That is more than a 10% loss of that customer base in 2 month.

For any industry that is huge.

I used to run SuSE and i appreciate their 100% open-source philosophy. But when i can’t run videos on websites because the codec isn’t open source, it is not suitable as a daily driver.

I wonder if the opposite principle also has a name.

The first comment imo. is fair. It says that the market is saturated, so it is difficult to succeed, but it doesn’t rule it out by default.

The other two comments are just plain hostile and ended up being wrong. Lets call it dead troll bias or something?

I remember that you used to see all tye mods name of a subreddit. The past three years you can’t anymore or not by default.

Sounds a bit like medieval pope drama.

But we get good memes out of it, so why not?

Solar energy, temperate climates and a self regulation mechanism to distribute heat well, liquid and clean water, plants and animals providing nutrition, materials for anything from a clay hut to microchips…

It is affected by how efficient your muscles are as you don’t reach a 100% energy conversion. Given the typical representation of Super-Heroes as muscular, but usually not hippo-sized, their muscles being “super efficient” would be one way of explaining why they manage to get more strength out of less muscles.

Also he worked out by lifting train carts.

They are both linked through their families colonizing history in South Africa, including staunch Nazi support in their families.

Jokes on you, i tried using qwant and they just straight up deny me access because using a VPN apparently is “suspicious”.

It seemed that for Jackass ultimately noone was killed. Also it seems that the participants were not in a vulnerable situation that was exploited, but engaged with full consent and were able to give consent.

After the whole spiking their own wifes and mothers to pass around for rape online, including with making videos and now this, i am starting to think France has a pretty bad problem with psychopaths and a society that is looking away or even encouraging it rather than stepping in.

A GUI makes sense if you want things to be approachable. A CLI makes sense, if you want things to be well customizable.

E.g. compare LaTeX script with setting formatting in an office program. Yes i see directly how the formatting is. And if a good Formatting standard is set, it can be used quite well nowadays. But if just want to put one Paragraph differently in order to fit a picture or table or something then things quickly get messy.

I have an external hard-drive with some 300-500h of music on it.

Problem is i don’t want to clog up my SSD and i often am too lazy to plug it in. But i have been listening to a lot of songs i haven’t archived yet and risk losing with the digital platforms failing me sooner or later.

Specifically the person got raided on a wrong address, so actually his ex partner and child got raided, the raid came after the owner of the twitter account already had identified himself to the police and admitted to the “crime”.

There was absolutely no possible investigative reason for the raid. It was purely meant to intimidate someone for an insuot that is rather mild in German language

Start with the corner, eventually you just have to move to the snake.

Putin cant visit most countries anymore. Netanyahu neither. Exceptions are the US who want to destroy the ICC anyways and recently Hungary who now want to leave the ICC to suck up to Netanyahu.

As an internationally active company there is many jurisdictions, where Microsoft can be held accountable.

Helping a genocide is very much illegal. If you sell precursor chemicals for poison gas to a death camp operator, you are also complicit.

After Oct. 7 the usage by the IDF exploded. In early 2024 reports about the AI tools used to justify slaughtering Civilians en masse came out, employees have been raising alarms through the “proper” channels and then went to public protest as Microsoft ignored them and cracked down on any mention of it in Forums, Town Halls and the like.

They absolutely know that they are complicit and would rot in prison the rest of their lifes if this goes to court properly.

As fiber is rolled out more, i see less and less why it would be cost prohibitive?

All you need to do to connect a remote place is lay a cable. More expensive if you need dig a trench and put the cable in there. But if it can be done for electricity it can be done for fiber.