Yeah moving to the UK from Germany it was a big shock how bad the ‘standard’ beers were.

In Germany you could just order ‘a beer’ and get something good, in the UK it would be like birra moretti or something

I liked the ales though…

It’s a mess for my team in terms of:

• someone’s video isn’t showing for anyone else
• someone can’t see anyone else’s video
• it resets my camera settings every time I restart it
• microphone settings seem to randomly break, so we always have people running off to grab backup headsets.
• it’s missing thread features (like in slack) so branching discussions are a fucking mess.
• most of my team uses Linux and the screen-sharing as well as file/picture sharing rarely works right.

Before we used a combination of Slack (for text communication) and Google Meet (for video) which was much more reliable a day functional.

I use tumbleweed and it’s fine. I’ve been using it for about 2 years and there are a few things that were easier with fedora (e.g. Waydroid) but it’s not enough of a difference that I felt the need to switch back.

That being said, if I had to choose today and do a fresh install I would probably use Fedora.

I know this is unpopular and goes against the ideals of the early internet, but the open internet (especially social networks) is hugely damaging at the moment.

This isn’t just “people having different opinions”, but rather full-scale cyber warfare that’s currently happening. It’s also only going to get worse…

Propaganda works, and it works quite well. Nobody is fully immune.

So unless you feel like having Musk/Russia/China dictate your life (through forcing their shit agenda), banning their attack vectors is really the only play.

Grew up in the rural northwest US, been living the last decade-ish in Germany, Austria, UK.

All of these places have rich and poor, but the poorest in the US have it sooooo much worse than those in the other countries I mentioned.

Also, they are geographically isolated which kept them out of most destructive wars.

The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.

Sorry but this is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever read.

I grew up in an area of the US with poverty issues and now live in Europe. The lives of poor Americans are so much worse than where I live now (central europe) that it’s almost hard to fathom. Poverty in the US is systematically CRUSHING and can be near impossible to escape. It’s a soul-destroying existence…

There are certainly places which are worse, but we just don’t have that here in Europe to nearly the same extent! I’m far from rich, but life is much nicer here…

It’s less about that and more about stopping an extremely powerful attack vector currently active in your own country.

Literally the biggest reason why the western world is in such a giant political crisis is the weaponization of social media.

My sleep-routine is that I read (usually my kindle) in bed at night.

It’s kind of great both because I like reading, but also because it makes me fall asleep.

I went through a pretty big libertarian phase way back in my late teens.

Not the ‘deregulate everything’ type, but rather more of a ‘everyone’s place in society is governed by the choices they make’ social-darwinist sort of angle.

Once I got out and experienced real life more (and learned about all the little nuances behind everything) I realized just how wrong I was.

Nowadays I’m a big leftist/socialist

Personally I always always buy phones with two sim slots. It’s super practical if you travel semi-often.

Idk about apple, but basically all of the mid-range androids have this feature. I guess this is about the US though, so it’s probably Apple.

Yeah most of europe is waaaaay better when is comes to mobile plans compared to the US.

I don’t use use that much data, but my 8gb plan is just under €6 per month.

In the US, I had a plan like this for over $30…

I can’t check at the moment, but that sounds like something ‘Simply Perfection’ would be capable of.

It’s essentially an addon specifically for tweaking the appearance of gnome stuff.

It’s not colonialism to prefer one culture (or certain cultural traits) to another. In fact, it’s natural.

I’ve lived in a number of countries and each had their own distinct cultural norms. Each has had aspects which I perceived as either positive or negative.

Add it all together and I definitely have preferred certain cultures, not because they are “better” but because they more closely match my own preferences. Other people would prefer different cultural norms.

IPTV is generally for live TV channels rather than on-demand.

Not a raspi, but I had similar issues on my opensuse HTPC which turned it to be related to issues with (or missing) media codecs in Firefox.

After (re)installing all of them, it worked like a charm.

Just have everyone use UTC!

I think all food packaging should be standardized and reusable, with a deposit system similar to reusable glass drink bottles (at least in Germany).

For instance: All the cereals should use the same returnable ‘cereal box’

The democrats tend to be less organized but way more friendly and accommodating, the republicans are very their way or the highway, but tend to have all their ducks in a row.

This is the most believable thing I’ve ever heard.

I use freesync on my monitor between 48 and 144 hz.

The range depends on the specific monitor.