

Debian used to have quite old software before version 6.0 or so. Ever since then it’s been quite a good daily driver for workstations too.
Staunchly Peircean pragmaticist linguist, phonetician and semiotician. Does translation studies and comparative literature too when time allows. Politically far left, deal with it. Localizes FOSS (eg. KDE Plasma, Vivaldi browser, Handbrake media transcriber).


Debian used to have quite old software before version 6.0 or so. Ever since then it’s been quite a good daily driver for workstations too.


This just came out. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026
I wonder, when they get a grown-up president again, will they finally also begin to move to the 21st century?
How ’bout some actual chocolate? https://www.fazer.fi/tuotteet/tuotemerkit/fazerin-sininen/


I have to agree. Americans soiled themselves, and now expect the rest of the world to come clean them up. Sorry, you might do something yourself too.


…and being boring is only one of Europe’s strong points.


It supports 24h clocks all right and always has (I’ve used Plasma with SDDM for years and never have had issues with the clock!), but as you said in a different thread, it may have problems in separating the common locale from the time format.


The figures only make sense in “first past the post” (or “winner takes it all”) systems.


I think a majority would find that unethical regardless. Majority of Americans, no doubt. Majority of the rest of the world, probably not.
When I was beginning to work at the university, there was a professor who had started an affair with his student. Everybody knew about that, no one cared a s***. Later on, the student got employed at the department, and then they got married. The only thing I ever heard of it being talked about was that it wasn’t quite sure whether it was the student or her professor who actually did her “maturity exam” (a then-compulsory exam after finishing your MA thesis, the questions of which were based on the thesis).
The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.


Well… not really. My current installation of Tumbleweed is three and a half years old, and back in 2022 the only reason I re-installed it was changing the NVMe drive. I’ve never read factory mailing list and don’t ever recall having made manual interventions. I’ve just booted it, updated (zypper ref; zypper dup), rebooted and continued working.


That was probably one reason why Hitler wasn’t assassinated by the allies. OTOH, the death of Franco (but to old age!) meant the end of fascism in Spain. When a dictator dies, there’s always a chance for better.


Win10 or Win11? :p
“Why would I own a car? Our public transportation works fine. Or a watch, since I can already see the time from my mobile phone.”
The humanity does. Well, maybe not “need” it but deserve it. Finding out about the world around us is what we exist for.
It’s tRump. He probably has the codes written in a post-it note that’s attached to his bedroom TV frame.