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Punch me I bleed in my ass.

Literally listening to Children of Bodom, while I read this post. Alexi would have approved, I'm sure.

You are using all of these yourself? What kind of crazy job is that?

Yeah. Microsoft managed to make Windows both better and worse over time.

It's like a scissor, spreading ever wider. The shitty end convinced me to ditch Windows quite some time ago, so I'd say it feels like an asymmetric scissor.

They are mapping out how climate change will affect Geman cities, by comparing their prognostic climate data with historical data of other places.

Thing is, had you asked anyone, about their recommendation on how to try Linux, most Linux users myself included, would've been happy to have given you advice.

WSL, just simply is not something to be recommended for that use case. Your stance of trying a non-recommended way to do something and reufusing the advice that tells you so, while insisting that you expect it to work that way, isn't very sensible.

If you want to try Linux without dedicating a machine to it, there are options.
You can run a Live-Linux environment from a USB stick just to test the waters, you can even configure that with persistent storage to take your system with you on a keychain and run it on any computer that lets you boot from USB. Or you can go the dual-boot route.

Those are not that hard to do (with the exception of dual-booting, Windows makes that unneccessarrly troublesome). If you can read and follow a recipe, you can manage to do that. Still it's not something, that the average joe wants to do, I get that. But when has the average user ever bothered to install an OS? Most people buy their hardware with Windows installed and never touch it. Until we get wide spread options of OEM installed Linux machines, that will always be more convenient.

Some of these people probably said that in Italian anyways.

And I don't expect that kind of nuance from someone whose sister just got murdered.

So murdering people hasn't been met with punishment in Italy before? That's news to me.

Of course it has. I seriously doubt that these murderers were calculating their prison sentence and telling themselves "Oh, if I only get 15 years in prison, that's not too bad. "

As a european, I love to hate on the imperial system. But expressing that ratio in units that you actually use when measuring the thing makes sense.

It's not like you're actually doing fancy maths with it, just cross-multiplication.

If you don't conveniently know your body weight in kg, you might as well remember the ratio in relation to lbs.

You phrased it a bit too harshly to be constructive, but that's basically the way.

OP you don't have to ditch it all at once. Just make yourself familiar with FOSS alternatives to these apps and once you're content using those it will be easier to ditch the proprietary ones.

I don't think a different base explains things really well. Even though the way you guys count to 16 may point to a hexadecimal system, but then all the higher numbers would have to work entirely different. It's at least an inconsistent mix of systems.

But of course you don't do maths in your head and it all just boils down to words for numbers, that you simply know. That's just how language works, and a lot of language starts to become weird, if you think about it too much. Doesn't mean we can't have fun teasing each other about it. ;)

It absolutely reminded me of the fight we have here in Germany about how to say what time it is.

Some rare people (like my beloved girlfriend) only really understand when you say something like, "four o'clock thirty"
The rest of us is fine using "half five" to refer to that.

But the real argument is in the quarters.

16:15

Some people just say "quarter past four" while others borrow the concept from above and say "quarter five"

16:45

The one group calls it "quarter to five" while the others stick to their concept and call it "three-quarters five"

It is a regional difference, but the groups are totally scattered and don't follow typical geographical or administrative borders.

We've had meme wars over this.

My favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.

Just curious: do you take that as a reference to cancer as a sickness or actual crabs eating you?

In German the word for cancer (Krebs) is a homonym referring to both the sickness and a crustacean. So I wondered how this works in Danish.

(It is in English too, though the reference to crabs is only scientific and thus a very exotic interpretation)

(edit the 4x20+10 is similarly just 90)

I can let you get away with the first part about 4x20 just becoming the word for 80, but with this one, you're just fooling yourself and others.

If it were just another word for ninety, than ninety-two would be (4x20+10)+2 instead of 4x20+12 And it works that way up to 96.

Just stop making excuses and own the weirdness.

"Hi,

I'm the real Nicole. I got all my pictures stolen, my identity has been tainted and life is very hard for me now, because of these scammers.

Please send help! Here's my bitcoin wallet. "

The fact that it won't run on Linux anymore is, what finally got me out of it.

I've never spent a dime on it, but I've wasted so much time on League for over 10 years.
Being on Linux exclusively saved me.

As a rule, you now have to inject 'I use Arch btw' into every conversation. We're the vegans of the Linux world.

Welcome on board!

I also wonder if we're approaching this the right way. The Ring hast strange powers and works in subtle ways to get to its chosed ringbearer.

Maybe this is the trick to never lose your 10mm again. At least not for very long.

It's a bit of an overstatement, sure. But our administration is kinda notorious for being very slow adapting to the digital world.

It's slowly improving lately, but there's still a lot of stuff that's excruiatingly analog and a lot of actual paperwork required by law.

It was kinda big news when some government agencies abandoned fax machines last year.

But she can't possibly endanger her child, OPs sister, by giving her tech that is "not okay". It might explode on her or something.

I come from an ass backwards country that does not do e documents

let me guess: is it Germany?