Kubuntu 8.04.

It was the last release with KDE 3 and very polished for its time. Many applications from back then have vanished by now. Kopete was Magic, supporting all IM protocols (Including Yahoo video calls!), Amarok was so reliable and sleek.

Of course most things have improved since then, but I remember it fondly.

Du hast das Bundesland nicht angegeben, aber generell ist Nr 3 folgendermaßen:

Du panaschierst einen Teil deiner Stimmen, dann kreuzt du eine Liste an. Alle Stinmen die nach dem Panaschieren noch übrig sind werden nun ganz normal (von oben nach unten) auf die Liste verteilt.

Also z.B. weil du gehört hast Kandidat C von Partei B ist super, aber eigentlich magst du Partei B nicht so, oder vielleicht steht er dort sogar auf Listenplatz 10. Du kreuzt ihn an. Dann kreuzt du Liste A an, damit all deine anderen Stimmen dorthin gehen. Eine Liste wo du mit den generellen Zielen übereinstimmst.

Well there is the Stop Killing Games initiative started by Ross Scott and supported by the Pirate Parties. If they succeed, companies selling games in recent years will be required to either keep supporting their game or to make it available in a way so that others can ensure its continued support.

When this is achieved the step to free older games is small.

If you live in Europe you have the chance to support the movement by vote in the upcoming elections.

Vor allem oft im Scherz, was man mit einem gut platzierten Screenshot leicht aus dem Kontext nehmen kann.

Soon there are European elections. Voting for the Pirate parties and getting other people to vote for them is a good way to stop this. They are fighting hard against this law. Especially Patrick Patrick Breyer of the German one. Anja Hirschel, who will follow him, will likely continue with the same vigor.

Donations are also a great way to support. Donate to the Pirates, EDRI, or local groups opposing this.

I use it on a Pixel 5 and even there it is fluid while browsing. Only on Youtube there is the slightest stutter for HD Videos. Heavy sites like Discourse fora or Cryptpad or such work flawlessly.

Maybe Kolibri OS?

Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM.

I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.

Example from Networking Hardware:

Cisco has had multiple cases where they likely built exploits for Government spyware into their devices. And they have far to many vulnerabilities which are found. This leaves two options: Either their security is so bad that intelligence always has backdoors ready and governments shouldn’t use them, or at least some are backdoors built in accordance to NSA demands and goverments shouldn’t use them. https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/nsa-hack-exploit.html?m=1

On the other hand Huawei, far less security issues, even offered to open their code for checking of backdoors and to let goverments check all updates. They are shunned by western governments and partially even banned.

And where do maintainers for the new parts of systemd come from? The larger systemd grows the more parts of it will be neglected. Also in regard to people checking commits, opening up doors for exploits like the one in xz.

This is handled in the modem Firmware. Linux just has to supply “User has dialed number x, go into emergency mode” and then route the audio.

This is solved for all Linux phones as far as I know. From Openmoko over N900 till Librem 5.

Zu der Geschichte von damals nur ganz kurz, dass der Beschuldigte damals hinter dem Rücken des Vorstands die Wahlunterlagen selbst eingereicht hat und somit nicht mehr von der Liste geschmissen werden konnte. (Alle Details hier) Ich bin sehr froh, dass Patrick Breyer es dennoch reingeschafft hat. Er ist wirklich mein Traumpolitiker und wenn ich ehrlich bin: In die gewaltigen Fußstapfen wird wohl niemand mehr nachfolgen können. Gleichzeitig bin ich froh über jeden der es versucht.

Realistischerweise erreichen wir ein Mandat, das stimmt. Dafür braucht man nur etwas mehr als 0,6% der Stimmen. Für zwei sind es dann schon 1,5% (Ja das Wahlsystem ist wieder mal komisch). Richtig freuen würde ich mich wenn es sogar Lukas auf Platz drei reinschafft. Er macht schon länger Praktikum bei Patrick.

Ein Wiki Artikel wäre toll. Mit dem deutschen Wikipedia ist das nicht so einfach: Relevanzkriterien. Person -> Politiker -> International: Muss schon im Parlament sein oder gewesen sein. Den Vorteil haben nur alte Hasen und Patrick wird sich verdiente Zeit für seine Familie nehmen.

