Of course. That made the data less useful as AI training fodder.

I don’t consider NATO as part of the current Axis powers. Israel and USA, yes.

Side note: Forget Google Translate. Better try deepl.com instead.

What is her problem? That fuel is dirt cheap. We pay about twice as much here in Europe.

Not really. It means I have access to devices and tools I simply could not afford as a hobbyist. It means I can go to trade fairs and seminars paid for by my boss. It means I can get materials for my hobby at large customer discount prices.

Don’t know about Fedora. And you would have to do odd things to bloat any Linux distribution anywhere near a Winslop system.

My son had a netbook with win10 and office. This ate 27 of the 32 GB the thing had. An “important update” of 8 GB did not work, putting the device in a download and fail cycle.

I installed Linux on this machine - Kubuntu, with LibreOffice and a load of extra software. Took only about 4 GB of space.

Depends on the teacher. We had both kinds.

Yep, both correct. Singing it is rather difficult, as noone here speaks Swahili, and we have to learn the right intonations and pronunciations from YT videos.

“Baba Yetu” - we learned it for the choir. Luckily, i found a translation, so we now know that we are not ordering fridges or something. Look for “baba yetu stellenbosch” for a nice version.

All while claiming they did “nothing” when they f-ed up themselves.

Around '98, a tech support guy got a call that their application didn’t work anymore. He tried to troubleshoot, but the system was a mess. “Did you change anything since yesterday?” - “No, we didn’t!”.

What they did do, though, was running the Win98 update the day before. Which, at one point, after doing lots of things, complained that it could not continue for some reason, and offered to “undo” the changes…

I’m non-native (native German, learned English in school). Nearly everything I read or write is English, though, and I’ve probably read more English books than most of the native speakers.

I use Kubuntu for that. Works good, is reliable, and uses Plasma instead of Gnome. The KDE Plasma environment is way easier to “get” for people coming from Windows than Gnome.

I was running a server hosting a Gutenberg mirror at home 30+ years ago. And no, it’s not public.

I assume. I mean, they do make money somehow, and it’s probably not by getting pirated.

All of the anime pirating sites are riddled with ads.

As if the commercial sites were any better…

One of my schoolmate was a serious asshole. Our guesses for his future were either he’d be a lawyer, or he’ll make a career in the FDP (a more money for the rich kind of political party here, with a “liberal” label).

I was not surprised to learn that he is lawyer, working for exactly that party.

Been there, seen that. Happened when I had the family in car, in the middle of the motorway. I barely managed to get through the trucks onto the hard shoulder…

During and due to the reign of Helmut Kohl. A chancellor who put the sake of the party over his oath of office. There were large donations to his party of unknown origin, and he claimed that he had given the donor his word of honor not to tell where the money came from. And that was it. No prosecution, no consequences.

This is for me simply unacceptable. Our Grundgesetz (constitution) says that anybody is equal before the law, and here someone was obviously more equal than others.

Zohran Mamdani

Knows politics, but is a person I’d trust to fix things.