4 Italian factories, 2 Chinese according to Wikipedia

Construction jobs are temporary. Doubt they’ll be making a lot of money off this tbh. More of an image thing.

At least they won’t have to export as much of their renewable energy anymore

Lithuanian actually

I wish it were feasible.

But maybe you’ll make something GeForce 4 level after a decade of effort. Could be fun

I’ll continue to sell them services necessitated by stupid American laws and systems that won’t in any way grow their diplomatic power, but even at my pretty damn high hourly rates, I could work a million hours a year and not make a dent.

Best we can collectively do, though, is see where we’re investing our money. My retirement fund was a composite of index funds, predominantly American, all American-run. I switched over to a different fund that has more European and international indexes, with many run by European owned companies. System here is such that retirement funds must be diversified, which is why they contain multiple index ETFs, some of them overlapping.

I’m in Europe, but latitude is about the same as Anchorage, Alaska.

For winter it’s not uncommon to have auxiliary heating that starts off a remote or app. Plus you wear clothes to make up for it

Summer is like 4-5 minutes of idling and then it’s not TOO bad to get inside. Unless you parked straight in the sun and your first drive of the day is in the afternoon.

Best car I’ve ever owned was a rusty 2003 MB E-class. 4 zone climate went down to 12C, seats were heated and ventilated, and you could set it to run the interior fan for 30 min with ignition off. 1000 miles to a tank of diesel.

Cost me a whopping 3k. They’re available as diesels in the US too (2005 MY only) and last about a million miles, but US did not get the diesel in the wagon body style I had, which made it the ultimate do-anything car

35C/100% is literal death for humans. I would literally kill myself whereever you live.

Also we have diesel cars here. Half a gallon gets you like 2-3 hours of idling lol

Or just don’t get in the car before it’s cold lol, wouldn’t do that with cloth seats either plus I wouldn’t want to sweat into those anyway, they absorb the sweat

Never seen windows cool a car down enough in the summer. I also cool my car to about 15C in the summer. What sweat?

Lmao

It’s a very different fabric from seats, which need to last way longer and use tougher fabrics.

I can’t even stand clothes that rub against my skin the wrong way, let alone car seats lol. Maybe some sort of sensory overload issue for me.

Where I live, it gets so cold you can’t drive away right after starting the engine anyway, you won’t see through your windows. You start the engine and heated seats and heated rear window (and front if you have a Ford) and then start clearing the ice off your windows.

In the summer, hot car is hot regardless of seats. Start the car and AC, have a cigarette or finish your chat, then get in the car.

Estonia. I’ve seen 1980s or 90s heaps of junk with heated seats. It’s kind of a requirement when it gets to -33C in the winter. It’s also very cheap for manufacturers to add, so a lot of them include it as standard equipment in northern countries.

It was more common than AC here until AC became standard equipment in cars.

Fabric isn’t superior in comfort, it has way too much friction. Definitely the cheaper and greener option though.

Leather feels much nicer than cloth. I prefer my seating surface smooth.

I don’t remember the last time I had a car without heated seats. I’ve had a car as old as 2003 (bought for 3k) that had ventilated seats. The are also ways to make sure your car is the right temperature by the time you get in it.

What’s wrong with using SUSE if you want to avoid the other 2?

Rocky and Alma aim to give you the same software as RHEL, but no support unfortunately.

If you can’t trust Canonical or SUSE, I don’t think there’s any enterprise option left for you, gotta use one of dem free distros