Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.

Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.

https://digital-archivist.com/how-long-do-dvds-last-and-cds

The post assumes that he is even registered. Kenobi is hiding on a backwater desert planet ruled by a crime syndicate. Unless there is some detail in the movies I forgot, I think it is reasonable to assume that he might not even appear in any imperial registry.

the group claimed: “Applying a single name – Palestine – retrospectively to the entire region, across thousands of years, erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity.

It is understood that the “Palestinian descent” has been changed to read “Canaanite descent” in the Hyksos panel.

What they did is technically correct, Canaanite is the correct term for the time period. The term Palestinian did not yet exist.

BUT it is certainly no coincidence that "UK Lawyers of Israel" did request that change now.

They are probably meant to be mean, because the people described had a very low social status in society.

The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active / dominant / masculine and passive / submissive / feminine. Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male citizen possessed political liberty (libertas) and the right to rule both himself and his household (familia). "Virtue" (virtus) was seen as an active quality through which a man (vir) defined himself. The conquest mentality and "cult of virility" shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves and former slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of infamia, so they were excluded from the normal protections afforded to a citizen even if they were technically free. Freeborn male minors were off limits at certain periods in Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome

A3. Not A2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216

After they finally got back the subjects would get together every few years to relive the good old days without him.

The linked article in the post claims that the crew never met again until the person filming the documentary tracked some of them down.

They had not met since the Peace Project docked in Mexico 43 years earlier, so the reunion was poignant.

Tinfoil hat answer: The fact that he is alive and did not even catch a bullet shows that it was staged. You want to tell me a guy with a shotgun runs towards American police officers and nobody even shoots him? Sounds fake. They must have had orders to not actually shoot him, stage a small gunfight and then just arrest him. The guy probably got a good paycheck for his upcoming prison time.

Because french was historically the language of diplomacy back when the rules were made. This is also mentioned in the article.

PSA: you can buy all of Cory Doctorow's books & audiobooks DRM-free from his own website. No need to use any enshittified service.

https://shop.craphound.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion

You make it sound like there are not also multiple subsidies programs directly for organic farmers.

Despite commonly using the term "GPS", people are usually not using GPS directly, but GNSS, which includes satellite systems from USA (GPS), Russia (GLONASS), China (BDS) and the EU (Galileo). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation

Das Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz geht im Moment von einer "niedrigen zweistelligen Anzahl" islamistischer Gefährder im Land aus.

Millionen Menschen einer Überwachung durch KI aussetzen, um den Standort von ~20 Leuten im Auge zu behalten, klingt natürlich voll angemessen. (/s)

He also listed uninhabited Australian islands and a US military base on an otherwise uninhabited UK island as separate countries. So I would guess China decided that the country list is basically meaningless.

As someone who uses GrapheneOS with sandboxed GooglePlay on his only smartphone (with daily usage for years at this point): I don't know what kind of adjustment you are referring to. I never had to adjust to anything, because I never encountered anything that GrapheneOS couldn't do that stock Android could. Follow the installation process and after that the phone behaves like a regular phone, except you have way more options regarding security and privacy.

Is your friend trying to use GrapheneOS without any Google services maybe?

After June 10, 2026, previously purchased a-la-carte titles will no longer be playable on Luna. However, you can continue to access them directly through the third-party platform account you had linked when you made the purchase on Luna

So the games are not actually gone, people will just have to start them directly via EA, GOG or Ubisoft instead of Amazon's storefront.

That is false. It was called the "Holy Roman Empire" from the 13th century until 1512. The name was changed in 1512 to "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation". But even in many official texts after 1512 they still left out the latter part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire#Name_and_general_perception

It's just a myth: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/only-two-cars-ohio-crashed-1895/

We basically looked into the very new technology that Unity was offering, and that turned out to be a mistake, in the sense that there were features that didn't actually fulfill the promise

Sounds like the Unity marketing convinced them that the capabilities they needed were soon to be added to the engine and they believed it.

While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.

Quite literally the first sentence of the article. No, it has not. But there are now instructions to retrofit it with one.