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FTFY: 1000 years.

I woner when they think is has blown over, and start selling user data again.

As if they would care. What is the FTC going to do about it? Most likely do nothing, or issue a stern warning.

Easy solution to be clean with the law for international companies: Just geoblock Canada.

Spot on.

Maybe add a 5) needs to be able to export to LaTeX. It might be nice and easy to write in typst, but you’ll sooner or later hit the wall of “We accept submissions in Word and LaTeX only.”

Freshly certified like Staplerfahrer Klaus?

For those who don’t understand the language: This is the parody of an officially sponsored training/education film. The speaker is a well-known voice for a series of traffic safety videos that were shown weekly on TV in the 70s. It starts with the ceremony of handing out the forklift operator certificates, and then follows one of those nwly minted forklift operators, describing things one should not do around or with forklifts.

This so much needs English subtitles…

The article just describes the how, but gives no reasons for a why.

So, why would anyone move away from the de-facto standard bash, except for some rare circumstances like having a small system and using busybox?

I worked with Unix before Windows was a thing. I’ve worked on windows, saw what a shitshot it was (and still is), and work with Linux instead. I do have Windows PCs at the lab for some renitent software, too, but it is always a step backwards when it comes to data procession.

That joke didn’t fly, either.

And I’m waiting until bcachefs has sufficiently spread so I can see whether it really works or not.

Depends. I do most documents in Arial and Times New Roman, as they are two of the best in legibility.

I also use DroidFonts, and some TeX-Fonts.

I just found Monaspace and I think I’ll give it a try (it is a monospace font family that does not look that much “monospacy”)

In the EU, they would tar & feather the automakers for even thinking about such an idea.

Inkscape for drawing vector images.

Loads of command line tools to process PDF files, like extracting images or text.

All those tools for automated processing of data, including script languages like perl.

The MediaWiki engine that allows me to run a local wiki at home for my hobby.

Not all of us do.

If you don’t care for the looks, just put it down where needed, and fix it to whatever is around with cable ties.

I did the same in my daughters shared accommodation. Officially they had wifi in all the student rooms, but my daughters room basically had no reception, so I ran a cable from the other end of the flat where the router was down the staircase into her room for a local AP. When she moved out, it was a quick job with a pair of pliers to get it out again.

Reminds me of my packets from California. 15 mins drive from the sender to the DHL center (15 mins in the center of LA, so they are really close). Two weeks wait in the DHL center. Transfer to the airport. Another two weeks wait at the airport. Flight to Frankfurt, one day at customs, next day here. Each and every month (it is a subscription service).

There are laws regulating how to transport pigs and cows to the slaughterhouse. They have more space than the passengers on this plane.

If you have a fitness tracker - no problems with that. Needs a recharge after two or three weeks, which is not perfect, but still better than those “smart” watches that you have to feed daily.

Personally I have a Garmin Fenix for the 3 week battery life

Now that is a totally different beast than an Apple watch that has to be recharged daily.

Just like watches can be more than just watches.

Yes. Like needing to be recharged every night, and being obsolete after a handful of years.