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New comment by asfodelsu in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

asfodelsu — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:49:01 +0000

Α better translation is "defender of the borders" or "Knights of the borders". Form "Akri" = edge, border.

It's not Muslim related even at the time they exists.

New comment by asfodelsu in "People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test"

asfodelsu — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:12:28 +0000

Maybe: Most American people don't understand percentages?

New comment by asfodelsu in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

asfodelsu — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:00:58 +0000

In many places in Europe: Normal price per item big letters, price per Kg small letters. Problem solved

New comment by asfodelsu in "A word about private attribution in Firefox"

asfodelsu — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 07:19:11 +0000

And the sad time has come: We need an "Unmeta Firefox" now

New comment by asfodelsu in "How did Ancient Greek music sound?"

asfodelsu — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:27:53 +0000

Look at Greek composer and researcher Halaris also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AbylWGjog&list=PL-7hwegJPk...

New comment by asfodelsu in "Kerbal Space Program free on Epic"

asfodelsu — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:58:54 +0000

If they don't fix the Linux issue, like steam does, no money from me.

New comment by asfodelsu in "Blender Apps"

asfodelsu — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:31:31 +0000

Something like a BIM architecture app will be a good idea. Blender makes some progress on this, but an architect or a civil engineer needs an architect gui.

I also hope some day the blender UI becomes a separate gui toolkit for non graphics app. Like a file manager

New comment by asfodelsu in "I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge"

asfodelsu — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:10:57 +0000

And unlikely to fail during the warranty period. But Ideally, stop working 1 week after warranty ends.

New comment by asfodelsu in "Systemd: The Good Parts"

asfodelsu — Mon, 17 May 2021 06:23:47 +0000

The people that makes distro without systemd have users that scan the filesystem and get crazy if they found the name systemd in the filesystem. I can say the same for the devs also. So we have hardcore-hate distros that "liberates" packages and the dependency of the unused library. Better give that time to make the distro better imho

New comment by asfodelsu in "Whistled Turkish"

asfodelsu — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:25:15 +0000

There is something similar in Greece

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170731-greeces-disappearin...