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The 'old' Phillips is not the same as the current. The original Phillips is now doing medical equipment mainly, selling to hospitals etc. Phillips Lighting is now Signify, though as far as I can tell that's still a Dutch company. Phillips consumer electronics where spun of and sold out, to a Chinese buyer I believe. TVs and monitors I think were sold out separately from general consumer electronics.

Zim Desktop Wiki is absolutely excellent

Default look n feel does feel a couple of decades outdated. But it can easily be customized to look look much more modern and comfortable.

Youtube tutorials on how to get started often begins with customizing the user interface before even starting the modeling tutorial. I recommend Deltahedra and Mangojelly on YouTube

FreeCAD, and I recommend you give it a second try, while watching the excellent tutorials from Deltahedra and Mangojelly on YouTube. Lots of the jank can be avoided if you only know how, so the tutorials are extremely useful.

FreeCAD has gotten exponentially better with each release the last few years, and both active developers and funding/donations from users have increased exponentially. The future is bright. And unlike the "free" commercial programs, FreeCAD is immune to future rug-pulls and enshitification.

You might also want to try https://dune3d.org/ , a relatively new 3D CAD software

I'm confused how they don't already? More than 3500kg gross weight capacity is no longer a class B "car" but a class C/C1 "truck" and require a C1 license

"Pumped storage" is already a thing. Using excess grid electricity to pump water uphill.

Though excavating underground cavern for pumped storage sounds exceedingly expensive:O

Hydro is definitely highly geography dependant, and certainly the environmental impact can be severe. Though there's also been great advancements in smaller scale "low head" hydro where you don't need to submerge half a valley or block migratory paths. Hence curiosity where hydro stacks up.

I suppose it's so geography dependant you can't make a meaningful global average to compare with other forms.

Then again in my particular neck of the woods solar is limited at best, for half the year. While the local landscape is nothing but mountains, valleys , lakes and rivers. So many lakes and rivers.

Another neat thing about hydro is that it's a renewable base load. Geothermal is another, but that's also highly geography dependant

Disappointing DW didn't include hydropower in the price comparison graphic. Also would have been interesting to see where offshore wind stacks up, though tbh I'm not sure the math is even in yet for offshore wind

My gut reaction too. But their readme/faq makes a lot of sound points. Also Nextcloud is one of the main contributors, so you know it's serious. Also Proton and Ionos (which I admit I'd never heard of, but they seem big)

There's strong Farquaad vibes here..

Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

Huge, but full of rocks and mountains and fjords. "Arrable land" is at a premium. Norwegian farmers look at danish and Dutch fields with much envy

Especially with all the work being put in to Forgejo CI/CD lately