or less alive fork of SciDavis. Still have its own issues but still has the same issue with yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.zzz dates. Other than that it is a useful bit of kit.
But when I want to do some batch processing and generate multiple plots, automate and have it reproducible I go with gnuplot. The learning curve is steep, but after writing gnuplot scripts few time you just have a personal template and know relevant parts. It is really good.
All in all I am glad there is an opensource movement in this area. It is always better to have more options.
1. https://docs.labplot.org/en/2D_plotting/2D_plotting_xycurve....
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QUzag5u7Pi0 [2] über Impatiens parviflora Dc. als Agriophyt in mitteleuropa, L Trepl - 1984
Another problem is that manufacturers overdrive components. To make bulbs cheaper they just use few more mA of current, that makes LEDs run hotter, more smoothing is needed and caps get hammered by switch mode power supplies.
Without changing light fixtures to be open, allowing circulation of air nothing really can be done for standard e27/bayonet bulbs. I have personally experienced this and had clearly seen the huge difference in LED bulb lifetime between light fixture - glass globe with hole in the bottom (no air vents at the top) and another one that was just a bowl with open top. Never had to change a bulb in second one versus 5-6 changes in globe one.
But, this is not really a failure of solar power system, just failure of a Netgear device. It seems that it used it's battery as a high current source for when it needed more peak power for wireless transmission, thus the instability and failures when just plugged to USB charger. I don't think such constant drain and constant recharge was really healthy for the battery. I wonder if it was/is stated in manual that it was supposed to be used charged and unplugged and not really as full time usage device.
-USA tax system where Turbofax created a niche for itself and fights hard to keep the system as convoluted as it can be to detriment of everyone
-USA healthcare insurance system where insurance companies do the same
Seems like best way to profit is to become a parasite that does not fix the problem but just defends the current situation.
Still no way to disable sync/turn off accounts while keeping the mail in place.
I can run multiple 1080p twitch streams with mpv using streamlink and setting appropriate decoder flags while using chromium to watch even one stream puts a lot of strain on my laptop and gets fan running immediately.
So from my perspective it is very usefull to offload video decoding to gpu and leave cpu cycles for other work. Is it more energy efficient? Never checked that but gpu fan does not really spin any faster and looking at the temperature graphs it does not seem it really strains it.
I tried enabling gpu acceleration for browser (chromium based) and I still don't really know why it is so flaky and unreliable.
2. Steam Proton, most of my library of games just works and it is in easy and convenient format.
3. Norton/Midnight Commander style of file managers.
4. Live CD distributions.
5. Password managers (Keepass)
But I still think that we (as a world) should start capture carbon actively during this decade. Last summer in Europe was hottest yet and with such hot winter we are for even hotter summer this year. Keeping energy prices up would be just added benefit.
It even is stamped on CC that it is property of the issuing bank. So you made it such way that skimmer can copy your card at gas station and empty someones account in few minutes but you are not part of the problem at all? Then what is the point of of plastic other that milking fees?
Anything you add to the liqiud other than nicotine and PG/VG may be problematic. You never really know what is in imported premixed liquid, what cutting agents were used, what purity of source material was.
It seems that CDC is seeing some results of cost cutting, using stuff that was not really meant to be vaped mixed to keep margins better.