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By the same argument, replacing the coal fired power plant with wind and solar wouldn't pose a challenge either.

The point is, you've got to compare apples to apples: either coal power vs. desalinization powered by coal, or renewables vs. desalinization powered by renewables. In every case, the pollution produced by the desalinization process (i.e., the brine etc.) is simply added to the pollution produced by whatever means was used to generate the power for it, which means @soEZ's attempt to compare desalinization to power generation doesn't make much sense.

It does not really generate toxic waste like coal fired power plants

It generates all the waste associated with the electricity it uses, which is often from coal fired power plants...

Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I'm sure.

I agree with you even though I'm only guessing at the episode you're talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.

(It's the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)

I have a similar issue (also Firefox on [K]ubuntu 22.04) every time I open a link on a logged-in site in a new tab, but in my case merely refreshing the page is enough to get me logged back in.

I assume is most likely the fault of the fairly aggressive mix of extensions I'm running rather than Firefox itself, but I haven't actually tried to troubleshoot it yet.

I don't care what the excuses are; they aren't valid.

Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it's a fucking absurd outrage that it's anything less than 100.0%.

Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!

There are lots of countries that have compulsory military service with alternatives for conscientious objectors (which is basically what you're describing).

I agree that it's a good idea. Moreover, it comes closer to the original meaning of that whole "well-regulated militia" thing. We should consider doing like the Swiss do: give (roughly) everybody mandatory firearms training, send them all home with an infantry standard-issue assault rifle, and then severely restrict access to ammunition except for legitimate purposes like practice at the firing range.

Jellyfin is to Plex as Lemmy is to Reddit.

It keeps track of which files you've played (e.g. to automatically pick the next episode in a series), it automatically downloads metadata and cover art so you have a nice browsing interface, it manages multiple profiles so that e.g. you can limit your kids' access to only G and TV-Y or filter out genres a user doesn't like, it lets you set parental controls to limit the amount of time watched in a day (or disable it at certain times of day), etc.

ITT: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows' deliberate hostility.

The Stockholm syndrome is real.

My title was intentionally flipant.

No, your title was rude and condescending. "Flippant" is a different thing.