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  • Oh god oh damn my kde doesn’t tell me that…

    Okay I’ll give it a whirl:

    • chown: yes, I think
    • cp: no, pretty sure
    • ls: what? Like for a tree? For folder size? Idk I say yes because there’s nothing recursive to me about standard ls
    • rsync: literally no clue have never used it but I’d guess no
    • scp: yes pretty confident
    • zip: yes also pretty confident

    The actual reason I barely ever find Linux annoying is because my Fedora KDE just does all I need it to pretty much all the time.














  • Yeah, ground source heat pumps are pretty awesome and are being installed with many new buildings and renovations around here.

    But that’s also AC, right? Just powered by different (better) tech.

    I definitely agree that ground source heat pumps are better but they are also very expensive and basically only worth it if you replace a house’s entire heating with it. Using some crappy mobile AC unit is an acceptable interim solution just to allow me to sleep at reasonable temperatures for the next few summers.




  • Yeah, but let me tell you, even if you have plenty of vegetation around the house, a well-insulated roof, windows that you open during the night and outside blinds you close during the day, this heatwave has been unbearable.

    I think we use the less energy-intensive tools at our disposal pretty effectively around here actually. As an example, my university’s main building has also managed to remain somewhat bearable with minimal AC, somehow.

    The problem is that these things are beginning to not be enough anymore. I’ve been going through my personal hell on earth with this heatwave for the past weeks despite using all of the techniques that don’t involve heat pumps, which is also why I feel so strongly about this. I simply can’t see another way out in the short to medium term.