Yeah. Fuck those. I just now have this case, where I cannot login to a service I pay a subscription for. Contact support, wrote explicitly “I looked into the spam folder. I even looked into the logs of my mailserver, your mailserver does not even contact mine”.

Wait for two days, answer is (of course) “have you looked into your spam folder?”, nothing else. As soon as I manage to login, I cancel 😅 (jk, cancelled the payment already). Fuck those.

https://eu.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-pro

BeeLink has an option.

Pro:

• get a 5G and 2.5G port

Con:

• soldered RAM (ew)
• 5G port is Realtek (for some reason 2.5 is Intel)

That’s about 80$ per month, which probably is over 200$ in today’s money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, people say that a lot. Then again, nobody knows the “what if” to compare it to. Like, how many brillant inventors were slaughtered in the trenches? What could’ve universities researched were they not bombed or shut down? I feel like we would’ve had crazy more cool inventions already ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Um, but the “kind of NATO” is called EU already. The mutual defense wording in the EU treaties is by far stronger than the wording in the NATO contract. I mean, in the end it’s all words on paper anyway, but there’s that.

But they are using Sam’s RAM while doing it 😡

Better to take up a new hobby like woodworking

Prices for woodworking are horrid right now, though, 'cause everybody is taking it up as a spare hobby 😅.

Metal craft is where it’s at. Like, at our community craftshop you never get a slot for woodworking machines, but the metal shop is basically empty 24/7

It’s mindboggling how humanity managed to find a source of such abundant, cheap, scalable and relatively clean energy… and then certain political entities demonized it and fucked it all up.

Sounds like you talk about solar and wind energy in this paragraph, 'cause nuclear ain’t cheap. Never was competitive, having nuclear energy was always about “we could build the bomb if we wanted to”, that’s why society paid for it.

Yeah, but most people with dementia are not propped up with god-knows-what before being shoved on a stage.

Meine Oma hatte die alten Tarife nie ganz abgelegt. Sie hat immer nach 5 Minuten gesagt “Es ist so teuer auf Hamburg zu telefonieren, bis bald”. Sie hat mich halt auf dem Handy angerufen gehabt, aber gut, vielleicht hatte sie auch einfach nie Bock gehabt mit mir zu telefonieren ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because if they only make small packages into containers, without actually bringing in more staff to proper test things, the desired effect is basically zero, but makes stuff more expensive for the consumer.

Yeah, I figured the same. I write code as a hobby. For a recent project I tried the “generate and review” workflow. Man, how I hated it.

Settled on a “write and ask a LLM only in a chat what I forgot” and that was great. Like pair programming with a senior. It told me caveats, I could decide whether I follow the advice and how to deal with the issues. I learned a lot.

But I had the privilege to decide how to do it, because it is a hobby for me. I felt for all the professionals who are not deciding about that stuff. It’s like, I love my shitty woodworking furniture. It’s crude, but I made it myself and I had fun creating it. But I cannot use these skills to produce furniture for IKEA, nor in some small shop.

Die Tabelle hat mich überzeugt. Oh, eine Tabelle, das muss seriös sein!

There are even cheap Air mouses which can learn your TV remote commands, so you can throw that in a drawer and have only one remote 👍

I never get entirely how populism in itself is bad. Like, obviously there is bad populism, but the defining traits of e.g. being anti-establishment? How is it bad or untrue to say something like “there are some elites who unjustly influence our society”? That’s true, but can be used in a conspiracy or racist/antisemitic/hate kind of way.

Or like “our society doesn’t work as good anymore, because the rich stole from you”. Very populistic, it condenses a multitude of problems into one “easy solution”, so it is a populistic trait…but sometimes there are easy explanations for complex problems, that being one of them.

So, long story short: authoritarianism is always bad, but populism is sometimes good or even right.

1 million signatures and a quorum for countries is such a ridiculous high threshold, that I am not entirely sure why they even bother.

There were reports. Yeah, like your report of “I have this edge case, where it doesn’t work”, but you seem to have made up your mind 😅

Have you read the article at all?

However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

This was no “we evaluated, it did not work”. It was “we don’t like this. Hey, Bob, please tell us how it doesn’t work” - “Sure, I had this one document which rendered wrongly” - “see, it doesn’t work, now we can scratch the project”.

95% of the time they don’t. And that’s the point.

95% of the time Microsoft formats render fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. You write “edge case” yourself. And when you’re in the field of providing compatibility you’ll see that Microsofi is hostile. And they hava a good business case to be that hostile, can’ t really blame them from said business perspective.

But the way forward is not playing catch. What institutions need to understand is that there’ll never be a drop-in replacement. Especially not, as people have learned the quirks of MS Office. That is why users blame an alternative office suit but when MS Office breaks once again it’s just how it is.

If companies, really any institutions want to break free of MS Office they need to really treat it as the complicaten change process it is. That means allocating resources for changing and adapting said edge cases. When you just go to randomly install some flavor of Libre Office for 38 employees, but everything else stays the same…yeah, you gonna fail big time, no surprise there. But you would fail anyway, even if we had perfect compatibility today. Because tomorrow the next MS update will break compatibility and your 38 users are the idiots of the institution again, until the next update drops.

Yeah, because I never have to switch Proton or Wine versions or use some launch options or something. I bet if the average docx opener was as willing to tinker as the average Linux gamer, we would not have a problem.

Plus your Steam stuff is not fleet managed. That is what I mean: if your company IT (as we’re talking government agencies here) is not providing updates, the current version can be as good as you want, it doesn’t arrive at the user’s computer, thus the user hates it.

And, come on, legacy documents don’t render correctly? Guess what, try to open old Microsoft Office shit in new Microsoft office programs: that shit breaks, like, a lot. Not even Microsoft can stay Microsoft compatible 😅.