“Your system is reproduceable, but your personality unstable” 😂

I really love all my various Pis but at the moment there are so many refurbished servers available (thank Windows 11) as well as several small form factor x86 PCs that a Raspberry Pi 5 sadly is on the lower end of performance/cost.

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I would love to see something similiar for my country’s parliament but just fairly mentioning the most despicable individuals would by far exceed the possible post length…

As if calling it “peace deal” was the biggest problem and not the fact that the shit show that pretends to be western media is constantly pretending that every cognitive pile of vomit coming out of the MAGA clown show redefines reality.

But… how can that happen?

I was told that useless, helpless Europe was already sold out as obviously every brain-fart by some MAGA moron (magically) changes the (geopolitical) reality we simply have to accept… 🤣

what is going to happen to the bases on German soil

Last time we publically heard about them, the US had stopped paying the people there and suggested that they go and ask Germany for social support instead…

I get the “used in Ukaine”-part, but why pretend that there is a difference between AfD-linked nazis and Russian troops? That’s just the same people differently flavored for another front line.

Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

Certbot’s default timer checks twice a day if it’s old enough to be be due for a renewal… So a change from 90 to 1 day will in practice make no difference already…

Although in many of the tests I have seen, the performance was not actually better in general.

The main benefit so far seems to be not so much a synchronisation that performs better but one that works much more closely to how Windows does it natively thus helping some programs that don’t work well with Wine.

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I would have guessed a different age… 😜

We all new this was coming when Nexter and KMW were allowed to merge.

The common tank project which France needs to succeed was all that kept them invested in cooperation. Now that KNDS is covering the main part as one common French-German company they don’t need to pretend anymore and can continue to push hard for all FCAS development and production to be done in France by France for France, everyone else be damned.

The original Eurofighter program was the same mess

or the Boxer program (France left when the French proposal wasn’t chosen to build their own 8x8).

Ffs… even Taurus/StormShadow happened because France needs to call all the shots every time. APACHE started as a French-German cruise missile project. Yet France refused to even consider any advanced bunker-breaking warhead and so Germany left to build their own based on what was co-developed up to that point. Only for France to then change their minds later and develop something alongside the specs as envisioned by Germany with the UK. So now we have 2 conceptionally identical and very similiar cruise missiles in Europe produced by separate branches of MBDA… the actual difference? More work done by French workers because that’s all that matters.

Linux is linux. In the end it’s more your personal taste with just a little sprinkle of use case that decides.

The main differences are:

• Update speed: How quickly are the repositories getting updates. That’s a spectrum between getting cutting edge version in days or weeks or having things unchaged for up to several years. Or in other worlds you will see more bugs in freshly released software, but also bugfixes often within days. Compared to getting new feature only after years, but rarely any bugs (the very few ones that slip through… well, you will get the fix in a few years). That’s also where use case plays a bigger role. If you use very new hardware and want software that uses their newest features, a rather stale slow updating distro might not be the right fit for you.

• Update scheme: Fixed vs. continues release. Continues releases are slowly but constantly changing over time but once installed they can basically used forever. While fixed releases are mostly just shipping critical bugfixes and security patches and doing everything else in big release steps (think in terms of Windows upgrades here: You mostly have the same thing for years but at a certain point there is a newer version that might bring changes in defaults, new pre-installed software, UI changes etc. and after a couple of years you lose support if you don’t do that step).

Also more depending on your personal taste and habits:

• How much are you willing or interested in tinkering? Basically all distros give you access to all software. But what is pre-installed changes, both in what is provided by default and also how much software is there already. For example do you want stuff for video editing set up already or don’t you care as you will test out all the options available anyway?

• The same is true the basic desktop environment. Gnome and KDE are the two big ones (with some more oftens based or forked from those two). And it mostly a difference of “here is our environment exactly as we think it’s best with very little customisation” (Gnome - also the one with most forks, by people who did not agree with the Gnome devs vision) and “have fun customising” (KDE). Is customising stuff to your liking your thing? Or do don’t care and also prefer something as close to what you are used to on Windows? Again: Distros have all the options available. But some have one environment or the other pre-installed. Or they come in different flavors from the beginning. If customisation isn’t your cup of tea the decision on a certain distro matters much more.

