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Yeah this looks exactly like a train ride in a corridor coach. Actually it's probably similar to a flight on a golden-age-of-aviation airline too. Crazy what can be done with economies of scale applied to transportation, eh?

Why would I use this over Helix? (this is not a rethorical question, I really am interested in the benefits)

This is probably because "This app depends entirely on a certain instance of a network service" (cdn.comaps.app), and you have that hidden in your settings. So basically it has the download URL for maps hard-coded.

The ssh key to access the private git repo is on the same yubikey as the decryption key (they are technically different GPG slots but I don't need to care about that, just plug the key in, type in the pin, and it all works automagically)

The process then still is: check out that Git repository, except there’s another step: copy over your private key so that you can decrypt your secrets.

I store my secrets in a separate private git repo and automatically decrypt them with my hardware key (https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/secrets.nix) so for me it's literally just plug in my yubikey and nixos-install github:balsoft/nixos-config#hostname

Oh yeah, AI in its current form can fuck right off.

Nah, it's colonial settlers living in a place where they shouldn't, and then capitalists plastering everything with heat-absorbing asphalt because it's more profitable to force people into car-centric hellholes. If you are unfortunate enough to live in a place like that, prepare a backup power source, because it's not feasible to build a power grid which never has blackouts.

Of course, it would be nice to have a government that would provide everyone in such regions with backup electricity sources, but that ain't happening with capitalists in power, and recommending that grandma should lead a communist uprising is not that helpful

you’re going to have to either die when power shuts down or drop everything and move.

That's not my opinion, that's a sad fact of life. If you can't move, get a backup electricity supply. Blackouts happen.

My point is that way more humans can survive a couple weeks without AC than a couple weeks without water or food.

The human species has lived through an era when the average temperature on Earth was about the same as it is now. It's true that (very) soon it won't be the case (it looks like the climate is truly fucked and we'll get the hottest year since humans evolved in a decade or so, and then shoot right past that and into real hell on earth territory).

People settled there because A/C became available

Yeah, but like, don't. Or at least cover your house with solar. If you need a literal life support system and are dependent on a centralized power grid for that with no backup, you will die.

You can’t just shut off the A/C and cackle while the elderly and infirm die of heat stroke.

I agree that in places like that AC should be among the critical systems which are the last to shut down, but it's also important to note that the vast majority of inhabited places on earth are not like that (yet).

Yeah, I also wanted to mention that AC in critical workplaces, schools and kindergartens should also be given priority over residential AC, but the comment was already too long.