Buffalox
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- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 day ago:
There really are differences, Linux kernel membership could be called based on donations, but they are clearly more than that.
Also you haven’t mentioned a single 1 man FOSS project that could be affected, which was the original claim. - Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 day ago:
or by accepting donations exceeding the costs associated with the design,
I’m guessing that’s what you are referring to, this is not relevant to normal donations, but only a use of “donations” to circumvent regulation.
Show me any FOSS project that has donations exceeding costs of development, it’s basically non existent, only the Linux kernel project itself, which is fair enough to be covered, since the Linux kernel is driven by commercial interests today.The claim originally in this line of debate was that small projects could risk this, and no they can’t, only projects that have become commercial are affected.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 day ago:
but also by charging a price for technical support
Which exactly includes systems like RedHat which I already included, but in no way includes voluntary FOSS work for free.
an intention to monetise
Again it’s very much about the money.
just donations can already be a problem, apparently. But IANAL.
NOPE!!!
Donations are not a charge. - Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 day ago:
If it’s proprietary it doesn’t, between proprietary and FOSS it absolutely does for the reasons I already stated.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
That’s not really a viable option, you need to be able to wash your clothes, and make your dinner, and cool your food, and have light to see.
Sure it’s possible to reduce it, but there is a limit where it becomes extremely inconvenient. - Comment on 2 days ago:
Not true, a wind turbine is dirt cheap for the power it can generate compared to solar panels.
Here the problem is regulation that makes it impossible if you have neighbors within 500 m.
If it wasn’t for regulation a wind turbine would be a clearly better investment than solar panels.
A huge advantage with turbines is also that it tend to generate power when you need it the most for heating your house. - Comment on 2 days ago:
OK I didn’t see that, that’s bigger than I expected, we make about 12.5 MWh per year on our 11.2 kWh panels = 1.1 MWh per kWh capacity.
Your system is 5.1 kWh but you only make 3.8 MWh per year = 0.75 MWh per kWh capacity.
Meaning we have 50% higher yield per kWh rated capacity!?Considering you are further south compared to us, I’m surprised your yield is so low, despite London is infamous for being cloudy.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
It is not remotely close to economically viable to go off grid, and the exports of solar power to the grid pay for the connection anyway.
The reason to have a battery is that it lasts through the night, or even with a smaller system, it can handle dinner time, which is the most expensive time of day to buy electricity.
Now if you live in some remote area without a grid, a generator is a way better option than a huge battery.
Maybe if you live somewhere very sunny, like Spain and especially southern parts of USA you can probably do it with a modest battery that can handle a couple of days.
In the summer we can make enough electricity on by far the most cloudy days, but in the winter, the sun can’t penetrate the clouds nearly as well.
Admittedly London is south of where I live, which is close to the most southern part of Denmark, but on the other hand London is infamous for grey weather with heavy clouds. - Comment on 2 days ago:
Seems to me his panel capacity is to small anyway.
We have 11 kWh panels, and yes in the summer we routinely produce 4 times more than we use, and we have a 7.5 kWh battery But November December and January it’s not even close.In the Winter you can easily have a week with near zero production:
Our Import / export from grid last year:
November 215 / 59 kWh
December 300 15 kWh January 268 / 34 kWhDespite we have almost 3 times the capacity, and produce more than twice what we use per year, and we have a decent battery and believe it or not, even the shortest day we can produce enough power for a whole 24 hour day if it’s a clear day! But we can also have clouds for 14 days!
But for those months we imported 783 kWh and exported 108 that could have been used with bigger battery. But the net import was still 675 kWh!! For those 3 months, and that’s the minimum size battery we could have managed with, and then we even need 10% extra to compensate for charge/discharge losses.Minimum 740 kWh battery in our case, despite 3 times as powerful panels.
That means it would require at least the equivalent of 10 high end fully electric car batteries. But also a very hefty inverter, which AFAIK ads about 50% the price of the battery.
PS: Already in February we exported more than we imported.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
“owner” is typically the maintainer,
Nope, AFAIK that is not legally applicable, that is very clear with licenses like MIT BSD etc, and for GPL in all versions it’s very explicitly stated in the license.
You can also release as simply public domain, which very obviously means nobody owns as it is owned by everybody.
Generally if you give something away for free, you can’t be claimed to be the owner.
I have no idea where that idea should come from, some typical anti EU alarmists maybe? And I bet there is zero legal precedent for that. And I seriously doubt any lawyer would support your claim.If however you choose a license where the creator keeps ownership it may be different, but then it’s not FOSS.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
I have no idea what I’m supposed to see from you link, I don’t see any particular knowledge, or description of any particular legal consequences.
Obviously software provided for free “as is”, cannot be required to be maintained. And 9if it is owned by the public which is the case with FOSS, there is no “owner” who can be made responsible. - Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
rather than add burden to OS makers
It’s not a burden for the OS maker, except when the OS is the product, and in that case it’s only fair.
