Okay, so my airing of grievances post had some issues.

So, lets swap it up:

What events are you looking forward to in 2026?

      • mikenurre@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        All of them! I have Ubuntu 24LTS on my desktop, prepping Mint for a utility machine, testing Manjaro and Endeavor in VMs, not sure what distro I will move my laptop to yet.

        • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          <Insert highly subjective complaint about choice of distro here>

          Either way, another soul saved. Great to have you on board!

          • mikenurre@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 days ago

            I still have Azure certs, and Microsoft is still my job. But… if I can make my job moving others off Microsoft, many souls can be saved.

            • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
              1·
              9 days ago

              Oh, in that case, and considering the list of devices you’re updating, you might be interested in putting Linux From Scratch on one of the disposable devices:

              https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

              I wouldn’t run it as my main driver, but it’s a book that steps you through each package to manually compile until you have a fully working system. It’s pretty error prone but along the way you learn how most of the pieces fit together. It’s probably still a bit much for now but I thought I’d mention it

          • mikenurre@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 days ago

            Not familiar enough with the differences. Plus I’ll learn it better if I have to figure out all the ways to do a task instead of just one. Nano or Emacs or Vim? KDE or Gnome? Too much to choose from! :)

            • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
              0·
              9 days ago

              Yeah, there’s plenty to get overwhelmed in. If the overhead becomes a bit, then any of them are probably good enough and either way you’ll work out what you like

              A friend of mine did something that might work for you: he used genAI as a linux tutor. It’s one of the better use cases I’ve heard for it, if you’re not ethically opposed. Just make sure to double check something more official before you run a command and accidentally destroy something

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    US midterm elections: November 3, 2026. The most-likely outcome is that the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives, though they won’t actually take office until January 3, 2027.

  • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
    4·
    9 days ago

    The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It might not launch in the year but after it does launch we should see some new exoplanets and we might get some new information about dark energy. Since it’s scanning the sky we might see some interesting transient events

    • Asafum@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 days ago

      I’m always looking forward to new telescopes! With the way this disgusting excuse of an administration is going though I’m always afraid for the future of all remaining telescopes…

      Gotta free up that budget to cut more billionaires taxes and throw more money at the military ya know?

      …

      • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
        2·
        7 days ago

        Like the VIPER moon rover? Completely built but cancelled. And a bit hard to square with wanting to put boots on the moon since the mission according to Wikipedia was:

        The rover would be tasked with prospecting for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas of lunar south pole region, especially by mapping the distribution and concentration of water ice.

        I guess that’s pretty small compared to things like the National Center for Atmospheric Research being dismantled. Actually, its a pretty long list

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    9 days ago

    Getting my backup situation under control so I can be less stressed…finishing my basement studio and maybe starting on my gaming room finishing. Id love to have more people over for playing some old console games and ps1/2 (which are a new console btw).

    The state of the world I choose to ignore

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Pierre Pollievre getting the fuck out of office, or at least stepping down. he’s fucking pathetic and only seeks to divide the country.

    goddamn I wish we had proper vote reform for ranked ballots or whatever, and didn’t get stuck with the Liberals

  • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 days ago

    In 2025 China installed over 500GW of solar power. That is an insane amount it’s over 1.3 gigawatts a day or a large power plant per day. Sodium batteries have gone into production and gonna be sold at like 50$/kwh. These price points and scales are where it’s cheaper to build 2 times your power needed in solar and have like a week of battery backup so you can power everything off solar and wind. Right now it’s 60/40 fossil fuels/low carbon sources for electricity production, 2026 will be the year it flips to 49/51 in actuality, it might take a year or two before analysts actually realize it has happened.