Some are forced to use windows due to workplace requirements or software only running on windows. I run linux everywhere I can, but don't always have the choice.

This was dumb on so many levels.

I downloaded an iso and was supposed to dd it to my USB drive. You can see where this is leading, but it's worse than you think.

I overwrote the hdd. While I was on an airplane. Of a macbook air that I had no idea how to restore to a functioning state. And this was my workplace laptop.

Like I said, dumb on many levels...

Edit: while the question is about breaking ones Linux installation, one could argue that macOS share the same lineage as Linux and share many similarities.

I remember they made a VR version of the game, which I was very keen on. And I imagine the VR aspect would've made that effect even stronger.

In Sweden (and most European countries?) you need a two year education (1,5 yr theoretical, 0,5 yr field training) before you can work as a police officer. I think in parts of US the training is just a matter of weeks/months, which is very little considering the situations one need to handle.

Here we go with "slams" again.

Don't see why you're being downvoted, the person in question who discovered this is a postgres maintainer employed by Microsoft.

If I want a simple chat protocol, I use IRC or XMPP. These are battle proven by time. If I want a really secure protocol, I use Signal or Matrix. These are endored by many security experts who their shit when they assess protocols, crypto and solutions.

SimpleX may be a good alternative for anonymous communication, but there is plenty options out there. Considering how many startups are funded by cheap VC money, and the business model is always "provide something awesome, and once you have enough traction - enshittify it" makes me very weary of investing myself in new solutions no matter how open-source the are.

I may sound bitter and skeptic, but I've seen this pattern has been repeated many times over.

NPP is indispensable, it is the Windows killer-app.

Congrats on the release!

I really want to have better tiling and window management in Gnome. Ubuntu has an add-on released with 23.10 that I haven't got around to test yet. And I know that Gnome has that feature in the works, but it annoys me that Windows 11 has better management of windows with window-snapping than my DE of choice.

I agree with every point. The last paragraph doesn't have to be a problem though: telegram has very open and really nice APIs and enjoys a lot of FOSS 3rd party apps (only matched by matrix). Of course, we can only enjoy that as long the API usage is still free to use...

Osthyvel (a cheese slicer). I kinda miss it every time I'm on vacation and I have no means to get the expected thickness of a cheese slice.

This is the epitome of first world problems.

KISS launcher is FOSS and a bit different, but many ex. Nova users flocked to it after it was bought.

Thank you for the detailed reply and the explanations to (mostly) all the jargon :-)

Sweden is also doing a lot of deprecation of old telephony systems, those that I know of is that 2G and 3G are going away by 2025.

The less tech debt we pass onto future generations, the better.

I'm really fond of readeck. After being dissapointed with Pocket and Wallabag, I went with omnivore until they pulled a skiff. Out of all the FOSS read-it-later solutions - it was a very even tie between Shiori and readeck, and I went with the latter since it supports highlights.

The car garages. I never drove a car in Japan, but it looked like there was a system and some kind of futuristic hydraulic automation thingy to put your car in an available slot??

But in general, I got a lot of retrofuturism vibes in Japan.

Also, while not technology, it is worth mentioning that people there are incredibly polite and friendly - even in Tokyo rush hour.

This is exceptionally bad advice.

But this is by design, snap containers aren't allowed to read data outside of their confinements. Same goes for flatpak and OCI-containers.

I don't use snap myself, but it does have its uses. Bashing it just because it's popular to hate on snap won't yield a healthy discussion on how it could be improved.

I didn't quite get into the martian, but project hail Mary... I'm savoring when I have the time and headspace to read it again.

Of of curiosity, what is it that you dislike? I have Linux on a surface go gen 1 (which works flawlessly) and use gnome for the tablet mode. The only thing that sucks is the on-screen keyboards, but it works surprisingly well otherwise.

Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.