Einen ersten Einruck von Anja Hirschel kannst du beim Profil der Piratensicherheitskonferenz bekommen: https://events.pirate-secon.net/speakers-2/anja_hirschel/

Aber du hast recht ich stoß an, dass Anja ein Profil in unserem Wiki gemacht wird. In zwei drei Wochen findest du sie dann auch bei Abgeordnetenwatch und kannst sie da mit Fragen löchern ;)

Disclaimer: ich bin selber bei den Piraten, aber nur Basisgurke

Schau dir doch einfach mal an, was Patrick Breyer im EU Parlament so alles erreicht hat zur aktuellen Amtsperiode. Wenn du auf dem Newsportal deiner Wahl nach ihm suchst solltest du einiges finden. Die breite Presse stürzt sich halt gern auf persönliche Sachen, gute Politik ist da eher ein Nebensatz und der Name Piratenpartei fällt dann in den Artikeln teils nicht mal mehr.

Ein Beispiel: Breyer hat die Sperrminorität gegen die Chatkontrolle organisiert (auch wenn das Thema leider noch nicht ganz vom Tisch ist) und hat auch erstmals auf das Thema aufmerksam gemacht. Nebenbei veröffentlicht er als einer der sehr wenigen (als einziger?) Politiker im EU Parlament alle Treffen mit Lobbybezug, damit man immer Transparent mitverfolgen kann wer Einfluss auszuüben versucht.

Die Nachfolger Anja Hirschel und Lukas Küffner kenne ich persönlich und kann für beide bürgen.

Über die Jahre haben die Piraten immer nur gute Politik gemacht, aller Presse zum Trotz. Deswegen unterstütze ich sie auch gern weiter.

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN

So its spreading via a closed source VPN software. Why should you even use that when there is great VPN software available on Linux which works reliable for decades?

Well of course you miss zero trust connections, multi-cloud readiness, award‑winning security and proven secure corporate access …

Interesting. For the Nokia N900 there is Maemo Leste which also uses mainline Linux (+ a few patches they are working to mainline) and there everything works. Mind that works means in this case: Does what I want if I issue a number of console commands. However most of it by now even works via the GUI.

Keep in mind that Leste is a project by a few enthusiasts and writing drivers for undocumented hardware is a monumental task, writing GUI for a whole mobile OS is also complicated. So it is utterly astonishing, how far they got!

The point is, they already did. 99% of webservers run Linux. They are all out in the open and hackers love to get their hand on them as they are likely to have mailservers on them and they have a public IP so they can always be reached.

And most of them do not get hacked. And those that do mostly get hacked due to bad passwords or bad website code. I administer one and see the thousands of attacks running up against it daily (most are just attempts to log in with basic credentials). And of course I see the daily influx of updates from Linux.

If a new security flaw is seen, its often quite difficult to use. And with Linux somebody makes a patch before simple tool for hackers are out. With Microsoft products you wait till the next patch day, in the best case critical exploited bugs are patched in days. Also security flaws in closed source products are often easier to exploit and tools to use them are available fast. (Such flaws are often already discovered in open source products by third eyes and testers before they make it to production systems.)

Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like heartbleed. This was an easy to exploit flaw in an often used Linux service and it caused a big turmoil because many where to slow to patch their systems.

Also of course if Linux gets more popular on the desktop more software will be an attractive target for malicious actors and some software may get popular before many people take a look at the source code. But the situation will still be much better compared to closed source systems.

(Also of course more closed source software will be made for Linux then)

Sure because Error Code 0x8007057 tells you immediately how to solve the problem.

Linux error messages like error: kex_exchange_identification: client sent invalid protocol identifier "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" are completely arcane tough.

I support both systems. And Linux support is so much easier. Mostly in runs out of the box. If it runs I continues to do so and If you have an error you get a specific message like above.

With such a message you either:

• See right away how to solve the problem
• Search it online and get a specific solution for exactly you problem
• Or you can ask Experts for a solution for your specific problem.

