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It seems like a lot is being left out. What is considered sufficiently wealthy and why are they going off grid?

> What is considered sufficiently wealthy

What you might consider "middle class", suburban households, and up. These "upgrades" are something that you can roll into your mortgage.

> Why are they going off grid?

Electricity and water availability issues.

For example, I live in an area where water is unavailable between days and weeks, every few weeks. The systemic issue in my municipality is that they have not kept up with the maintenance of water pipes, which means a significant portion of water pumped from the national provider is lost via leaks. Thus when some pumps and reservoirs go offline due to power disruptions, the loss of flow can lead to no water in higher lying areas that takes time to restore.

There are private solutions to this - the most affordable option is to install a big water tank on your property that in affect acts as a water battery. A more expensive solution is to install a borehole on your property, and to draw water from the water table (this might make sense for a complex, or a rich household).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis

Not OP but it's because there are rolling blackouts.

> What is considered sufficiently wealthy

Ability to afford your own solar. A lot of South Africans can't, and with prices increasing 100x over the past 20 years, it makes it difficult to get out of that poverty.


I decided to switch after notepad++ got hacked.


It sounds like internally it’s a checklist item they have to mention everywhere.


Yep, it's not trolling, it's just them doing the job. A well paid lawyer will defend a client even if they're guilty


A well paid lawyer defending a guilty client is upholding the Justice system. Every man has a right to a fair trial.

Apple wasting years of everyones time on bad faith UX design


Strange how people never say this with swift and objc


Probably because almost everyone avoids those languages at all costs


I’m actually glad because it seems like we are finally leaving behind the flat design that started in iOS 7, if I remember correctly. I’m not sure it would be good to go full skeuomorphic but at least a button looks more like a button again


Thanks for posting this here. I star’d the project. Getting a portable computer with a minimal flexible and previously well supported operating system was one of my goals for the esp32 as well. I’ll be watching for more.


Merry Christmas to All


This was a good one, but icewm was one better. FVWM2 went on to FVWM3, and FVWM95 was encouraged by power users and developers to stop being used in favor of FVWM3

https://ice-wm.org/


Depends on if you like to make heavy use of virtual desktops. That's not really IceWMs department. FVWM is still king there. Otherwise, yes, (recent) IceWM is good. But so is (recent) Plasma/KDE, if you can spare the RAM.


It does seem like it is trying to force a trend without giving one solid reason.


They don’t do the shutdown anymore if it’s any consolation, but they do slow down approvals.


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