> You can’t just deny immigration in every country in the world and have the worlds oppressed and poor floating in international waters.
Well, you can and even much worse. Depending on how bad the migrant crisis get, we might well see that much worse. Those boats that the coastguard don't get to in time... yeah.
There are lots of things. One that comes immediately to mind is the fact that if you apply any Linux desktop “themes” you are actually pretty likely to end up in situations where certain software is hard to use because they have components or cursors or some weird stuff that was never tested with a variety of desktop themes, so parts of them end up with black text on a #020202 background or buttons drawn with a hardcoded background color or whatever. Since there is no actual cohesive theming environment, the splintered miasma of theming environments means there is effectively none that’s useful. This is, unfortunately, the nature of guerilla software development, and the reason why, as awesome as it is, it’s never taking over the desktop.
It's entirely subjective. For me, most Linux UIs have a charm that I'm not seeing in Apple or Microsoft UIs. Those are often "too clean" or "too polished" for me. I'm not saying that font issues shouldn't be fixed, but it doesn't bother me that much. For what's it worth, I also really liked the aesthetic of macOS pre-X.
Linux is perfectly capable of good font rendering. A lot of people dont care/cant tell and show off screenshots in which they are intending to show off their theme/backgrounds/colors and are only unintentionally show off the fact that their choice of fonts and settings they tweaked for no reason is subjectively or objectively worse than default.
For me, in Ubuntu LTS, Gnome looks nice and has good font rendering. File drag and drop doesn't work, I can't use their default file manager like I use Windows Explorer.
So, not always the same thing, but always something.
Your point is false. Rooftop PV saves (if your roof is suitable) significant amounts on a domestic energy bill even in the UK. I know this from having lived in two houses in the UK that had them, and the calculations that went into deciding to install the first of those, and that panels/inverters etc. have become much cheaper since then. Also, last time I was living in the UK, the grid cost looked like it was billed as a separate line item to the per-unit (kWh) cost, so this really is about the domestic price itself and not just funky billing hiding the cost of the grid like you wrote in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158442
The grid scale alternatives — solar farms, wind farms, hydroelectric — can be better or worse in different ways and different times of year, but normal people can't put full size ones on their own property and such wind and hydro scale non-linearly anyway so small ones aren't as cost effective[0].
Furthermore, the reason for the link under which this is being discussed, is that the UK has land area constraints. Suitable areas in the UK for grid scale PV are basically all farms and/or designed National Parks or AONBs and/or designated green belt, and the exceptions (like disused military bases and airfields) have people clamouring over them to build new towns. Sometimes people can get grid scale PV past planning permission, but it's hard work and upsets people with power who want the countryside to look like farmland. Rooftop PV circumvents that.
[0] Except possibly geothermal/ground source heat pump. Those still provide cost effective benefit when you can do them, but the wide price range means I'm not sure which is better.
1. Most residences not being suitable for significant generation.
2. The return on investment is decades long (yes, so is double glazing, but that is useful for far more households), not that most households can afford it at all.
3. The total generation capacity is piddle, especially for government investment.
4. The materials that go into making PV panels are horrible to extract.
I'm not saying PV panels are useless, but they are not much of anything. Not something my lecturers at uni liked hearing/reading, but lo and behold pretty much nothing substantial has changed since. They're too busy blowing Sustainable Development smoke up their own arses though.
