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…Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu

The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these “cutbacks” will be the adequate reforms however.

Electromagnetic catapults are a “least concern” technology I would say, but that aside, currently our defence industries are intertwined. Thinking the EU is fully dependent on the US is delusional.

People are about to find out that even when the US often leads the way, there are also EU companies critical to US weapon systems.

Sure, you can “DIY” everything, but massively altering your supply chain is rarely a good idea. Will Orangeman realise that? We will see.

Cotton topper / mattress protector. Helps to catch and distribute heat and moisture. In my experience also improves sleep quality

Good luck. If you don’t pass as a refugee, you just need money, a job, a place to live and to prove all that to the central bureaucracy

I can understand people not wanting to learn a ton of CLIs, I cannot understand people refusing to use any at all. They have the distinct advantage that you can copy + paste stuff, whereas in Windows you sometimes have to follow like a dozen steps to do whatever you want to do in a 2000s GUI.

Casual reminder that the DMA is not about trade wars, but monopolies

In Germany, some conservative politician said quite literally that “weed is banned because it’s an illegal drug”.

These excuses are valid for people bound by a law, but not for the people making them.

To print and mail it maybe. Not that uncommon when signatures are legally required, although in that case I would expect clear instructions on the form. And also a “we don’t do that here” response shortly after handing it in via email, since it wouldn’t be hard to filter for that kind of stuff

1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.

So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 9 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.

Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.

What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.

If you are talking about online services, Proton is a Swiss option and for what it’s worth, Bitwarden offers an EU instance. Both are freemium OSS. You could also self-host Bitwarden. If you are looking for offline options, there are plenty. KeePass2 comes to mind.

Oh, I was just mocking the claim that they can’t store 3 days worth of food.

Unless of course they are like 6 people on 60 m², in which case I want to sincerely apologise

Half of Lemmy: “Oh no, please, don’t destroy my asshole 🤤”

Demon: “I am here to annihilate humanity! Hello? Please stop it… You’re making this really awkward…”

If you cannot stote 3 days worth of food, my first investment would be a single fridge. Because it can totally hold that much.

You could also buy insanely expensive IBM enterprise hardware. I think they still do PowerPC stuff

Because companies give zero fucks. They will tell you they need tons of IT people, when in reality they want tons of underpaid programmers. They want stuff as fast and cheap as possible. What doesn’t cause immediate trouble is usually good enough. What can be patched up somehow is kept running, even when it only leads you further up the cliff you will fall off eventually.

Management is sometimes completely clueless. They rather hire twice as many people to keep some poorly developed app running, than to invest in a new, better developed app, that requires less maintenance and provides a better user experience. Zero risk tolerance and zero foresight.

It still generates money, you keep it running. Any means are fine.

You need to use as many different formats as possible, otherwise you look unprofessional

eDolf Musk is learning a valuable lesson: As a billionaire, you can basically do what you want. Except if you are in a very competitive business and it makes people hate your guts.

lol