If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.

Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn’t charge for the experience.

I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don’t necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn’t produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth’s goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.

It never states that they had these in their birth years. Just that they had them. Might have been in the 2020s with the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which is the fastest car and was built in their lifetime. And coincidentally, currently the fastest in my lifetime as well

Ok. Here, at least the higher end options have independent certifications.

$2 / dozen?

I pay about $12 / dozen after conversion because I can’t imagine a lower price covering cost that allows any decent kind of life for the chickens.

How, after all costs, should $2 / dozen even work outside of the most horrible conditions?

My opinion : far too many distros are « pet distros »

I think those are actually great. Personally wouldn’t use them for a prolonged time or anything critical. But I love the spirit, even if the distribution is of no use to me.

Thanks, so yes.

Is this relevant when using a login manager?

Insurances need to cover their expected cost with the rates, otherwise they won’t be able to cover in case of an incident. Nobody will run an insurance expecting a loss, and you can’t force anyone to.

The alternative is like when we had flood that the state bails out the boomers who bought houses when they were cheap in areas where insurance won’t insure because of risk, paid with taxes by people like me who have a hard time acquiring property because taxes and other cost are so high due to decisions their generation and earlier ones made.

Of course, this is somewhat exaggerated; they also pay taxes. But it’s also not completely wrong.

In the particular case of a previous colleague’s house getting flooded, I always had to think of the fact that she chose to fly a certain route for work to save about 2 hours because it’s just so much more convenient than the train.

I mean it would have happened with it without her flying, but still thought about it.

Again?

Even submarines powered by diesel engines use, to my very limited knowledge, generators to convert to electricity and then use that electricity for the actual engines. Unlike most cars which do not convert to electricity first. And if the way the electricity was generated is what defines it, then other EVs would need to be allowed as well because the electricity could have been generated from burning fossils.

Fish is a surprisingly good shell.

It’s not POSIX compatible, but I don’t really care, it only executes its own scripts / functions. It’s not as innovative as elvish or nu, but it kind of does everything very conveniently and shell-y for lack of a better word – and it always seems so simple. It seems conservative in design, but the old concepts have been evolved in a very usable way. Something I can’t say for all the other shells I’ve tried – at some point, it always gets awkward where fish is just elegant.

I suspect that is something specific to Ecosia, that they changed parameters from time to time which changes the entry, making your selected one no longer available, and then this happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal

The fact that they announce Ecosia now after it’s been available for a bit, makes me think this is what happened. I’ll see

Using Linux here

The Ukrainian strategy from 1991 to 2014? I’m not sure this is something I’d attempt nowadays.

Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn’t switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great… because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not

I think military applications should focus on what’s best for the job, there are cases where EV is better and there are others where you want ICEs.

Banning EVs for the military sounds really serious because technically, these include electrically powered trains, and as far as I know most nautical vehicles also use electric engines.

The term midlife crisis doesn’t refer to just any crisis, it’s a very specific thing about your identity and achievements and can be financial, but doesn’t have to be. It’s more of a “what have I achieved in life / how do I compare to others” thing after about half of your work life (or actual life sometimes) is over. If you measure success financially then yeah it might play into the equation but being strapped for cash in your early twenties doesn’t make a midlife crisis.

It’s kind of in line with their plan to get rid of OCSP: short certificate lifetimes keep CRLs short, so I get where they’re coming from (I think).

90 days of validity, which was once a short lifetime. Currently, Google is planning to enforce this as the maximum validity duration in their browser, and I’m sure Mozilla will follow, but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t because no provider can afford to not support chromium based browsers.

I was expecting that they reduce the maximum situation to e.g. 30 days, but I guess they want to make the stricter rules optional first to make sure there are no issues.

How’s the non-chain scene in Germany?

Generally pretty good, at least for Kebab, burgers, fries, sausage and grilled chicken. Sandwiches are a total niche though. Basically only smaller ones premade at bakeries and shops (premade still referring to made in store, but not upon request).

Well, this was my perspective from Germany. We don’t have and never had a real competing chain. We have McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC as big fast food chains. So this is what they compete against here