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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Wir hatten in den letzten Jahren zwei offiziell angestellte Putzhilfen, jeweils als Minijob. Jetzt haben wir wieder gesucht, aber niemanden gefunden, der/die es angemeldet machen will. Mit vier Kandidatinnen habe ich geschrieben, keine wollte es offiziell machen. Und das waren nur die, die sich überhaupt gemeldet haben.

    Bezahlte Urlaubstage, bezahlte Krankheitstage, Rentenversicherungspunkte - interessiert die alles nicht. Von Steuerehrlichkeit will ich gar nicht Anfangen, da werde ich sicher ausgelacht.

    Früher habe ich mich über die Reichen empört, die Steuern hinterziehen. Heute sehe ich, dass es (fast) alle machen, wo sie nur können. Schade, schade.






  • Nice list, thanks for sharing your experience.

    no weird distros. no arches, no gentoos, no immutable thisisthefuture shit. (…) fedora for newest hardware, mint for ancient stuff, ubuntu for everything else

    Do you have an opinion on opensuse?

    separate your system stuff from your applications as much as possible. purge all user-facing apps, like firefox and media players and such from the system’s package manager (apt or dnf) and reinstall them from flatpak. that was a headache a few years ago, nowadays almost everything works OOB on wayland. the apps include everything they need to work, the setup is easy to maintain and recreate, upgrades are better (no reboots necessary) and all your settings and data are in one place.

    Not sure I get this. When did you need reboots for upgrading user-facing apps?

    Where are those settings and data for flatpaks? Is there no separation between default settings (systemwide) and user-defined (in $HOME)?

    Does flatpak work well on Ubuntu and is it easy to get rid of snap?






  • Okay, but khtml was part of KDE, so I guess it wasn’t developed by a company that needed to make money from it, was it?

    And neither is chrome. Google doesn’t need it to create revenue. They need it to control the channel with which people access their main product - advertising on the web. And for that goal it is beneficial to have it as widespread as possible, even in the form of derivatives.




  • Building a free (as in beer) engine for others to build great browsers on, is a pretty thankless task. Individuals may take pride in such a task, but for a company that needs to pay their staff, it’s a fruitless endeavor. I assume it’s much harder to earn money, if people are not using your software itself, but the forks that add all the cool stuff.







  • Since you are narrowing down on Tumbleweed, here are my 2¢: After more than 15 years of Kubuntu I installed Tumbleweed a few years (two?) ago, because it offers a rolling release, system snapshots and KDE.

    Having a job and a family, I do not have the time to tinker anymore, so I expect things to work smoothly out-of-the-box nowadays.

    Tumbleweed let me down in this respect.

    Once I had to completely reinstall the system because the snapshots filled the system partition during an update, which made it unable to start KDE. I could roll back from the terminal to the previous snapshot, but couldn’t figure out how to remedy the problem, except for using a greater partition and reinstalling.

    And just a few days ago KDE (and many applications, when used in LXDE) wouldn’t start, because of version mismatches (caused by an incomplete update?) that broke the linkage of qt libraries. To resolve it I had to make a decision between two packages (tlp vs tuned) to finish the update, even though I hadn’t installed those manually and didn’t know anything about them.

    Besides those problems I find the administration suboptimal, with the divide between the Interfaces of Yast and the KDE settings. I didn’t manage to get my Brother network printer to work (except via direct USB connection), which worked out of the box with my android phone.