Linda R

Did you try something Ubuntu-bases such as Mint? Or something like Arch that is supposed to teach you its use by making you configure everything by hand and trying to help you understand what you are configuring by hand? :)

(Personally I’m in the “make it work out of the box, I don’t care as long as stuff works” camp) But of course, I also don’t use drawing tablets :)

What problems have you run into with Linux?

Ubuntu on this computer, SuSE on the other one. And e/os in the phone.

In the EU this problem is much less severe because the law requires every shop to always print the price per litre or kg underneath the price per package.

At least I almost never look at the big “per package” prices, and stare at the smaller printed “per litre” prices instead. I wouldn’t even properly notice the price has been inflated because I’d just skip even thinking about the product with such a price per litre.

But still, I’ve noticed that for example large packages of margarine are significantly more expensive per kg than the smaller ones – the precisely same product by the same company costs almost 30 % less per kg in the smaller package 😬

Why would the Russia allow them to visit Ukraine? If they wwre to visit Ukraine, they would stop getting any support from the Russia, as they would seem compromised. You can get training in a lot of places. Why go, of all places, to the one that will annoy the country funding your activities?

Jesus Hugging Christ?

You asked for no medical aid, but I will somewhat defy that because there’s a medication that I find very good:

I like mirtazapin very much. Doctors often don’t seem to know it, but that one works the better for falling asleep the less you take it! (Of course, if you take a ridiculously low, almoat homeopathic, dose, you’ll of course get zero effect)

I usually take about one eighth of a pill at once. It causes me to fall asleep within about 15 minutes, then its effect disappears completely. That means, it’s not a sleeping pill, only a pill for falling asleep. And it has no effect whatsoever on your tomorrow. Except that you will have slept enough.

It isn’t really going on in Finland. Although, I think it should be going on here as well. I’m getting quite scared of how this nation seems to accept everything.

I think it’s basically referring to this: Russia Tries to Turn France’s Violent Protests Into a Disinformation Weapon, EU Investigation Finds

Dunno. I’m using Linux on my laptop and it just works out of the box. 🤷
I think the integrated microphone making an annoying sound all the time might not have been a problem on Windows? But I don’t know. I’ve got headphones with a microphone anyway, and that works better than an integrated microphone anyway, so I haven’t bothered thinking more about it. But that’s the only problem that comes to my mind.

I logged into my old email I started using on the year Star Wars Episode 1 came out. I don’t think I’ve ever deleted mail on it, so probably from that year.

It does not seem to have a way to sort the mail by anything, so also not by date. I tried scrolling down and down and down and dow…
…but it started hogging more and more ram when I did that and around when I reached May 2023, my browser crashed. Anyway, I apparently have approximately 41 000 unread emails in that mailbox!

But, I guess my oldest undeleted email is probably something about my LiveJournal account? :P

Cremation happens in a very high temperature, able to basically turn the body into a vapour before the vapour then burns. The heat might very well be enough to alter the chemical compounds enough that the resulting gases can no longer be called cigarette smoke.

I’m a little baffled here. Are you seriously saying that the society was more equal when 19th century turned to 20th than it is now? Or am I somehow misinterpreting you?

Back then there was still serfdom. Things are bad, but my understanding is they are a couple magnitudes better than in the end of 19th century.

Dunno. This should be default behaviour. Only publish the result when you have the result.

On metro networks with the third line on the side of the tracks, the trains have contacts for them on both sides. The contacts on the other side just kind of hang in the air without doing anything.

Thanks, that’s awesome to know! But even there we then have the … island. Basically “land” again :)

Which one? I guess to the list of “Dirt”, because it’s an Indo-European language, so I’d assume it does things the same way as any other Indo-European language would.

A lot of people did.
It’s called “Maa” in Finnish, “Erde” in German", “Земля” in Ukrainian, etc. Each of those means “dirt” as well.

I guess if we were to go to some other planet and find sapient locals there, they’d probably call their planet something that translates to “dirt” or “ground” or something similar.

I went to Wiktionary and checked some 15 languages from across the… Earth. And each but one that had an etymology mentioned, said it comes from their word for land or dirt. In Georgian this planet is called Motherdirt, which I found funny. In Arabic, however, our planet is called “The lower place”, as opposed to the “The upper place”, which means heaven. So, there’s at least one language that has elected to do it differently. And there was very scarce data for various indigenous American languages, so I couldn’t find much about them. In Taos, spoken in Mexico, their word for Earth translates to “land”. The Greenlandic name for our planet does mean land, as well. And their language came from North America, so the only North American samples I could get are “Earth” as well. And Japanese, Sumerian, Coptic, you name it, it’s always the same: Either “land” or “dirt”.

Enshittification is a result of commercialisation.

The Forumverse cannot be commercialised. If an instance starts showing advertisements, its users will migrate to ones that don’t.

I don’t think this network can enshittify.

Same thing in EU. At least over here in Finland. But, the passport is paid for by the social service if you are on their money.