I partially agree and partiallt disagree with the article.

While it’s true that’s easy to ignore the contribution of Europe to technology as a whole (remeber that ASML, the most advanced litography machines that allow the 7,5,4nm production, is a dutch company) and you may very well call it a success.

However, it’s also impossible to ignore that those USA companies still dominate our world. Sure, universities use linux and many open standards, but they also use Microsoft 365, in some cases in the entire infrastructure. Android without Google is almost impossible to imagine for 99% of people. Everyone and their dog buys so much stuff from Amazon.

And that’s a problem, because one country holds our life by our ballss basically. If microsoft collapsed, thousands of companies and institutions would cease to operate. If amazon collapsed, millions of europeans good would be unsold.

Europe has contributed a lot to technology, but to make then truly relevant, they must be used by everyone, not the tech entusiasts. I only know of a few people who use OpenStreetMaps and they are all techy like me.

I think we nees to regain that power, if not for European sovereignity, at least to have competing products that avoid enshittification.

Well, correct me if I’m wrong, but RedHat also had more recent updates compared to CentOS, while also being certified.

Let’s maybe not? Do people really want more ads in their homes?

Not only that, usually lettinf people out fully and then going is is faster than getting all crammed and sruck trying to enter.

Look how that fucking guy runs and gi hiding after he heard a shot. Coward.

To be fair, they started developing symptoms much later then when we took care of them. But yeah, we had a lot of cats in the years, 90% of them were strays (or in this case, one of them was actually kicked of their house and spent some years outside) that self-tamed over time lol.

We had two stray cats, one was confirmed FIV+, the other not, they didn’t really get any recurring infection, but they both started having the same neurological symptoms: they lost control of their back legs and sphincters, had trouble walking straight and cleaning themselves so we had to do it.

I don’t know if this is a regular outcome of FIV, or if it’s even related at all, but you might want to look for gradual problems with walking and balance. Not much you can do unfortunately, but what I can tell you is they don’t get any less loving, actually, they probably get more. His last days one of the strays went from barely staying close to a human unless being fed, to purr, pets and constant headbutts.

Good luck with your little fella, glad he could find a caring home.

1. doing things you are not supposed to do is fun
2. thinkering with electronics in fun
3. we are sacrificing our freedom to megacorporations that continously tell us what to do, what to think, what you can and can’t do with devices we own and enshittify them. Taking back some of that freedom feels good

First article it gave me was for “Human extinction” lol

That’s not the problem though. Even if you have no other OS installed, windows still refuses to install on external HDDs.

Some of my first memories are of my father playing AoE, I don’t even remember when or how I learnt to play the game, at some point I just did and still do.

Linux Mint has a program simply called “Drawing” that does exactly that. You can resize pictures, draw shapes, write text, paint and save as other formats. It’s a big buggy and unoptimized, but it’s cool. For simple things, it’s sometimes more convenient than GIMP.

Laurel & Hardy vibes

Totally worth it

As a society, we learned how to take care of the less able people (with every asterisk in the world, but at least the idea is there). However, for some reason, that only applied to people that are very non-functional. If you are functional, but not always, you can still take care of yourself, so suck it up and get your life together.

Fuck that, we should learn that everyone deserves to be helped, not only those who need a lot of help, sometimes a little goes a long way.

That’s one chonky little angel.

I’m guessing it’s fluffier than anything I’ve ever touched.

Thank you for your love. Glad he could warm your week :) he surely made a lot of people happier.

I’m doing ok. Loosing a furry friend is tough, but (unfortunately) I lost many in my years so I can deal with it. The only bad things about pets is that they always leave too soon.

Sputnik 1 was the first artifical satellite put into orbit. Based on how you define “first rocket in space”, it might have been Nazi Germany with their V2 rockets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_spaceflight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_before_1951

but LMDE especially will be subject to dealing with older software

Are you sure about this? As far as I know, debian modernized their repos quite a bit even compared to ubuntu, that also sparked some controversy from debian long time fans especially because they wanted more dated, stable software. Never used LMDE though, so I’m not sure if it applies

The Alps are pretty freacking impressive. You see these enormous pointy rocks in the background and your brain knows how massive these mountains are. They are incredible.