AlmightyTritan @ AlmightyTritan @beehaw.org

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Oh I don't want to be mistaken, I agree people shouldn't wait around if they are able, it's just that there are a lot of barriers in the way.

I kinda have the mind set of if you're able to make the change yourself now do it, and if not complain and demand accessibility for it until you can.

Corporations have been shifting blame on to regular people for years, the whole carbon footprint concept was basically invented to shame individuals.

While individual action is important, the biggest individual action we can take is really for societal and legislative changes.

For example, in order to avoid motor vehicles, and flying, the government needs to invest money into viable alternatives. We need better bike, active transport, and transit systems. In order to eat more veggies and reduce agriculture emissions we need the govt to subsidize and incentivize those alternatives to the consumers. Cause poverty certainly gets in the way of dropping things like Dairy especially. Second hand goods, without enforcement of the right to repair means that you're gambling on whether or not you're going to be able to find someone or parts to fix your used thing in the event something breaks.

I could go on, but the gist of it is access to a lot of the things you're asking for requires government change. Some folks are lucky or diehard enough to find the means to make these changes themselves, but the everyday person needs help.

I will also say, this isn't a doomerist view on things. The government at all levels has been using the money from the Carbon tax to fund things like the Greener Homes Grant, Bike and eBike rebates, and EV rebates, and adoption is high! Look at all the houses switching to heat pumps in the last few years since these rebates have come into play!

Depending on the area the golf course is located in I guess. It's definitely something bank rolled by rich dickheads, but I do see a lot of blue collar folks owning or renting golf clubs in my area. Probably because it's a reasonably cheap way to spend a day during your weekend doing an activity.

Now I don't intend to defend the rich, the owners of golf courses, and the rich that bank roll them. We should be holding their feet to the flames.

Oh this is super neat. I was having an issue with this on my Dell Latitude 5320 2-in-1 and only managed to get around it by installing some gnome extensions.

I never would have thought it might be related to Wayland.

I mean even if it was a public utility, there's still laws around those in regards to what you can and can't do with it. So depending on how the framework around it is set up, and if there was a proper system in place to enforce it, I don't think it would necessarily even be a threat to it becoming or continuing to be a public utility.

I have to wonder if it's a solution looking for a problem or a matter of people trying to just throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks.

I think it also probably has to do with the sheer number of people trying to create something that every one of them has to learn that just because something exists, doesn't mean you have to use it. They end up just building it hoping that people will come to use it, but sometimes you gotta learn the hard way that it isn't always the case.

Another thing I imagine is it's mostly a fear of losing the vote of property owners who are using it for equity, income rental, or with the intent of resale.

I imagine there's more than a few home owners like myself who were simply lucky, and bought into this broken system wanting it to change. So it's not like they had my votes in the first place.

I'm planning on doing something similar to that with an air to water heatpump and an oil fired boiler to heat up an indirect water storage tank. I hear it's more easy to get a forced air solution installed like your friend has, but low and behold apparently something does exist for those of us with hydronic heat.

The editing of the LP also really helps the vibe of !Sanity at Risk!

As someone constantly doing stuff on the line of stupid and cutting edge constantly, might need to start doing this.

That or add to the wild west of JavaScript and start writing medium articles about it.