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Non-Jews defining what being a Jew is, denying what actual Jews said about it, is exactly the kind of thing Nazis do (both the literal, historical Nazi Party members and supporters and present day ethno-Fascists)

The real anti-semites are the ones who accuse of anti-semitiesm people who are against Genocide, since that is logically equivalent to saying that commiting Genocide is a Jewish trait.

Portugal has exactly the same system (I've lived in both countries) which has actually even more features (such as letting you pay yours bills at any ATM) than the Dutch one.

I think that at least in Europe the countries were ATMs rely on VISA or Mastercard for inter-bank withdrawals like in the UK and US are the exception rather than the rule.

I live in a 10 million people European country which is the leading cork producer in the World

Also the first European country to explicitly decriminalise drug consumption.

Those two things are unrelated.

Several years ago I looked into importing LED Lamps from China into the EU as a business and exchanged some emails with manufacturers in China and analyzed some samples of their products.

Basically they compete on price and hence advertise for bulk purchasers (so basically the no-name and white label brands) the version of their product with the cheapest power converter they have, which is quite crap and more of a hack than a proper converter. However if you pay them a bit more (back then it was maybe 10c for a good LED light bulb that costed less than $1 from the factory) they'll use proper power converters.

As a consumer and if you're buying no-name brand lamps you can try and get the ones with the better power converters by buying "dimmable" LED lamps (even if not using a dimmer) because to get the LED lamps to react properly to the effects of a dimmer in the power that's fed to them, the lamps need to have the better power converters (that do proper AC-DC with voltage step down conversion, rather than the sort of shortcuts used for the cheap converters). Unsurprisingly, dimmable LED Lamps cost more than the regular ones, though nowadays LED Lamps aren't really expensive.

Stuff designed for Europe which has a CE mark has since 2017 to have been tested for (if I remember it correctly) at least 20,000h of use and 10,000 on-off cycles with no more than 5% failures, plus there is also a maximum loss of brightness of the LEDs (as the light emitting diodes themselves tend to lose a bit of brightness with use after manufacturing) and rules about color quality.

The stuff I get here in Portugal, even no brand stuff from Chinese stores, has quite a low failure rate and I have been using LED lamps for ages (to the point that all the lamps more than paid for themselves in energy savings versus the other options back when I started)

So you might try choosing lamps with CE marks.

Having also worked with end-users, I suspect the result of that study from IBM is due to how the users that push to get a Mac tend to be more advanced end-users than your average corporate drone - big companies love to standardize and that means everybody gets the same (with the notable exception of upper management) which is almost invariably all Windows, so there's a huge bulk of "just proficient enough with computers to do their work" people using Windows.

That said, I can see you point for backend guys chosing Mac over Linux because of the integrating headaches they would otherwise have with closed source mandatory corporate tooling: I myself have in a professional environment a far lower threshold to spend time mucking around in the OS to get something I need working than I do at home.

Yeah, during my period in Tech Startups I did see a bit more of usage of Macs than in other places (such as Finance, Software Products, Software Consultancy and even Publishing), but always felt it was driven by the whole halo of "fashionability" around Apple Products, which isn't really a rational reason.

In my experience Mac use is also more likely in people doing Frontend work than Server-side work, maybe because the latter is not at all about visuals and most server-side work targets Linux so it's way simpler to just have Linux in your workstation.

Then again I've been using Linux since the 90s so maybe I'm biased ;)

Bloody Grammar Nazis coming over here and correcting my writtings about Nazi bars ... ;)

If the information never leaves the device then it doesn't need a policy - privacy is not about what an app does in the device which never leaves the device hence never gets shared, it's about what it shares with a 3rd party.

A clock doesn't need to send system time settings information to a server since that serves no purpose for it - managing that is all done at the OS level and the app just uses what's there - and that's even more so for location data since things like determining the timezone are done by the user at the OS level, which will handle stuff like prompting the user to update the timezone if, for example, it detects the device is now in a different timezone (for example, after a long trip).

Here in Portugal a country of 10 million people, the "in group" with the dictator was 9 families.

Scaling it up to the US and it's 300 million people, it would be 270 families.

Absolutelly, it's a wild estimate, but it should give a decent feeling for the rough size of the in-circle under Fascism.

