A lot of french cities are limited to 30km/h. It reduces the number of fatal accident, promote alternative mobilities and some studies showed that it actually increase the average car speed.

Lowering the maximum speed reduces the amount of traffic so in fine even if the maximum speed is reduced the travel time by car is reduced too.

If we play “I would rather”, I would rather have a nuclear waste facility than a copper, lithium or cobalt mine in my garden.

The transition to renewables energy will requires A LOT of mining and mines are awful for the environment.

At least with nuclear waste we can try to contain it, mining waste is just left in the open and pollute the land and water with heavy metals.

We don’t talk much about the environmental impact of mining because it mostly impact low income country and there is no clean mining, so the only way to reduce the impact of mining is to reduce our consumption, but no one wants to hear about that. Globally we prefer pretending that we can transform our consumption to be sustainable

The only clean energy is the one that we don’t use, after that there is just a list of less worse alternatives, nuclear, solar and wind are on the “less worse” category but they still have a terrible impact on the environment.

No trust in servers Persistent security even in case of a compromised server

From Olvid website

They are advertising the fact that the security does not depend on the server.

I don’t know what is worth.

Also it’s developed by a French company, I think this is the main argument for the French government, they want to have options that does not rely on US companies.

Tailscale is amazing, I work with a small company and we were battling with our IT contractor to have a VPN running for remote work.

After a while of things not working as it should I just set up tailscaled because I was using it with my home server and it just works.

We are now on a paid plan and everyone else is using it when working remotely.

Yes, this particular ratio allows the fact that you can fold a A3 paper in two and get two A4 sheet

NixOS too. I really like having a “fresh” install every time I restart.

No you don’t understand, you watch the ads while the AI is watching the video for you.

I feel like having to replace charging cords is an Apple issue specifically.

I’m horrified by the amount of time my wife had to replace her Mac charger because the cord was breaking.

I don’t think I ever had to replace the cord on any of my laptop, replacing the charger because the cord is breaking has never been a consideration before.

A friend in high school gave me an Ubuntu live CD and told me I should try it.

In French there is a similar word: ver/vers/vair/verre, all of these are pronounced the same

Ver(s): worm(s) Vers: it can either means “towards”, “around” or if it’s use as a noun it means a “verse” in poetry. Verre: glass Vair : a fur used in medieval time.

Fun fact: in the original Cinderella story she was wearing fur slippers (vair). However with time and oral transmission of the story the fur become glass (vair -> Verre)

I prefer having an ambitious law right now, even if it only cover a limited amount of products, than a law that try to cover everything but takes decades to be approved.

I will try it.

It’s more expensive than Fusion360 but if its working well I might be interested.

I really want FreeCAD to work so I can get away from paying Autodesk for Fusion360.

My impression on FreeCAD is that I could probably get the result I want but I would spend most of my time fighting the software. I can’t justify to spend 3 time longer on FreeCAD than Fusion360

Yeah this was my issue too.

This is what I did, I prepared a partition for windows on the second ssd and it went OK.

The only issue was that I needed to manually add drivers on the windows usb for it to be able to recognized my ssd. It was a bit of a pain to find this information online

I tried via a VM but CAD applications need a GPU and doing a GPU pass through with a nvidia card on my laptop was too much for me.

The difference here is that MicMac was probably developed as an internal tool, with no intention to distribute it at first.

The 33 engines burning all together was really impressive to watch. The burn looked so clean and compared to the previous launch where engines where just failing on after another is was nice to see the huge progress.

and landing a rocket on a pad, which is mostly a function of having good computers.

Launching a rocket is even easier, it’s mostly a function of having a big tank of propellant and powerful engines. A big rocket ? Just need a bigger tank and bigger engines.

Nuclear does not have the same function than biomass.

A biomass power station is (relatively) cheap to build but the fuel is expensive. So it make sense to have it as a backup and only use it when necessary.

On the other hand nuclear is expensive to build but the fuel is cheap. So building a nuclear power station as a backup does not make sense, it needs to run all the time.

This is the basic ideas, but in practice nuclear is actually beneficial to renewables. The electricity network operator did several scenarios for the French electrical production in 2050. In their scenarios, having around 13% of nuclear in the mix divided by almost two the amount of solar, wind turbines and batteries needed.