A permanent exception may actually be OK: China is much further along in the energy transition and the CCP are not doing that out of the kindness of their genocidal hearts: economic forces make electrification inevitable, as we can already see with EVs.
Also, the European market is big enough to have global impact, even if our rules aren’t matched by other world powers eventually.
That was my first response too, but on second thought, this may be a good balance between keeping European industry strong and green incentives:
European heavy industry isn’t doing great overall. This is partly their own fault: lobbying has focused on keeping grey tech alive instead of enabling a green transition, but also largely because of high wages and regulation in Europe.
We need to push European heavy industry through the energy transition, not into bankruptcy. I’d rather do the energy transition a little slower than be completely dependent on American and Chinese companies for steel, aluminium, etc.
And I’ve been arrested at many climate protests, so don’t tell me I don’t care enough about the climate!
OG Crysis!
It’s a pretty great Deck game, and I’d never seen it run as consistently as it does on Deck at 40fps limit.
It’s not something to be proud of, that’s obvious.
But Rutte was not made secretary-general because of his personal pride. I wasn’t happy to have him as prime minister, at all, for all those years, but he is very good at one thing: getting everyone in the room to agree and making everyone in the room feel heard.
This is how you get Trump to be enthusiastic about your project. He is using Trump’s ego to get him om board with NATO. This is top-tier manipulation, and it’s working!
Rutte is the perfect man for this job, and this is exactly why. No pride, no ego, just doing whatever it takes to keep the unity in NATO and to ensure we are strong enough to deter Russia.
No but OPs frame of it might be
And now each and every country is supposed to spend more on tanks and guns and drones only
Nope, 3.5%.
The other 1.5% is infrastructure and stuff that has both peacetime and wartime benefits, such as roads and rail that can be used for military transport in case of war, cybersecurity, I’d even argue that energy independence can be shared under this.
What is this community’s policy on Russian propaganda?
Thank you, that’s a very useful perspective. I’ll keep it in mind.
It’s easy to shit on neoliberalism.
Far harder to face the truth: we are already at war with Russia, while our security guarantor is pulling out.
I’m not sure what choices Macron made exactly, and he may well have protected established interests over the vulnerable.
But I do know that we, Free Europe, will have to make some hard choices and accept unpopular policy to be able to protect ourselves and our allies.
There’s a fundamental difference in the way the UK and Russia deal with European values such as democracy, freedom of expression, press freedom, etc.
Worse, they’ve cut off all services to the International Criminal Court. Due to Trump’s sanctions. All gov and judicial services in NL continue to rely on Microsoft’s cloud tech… Literally the dog in the house on fire meme…
While this headline is absolutely despicable, let’s not forget there’s plenty of lawyers who’ve given up many comforts to fight for good instead. They will be tearing this up.
Judging lawyers just for being lawyers does not help our case. Judge lawyers for being evil, cheer on those who choose to make the world a better place.
Thanks for the clarification! I should try stuff more, and read less landing pages
Thanks for raising awareness of FOSS Discord alternatives. Revolt certainly is the best looking of all of them.
Last time I looked into this, Revolt’s voice and video chat was “unsupported” for self-hosting while they were working on a complete rewrite. Is this still the case?
The other big FOSS Discord alternative is Synapse-Matrix with the Element X client, but no clue how far along voice and video is over there either.
Then there’s Mattermost, which is more work-oriented and has voice and screen share, but no video calls.
I should host some of this stuff to try it out.
It is. Very atmospheric, and I’m sure there’s a whole lot more depth to things like combat and crafting if you’re interested.
For me it’s just an easy and accessible story RPG. The text-based dialogue and turn-based mechanics make it ideal for on the road gaming IMO. You can look up from your screen or suspend and drop the Deck into your bag at any point.
The writing is great and the game feels much, much, much more fluid than the actual old games it is based on. A lot of love and care has been put into this. It’s very affordable and the most battery-friendly game I’ve played. So when you start up your Deck on the train and only have 15% left, this gives you much more enjoyment per battery charge than anything else.
Full disclosure: I happen to know the artist who did the character art.
Does Cold Waters work well on the Deck?
I’ve been hoping that the new Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age will work well on the Deck in a year or so, and was planning to stick to Dangerous Waters until then.
My P-3 (maritime patrol aircraft) bindings are shared on the community bindings already!
DW runs incredibly efficiently. The graphics look like 1999 anyways, so I just dial the TDP all the way down to 3 W and set FPS to 20. Perfect game when the battery is low!. I haven’t modded it at all, I actually like the retro vibe (and the incredible sonar simulation).
Dangerous Waters.
Very old style, bit clumsy on the controls, but incredibly tense with the gritty sonar stuff.
Been only playing the P-3C airplane so far, but there’s also tons of submarines, a helicopter and a frigate.
It is so satisfying to find and torpedo a submarines after staring at sonar graphs and dropping buoys for a while. Love it! I’ll be sharing an updated aircraft-oriented controls config when I’m happy with it, based on the one community config that was there, which was more sub-oriented.
In my first month with the Deck, I have mostly played:
And the hilarious tech demo of course!
I’m really happy with how well Death Stranding works and really see myself finishing it now that I can play it on commute. Love that game but it never fit my schedule (at the desk, I always played flight sims in VR or just a very quick shooter session).
Red Faction and GRID are easy enough on the battery, especially at 40 fps, and not too fussy about controls so they feel good with a controller (I felt a bit handicapped in Dirt Rally 2 and Project Cars 2).
In terms of emulation, I installed RetroDeck and tried Gran Turismo PSP but found that hard with the large stick and no analog controls for accelerate/brake Just putting some PS1 and PS2 games on it now, let’s see if those will be able to bump GRID and Red Faction from my frequented list:
Yes, it’s called CBAM and it’s the most beautiful tax I’ve ever seen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Mechanism