Other considerations:

• Immutable distros are more on the newer end of things. They are basically designed more like for example Android. There is a base system that rarely changes and allows basically a “reset ot factory settings”, with updates and additionally installed software provided as incremental changes and/or highly containerised. That has benefits (you can revert screw ups easily) but also drawbacks (decades of available linux instructions are now worthless until you really understand where that regular config file you can’t edit anymore is now located in some separate container only used by one specific piece of software - and most people that google for such solutions don’t). Again this is mostly decided by habits. Are you expecting to tinker with your system or do you just want something that works on its own that neither you or an upgrade cannot possibly break. In the latter case an immutable distro can be the thing for you. And as always… you have all the options and you can also setup most other distros with extensive systems of “save points” to revert problematic changes anyway.

Things to not consider:

• ignore the answers speaking about “it provides WINE for running windows stuff” or “it comes with NVIDIA drivers” because they basically all do (minus the already mentioned combination of running cutting edge hardware with very slow updating distros - that’s not a good idea). At the worst it usually requires clicking some “Yes, I don’t insist on open source stuff exclusively but will also to use proprietary drivers if available” checkbox in the installer.

Reiche was Parliamentary State Secretary under Altmeier (and Rötgen before) and worked on and publically defended the EEG revision of 2012. I don’t know how you define “having power” but I call writing parts of the legislation active work.

You forgot someone else working hard on the actual plans. So hard in fact that she was recently awarded with a new job as Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy…

You are actually not wrong. I indeed have an axe to grind with a morally bankrupt shit stain of a media company that not only is a major source of desinformation and right to far-right propaganda for decades but also managed to buy enough formerly reputable publications to pretend that their agenda pushing is actual journalism.

If you think that a media company known to lie and deceive (for a personal agenda, for the agenda of their investor or just directly for money) is not that big of a deal and we still need to take everything they publish at face value in case it is true for once or contains some traces of truth, that is very much your problem.

Maybe you have time for this. The vast majority doesn’t have the time to fact check every single thing they read. And so they should indeed know when a publisher is generally trash, barely does anything without an explicit agenda, and rarely actually reports the truth (and only if it can be framed to fit their agenda).

PS: Calling documented violations of basic journalistic code in a huge amount of different cases⁽*⁾ "vague nothingness also is a definitive “you”-problem.

⁽*⁾ For reference: There is a German Press Council reprimanding severe violations in journalistic and ethical standards. Most publications manage to get 1 to a few over many decades of business, the worst examples of yellow press even get low double digits. And then there is just BILD (Axel Springer’s flagship rag in Germany) with ~300 or 30% of all reprimands ever published (more than 30 just in 2024). And their other publication run the exact same narratives, just dressed slightly more professionally looking for other audiences.

You are missing the point if you still pretend they are stupid (or in this case: brain-damaged). They know very well what they are doing: Screwing you over to increase the profit for their buddies.

I seriously doubt there will be much market for petrol and diesel cars in EU after 2035.

That’s basically a fact. But you don’t understand the actual goal here. They know that combustion engines are a dead end. They have known for a long time.

But between investing their own money in innovating and transitioning or investing a fraction of that money in buying politicians to keep their failing business alive a few more years and then bribing them some more to give them public money for the neccessary transition because they are too big to fail there is one strategy that optimises their profits.

In fact they do both already. They take public money or get indirect subsidies for developing their EV segment (so they have everything ready when they need to do the switch and which they openly call the future) while at the same time also paying for the propaganda brain-washing people into doubting the viability of EVs. Because every combustion engine (that has zero costs for any active development anymore) they still manage to sell is profit; doubly so when the lack of diesel and petrol forces those people to buy yet another car sooner.

No, why would it bother me.

Some people need to voice their opinions loudly, some don’t. Doesn’t matter much for me.

The number of “I’m switching to Linux” comments or the change in frequency however is a reasonable indicator for public opinion (under the assumption that there is no sudden global increase in extroverts needing to voice their opinion loudly…).