What? Two packages?

One still? None left?

PSA: election season has begun in Germany. The tone in the comments, and also fully fabricated “news stories” (not meaning this one), have increased dramatically.

The influence campaign has begun. Stay critical people.

Tja.

Yes you are correct in that it’s painful to do the things that are required, and if given the choice, nobody would do it willingly.

My point was, that if everyone has to make sacrifices, there’s a tiny chance. If the deal is “you get to suffer through economic downturn” and at the same time large investors see double, triple digit gains (COVID) then that chance goes to zero/negative.

I think voters do give a shit, but absolutely don’t see why they should be the only ones it affects negatively.

Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime

Headline as of 29. October 2024 (https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime )

I understand why voters may not be so willing. At the same time, anyone actually imposing actual, effective, enforceable sanctions on carbon pollution either goes bankrupt or brings upon armed conflict. Wars have been waged for much lesser threats to maintaining wealth (see RUS vs. UKR, oil/gas reserve competition). I personally don’t think we’ll manage it meaningfully until things get really bad, so I’ll do my best, but will definitely not go out of my way to not eat a steak a few times a year, when theoretically I could punch a billionaire so they have to stay in bed a day and have balanced my family’s CO2 footprint.

Well, ever since there was that fighting around nuclear power plants, I was regularly checking weather patterns, especially the wind directions. If he, say, nuked Kiew within the next week, the fallout would mostly blow to Belarus and back to Russia. Plus, then all guards come off, no treaty has meaning and I see no reason for not going full dirty warfare by Ukraine by say destroying/causing meltdowns hitting nuclear power plants in Russia directly (Kursk,…) thus causing likely fallout over Moscow. And that’s not even including a European response, where there’s historically very little tolerance for fallout-causing type events and therefore could evoke a disproportionately strong we-have-nothing-more-to-lose-and-are-estremely-pissed response.

So, all hypothetical, but what I’m saying is, it’s not a good outcome where everyone loses, but especially bad for Russia. I’m not convinced that’s what will happen.

So eine schnelle Umstellung der russischen Facebook/Tiktok-Propagandamaschine von US Wahl auf Deutschland war halt so nicht geplant und braucht Zeit. So ein Pech aber auch.

Principal Kath pulled out an Army roster from 1905, a newspaper, an official finance committee report from 1920, a book with a constitution and bylaws, another newspaper and lots of dust as he announced each item to the people in the room.

The press was told that in the paperwork was a roster of all of the items in the box, which contained financial statements and coins, among other items.

What’s up with the focus on finances? Now I want to know the contents of the financial committee report and financial statements. I’m guessing one probably can’t get a digital copy.

I think this is one of the most fascinating things. However impressive it is that we can even observe this and know as much as we do - we still don’t really know shit about fuck.

He’s gonna supercharge inflation, isn’t he.

Is that thumbnail supposed to be, like, super “maga dork” lmfao

Gefängnisbruch wird die Zukunft sein.

“Du würdest nicht eine Waschmaschine runterladen” oder so

True, I just wished RISCV laptops were slightly more developed and available. As of now, the specs aren’t there yet in those devices that are available. (8core@2Ghz, but only 16GB Ram, too little for me)

Kind of a bummer, was coming up to a work laptop upgrade soon and was carefully watching the Linux support for Snapdragon X because I can’t bring myself to deal with Apple shenanigans, but like the idea of performance and efficiency. The caution with which I approached it stems from my “I don’t really believe a fucking thing Qualcomm Marketing says” mentality, and it seems holding off and watching was the right call. Oh well, x86 for another cycle, I guess.

Reng deng!

“Where’s the tax return”

Debian gnome is the cutest little bit too big for a little big fan in my mailbox and the one that I have no clue how it looks good for the info across it to me it looks good for the best

Anecdotal, but “does more” is absolutely incorrect these days. Had an Apple believer giving a presentation - HDMI connection to standard projector from iPad just didn’t work. So pull it to a USB thumb drive to put on a proven working laptop (Ubuntu, projector worked directly) and the supposedly FAT formatted drive could not be mounted with some “Spotlight” error.

Wholly unimpressed with the “never just works” of apple nowadays.

Sooo …

If you only ever pirated their content, you have better legal standing?

I think I don’t get how that’s the message they want to send out to the world…

Maybe, but as someone who spent a summer school breaks worth of time in 2002 getting drivers for a Nvidia GeForce 2 card to run under Mandrake (oh the kernel panics…) to play counter-strike 1.X on wine… It’s come a long fucking way.

I use Debian for everyday work and on my private machine nowadays and struggle with the shitty experience of windows when helping someone out now and then. Granted, I don’t have much time for games these days, and often fire up the PS for that, but I feel experience can vary as long as you know what you want and manage expectations.

This motivates me to check out Linux SBCs and something like FCast https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/fcast