For you personally, I'm guessing your lifestyle depends very heavily on everyone in the apartments and buildings around you, and the grocery stores that supply you, and the roads that they move goods over, and the materials they manufacture in order to distribute power and water and collect sewage....so unless all of them have transitioned, I think you're overestimating your resilience to the loss of fossil fuels.
Most clothes, food, medicine, every bit of plastic you own, the tools used to make your heat pump, the rebar in your apartment walls, etc. none of this exists without fossil fuel, or at least not at this price/scale
You are not wrong, but there is no reason to assume that things can't change. A heat pump irrespective of the material it's made of will be better than a gas heater over its life.
> You are not wrong, but there is no reason to assume that things can't change.
No reason to assume that we can change either. 99.99% of progress we enjoy today came from burning non renewable shit, if you think we can change paradigm while keeping all our cheap convenience and technologies I think you're making a bigger bet than I am
Making and using a modern solar panel emits up to 44 grams of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas per kWh over its lifetime as opposed to up to 1000 grams for fossil fuel generators.
I have a logitech mouse and I'm pretty sure I was asked whether to install the logitech app, it didn't do it automatically. Same for the dell mouse I have at work, it asked to install dell somethingorother, which I declined, and it left me alone.
Anecdata from two days ago, after installing a fresh Windows 10: after inserting the dongle, a definitely non-native (styled by Logitech) popup asks me whether I want to install their app. I decline. One reboot later, the app is available in the start menu.
Edit: To be fair, I immediately uninstalled it, so I don't know if this was "just" a link to their installer app or the full app. But something definitely got downloaded and moved to a place I could not have moved it myself without accepting a UAC prompt m
Yeah, the questions showed up in non-native dialogues in both cases. I installed the Logitech one, but not the Dell. But then again, even freaking Office looks non-native on Windows, so I don't really pay attention to this aspect.
I think not looking at the original X source code is probably a good thing. The protocol is reasonably well specified, and you can further use the XML specification used for XCB. Most of the requests are pretty simple.
For some of the trickier ones it might be worth diving into an X11 implementation, but you can also defer most of the trickier ones other than getting the event handling right (most of the old school drawing API mostly matters if you want to run 30+ year old software that hasn't been updated much since; that said it might be nice to be able to run twm and xeyes - I have a whole separate file in my own X11 server for legacy stuff required to run twm and xeyes and similar ancient software, but not useful for anything else I actually care to run...)
Same thing here, X content and trackers are blocked by my Firefox settings. The occasional inconvenience is a small price to pay not to be profiled by X, Google, FB, Amazon, and countless other Internet parasites.
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