Always felt the corkscrew was one of the more useful ones. Did you never forget bringing a proper corkscrew to a picnic?

Ist Foss, und relativ solide.

https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp/

Wat willse denn mit Obst für ne Katze?

Just don’t travel through hyperspace.

JA sounds like a Nazi group. “Patriotische Jugend” very much also sounds like a nazi group. Nice to see them stay on brand.

I assume the JA is gonna go independent. Great. A new, well-funded group of far-right extremists is exactly what we need.

Depends. My mother’s computer didn’t have the hardware necessary to drive Win11, so I explained the options, and she said she’d try Linux.

She’s on Fedora Workstation on both her Desktop and Laptop now, both relatively standard HP Computers (the Desktop being very, very old, however).

She can connect to her work server via Citrix and access the software she needs. She can take work calls via MicroSIP. She can edit documents locally with onlyoffice. She can do whatever else she needs in the browser. None of this needed any non-standard drivers or packages, except for MicroSIP, for which Wine needed to be installed, though it worked without any special configuration.

So it can work perfectly well. Depending on the use case.

Both, I guess?

I’m neither Sir, nor Madam, just Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Customer.

The younger ones didn’t mind it, for the older ones I did it myself while on visit.

The server stays on, always. I have like ten people using the services on there over tailscale. There’s a kvm, should something really unexpected happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents

There’s a few, but yeah, the majority of recent ones are Russian/Russian-alligned. I’m not sure there’s another battlefield with an equal amount of civilian air traffic and air defense systems, though.

I get the point, though I feel uncomfortable making such accusations without concrete evidence.

Also, it would just be really stupid to be doing that on purpose.

They in the sense of all Russians? All Russian soldiers? I don’t think we should let the current conflict, caused by decisions of authoritarian leadership, lead us into vilifying a whole people.

I don’t see any evidence for it not being accidental. There isn’t really a good reason for them to shoot down random passenger planes, and a lot of reasons for avoiding that. I also don’t find it hard to believe that there are problems with equipment quality and training.

Still, absolutely horrific.

That heavily depends on what you mean by writing music. Musescore (the software, not the website) is pretty good for writing notation, and open source.

If it’s more about producing a track, there’s Ardour, also foss. If you wanna pirate an “industry standard” daw, there’s FL Studio and Ableton, I guess.

Depending on what you want to do exactly, there might be a lot of other software that fits the bill.

What I read (and who knows whether it’ll turn out to be true) was that the plane was off it’s planned course, likely due to a birdstrike, which lead to them entering an area that was actively expecting drone attacks, which likely lead to the Russians shooting it down.

But I guess we’ll see when the report comes out.

Well, yeah, anyone that solders memory and storage will be exponentially harder to fix. I’d be hard pressed to think of any more difficult to fix than the current Apple lineup. Equally difficult? Sure, there’s plenty.

I wouldn’t be surprised of there’s shome shitbox out there I just haven’t had in front of me yet.

The one thing I’d agree is that it tends to be harder to fix hardware issues. Well, on the new one’s you just don’t because it’s soldered, but a friend’s late 2015 27 inch imac has a borked SSD, and to replace it, we’d need to take off the glued on screen.

Softwarewise, I prefer the issue-finding experience to the windows one, though.

Well, macOS is unix based, and when debbuging a friends mac, I usually find that I find the terminal more comfortable than the Windows Command Prompt.

Now, that Mac does break in very weird ways sometimes, but I digress.

They also had a bit of a scandal around alleged sexual assault, and coersion of sex from fans semi-recently. Big in German media, probably less so internationally. Great shows, but I’m not willing to give them any more money.