With Android the phone maker adapt the OS to their phones and flavor of Android, if they can’t handle maintaining it, they can use vanilla. Google is the OS maker, and I think they can handle the burden. - Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
I think it does in some cases, like if you buy a System 76 computer with PopOS, or you buy a server with Red Hat.
However if you install a Linux OS yourself, that is available free of charge, there isn’t any money to claim back, and it would be illogical if there should be demands on updates.I think logically there needs to be money involved, so if you download PopOS you’re on your own, but if you bought a computer with PopOS installed it is part of a package.
I’m not a lawyer, but from my experience this is how things typically work.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
I think it would need to be a commercial product like Red Hat or preinstalled OS by the company that sell the computer.
With a FOSS distribution that is made freely available without charge, that people download and install themselves, people are probably themselves responsible for their choice of OS. - Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
"Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows 10 could make 400 million computers obsolete
This is more stupid, and I absolutely agree it shouldn’t be legal, mind you this is not update to a new OS, like is common on phones, but mostly security updates.
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 3 days ago:
the most frequent question from users is, “Is this actually God I am talking to?”
🤣🤣🤣
Oh boy, we should drive them out of our country, and give them a country of their own. Oh wait…
We already did, and the name of that country is USA!
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 4 days ago:
If they are, would that make old cars giant feature phones on wheels.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 week ago:
What an absolutely moronic false equivalence.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
Linux as my main since 2005, I dual booted for a couple of years to play games, because gaming on Linux was too limited.
Now gaming on Linux is amazing IMO. But yes every system requires some level of masochism, I guess we could call Windows the OS of choice for the more advanced masochists. 😋 - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
Oh I thought Windows was discontinued after Vista failed miserably.
At least I haven’t used it since then, and it’s completely irrelevant to me.
Why others keep using it IDK, must be some kind of masochist tendencies. - Comment on Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief 1 week ago:
This is exactly right, man the amount of downvotes I received a few years back for claiming that, despite I showed the calculations that proved it.
- Comment on Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief 1 week ago:
air-to-water heat pump for hot water on demand as well as powering in floor heating.
Within the past 2 years, 3 of our neighbors have installed that, and they are all very happy with it.
It’s expensive to install, but well worth it in the long run.
We are planning on air to water too, but we don’t have floor heating yet, so which to do first, or all at once? IDK? - Comment on Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief 1 week ago:
It’s kind of funny IMO, in the old days, the most efficient heat source heat source would be burning something directly in your home, where typically 80% of the heat is utilized, and one of the most CO2 friendly heat sources is firewood or pellets because it’s renewable energy.
But with the heat pump that typically has a 4:1 yield in heat, meaning that 1kWh of power yields 4 kWh of heat.
A power-plant running on pellets, will transform 45% of the heat to electricity.
But using a heat pump, even 45% electricity with a 4x yield for making heat is 180% utilization!!
So 180% against traditionally about 80% from firing the pellets directly at home, means that the heat-pump is twice as environmentally friendly as one of the most efficient ways to heat houses used to be, even when accounting for a 10% loss of electricity in transportation from plant to household.The funny part being, that burning and making electricity from the heat far away, then transport the electricity to the homes, and transform the electricity to heat again, is more efficient than burning stuff directly in the home!
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 1 week ago:
She is either suicidal or very weird. I’d ask her if suicide is actually something she sometimes think about.
Problem is she will most likely brush it off if she is, so it’s a tough one.
It might be worth a lot to tell her you appreciate her. - Comment on Mobile Phone Brands by Market Share (2007 vs 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Motorola phones are not American anymore, the phone part was bought by Lenovo and is now 100% Chinese.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 2 weeks ago:
Insane people exist, that doesn’t make it a trend.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 2 weeks ago:
This reeks so much of bullshit.
To me it sounds like claiming young men would rather date a picture of a bunny, than risk rejection.
Like WTF?!?!? - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia is also backed by the engines of capitalism.
Stupid knee jerk “no you” response that doesn’t make the least bit of sense, where YouTube is obviously a major engine of capitalism, owned by one of the richest most capitalistic companies in the world, where everything in how YouTube operates is governed by their capitalistic principles.
How do you figure in any way the same is true for Wikipedia which is a non profit?!?!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bullshit!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
Revenue $185.4 million (2024)
Expenses $178.6 million (2024)
Employees 363 (2024)
Volunteers 277,000 (2024)How did you ever convince yourself that the 10th most visited website, that doesn’t have any revenue other than donations is rolling in dough? Apart from smoothly running servers, they need lawyers, both to ensure they stay within local laws in more than a 100 countries, but also to stave off idiotic lawsuits. Just the recent changes to UK law has been a major legal headache.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Being a free service with no advertising, I’m guessing the only reason they have money is because people donate.
But “somehow” your description skips the part about where the money comes from?aggressively begging for donations again.
Aggressively? Showing a banner for about a week once a year!! That’s aggressive.
How the fuck can anyone be so butthurt about a free service? I’m definitely NOT clicking your link to support something so stupid on YouTube.