Last year I was reading a bit about Mozilla, all that google money, their spendings, their CEO and got really really angry looking on how shit the Firefox is I use daily.

The reason Firefox still exists is that Google can prove it’s not a Chrome monopoly. Now this is just me forming conspiracy theories, but I do believe that Google would stop these payments the day Firefox would really out-innovate Chrome and get more market share.

I do believe all that Google money is not keeping Firefox alive, it’s keeping it dead.

At that moment I rage-donated money to Servo. Monthly. Didn’t regret it, yet. Found their transparency records what they use it for. Up to now they use their money very responsibly.

Ich guck tatsächlich noch lineares TV, Arte, Zdf info usw.

Ich hab aber keine Ahnung auf welchen Programmplätzen Sat oder RTL sind, irgendwann hab ich am TV mal durch geguckt was “hinten” so ist, da kommen die Teleshopping Sender vorher.

Ich hab die privaten glaube of auch nur in SD und bräuchte nen CI modul oder so und ein Abo für HD. WTF. Ich soll bezahlen, dass ich den Werbeblock ansehen darf? Oder Filme und Serien mit Pausen in schlechter Synchro?

Wenn ich was schau, dann eh streaming.

I’m not a Playstation fan, I just want to play on the sofa, so I bought it just for that. It was a PS1, PS3, PS4, PS5… ooh wait, in fact I did have nearly all of them

PS6? No way. For me the PS always was a good offer for couch gaming.

Unless Sony changes course, a future PS6 looks mighty unattractive, price and usage-wise.

My next “console” will be something with Steamos or Bazzite or any wine/proton install. Maybe something that I can also use for running LLMs when I work.

If memory wasn’t so expensive, I’d already have ordered a 128G Strix Halo box (good enough for most games, good enough for a lot of local models)

https://www.miles-mobility.com/de

I just wish we EU countries would cancel our fucking F35 orders and order the same monetary amount in Gripens instead.

This is the lesson the German car sharing brand MILES has learned too late.

A lot of the stickers on the MILES cars read MILFS nowadays.

Regarding “the mechanic always rips me off” - find a good one. When the muffler was loose because of a broken hanger the garage called me, told me and asked me if they should repair it by the book (switching out an 800 Euro part) or just weld the hanger - that would be “The OEM doesn’t allow it, so less OEM warranty, but it’s only Eur 10.”

They basically asked me to allow them to ignore idiotic OEM instructions. (Yes it was an “official” garage by the OEM)

Naja, es geht da ja um eine gewisse Provokation. Aus dem Trash TV kommt sie ziemlich sicher nicht.

Wollte nur sagen, die Provokation zündet halt auch nicht wirklich, weil sowas schon da war.

Keine Ahnung was man machen müsste um Leute wirklich zu schockieren im TV.

it was an old mechanism in Unix & Linux that flushed “disk writes” to disk. Writes would normally go to the buffer cache in ram and a process called “sync” every 30s to flush out writes to disk. (writing out EVERY change would result in a lot of redundant writes and be very slow, so this was a very simple kind of collecting work until it makes sense to really do it)

We still write async writes to ram first and then write them to disk later, the mechanism is much more advanced nowadays - and also quicker to start writing.

Still, on the shell there’s a command called sync which invokes the system call, asking the kernel to flush out all asynchronous writtes.

(And yes, there’s more than async writes, used by databases for example, but that would require a lot more of explanations)

Vielleicht gucken auch alle nur so gelangweilt, weil Ikkimel einfach nix Neues ist?

Ich fühl mich jedenfalls gerade in die 2000er zurück versetzt, da hat eine berliner junge Frau, die studiert hat, krawallige Musik gemacht. Hat sich auch keiner drüber wirklich aufgeregt, ging aber auch durch die Medien weil Sommer war.

Ikkimel ist doch bloß eine Lady Bitch Ray Neuauflage.

Nachtrag, weil mir das jetzt durch den Kopf geht: Irgendwie schon Scheiße, dass die Welt sich in den letzen 20 Jahren nicht so weiter entwickelt hat, dass wir diesen Neuaufguss jetzt brauchen. Und alle, die sich über so Leute wie Bitch Ray oder Ikkimel aufregen, die haben es verdient. Nur irgendwie schräg das das alles nicht neu ist.

Amazing. I did the same on my 2012 macbook air, and a friend’s Asus notebook. My 2019 Lenovo is still going strong, I expect to get 10y of lifetime out of it. Oh, and Lenovo spare parts are dime a dozen. I have rebuilt old Lenovos multiple times in my life, typically by buying a broken donor machine.

So exactly what is the business case for buying a Framework Notebook?

(Yes, they are really beautiful, cool and I’d WANT one. But there always was a better option to buy, for one reason - price: used Lenovo, portability: MacBook Air)

zfs with snapshots + offsite sync for the win.

I still remember when I managed to rm -rf / foo (I accidentally typed a space between / and foo) on my very early linux box on the 90s. 80486, 16 mb

I pressed enter. Saw what I did. Remembered that sync ran at every 30s* Pressed the power button.

*= those were simple times, but not better times

So I rm -rf ed my root fs and my box survived it due to the quick power off.

I find it so weird that parts of the world never moved away from the cheque system. I used my last one mid-90s or so.

SEPA bank transfers are cheap and real time.

On top that cheque system is so ripe for fraud.

Can we please kick those fucking American imbeciles out of Nato?

Germany. I like it here, still anywhere in the EU is nice.

Oh god no. It’s not about feeding in 16A, it’s about consuming 16A thereby overloading the wiring. If everything else is OK, trying to consume 16A should trip the fuse, still - if that doesn’t work, you’ll get a certain (normally very small) fire risk.

Yep this one still is very weird.

If it goes into a 10A plug it should have the small holes, the Schuko plugs with the fat holes are rated up for more, 16A I think.

wtf, yes, this is very weird. I’m probably too dumb to use my client.