I second this Mistral is great. I made the switch, not going back.

Only Office… The software made by undercover Russians with a rented postbox in Latvia.

I picked Collabora and I am not disappointed plus many devs there also work on Libre Office so they deserve my money much more than them.

If Ubuntu is Corporate Nerd Windows…

What is RedHat then? Just Corpo Windows without the nerd part?

Qobuz,

They are French,

You have all Deezer and Spotify perks,

They pay artists,

Music is often in High Resolution, they have partnerships with Hi-Fi audio brands,

You can reach them if your favorite artist or album is missing.

Remember: Never, ever, let a Vogon recite poetry.

That’s amazing. Embark is awesome for testing and thinking about Linux players as well.

I like Lucy Lawless (hello there BSG) but I don’t think it’s the right place for this post.

Or let some doors open so their Russian masters will be able to get in without triggering any alarm.

I also with two of you. I also think, personally, that us, humans, are really bad at taking decisions.

We are not seeing the long term vision of things or the whole. Someone having a lot of resources will not be eager to share those with its less fortunate neighbor. In the US, doing so would be called socialism. On the long term it would be the most profitable option for everyone though.

Governments in democracies should totally have those steering bodies composed of people having a long term vision of things. Maybe engineers, scientists, lawyers… But also with objectiveness about matters presented to them.

That vision cans be projected in dictatorships but you are right. The whole thing will crumble when the person at the top will die. Be it a king, president or anyone else at a position of power being nearly venerated.

I would support a mix of both personally. A government represented by its institutions and not people. Taking information from the population itself and processing happening at the top. Information is a weapon by itself too, many insider groups would try to steer the whole or a part of it for themselves and profit from it.

The human component is a variable component here. It seems there is no outcome to that equation as long humans aren’t aware how people are different around them and accept those differences. Plus being able to share when one as a lot and another nothing.

Printers are known in IT to be a utter pain in the ass. Most brands are also using a lot of proprietary stuff and it limits interoperability. Drivers for example.

Well known example is about ink cartridges. HP added identification chips on them, so if you want to use an other brand, not HP, to fill your printer, you can’t because if no chip is detected despite a cartridge being inserted, the machine will tell you it is not genuine.

Another example with Rycoh. I don’t know if their printers still use this method, so take it as an example of capitalist greed more than a current situation. Laser printers are using a sealed container to process waste created during printing. Rycoh had placed a led detector inside to know when it was full and trigger an alert, stopping the machine and request for a change. Good idea in theory but in practice the detector was placed very oddly or on purpose near or in front of dust intake. So it was bathed very quickly in electrostatic dust and thus triggered the alarm very quickly, even if your container was not fully filled. The only way to solve this was to shake your waste storage, hoping it would clean the led enough to keep going for a few days or change it.

Lastly, I have a Brother printer, bought to a neighbor sale. The oven inside, which is in charge of heating the ink, had a failure. It had melted. For the price, it was a deal. I only needed to buy a new part, unplug it, replace and I had a laser printer with colours. Well, Brother had lightly soldered pins linking the connector to PCB. When I unplugged it, soldering came with it. I contacted a repair store near me telling me they don’t do it and I should ask for a repair to a certified Brother technician. Which is overpriced. I also can’t open it fully as it is placed to be impossible to repair without disassembling half of the machine.

No printer is the same, some brands are better than others. Some are well accepted on Linux with CUPS, some other not. But so far, not one brand impressed me well enough by their design to keep it open, easily fixable and long lasting.

Fuck printers

Nom one invented a good printer still

I hope this sub will grow when game releases. It would be so cool

I wonder if EU has some specifications regarding odometers.

It can’t believe we don’t have a standard on how that it needs to work.

If your state requires ID verification, then most apps will probably comply. You can try Matrix with Element or just Signal with a group.

More more “off-the-line” alternatives you can look at Mumble and own your own server.

Fairphone brand is basically saying to everyone “Hey look at our generic Android phone with everything you need from Google, including AI stuff and data collection” and when you ask if you can have a privacy friendly features they basically say “Nope, we just do a phone with replaceable parts, that’s all. Don’t ask for more”

Intrusive thoughts while I was writing my post. I was talking. Thanks for telling me. :)

Popsicle has a great future in politics.

Ah Pizzacakes comics are always so fun and entertaining to read.

Edit: wording

Ah yes, the good old way of throwing electromagnetic waves at people after putting their cymatic scans inside a shared pool of neutrally and selected shared consciousness of dissected sociopaths brains.

I didn’t have it on my Bingo card.

Psycho Pass.

Another one to the list. Great anime. It’s like if Blade Runner and Minority Report had a loving relationship and a beautiful child was the byproduct of this union.