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Can it be done nicely with Drupal? I mean everything is doable with Drupal, it's more the question: do I have to code/program a whole online shop in the process?

Thx! I had a look at it. It's a bit more on the enterprise side of things and they also want to sell a "Plus" subscription. I'm putting that on my 'read later' list.

Thx. Mmh I think I'd still need a good backend that goes along with that plus an example project to set up the storefront.

Dolibarr looks good to me. But their website says "In the future, Dolibarr will provide its own eCommerce module [...] tentative date of availability is: the end of 2026."

It seems to have lots of nice features, but not an online shop.

Yeah, I think so, too. Unless someone installed a grounding wire that dangles to the ground, a car chassis is mainly used as the return path to the negative side of the battery. You can sometimes skip the additional second wire since the chassis is metal and conductive. Additional benefit: if a hot wire becomes loose and touches the metal or water creeps in, it now blows a fuse instead of for example closing the circuit through the radio or another random component and frying that or starting a fire. And the real reason is, everything is connected and 'grounded' to the chassis meaning there is no static electricity buildup between different components of the car and they're zapping each other. They're all on the same potential level. But it just has to be relative to each other. Not the soil like a grounding rod in an AC system in your house.

And I don't quite get why people install these wires that dangle to the ground. The internet lists some benefits including something with lightning, improved fuel efficiency and sound quality. But I mean a lightning strike is more likely if you're connected to the earth and it's sort of a faraday cage anyways. And the rest sounds like snake-oil to me. There are lots of devices that supposedly increase fuel efficiency, but I've seen too many Mythbusters episodes to fall prey to that. There might be some use-cases for utility vehicles that I don't know anything about, but my car definitely isn't electrically connected to the road.

What even is a grounding point in a car? I mean if it's a car on rubber wheels, is it even grounded or would that just be like touching the negative side of an AA battery?

You could just directly touch the soil infront of the house, the car seems to be an completely superfluous step anyways.

But it will also not help if the electronics parts aren't grounded and neither is the table they're lying on. Now you're grounded and they might be charged. Same zap like if it were the other way around.

I just do it like you explained. Not wear crazy clothes that are bound to pick up static electricity, don't drag my feet over the carpet moments before touching something, and it should work out fine.

A hard link won't work across filesystems or across disks. If you want to point to another arbitrary filesystem, you'd need a symlink. I don't know if that's supported in that software stack. But you either move that Download directory to the same filesystem on the USB HDD, or use symlinks, or figure out a different way.

I'd abstain from having such feelings towards patients. There is nothing to be gained here in my opinion. He's probably an a-hole for treating women without respect and males differently. But you're allowed to get along fine with a-holes. There is a boundary somewhere, but i don't think we're at it here. I'd just keep feeling neutral, keep my belief how I personally think people should treat each other, and just make it work. In the end we don't know what's going on in his mind and his past, and nobody is his therapist.

Thx!

I think that's a good start, but the baseline of what AI can do. These scripts are around since filesystems have been invented. And you can do this with one (lengthy) shell command. Or one of the already existing file sorting utils. (something like this [Edit: see next comment] or Hazel or DropIt) With those you can even configure if it should recusively visit subdirectories and do individual subdirectories for the filetypes or mangle everything together for example in one big unsorted mp3 directory.

What I'm waiting for (I'm not OP) is something that looks at the content of the files. Do a directory for all the manuals I downloaded for the household appliances, find out on which event I took a photo and make a correctly named album for that, find the project files for my diverse electronics projects and file them into seperate directories together with related info. And find the mp3 files and TV recordings with a mismatch of metadata and folder structure.

True. Thanks for the info about HyperCard. I just read up on the history of hypertext on wikipedia. And I didn't know the exact history. I mean the question was, what if the WWW hadn't been invented and not what if it was invented by somebody else and had a different name and architecture. So I didn't include that in my answer. It's certainly a product of its time. People were looking for a way to organize information and publish it on the internet. And Tim Berners-Lee didn't come up with the whole concept of hypertext. Seems the concept was already there and libraries and people have been indexing and cross-referencing information before. It took someone to come up with the architecture and invent the markup language and the protocol. But it's not that far fetched. It would probably have been done by somebody else if things had turned out differently.

I sometimes wonder how things were and felt back then. FTP is originally from 1971, TCP/IP was developed during the 70s and early 80s and they switched to the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) in 1983. SMTP (mail) was introduced in 1983, the NNTP (news) specification is from 1986, HTML was proposed in 1989 and the first browser being developed in late 1990, HTTP was introduced in 1991 and SSL was published in 1995. These are still around as of today (in revised, newer versions) and powering our world. There certainly also were precursors, competing and replaced technologies. So a lot of standardization happened especially during the 80s. In the early 1990 home(?) computers and storage got cheaper and more widespread (personal computers have been around since the 70s) and modems faster so more people could join the online services of that time. Other important tech of the early days that didn't make it to today in their original form probably include UUCP, FidoNet, the whole dial-up BBSes and whatever ran on the ARPANET before the Internet Protocol got invented. But I suppose it was really different back then. Computer systems were big Unix machines and unaffordable to individuals. And a select few universities were connected, initially funded by the department of defense.

Ah, thx. No I really didn't get the question. Now I do.

Well, I'd argue you need some means to clean your house, or it'll be very gross after a few months. And while you don't need a $1200 vacuum robot for that, you also don't need a $1200 phone. It's kind if a similar situation.

You know there are sources for sound and moving pictures on the internet?

https://piped.video/ph1lXptuR7Q

Idk. You mean effectly getting them on a credit that is tied into the contract? Most electronics stores around here also offer expensive products like computers and laptops on a loan. There sometimes is a price tag 1200€ or 60€ a month (with their partner company that hands out loans.) You can even rent a Roomba, pay monthly and get the newer model after 2 years.

I have a Pixel 4a, and while not getting any more updates can be a dealbreaker, I think it's theoretically still fine for me. It does everything I need. Write text messages to friends, surf the web, connect to online services, take pictures at events. It has a nice screen and I have access to custom roms for privacy. What would be a reason for me to spend $1200 and upgrade except for 'it has better specs'? I think I'd rather use the $1200 to upgrade my computer and there's still enough money left to buy a VR headset or other random stuff. I think that's a valid reason to just spend $400 for a new phone or not get a new phone at all until the old one breaks.

Some experiences/adventures can be had for little money. Not for free. But I'd prefer a walk through nature, or a visit to an Irish village at the coast over an expensive guided tour through Dublin.

Yeah, don't buy them on TEMU.

You mean ithe internet without Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW? It'd be probably mail, file share and bulletin board systems. (And Usenet.) And probably fewer people on it and a greater percentage of companies, academics and students.

I think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

I don't know about every component, but there is the Linux kernel and a lengthy list of open source components and licenses somewhere in the settings and manual. And you can get a busybox shell or something alike.