On 7/28/23 04:46, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 28.07.23 um 12:13 schrieb Masaru Nomiya:
[DB] == Daniel Bauer <linux@daniel-bauer.com> has written:
[...] DB> (Despite of the horror stories in the press, here in Málaga in the south of DB> Spain we have a very nice summer - right now, 11:30h am, it's 27°C, the month DB> average is approx. 30-31°C in the afternoon, the hottest day was DB> 38° some days ago)
Costa del Sol seemed very southern European to us, but so comfortable!?
Due to the formation of the mountains and valleys we have a lot of very different micro-climates here. There are places where it gets incredibly hot every year, even without "el niño". Málaga is on the lucky side, we have a very pleasant climate most of the time.
(on-topic content below) Since we're wandering into off-topic territory I might as well add that San Diego has been rather cool too. Indeed, there was a 4-month period starting in mid February this year where we didn't have a fully sunny day. Wolfgang Manor's solar array has been under-producing! https://weatherspark.com/h/y/1816/2023/Historical-Weather-during-2023-in-San... Our micro-climate is driven by being close to the coast where the California Current carries cold water down from the Bearing Sea. We have full-blown deserts not too far east of us.
According to newspapers, air conditioners are explosively sold in southern Europe.....
Well, I'm sure they sell more in summer :-)
Although I think there is a climate change, maybe even man made, what the newspaper say is mostly bs.
According to https://de.weatherspark.com/h/y/35192/2023/Historisches-Wetter-w%C3%A4hrend-...
this July is almost, but not as hot as in 2021...
I totally agree with you on the climate change issue, but this really isn't the right venue to hash it out, is it? Things have been rather lonely over at offtopic@lists.opensuse.org since you and Per stopped posting there. IIRC David used to post there too. If you guys came back we could really sink our teeth into nice offtopic topics like the political science behind man-made global warming. In an attempt to bring this back on topic, I agree that your experience with a good open-source developer is heartening and that it could never have happened in the closed-source world. Both Microsoft and Apple have been thorns in my side since at least the early 1980's and I'll gladly take any opportunity to bash them. I've had good experiences interacting with open-source developers too. One time I was having issues with the smartcard middleware library coolkey and manged to get advice from the original author who works for Red Hat. He said to dump coolkey and start using opensc, which he also wrote. Another time I was having a dump issue with Reiserfs and had a short dialog with Hans Reiser himself. This was before he murdered his wife, and he was a bit snide with me too. But still, productive interactions. Regards, Lew