Not quite as impressive, but I somehow fucked up something with my bootloader lately and couldn’t boot anymore into my main drive. Loaded up a live usb stick and made a new ESP partition, arch-chroot and grub-install/grub-makecfg and it worked again.

Yes, I just followed a guide, but I am still fascinated this just worked on the first try.

Xmanager on mobile and spotx on desktop

I don’t mind the ads on desktop tooooo much but they started playing one single ad over and over and over and over again for two week. Enough is enough

The thing is, this is mostly reactionary politics. They do this because it’s easy and they can say “see we did something, gib vote”.

Instead phsychological care is being reduced, which would be way more valuable in the long term.

I am not saying gun laws are bad, just that they don’t pose that much of a problem in Austria if it weren’t for psychological issues. Not to speak about alcohol, unrelated to the shooting but ffs thats an issue nobody touches because “culture”-_-. I just mention this because regulating this properly and/or providing psychogical care for alcohol problems, or even aknowledging that it IS a problem, would go way further in preventing harm and accidents.

Not as interesting of an issue of course, no outrageous headlines to be made that don’t negatively impact politicians…

It confused me a bit when reading the Mistborn series. Wtf is aluminum and why have i never heard of that? Do they just call Aluminium differently because of story reasons? Did i miss something? Are the other metals correct?

Good books tho

This! Ffs, pepe is one of the best memes ever

Thats not true!! I used to have fun! At least 4 games in 2000+ over 12 years were definitely fun!!

Absolutely. I hate that nobody here (exaggerated, but the common sentiment…) aknowleges any kind of problem whatsover, no matter which topic.

Also gaining in nordic countries, even though people say “our rightwing isn’t that rightwing” 🙃

You can’t AND/OR combine filters. If i want to move stuff into “Gitlab trash” automatically, I need to use different rules instead of one with multiple applying conditions

No idea how and why but my dad once had a cable like that in his workshop.

Short story: we were having a party, bit drunk and wanted power for the bigger speakers, needed an extension, rummaged around and found this one. Of course didn’t check the ends, plugged it in and then thought “oh what a weird male adapter there, lets take it…bzzzzt”.

Have a tiny burn scar on my hand now, luckily nothing else happened. The cable got dismantled afterwards, but I still don’t know why it was there in the first place, he is a pretty good handyman normally.

the price of beef is insane

Good

Then you have people like my sister: “nooo my nurse friend said the vaccine is the worst, i will never get vaccinated. I live healthy and go outside a lot, that’s much better!”

Edit: i don’t disagree with you at all, just frustrating how even seemingly smart people form so stupid opinions…

A stupid combination of lazyness, a very successfull ad campaign long ago and nostalgia.

Same thing why they have taco friday (only due to texmex ads) or why they still stick to the absolutely boring bolle (rasinbreads) as main food for schoolkids.

Sorry for the rant, i just hate the food “culture” here…

Edit: ok lazyness is an unbased accusation, scratch that…

What they call pizza here is more like frozen cardboard. No, it’s really “not that good” at all

Great!

The article has been edited to clarify that the UN’s use of the software for this instance doesn’t indicate that the UN will necessarily use the software going forward.

Well lets hope they do

my first thought goes to YT, not tv which would come second (without an ad-blocker, how many ads are there with each single video on YT?)

Oh i completely agree with you and hate it whenever i get in contact with YT. It’s just not the first thing to think about for me as I try not to use it in the first place ^^. I generally can’t understand how people use the internet without ad blockers, it’s obnoxious and easy to forget if one has all devices properly setup to block that crap.

I would like for us to stay diverse and not become a second-class wannabe US consumers (not even citizens). But I could be wrong, obviously, and maybe that would be amazing to eat the same cultural production the US as feasted upon?

I also agree with your sentiment. My statement was based on the vibe I got, á la “we don’t want to change we just want to keep it as is and be protected by rules”. I just meant that the whole TV thing needs to evolve. That dows not mean everything should adopt the US way, but they can’t expect people to just keep sitting at home and watch TV when it just doesn’t keep up.

Unfortunately many alternatives for many people are only Netflix and the likes…but I would just love if Europe would at least try to beat them with alternatives and not just stick with what we know and ban the evil US.

I should also take a few min to read the article…

As much as i support boycotting american products: what is even a reason for me to need broadcasters? Free TV is such ad ridden garbage, I would never want to go back to that.

To me and many people I know a TV itself is a pretty pointless accessory. At most a big screen for console/games. Only my parents generation uses the TV ever evening in my experience.

Generally curious, this sounds like a cry to protect something unnecessary in its current form. It needs to adapt to nowadays needs, not cry for regulatory changes to restrict competitors imo. (That said, I would have no problems regulating American data collection more and harsher, but as a topic on its own)

Edit: no I did not read the article at the time of writing this comment …

it’s a US only problem.

Absolutely not. There more than enough lobbying and corruption in our all-so-democratic EU, just most of the population denying it based on “look how much worse the US is”

Well, i think it’s definitely the “big evil corpos” fault. But that doesn’t make your rant wrong either. Just, consumers never want to be told they are part of the problem. Corpos are shit and all but if consumers wouldn’t buy shit while there is an alternative, they wouldn’t continue making it. Advertising is a big problem there as well, and people, consciously or not, being influenced at all times…

Deinen freien Willen kannst du dir sonst wohin stecken, wenn du damit den freien Willen anderer maßgeblich einschränkst. Z.B. in dem du viel zu schnell fährst und dadurch andere gefährdest, durch den Lärm störst, oder im schlimmsten Fall beim Unfall umbringst.

Eigentlich ein einfaches Prizip, der freie Wille zählt halt nicht nur für dich selbst. Aber da müsste man ja an andre Menschen denken, wo kommen wir denn da hin…