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The whole "Apple products are great because they control both software and hardware" always made about as much sense to me as someone claiming "this product is secure because we invented our own secret encryption".

We don't need that, we already have Scandinavia.

I don't find it at all annoying to keep NewPipe up to date.

I think you may need to take a look at Obtainium.

You can get e.g. pylance to work if you trick it:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1640

So, at least in that instance, it's just Microsoft being a little petty.

As someone who got a physics degree and knows some shit, the first couple seasons are not too bad. The physics/math jokes are mostly fairly accurate, and those shows happened as nerd culture was getting mainstreamed. The first Avengers movie were several years away. I can't really say whether the series had a part in this mainstreaming, but at the least it was in the Zeitgeist.

I grew up in the north Italian province. Being a nerd didn't make you an outcast, but definitely an odd one.

The first couple seasons came out while I was doing my bachelor (i.e. the equivalent of undergrad) and with its caricature of some quirks I could recognize in many of my friends and colleagues, it made me feel at least acknowledged.

Then it got progressively worse as they kept looking for more and more ways to drag it on, lost those qualities I found positive, and I really gave up not too long after that.

Edit: I still need to point out that Star Trek TNG is peak comfort TV, together with maybe The West Wing or some Doctor Who.

The problem with that is the power consumption. It adds up.

You think that's a lot? I don't have a single laptop younger than 6 years, at home or work.

Sorry Jared, I got confused there for a moment.

Yeah, because Italians totally have no idea how to build a car.

Edit: a gentle reminder that e.g. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, Ducati, Dallara and DeTomaso come from exactly the same area as Parmigiano, Bolognese sauce, Parma ham, lasagne, and Bologna sausage.

Italy does not, indeed, have too much to offer with respect to computers and the internet.

Somehow that still makes sense.

VS Code is mostly open source though, with an independent build being circulated under the name "VS Codium". Some proprietary Microsoft extensions will however refuse to run on it out of spite though.

The proprietary version of Inkscape would be Adobe Illustrator, I guess.

Never used it though.

You can definitely mount a windows share on a linux machine. I was doing it at my last job, because it allows you to do anything on it transparently as if its part of the local filesystem.

Here instructions from the Ubuntu wiki, most things should carry over to most other distros.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

No car is fun in those instances. But that is how we spend the majority of our time on the road.

Hence, "fun driving is over".

I have not.

Do they somehow make it fun to be queueing at a busy intersection?

Is driving 70km/h behind a truck somehow a blast if you're in a Tesla?

If so I'll make it a priority to try one out ASAP!

Honestly, I lived in Antwerp for a while... I think the transmission is the least of their problems.

Agree that fun driving is essentially over, but I don't think automatic cars are as common outside North America.

In Europe ~80% of cars have manual transmission, mainly due to the (in the past) better fuel efficiency.

Modern automatic cars have often slightly better fuel efficiency, but they cost quite a bit more to buy and maintain, and very nearly everyone knows how to drive stick, so people usually don't bother.

Edit: As we stop having fun driving cars, should we finally also say goodbye to race biking, and fun motorcycling, once and for all?

Oh, I can confirm I have met a person in Belgium who could only drive automatic.

Good enough.