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Usually a "call to arms" is where freedom of speech ends.

Crazy of you think about it. Kind of sad actually.

I second this. People usually recommend Ubuntu for beginners which I can somewhat understand because it's super easy to get started. But the downside is that you'll most likely stay a beginner and don't understand the absolute basics of a Linux based OS because, well, most of the time you don't have to. Then you make a beginner's mistake once and there you go.

The problem with only panels and wind is the fluctuation. We need at least a small "baseline" power supply that works when there is no wind at night. Storing large amounts of energy is the missing piece here to get rid of conventional power plants altogether. We'll get there eventually.

If a penalty is "worth it", it's a business decision, not a penalty. Add a zero or two if you want it to work as intended.

T480s user here. It's perfectly fine, too. I think it went downhill from the 90-series onwards.

It's only missing 24 to make it one Kibibara.

Danke :-)

I'm okay with steam because:

• basically everyone can sell their games on Steam (*conditions apply)
• it has a (working) offline mode
• they're putting a lot of effort into gaming on Linux
• family sharing
• it let's me integrate external games

The Blizzard launcher is just for the few games Blizzard is selling. It asked me to go online way too often. Maybe every single time, I don't remember exactly. It's a bit like that Rockstar launcher. I don't see any value in it besides auto updates.

Which indexer is that if I may ask (for a friend)? 😁

There's OsmAnd and Organic Maps (and probably more). Both are open-source apps, use Openstreemap data, and work offline. You can get OsmAnd+ for free on F-Droid. If you want support the devs you can buy it in the Play Store. There's also a free but limited version there.

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.

Source: Wikipedia

So it's definitely not a "proxy to Bing" but it does use data from Bing.

German content is mostly on Sharehosters or One-Click-Hosters or whatever you call them. I really don't know why because they are expensive and worse than the other options. I know BitTorrent is not popular in Germany because of the law but the Usenet could be the better option if it was more popular.

You still have to install that annoying Blizzard launcher, I guess?

Might help solve the overpopulation problem.

I think there's sauce on your screen.

I haven't tried not touching it for years to be honest. Longest period without a reboot was something between half a year and a year and it worked without a problem. Check the Arch website, breaking changes or manual interventions are very rare nowadays. There's just one thing you have to do if you start an update after a long time: make sure to update the keyring first or pacman will exit with an error. That's also mentioned in the wiki.

I installed Arch on my server because:

• I know it very well.
• The base system is tiny. Fewer packages = fewer problems. Everything else is in Podman containers anyway.
• It's very flexible. I have a customized encrypted rootfs which needs to be unlocked through SSH, not a very common thing I guess.

Maybe Trump was right after all and Mexico is actually going to pay for the wall in the end. For different reasons though.

But isn't the church the reason why he feels that way in the first place?

I've been using Arch for over a decade now. On a laptop, desktop, VPS and now it's also driving Steam OS on the Deck. I had very little problems with it compared to our Ubuntu setups at work that randomly break on updates. Ubuntu is not as bad as it used to be but from my experience (i.e. the way I use it), Arch has been more stable and reliable.