Apart from security and upgrades, there might arise situations where you want to change aspects of the underlying operating system, and these changes might require changes to the source code.
Also if you remember Stuxnet, those computers were also airgapped not connected to the internet.
One goal of ReactOS is to run Windows drivers, which Wine can’t do. There are old specialized devices with Windows exclusive drivers still running in production requiring something like Windows XP or 2000. You can’t replace these with Linux and Wine. It makes sense for Russia to sponsor it; they probably depend on these old installations in either their refineries or somewhere in their nuclear program.
Fuck Russia but I wouldn’t interpret too much into this
This is what happens when you don’t use crypto as god intended: purchasing medication from India and subscriptions to indexers.
I’m not saying this is what I bought Monero for.
But this is what I bought Monero for.
Meanwhile me on the train:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/880/650/c01.jpg
Actually bought this exact drink at Yorma’s in Cologne before taking the train to Leipzig, get bent aviation boys
The CD wasn’t really suited to be played Mobile (though I did have a portable CD player). It should rather be compared to vinyl in that regard.
I think tapes are great because no portable audio player ever came close to the Walkman regarding its cultural impact. The fact that anyone could record tapes opened up a lot of creative options.
For properly mastered music to be enjoyed at home on a potentially expensive setup, the CD was very close to perfect.
Who doesn’t like Roquefort? Might wanna check your taste buds, shit’s delicious
A “peaceful” unification with Taiwan (meaning no open war) is obviously in China’s interest. I don’t think being part of the PR of China is something Taiwan or any nation should go for, regardless of their influence over the world; Hong Kong’s recent history should be a warning in that regard. But China doesn’t want a war with Taiwan, they want Taiwan and would probably accept a war to achieve that goal, but would prefer to avoid it.
the average package quality is currently closer to that of the AUR than the official repos of other distros.
Care to elaborate? I don’t remember packages not working, but if anything, they’re not building; which is basically the reverse of what happens at other distributions where sometimes, breakage during building isn’t noticed because the packages aren’t getting rebuilt when a dependency or the compiler toolchain changes.
While the full number might be inflated, it still has one of the most complete official repositories.
Don’t make the mistake to think that reliance on China is not a security threat. It might not impact privacy, but at least from what I heard here, big network operators are unable to maintain their networks without support from the hardware vendors, and not just in the sense that they need updates, patches etc, but that the OEMs rather do everything and the providers just slap their label on it.
careful there buddy
Person Man Camera TV
Exit polls showed the AfD did well among younger voters, winning in the 25-34 age bracket with 22% …
My source (https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundestagswahl-2025-ergebnisse-so-hat-deutschland-gewaehlt-aktuelle-daten-a-6ace92df-43cc-48de-b183-2c98c7c19c2f) says it was 24% there, and unfortunately, that wasn’t their strongest voting age bracket. That was rather mine (35-44). Oh well
You can game “now” ? 🤨
Well, you can… in fact you you could also before… but it’s technically correct
True! My original point though is that just providing a hash for a downloaded file is generally not required. It doesn’t provide anything that other layers haven’t already (a hash only guarantees integrity, while downloading over HTTPS provides authenticity). Personally, I see them as a relic of the past that made more sense when transmission was less robust (though even back then, a lot of layers provided some sort of error detection and correction), and modern filesystems can detect errors as well.
Those must have been really helpful in 1999.
Smoking became disgusting when the campain against smoking became effective.
Bullshit. My non-smoking parents called smoking disgusting in the 80s and probably before that. It became disgusting when addicts smoked everywhere without consideration for others, like in restaurants or on trains.
So what many people perceive as a disgusting habbit today is the effect of conditioning and propaganda. Smokers also had long lasting relations with non-smokers, now it is unthinkable a smoker and a non-smoker to even go out for a coffee together.
The fuck are you on about? I have no problem doing stuff with smokers and have had nobody ever claiming otherwise. Just don’t smoke in a way that affects me.
I am also surprised this discussion has gone so far so long and nobody has mentioned sugar and its bi-products (soft drinks, candy, sweets, …) Is there such an addiction recognized and known as dangerous?
Nice whataboutism. Btw, as far as I know, the same bodies pushing for regulating smoking and drinking more are also in favor of addressing this issue. And now matter how relevant it might be, your just detailing here.
Type-B diabetes has become common even for kids, especially in the west.
Sorry, I know types 1 and 2 only.
The sweetest thing you will find in China doesn’t even taste sweet, and if you offer a middle eastern pastry to a Chinese person they put half a spoon in their mouth and think they are about to die.
Which China?
Not even in Israel, all Jews agree with how things are handled by the government (and I’m well aware that Israel isn’t all Jews, but also various Arab ethnicities).
Just because a person is Jewish doesn’t mean they need to justify why they oppose the government of Israel. I’m not pressing Christians here either about whether they oppose the actions of the Trump administration which is heavily influenced by evangelicals. But this is unfortunately where Antisemitism kicks in: it’s the thinking that Jews are a kind of global cabal, and everyone living in diaspora is a kind of agent. So they’re responsible for any bad actions done by Jews anywhere.
Most of these titles don’t have mainstream appeal though. The example is true for the majority of players.
I do love me some indie games (probably 95% of what I play atm are Noita and Balatro) but I’ll admit it was really cool as a child / teenager / young adult to see the improvements over time.