You are ignoring what I said. You say people don’t like price increases. I say price increases are not necessary. You say people still don’t like price increases.

You know, they say. And they all say, “Crooked Xi has stolen the design” because he ONLY steals from THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, the USA, made GREAT AGAIN by me, Donald J TRUMP. And they say, “he stole the design to mock us”, and he did, but look at his phone. It’s NOT GOLDEN, which everybody knows. Every expert can tell you, you know, if it’s not GOLDEN then it’s not as good as the TRUMP MOBILE. Gold actually makes it faster, like our ships in the STRAIT OF HORMUZ. You know, the ships that will TERMINATE IRAN and lower Oil Prices so that the TRUMP PHONE becomes CHEAPER. Thank you for your attention to This Matter, DONALD J. TRUMP

Employers can make the menu the same price by just limiting the profits. But of course, they present that option as impossible. “It’s either a living wage or an expensive menu”, and let the peasants fight over it.

And yet this issue doesn’t exist almost anywhere else except on USA, even when meals are cheaper.

As an IT, I can confirm we have to use the terminal for some sketchy workarounds every time we install Windows just to skip the Microsoft account thing

In my experience, booting using single threaded inits (at least in their early stages) actually speeds up the process. The overhead from multithreaded startup on something as simple as an init system can hurt startup performance, especially on older CPUs.

Arch adopted systemd-homed and, at the time, I didn’t even know what it did. But it somehow borked my system. I never needed it, it was added for no reason, and like a lot of systemd features, it broke stuff.

I’m still salty about systemd-networkd messing up my network. Or about systemd-resolved taking over my custom DNS.

I have so many systemd packages blacklisted atp, and I don’t even want to. But they keep breaking shit.

This is just an anecdote and it may not be representative of anything, but that’s my 2 cents.

On the other hand, the paint being darker and absorbing more heat might make the water warmer, accelerating growth.

VW, Audi, Škoda, Fiat, Seat… Those are just some of the european car brands.

And then Siemens, CAF, Ansaldobreda, Alstom… all really important train manufacturers (apparently Škoda also makes trains, TIL)

Siemens is also a really big multinational that makes a lot of stuff, including industrial systems and bleeding edge science equipment and healthcare machinery.

Airbus is another massive company, which builds aircraft, spacecraft and it’s also a “defence” contractor (fuck Airbus)

Speaking about space, the ESA (European Space Agency) is one of the most important space agencies, and it has built and launched some really important satellites. It has also made science equipment and parts for many joint NASA-ESA missions, and it has even built some of the modules of the ISS. Among some of the cool things the ESA has done is the Galileo satellite constellation, that provides worldwide geopositioning at higher precision than the US-built GPS constellation. It also helped NASA build the first space telescope, and it provided some parts and equipment for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Some people mentioned the CERN before. A world class research project, that currently has plans to be expanded, and that was built in collaboration by many countries in the EU. It’s an impressive thing to research about.

Europe also has really good infrastructure, and it currently houses the world’s longest road tunnel, the world’s longest railway tunnel and the world’s longest foot/bike tunnel. It has one of the best rail networks in the world, and it also holds the 3rd, 4th and 5th place in train speed records (and it still holds first place in stock/unmodified train speed records, according to wikipedia)

It also has some really important semiconductor companies, like NXP, Infineon and STMicroelectronics. Even ASML, the company that manufactures the machines that make all of the chips used in the US (yes, even Nvidia’s, Intel’s and AMD’s chips) is a European company.

Europe also has some of the biggest telecoms, like Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, and it’s home to some phone brands, like Fairphone.

As a honorable mention, Linus Torvalds, who initially made Linux, the system most of the US (and the world) runs on top of, is european.

Paper maps and map books still exist, and they’re pretty useful for navigation. If you stay at hotels, they usually give you some simple maps of the area with the most important features highlighted.

If you still want to use online maps, OSM (Open Street Maps) is a great project that doesn’t depend on any big tech maps. It also works completely offline if your frontend allows downloading maps. CoMaps is a good client for phones. You can contribute to OSM yourself if you miss anything.

For sending files between a phone and a PC, I use KDE Connect.

For sending files between PCs, I use SSH.

Both are really simple and lightweight tools that normally come preinstalled, and you can use them with no configuration.

DNS is such a terrible thing, because, despite being amazing at what it does, and beautifully complex at times, it’s still a massively centralized system that basically controls the internet. Of course it’s based in the US.

It’s also the reason why domain names cost significant money, and they even sell TLDs for insane prices that only megacorporations can afford. They can decide what TLDs get to exist, and ultimately, they have the power to ban domains, whole zones, or even TLDs. They essentially have the power to dismantle the internet as most people know it.

There are some alternative projects that aim to replace ICANN’s root servers, but almost nobody has them set up (and the alternative root servers aren’t even considered “legal” or part of the DNS system by any provider). Which leads to the alternative TLDs being almost useless. It’s still a fun thing to set up, though.

And to drive raised trucks 20mph over the speed limit in a school zone

You’d be surprised by how widely applicable it is, it works for virtually any road. Small city roads, highways, even residential streets.

There also isn’t a maximum number of lanes for this effect (well, there technically is, but it’s too large to be feasible) because cars are an extremely inefficient way of transportation, so they take up a lot of space.

Roads also become increasingly more expensive with each extra lane added, to the point where it becomes economically impossible to keep adding lanes. You also need to demolish buildings if the road was already too close to them. And the cost of the extra lane isn’t a one off, it also generates a running cost for repairs and inspections.

That money is better spent on making viable alternatives to cars, which actually will help traffic or even fix it.

Yeah, this country is still a shithole.

There’s a lot of division between “right” and “left” (the right being basically fascists at this point, with VOX and SALF as neofascist parties, and the traditional right, PP, trying to copy them). You can guess which side coppers are on. And they’re not liking the pro-palestine protests at all. Every time there’s a pro-palestine protest or event, the protesters are labelled as terrorists on right wing TV channels, and some people really believe that.

That video probably won’t even get to the news here, and if it did, somehow people would come out of the woodwork to defend the pigs here. All despite the video having pretty damning evidence that the cops just wanted to hurt everyone there, because there was no attempt at deescalation or peaceful arrest.

Your data is worth much more than that, actually.

Proton calculates your data is worth, on average, $700/year. Granted, they have a financial interest in making that number as high as possible, because it’s basically an ad for them.

I’ve read somewhere that data price varies a lot per demographic, with some data being worth just a few $ per year and some other data being worth way more than $1000/y. I can’t find the source I read that on, so take it with a grain of salt.

Either way, it’s very certainly more than a few cents per year per person.

“Won’t somebody think of the poor cops abusing civilians for their epstein class overlords”

This whole article reads like copium

Ai benefits the epstein class

They do give away lots of freeleech tokens to get your ratio going, tho

I2P traffic isn’t that difficult to detect or block, mainly because bootstrapping a node requires connecting to known reseed servers. They can block those reseed servers and your node would never be able to connect to the network.