Me? I'm pretty open minded, while trying to apply critical thinking. Make a good argument, and I'll digest it. You seem to be jumping to conclusions, which may hurt your cause (edit: your ability to convince others, to the detriment of your cause)
No, but you didn't need to engage in circle-jerking with your friends either. You are capable of more, and I look forward to reading your future contributions.
There is a reason I reply to lemmygrad and hexbear people, and follow some of the communities. Sometimes I get interesting responses. Not your response, but sometimes.
OS/2 had a following back then too. I was running BBS software on it, around the time of Win95's release. I'd started dabbling with Linux, but h/w compatibility was an issue back then - I ran it without X for a year or so, and it beat DOS in many ways. When I got X working, OS/2 lost most of its value to me. I do remember missing REXX though.
It's a way to prove that someone gave/sold you some/all rights to some "thing". Which would be important if anyone cared, but no-one does ... with the exception of those who once thought that someone cared and are trying to recoup their "investment" by deceiving others.
Alcohol does have an effect, as everyone will attest, but there is also an effect to arriving home, cracking open a cold drink, and relaxing for a while. It may not work for all, of course.
I have a NA beer that tastes almost identical to its alcoholic brother, and there are definitely similar results from a single beer..
The good thing with the NA version is that I sleep better and can snap myself out of the relaxed state if needed. It also makes it possible to mix & match at social events, so that I don't over-do it.
I honestly couldn't understand how people had any praise for him in years past. He always came across as (yet another) embarrassing forever teenager, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and little sympathy for or understanding of others.
This is in vast contrast to Bill Gates who (despite my loathing of Microsoft's business practices, especially in the 90's and early 00's) continued to grow and earned some respect with his philanthropic endeavours and just generally acting like an educated adult.
Still, I'd rather have fewer rich jetsetters and more competent Governments and international institutions, effectively working to better mankind.
If you torrent copyrighted material in Germany, you definitely want a VPN. Private law firms "representing copyright holders" regularly request information about consumers based on source IPs/protocol/ports from ISPs with a court's rubber stamp, then send out demand letters for hundreds of euros, with a risk of thousands if you choose to fight it.
Sometimes they follow up if you ignore it, sometimes not. It is horribly oppressive.
tl;dr germans who torrent from a consumer internet service should use a vpn
Not my experience with Arch at all, but I stick to pretty standard hardware.
What I like with Arch is that it gets out of my way and makes it easy to have a minimal desktop experience. I've been a Linux user since '95, so I have a pretty good idea of what I want out of a distro. When there have been issues, the wiki has been excellent.
I update regularly, but not constantly. I tend to hold back kernel & driver updates until I'm ready to reboot. Pretty chill experience all around.
Is that another circle-jerk response? Say something useful (ie. that has significance outside of your circle), please.