It makes no sense because most of Twitter's business is outside the US - even if Trump wins, which would be indicative of of a majority of American voters chosing him (maybe not even that given how the US voting system works), that would still only strengthen Nazi-bar Twitter amongst about 100 million people and do very little about the rest, plus those 100 million not being in average the very educated or afluent probably means that it wouldn't attract most of the biggest and higher spending advertisers.

In other words, strengthening it's Nazi-bar nature isn't exactly a strategically sound thing for a business that tries to cater for a large proportion of the people online all over the World and then make money by selling access to them to advertisers.

Also, as we seen with Truth Social, targetting the MAGA crowd can't really sustain a big online business even with the endorsment of the MAGA-in-chief.

That's because it's not a clock, it's a private information stealing app disguised as a clock.

In all fairness, he never had any in choice in your relationship and you always treated him like a baby.

I've lived in a couple of cities in Europe and I can tell you my nose was runny and my throat a bit rough far more often in a poluted place like London (UK) than it is in the small city I live in now in Portugal or the places I lived in when in The Netherlands.

(In fact moving to a small city in Portugal from London hugelly improved of my health when it comes to that kind of thing)

I suspect that the tendency to catch colds and suffer from alergies is often coupled with all the Sulfur Oxide gases around in cities with lots of car polution, since those turn into various sulfur oxiacids when those gases mix with water in the nose and airways.

Well, if I understood it correctly, my mother is very much like that (for example: it's very hard to keep her on track to get to the end of a story without her getting lost of some lateral explanation about an explanation about a relativelly unimportant detail in the main story) and even I tended to work like that in the past (not so much nowadays), so your whole post for me was easy peasy to follow and a satisfying learning experience because it went into all sorts of interesting places :)

Judging by the upvotes from others, I would say I'm far from the only one.

It probably helps that here and in this post you're basically talking about complex and interesting things to a pool of people with lots of above average intelligence, Education and/or curiosity ones.

Oh yeah, it's still not at the same level of ease of use as Windows.

It's massivelly better if compared to the old days in Linux and, curiously, it's easier for those who in Windows were never "sophisticated" user that did not relly on store frontends to manage the installation for them, but if you're the kind of user of Windows that does actually know what folders and executable files are, it's more complex to get going than in Linux.

Curiously in my experience even Linux native games are way more complex to get working in Linux that the Windows equivalent are in Windows (or even Linux: I have at least one game were the Windows version installs almost flawlessly in Linux whilst the Linux version is a "missing library" nightmare), unless they're recent enough that they come in something like Snap or Flatpack)

In my experience with standalone EXE installers and Lutris, the problem is often that Lutris just guesses wrong the name of the game executable after installation is done or can't even guess it.

Personally, every single time I had a problem of installing a game with Lutris from an EXE installer and when starting it afterwards the game goes to "Running" (see the left top list) and then quickly ends with no error, it's Lutris having guessed the game launch EXE incorrectly.

Having started with using Lutris' GoG integration first (were an install script generally takes care of all that) and only later moved to standalone EXE installers, I can see how one would lose hope on the whole thing if they started with the installers since so far for me almost all of such installations failed to give me something that just runs without tweaks afterwards, and for almost all of them the problem was Lutris picking up the wrong launch EXE or even having no launch EXE at all (which gives you a small and easy to miss warning in the Lutris install log at the end of installation).

If you still can, go and check in the game configuration in Lutris for one of those games (it will be in a tab with only a handful of option, not in the last tab with a ton of obscure options) if the launch EXE is present and correct.

I was lucky that when I moved to Linux some months ago I got used to install my games from Lutris and Steam, which seems to solve most problems and only maybe 1 game of the 15 or so I tried so far wouldn'twork no matter what.

That said, I and to figure out how to do diagnostics and use Winetricks and my little doc of Tips & Trick cover 5 games (out of about 15) so those are the ones that would work only after tweaking.

I still have weird situations like The Sims 3 from Steam not working but the pirate version I tried working flawlessly on first try (so now I know how to install pirated games with Lutris) which is maybe not the kind of thing the publishers would want people to know, but more often than not things just work.

All this to say that it's way better now than before if you use the kind of tools that wrap Wine (or in the case of Steam, Proton which is a derivative of Wine) with install scripts that will do the necessary game-speciric tweaks for you, but even then you'll need to learn how to diagnose problems and do the tweaks yourself if you want a higher that 60% or so rate of success or if you want to hoist the Skull & Bones and sail the high seas from your Linux Galleon.

Bullshit!

I've been using Windows 7 for years well after end of support and my computer never got hacked!

Oh yes it did