This, totally. That's the reason for me too.

They do good work but the way they ask really ticks me off. And it's been like this forever, when they still featured the sad-sam Jimmy Wales pic.

They do great work but I'll rather give to archive.org that also do amazing and important work, need it a lot more and don't cry about it so much.

Both personally and as part of the management team of 150.000 computers at work, we don't use this stuff there either.

Well, because it doesn't. At least on the Linux version I used in the past, it defaulted to 512 byte blocks or something similarly small and it commits every block individually, leading to really slow performance with USB sticks with controllers not smart enough to bundle writes together. I wouldn't be surprised if that incurs some heavy write amplification at flash level too. Perhaps it's smart enough to figure a better block size now but this is where that habit comes from.

Another thing, creating sparse files with the seek option (simply put files containing zeros that are not actually written to the disk nor taking space, but do turn up all these zeroes when you read the file). Also something not duplicated with cat or head.

What I like about dd is that it can do pretty much all disk operations in one simple tool. Definitely worth learning all of it IMO.

For 10 euro you can get Netflix, Spotify. My Ring security subscription is also a tenner. Pretty much everything that has a subscription model targets 10 euro as a minimum. I don't really know why, all these tenners add up a lot. I'm even dropping Spotify now some months (especially because when I drop it, the next month they offer me 3 months for a tenner to come back, which I find a lot more reasonable as I don't use it much).

Kagi does really sound like it is easier to provide and should not cost as much. It feels like they are expecting super-heavy users. Their 50 free searches a month is not enough for me but I could probably do with 100 or 200. But there is no intermediate subscription, it's just 50 free or unlimited for a tenner.

It's only gone downhill since the sites started adding algorithmic crap and filtering things out to increase 'engagement'. This made facebook totally useless for me to keep in touch with my friends.

Portable accounts are indeed important and a big thing missing from ActivityPub, I agree there.

But I'm completely over to IM now to keep in touch with friends. Social Media has invalidated its own usecase for me.

The regular G10 one is pretty useless obviously. Soldered AMD CPU, cheap design etc. No iLO. It's more of a home entertainment thingy, nothing enterprise-class at all.

I agree I'm looking for something lower power too. I have three G8's but they are each doing 50W idle so I can't run them 24/7. And this is with the lowest-TDP processor that is available for them! (E3-1220Lv2, 17W TDP). The iLO alone is consuming 5W even when it's off.

I'm not sure how much power the G10 Plus draws but I haven't really considered it. It's too expensive still (I bought all my G8's for 175-200 euro each and 2 of them even had a 60 euro cashback on top of that!! So I barely paid more than 100 for them brand new. Crazy cheap pricing for a well-built 4-bay server. Each of the drives inside them cost more than the server itself :)

But 15-20W I think is very ambitious with 4 3.5" drive slots. 30W would be doable I think.

Yes they do. In the Netherlands there's a lot of maintenance going on. Once on a trip to my workplace at the time (75km away) I counted 12 individual speed restrictions due to roadwork. I constantly had to switch between 120, 100 and 70kph. Most of it happens during the night though. I guess Germany doesn't always do this.

> Also renting and the government stepping in to keep rents at a low price sounds like poverty and socialism to me. Not a good sign.

I personally like socialism and many in Europe do. The richest countries have the best welfare systems in general (like Scandinavia). Holland itself is an unfortunate exception with its Anglo-Saxon liberal model.

It's becoming more important as the housing market is out of control and buying a house is near impossible now on a modal salary. Regulation keeps pricing fair to those who need it. It's not a sign of poverty but of the systemic choices we make.

> But speaking of driving in germany i found the constant tailgating and the general aggressiveness and flashing similar to east europe 10 years ago. Horrible driving culture.

This is something we do agree on :) I try to avoid driving in Germany.

I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty good but Gnome's design decisions and philosophy don't match my preferences.

If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments.

I tend to use mostly Qt apps, because they look the most 'native' on KDE and have the best integration. They also have the same philosophy (the more user choice and settings the better) which I subscribe to, so I naturally gravitate towards them.

And no the wifi applet always worked correctly for me (I don't use wifi on my main desktop but on laptops it works fine for me)

There's also things I don't like with KDE but there's almost always an option to change it. Whereas with Gnome there is almost never any such option, it could be there is an extension that does it but having too many extensions tends to drag you into a quagmire of version dependencies making it really hard to upgrade.

The one thing I really don't like about KWin is that the virtual desktops of each display can't be switched independently like with i3 for example. They're all stuck together. But this is a minor inconvenience compared to all the things I dislike about Gnome.

Of course YMMV and that is why we have Linux <3

A bit offtopic but this is still something I find very lacking in the EU.

For all the good it's brought us, we still have extremely different social security in each country and if you've lived in many EU countries throughout your life it's a complete PITA to reconcile things like pensions. Some countries have state pensions, others only voluntary corp plans.. I have no idea how this will turn out when I retire.

IMO these different systems should at the very least be talking together.

And the EU has had a consistent push to solve it, unlike the US, which for instance during the Trump era pulled out of the Paris accord.

I think it's important to point out that most EU countries do not subscribe to the exact same free-market vision that the US does. And the biggest country that did has recently left it.

Most of Europe is totally happy with a much more restricted free market than the US would ever allow. This is not something imposed on us people. It's what the majority wants, aka democracy.

I have a feeling Broadcom is the main problem here, they probably prioritize other customers. Which is surprising in some ways because a lot of raspberry pi foundation members are ex-broadcom or still even work there.

However I guess the other companies are willing to offer more whereas if the pi became more expensive there would be a lot of uproar (and rightly so because it defeats the purpose)

It's sad that this was the last tablet Sony ever made.

Sure? This is exactly the thing that Wayland was supposed to solve. Only X has one DPI for all screens.

I still use X because I'm on FreeBSD and I even got multi-screen multi-dpi scaling to work there, with xrandr settings but indeed it was not fun. In Wayland it should be click & play though.

But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.