With Windows: No systems runs out of the box, I always have to install additional software (7zip, sane browser, …) and also for anybody remotely privacy concerned have to adjust many settings (for which tools exist thankfully)

If an error occurs under Windows and I get a code like above:

• I can sometimes guess by my experience what the reason is and solve it.
• If not I search the error code and circumstances which lead to it online, then apply the 20 solutions presented one by one in hope one works
• Ask experts which ask me to run a bunch of diagnostic utilities because the error message does not tell you anything. (Yes by now I can also guess which utility could provide relevant information, but not because Windows told me)
• In a noticeable amount of cases the solution is: We can not determine the reason for the error, please reset everything (First a restart, then run this cleanup tool and if this doesn’t help just reinstall!)

Wird das hier problematisiert? Der Artikel ist sehr neutral gehalten und fasst zusammen, was Ricarda Lang auf ihrer Website veröffentlicht hat. Bzw. paraphrasiert es, denn der Text ist in etwas genauso lang. Sogar der Teil "Auf der Webseite betont die Grünen-Politikerin, dass sie neben der Abgeordnetenentschädigung und der Kostenpauschale keine weiteren Einkünfte habe. " ist dabei und unterstreicht, dass andere eben durchaus fragwürdige Nebeneinkünfte haben.

Weshalb ist der Artikel mit “Grünen-Chefin” getitelt? Weil sie nun mal das kurz und knacking veröffentlicht hat (oder lassen hat) und Zeitungen abschreiben. Das dann mit der Person zu verknüpfen ist halt wichtig für Menschen und Reichweite.

An SSD really is the solution. You believe it just speeds up boot time, but it does speed up nearly everything else too.

Your Webpage? Your Browser loads it, stores new data into the cache and stalls while waiting for the HDD. Or it knows elements are in the cache and stalls waiting for them.

You click on the application menu? You PC tries to load 20 icons, tiny amounts of data an SSD has ready in a microsecond. Your HDD takes a full second because the seek between the 20 places where the icons are on the HDD takes so long.

I have some very old PCs I manage (mainly for relatives) and one couple uses a Core 2 Duo E6400 which should be quite similar to your PC. This PC is very usable for daily browsing with Ubuntu 22.04, boot time is about 25 seconds, then about 10 seconds to load up ebay. (I admit I optimized boot time quite a bit) The other PC they have is even slower than that, I just do not remember the exact CPU right now. That one is even used for old browser games similar to candy crush.

Of course it is not what I would use given the choice. I want to compile code in seconds, watch videos in glorious 4k and play a 3D game from time to time. But for them it works perfectly well, so well that they deny my offers to upgrade them

Einstein didn’t say that religion was needed for science. Cosmic religion is not a good term because any reader will associate it with our umbrella term religion while he defined something else. Writing it without context is manipulating any reader who does not have/take the time to read up on the term.

He firmly stated that he does not belief in any religion associated with any god or gods like all the religions OP probably means. Even going so far as calling such beliefs expression and product of human weaknesses.

He also wrote “the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.” And “I, like yourself, I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.” So he does se a conflict between religion like OP means and science. He only once made a statement in support of the traditional religions when he said he was positively surprised that the christian church opposed the Nazi regime. He later backtracked on this because the church supported the Nazis partially during the further years of the war.

He still stated he is no Atheist because he believes in the existence and governance of the fundamental laws of nature and what he sometimes called religion he defined as the aspiration to pursue the research on these fundamental laws.

The thing is: Asus phone where never small.

I still use my Nokia N9 from 2012 daily as second phone. It has 117 x 61 x 12 mm. The Asus Zenfone 8 has 148 x 69 x 9 mm. Thats 25% higher (And also 25% heavier)

If you like big screens thats fine. There are plenty of offers for you and the market caters to you. I like small screens and device, because I tend to use complex Apps which require me clicking all over the screen. This is a hassle even with the Pixel 5 which I now got to use apps required (Banking, and so on) I have no options to buy such a device for year. Yes there are very few sometimes popping up like the Unihertz Jelly Star Star, but they all lacked features I consider essential.

(In this case update support, no OLED and Android apps can not deal with the low resolution display) Other features I miss but by now do not even dare to dream of: Real Multitasking, ability to fully customize the lock screen and menus (e.g. to red fonts for stargazing), weeks of standby time in flight mode and a single week in GSM mode, ability to work fine in 2G too because no copious amounts of data are sent in the background without asking you.

So yes there are plenty of options for the standard user, all with minimal differences. But for users like there are many in this thread, there are none.