There is also the fact that Covid infections decrease intelligence even if you didn’t get long Covid.

Had it in 2022, dealt with issues well into 2023. I’m mostly good by now again but I certainly feel dumber and find it harder to concentrate.

If one does that, be prepared to defend yourself against the copyright infringement lawsuit that’s coming your way eventually.

In that case why block the add-ons in the first place? There is a risk that the “Mozilla is blocking privacy friendly add-ons on the behest of an authoritarian regime!” news will become more widely known than any correction. If it had been a planned PR move then any person involved in it should never work in marketing again.

I was thinking the whole week if I should vote the greens or the pirates but due to the recurring campaigns to establish a surveillance state I did end up voting pirates. Incredibly disheartened they didn’t get a seat :(

I remember warning labels on BIOS updates that basically said that if nothing is broken, don’t do the update because the risk of bricking the device did not outweigh any potential benefits. That vendors are now pushing mandatory BIOS updates through Windows Update is terrifying.

He’s 100% a crisis actor.

I’ve seen that done for configuration management like Salt or Ansible. The repos for that were always hosted on internal Gitlab instances though.

I tried it out and it has some issues here and there but seems to be on a good track to become a good Mediaplayer. I’m not 100% happy with Strawberry and used to use Amarok way back when before I switched to the, now un-maintained, Cantata. I’ll definitely follow the development of this.

I have a big library of music, mostly MP3 or OGG and don’t really see myself pivoting solely towards streaming services where access to songs could be revoked at any time or could be changed/censored like movies or series sometimes are on streaming platforms. I do use YouTube for listening to new music and when I like it enough, I buy it to download (or acquire it in a different way if it’s not available).

No, the equivalent would be a kernel panic that the other user had linked. This is a situation where the RAM is fully used and a program’s request for memory cannot be fulfilled. This is still a very bad situation because pretty much everything will grind to a halt. The Linux kernel thus makes a decision to kill a process (or multiple) until enough RAM is available again. Usually it kills the process with the most used RAM, but there’s methods to influence the decision.

Helldivers 2 works on Linux.

Linux Mint

There were grassroots movements like the Limux project (Munich using a custom Linux distribution). But that got shut down by Microsoft bribery (not confirmed, but MS did build a new headquarters in Munich…).

Nowadays it would be $19.99 per month and it’s a one year contract that renews three months before expiration.

Ads have evolved into a cancer that is just growing and growing, making everything around them worse.