Fair…

PS: Wait… that’s a hobby and they don’t get paid for lying? That’s even worse than I thought.

No, he is not “angry with Europe”. He’s instructed to weaken Europe for his Russian handlers.

Are we seriously supposed to avoid talking about that simple truth for the next 4 years now somehow?

Not that I […] want to minimize the experience.

But isn’t that something that happens at pretty much all companies

Pick one…

After massively increasing dividends to their shareholders to 4.5Billion € in June.

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Die Antwort ist offensichtlich aber mit noch ein wenig mehr täglicher Schwarzmalerei, die so schön Klicks produziert, schaffen wir es sicherlich trotzdem den ökonomischen Schaden zumindest zu maximieren.

The answer is obvious, but with a little more daily doomerism, which produces so many nice clicks, we will certainly still manage to at least maximize the economic damage.

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It’s been years since I took a look at this but I vaguely remember a handy kioskrc config file under xfce4…

found it…

That sounds like the non-techies would be able to fix it themselves on Windows without you being around, which in my experince isn’t the case.

It might be different for you with a lot of tech-affine people in your family. But for those of us being forced to be the tech support anyway, it can really make a difference if you have to fix a Linux issue once in a while or have to reinstall Windows for the 5th time this year…

That’s a moronic idea anway.

Yes we can perfectly well ban an anti-democratic party even when 20% or more are voting for them. Why wouldn’t we? Just like we can perfectly well prosecute 20%+ of the population when they actually commit crimes.

Sorry, but democracy DOES NOT mean that illegal actions are permitted because enough people agree (and a minority is also far from “enough”), just like democracy -contrary to what populism wants us to believe nowadays- DOES NOT mean lies (nicely called "alternative facts as an euphemism) become truths now just because enough people believe in them.

You could…

But then one is an open system where you can disable the UI put on top and have a working linux system, while the other is a closed blob destroying compatibility and trying hard to lock you out from accessing the underlying linux system.

Am I supposed to acually watch that video or can I just use the most basic common sense?

Separating car traffic from bike traffic from pedestrian traffic adds a lot of layers between cars and buildings, while measures to calm down traffic -to protect those bikers and pedestrians- also reduces severe crashes (and you would need a lot of force to actually damage a building).

In that fairy tale reality were European industry actually is lagging behind and needs protection you would be right. But that’s a lie. Those chinese electric motors are European designs. Their battery design was (and still is) researched in European labs.

Also those cheap Chinese EVs aren’t real. Prices are alwas adapted to market, its buying power and -more importantly- the bare bones versions will not be allowed on European streets anywhere. So in the end we get “cheap” cars for 10% less than domestic producers. When the fuck has 10% higher prices for solid quality ever been a problem. But instead we get flooded with stories of how European production can’t compete anymore… as if wages, energy, raw materials hasn’t been more expensive in Europe since basically forever. Really sad how our industry decayed nearly a century ago… oh, wait. It didn’t because there is an actual global market for high quality production with high standards.

The only actual difference is that China is actually producing stuff on scale while European companies spend decades on rejecting any innovation because lobbying politicians was cheaper and brought more short-term gains for shareholders and CEOs.

And they do exactly the same thing now. Sure, protect them from competition for another few years so they can keep worshipping the allmighty diesel. If we are at let’s scrap all environmental goals because they are obviously not doable with an industry refusing to even try. Then that industry will be soon dead indeed and rightfully so as they decided -totally voluntarily- to die off.

ARM is shit at hardware discovery in general. So no, chromebooks don’t need a special distro. They however need a kernel adapted to the specific hardware, often down to the model (that’s also the reason Android updates take so long on phones and there is very time limited support… there’s always someone needed to adapt new updates to the specific hardware for each device, so they don’t bother for anything but their latest products).

Yeah… another piece for the 24/7 stream of propaganda…

Actual reality: 59% answered in a survey that they are not generally opposed to buying a chinese car.

But let’s keep talking about those cheap chinese fairy tale vehicles flooding the market that in reality will barely be cheaper here, so we have a “reason” to waste more public money.

We really, really need to “protect” European car makers from having to innovate at all, so they can keep falling behind while maximizing dividends for shareholders. Just like they did so successfully for decades already.

They could just say ‘screw it’ and decide on their own to only build BEV.

And then they would go bankrupt pretty fast. EVs are more expensive and don’t have a massive infrastructure to refuel them, build over decades (also still heavily subsidised indirectly).

The company saying “screw it” today just cut their available market down to a fraction of its former size, down to the small amount of “we have money to spare anyway and already have our own home and garage to refuel”-people. The majority can’t afford to buy a car for twice the price because it’s better for the environment. And they don’t even have a spot to park them other than on the side of the street (maybe some countries are better than others in that regard but here having to charge at the few publically available chargers doubles the cost compoared to just plugging it in over night at home).

So yes, the companies actually need guidelines. They are no startup that can produce a few EVs and then scale up over the next decade. They are full fledged businesses with massive production facilities and tens of thousands of workers. They indeed need to know when to reach 100% EV production as they are depending on gradually changing over production. We will kill our ICE production today and only produce EVs isn’t an option when 80% of the people either can’t afford one or have no valid charging option yet.

Decryption isn’t a problem if you use the systemd hooks when creating your initrams. They try to decrypt every given luks volume with the first key provided and only ask for additional keys if that fails.

I have 3 disks in a btrfs raid setup, 4 partitions (1 for the raid setup on each, plus a swap partition on the biggest disk), all encrypted with the same password.

No script needed, just add rd.luks.name=<UUID1>=cryptroot1 rd.luks.name=<UUID2>=cryptroot2 rd.luks.name=<UUID3>=cryptroot3 rd.luks.name=<UUID4>=cryptswap to your kernel parameters and unlock all 4 with one password at boot.

Why not? Car producers are begging for years for clear guidelines so they can develop solid plans instead of having to speculate how long they need to keep ICEs in parallel.

It’s politicians bought by oil lobbyists (and a few bad apples in the industry refusing to acknowledge reality - often not even cas manufacturers themselves but people in their supply chain) that lie to us 24/7 allegedly protecting the very same producers.

So given the construction times in Europe they already started ~8 years ago?