There is absolutely nothing (amazon.de). I am pretty anal about privacy settings so I do regularly go through them for a check up to make sure they don’t have anything of this sort. Good job, Pringles of the past!

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If these are small operations, they really appreciate you paying cash, as they will keep more. If you do that consistently and build a good rapport they will genuinely become friendly with you, which can have unexpected benefits that are not very tangible.

Not so sure, Putin was spotted voting on a unactivated windows computer (so several of my colleagues told me yesterday, haven’t verified that claim).

The only time it comes up in conversations is because my buddy discovered reddit only like 3 years ago, when I had just moved to lemmy. He still sends me reddit links several times a week.

Then there is the tech support side, because name it and it’s been posted on reddit, usually with the solution, but now everybody just AI’s the shit out of that so that has become less relevant.

And that’s it. Everyone else that I knew that used reddit has moved on years ago.

Grateful to China for using their reserves, reducing global demand by several million barrels a day.

Yea, I wouldn’t be surprised if Samsung and SK Hynix would come to regret their deals with OpenAI once the Chinese have ramped up production and price them out of the market.

What’s your vector, Victor?

You should be able to get a position like a site administrator (basically on-site IT) at some international company relatively easily if you’re handy with computers. But I would advise you to start at an IT consulting company first. They will pay for certifications and training. There is a pretty good career to be made following such a path and often English is the only language required.

I think you are talking about the ethane cracker of Ineos. Ethane is a byproduct of natural gas refinement while methane is the main component of natural gas.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but this was really necessary. The problem with the previous legislation is that it assumed the rest of the world would also make shifts. However, the return of “Drill, baby, drill” in the US and the loss of energy from Russia caused the EU to have quite an isolated green agenda with energy prices that make the European industry uncompetitive.

And you are not going to get anything done when you lose your industry and millions are out of their jobs. If there is a path forward towards a green future, it will have to be done while keeping your industry alive and intact. You can’t just phase out the main source of energy of the past century and then assume all will be well. What would happen is that Europe would lose all its industry and become impoverished in the process.

Haven’t seen it mentioned yet, so I’ll go ahead and give a shoutout to The Queen’s gambit. It’s easily one of the best shows of the past 20 years and it’s a limited, 7 episode (iirc) series.

What software are we talking about here? There is no way Acrobat takes up that much space. Photoshop might though.

The EU is where innovation goes to die.

This is such bullshit. There are three principle reasons why the EU does not grow as many tech giants: 1. Venture capital is hard to cone by in the EU, 2. The language barriers and 3. The not-quite-finished-single market, with many countries not aligning their laws to the EU framework. 1 and 3 are actively being addressed and 2 is a disappearing issue as the younger generations aee all fluent in English.

To your point however, innovation has always been one of the strong suits of the European continent, much more so than monetization which is not a synonym.

Windows 11 has given me so many headaches at work I have genuinely explored moving the entire corporate environment to Linux. Unfortunately it would be a massive multi-year operation that would not bring the amount of benefits required to get such a thing greenlighted. But simply the fact that I, and many peers, took a good hard look at it tells you just how incredibly shit Windows 11 is. It’s a fucking nightmare on so many levels, it’s ridiculous.

Throughout history the human population has only been able to increase thanks to innovation. Irrigation, the wheel, alternating crops, crop distance, keeping disease in check, genetic engineering to increase resistance and crop yields, and this is another innovation in that line. If you want to go back to nature, by all means do.

I believe the only way forward is through science and innovation and if that means genetically altered food for the bees, then so be it. This with the in combination with limiting roundup should bring the global bee populations back from the brink.

As someone who grew up with parents who believed the rapture was constantly about to happen, this is really not newsworthy at all. The predicted date shifts a couple of years each time another one passes by without anything happening. The most original I thought was some date in 1998, because that’s 3 times 666. But really, it’s just a random number from some swindler, usually.

I managed to park over half the c:drive. I drive an X5, BMW.

Still better than liking gnome.

I do look down on people who like gnome. Does that make me a bigot?