Did not know that. Useful.
JubilantJaguar
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Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.
Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?
The basic argument here is that instead of talking about degrowth and sacrifice (regardless of their necessity), we should rather focus on the positive agenda of wellbeing, which stands a better chance politically. I find the argument convincing.
Listening recommendation: Club of Rome podcast. High quality discussions, unfortunately very irregular episodes. The author was a guest on several of them.
Yes, that's what they meant. I thought the factoid was quite well-known by now.
Economic growth is becoming decoupled from resource use. The problem is that it's agonizingly slow, so that the decoupling remains stubbornly relative: the resource throughput is still going up, just less quickly. The holy grail is absolute decoupling. No sign of that in sight, notwithstanding optimistic predictions about "green growth". This lack of actual progress is the main argument for dumping growth as an indicator.
And this too is a lazy outdated stereotype.
And "little red" in Italian. Or pettirosso, which sounds simultaneously cute and like a badass Ferrari.
The fact that you don't even know is exactly what I'm talking about. It's peak - the regulation is pretty clear that you can't just put a button "Push this to comply", the motor must not be capable of outputting more than 250W. Or else stay off the public road, sidewalk included.
It seems that hardly anybody cares because there's all but no enforcement in most countries. But as I understand it from much sleuthing, there's been some cracking down in some places, notably France. So who's to say what's coming next year? Personally I'm not wasting a thousand euro if it's to get pulled over and fined, or to get in trouble trying to cross a border while touring, or (worst of all) to find that I'm uninsured in an accident.
And now this about trains. Hardly surprising there's gonna be problem if people are trying to pass off 1kW motorbikes as ebikes.
Looks like rail companies are starting to ban
If this is true, it will be an own goal for sustainability. I for one will be mighty pissed off and will try to do something about it.
A related issue here is the EU's 250W motor limit for ebikes, which means that even a 400W ebike is completely illegal on a public road without a motorbike registration. From what I can tell, most of the ebike companies are either pretending this rule doesn't exist, or obfuscating about it, or putting in switches to throttle the motor to 250W and magically make the thing "legal". I am looking to buy an ebike - which I will attempt to take on a train - and this whole issue is driving me to distraction.
Bro doesn't need DE to watch videos. Bro doesn't need DE to do anything.
Most laptops will be more or less fully compatible
If by "most" you mean only the ones over 500 bucks. Chromebooks have almost completely taken over the bottom end of the market (which is more than adequate if you're not gaming) and Chromebooks are not compatible with Linux unless you enjoy getting your hands very dirty.
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Sure, it's fine. But if I'm only publishing text and photos, and I don't need tons of specialized plugins, and I'm dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It's at least as fast, and more secure by design.