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Unfortunately some of the humour got lost in translation. For “been brought down to size” the police used the phrase “zur Schnecke gemacht”, which literally would translate to “made a slug”.

Crazy part is that Mercedes makes pretty good EVs - unlike some of the other German manufacturers which struggled a bit, and even though they seem to have the main platform worked out by now still have shitty software. Mercedes software is usable and rock solid - which I didn’t expect when we were buying one last year.

In the area I’m living in here in Finland EV Mercedes seems to be the most popular choice currently - the number of EVs is rising very fast, with pretty much all brands present, but a clear majority is Mercedes.

Yes, but: Brake dust is significantly more likely to become airborne than tire dust, and is significantly more toxic than tire dust - and might be the most toxic thing your car is spreading.

It’s the legal situation in the US - and the reason why people familiar with the topic have been upset about the EU data sharing exemptions and similar stuff for over a decade now. It’s also really frustrating to keep explaining customers that the way they’re planning to use cloud stuff violates local data protection laws (even before GDPR), only for them to ignore it and do it anyway. We need way better education for people in charge of that kind of projects - and way higher penalties for violations, including the ability to fine organizations before they lose data when they store protected data in a way US government can get access to.

The only way a Microsoft cloud (or any cloud service from a US company) in the EU can work is if that company doesn’t have access to the European systems - both on hardware level and system level.

Microsoft attempted to do just that by having a German cloud managed by T-Systems - but gave up on that already years ago

Not really a new thing - searching for and playing with security cameras has been light entertainment for about two decades now.

For an equally long period it has been clear that if you connect an IP camera or similar device you’re a pretty big moron if you don’t isolate it from both your internal network and the internet, and only provide controlled access - no matter the manufacturer, non-Chinese ones are not really better in how horrible their software is. Unfortunately most large IT systems are run by absolute morons.

Seems pretty much all current AI models are not familiar with the works of Tom of Finland. Took a lot of kicking to get even remotely close to what I wanted.

Just like the UK exemptions most of those were given to early members as rules changed to get them to agree to the rule changes.

New members don’t get that - and UK would be treated like a new member.

China is currently building coal power plants to replace old, less efficient and dirtier plants. Then they use them for base load / network stabilization while they build up ridiculous amounts of energy storage. They’re not running all the time, only to compensate variability in renewables power generation while they build up storage. They’ll probably be taken out of use in a few decades without having much runtime.

For installed capacity the new power plants don’t change much as they take old ones offline - percentage wise coal is falling due to the ridiculous speed of building renewables.

it has been known for years that the defaults on windows are insufficient, and they don’t make it easy to switch to a password prompt at boot time (though it is possible)

Which reputation? I used to work for a dell heavy hoster with thousands of dell servers almost 20 years ago - and apart from them being cheap I have nothing good to say about them. Worst is the remote management - several generations of DRACs all broken in new and interesting ways, and support is useless. You just get better discounts at that scale, which for a business owner drowns out the complaints of the tech people.

Notebooks also have similar bugs over generations - and nowadays they also feel even cheaper than they used to be.

Displays were somewhat acceptable - given you’re fine to work around the DPMS bugs they have in pretty much every display for the last two decades - but their display selection page is unusable and lacks most interesting details. So it is better to just get something you can check out in a shop.

I expect the responsible person listed for some specific application to react to an email about it to fix it, and not send me police. Why would I want to jump through hoops for doing them a favour?

Same applies also if there’s no easy way to send a mail to someone responsible.

Depends on how the parties behaved in the past. There are a bunch of government entities which called police on me in the past when trying to work with them about discovered issues and as result also will just get anonymous 0-day drops in public forums for future issues.

That’d break git repos where files with the same name, but different case exist.

SSDs?

He stated “100GB only” in reply to my comment that I have a 400GB picture library - all own creation, completely unrelated to anything internet.

See other comments from OP where he’s stating that it’d be 100GB total, and anything else would be confiscated if found out.

I disagree there - I think it makes the question pointless as that changes the actual question to “what is the single computing device I decide to keep, after downgrading its storage”. Which in many cases will not even be possible.

100GB is ridiculously low nowadays. I don’t think I have a single device in regular use (including my phone) with such small storage.

Just my picture archive (that is, pictures I took since I got mit first digital camera) is about 400GB.

That was a reason back then to pay for a distribution box - it came with a very good printed manual. Which had beginner friendly sections like “now that you have a running system let’s configure and build a kernel matching your hardware”.

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