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TheChaplain
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Just a humble man with interest in the digital world - exscientia at outlook dot com

  1. Another happy davx5 user here, it is so good I donated.
  2. I use pelican, with a bunch of self-made plugins, and it works very well. There's a few commits every month, so it's not a dead project.
  3. I hope the charges are on the sending part, if I would have to sign up to receive letters I see some issues..

    And yeah, elderly and digitalization is not always working well. Where I live the average age is ~80, and people need assistance to use the laundry machine.

    The booking system for the public facilities such as laundry services is a piece of paper.

  4. The fact that US children doesn't know how to read clocks doesn't surprise me, but what about other countries?

    Is reading a clock taught to students in India, Japan, China, Chile?

  5. Tariffs, labour- and energy costs. Is it just me or do EU seem to lack a competitive edge?
  6. I don't know, the solution to that seems fairly simple, no?

    Russia withdraws to pre-2014 borders.

  7. There are plenty of people even inside Europe who downplay these events.
  8. How else will you charge people from implementing support for it?
  9. While technologically amazing, I am not a big fan of random people having a much easier time to record me in public or in private gatherings.
  10. I can't imagine the headache as a school when parents come yelling "why did you allow my child on site XXX?!"
  11. I've had the same idea, but with no property tax on ownership of a single dwelling place.

    If the burden is lessened to have your own place, hopefully we could see less homeless on the street or living in cars when times are tough.

    However if you have more than one, then you pay significant property tax on all of them. I would hope that could free up more places for more people getting a home.

    But of course if you earn more than $180k a year, I guess you could afford some property tax.

    I am also thinking foreign ownership of property should be taxed heavily. I know that is not popular, but honestly if you not living full time in the country then you are effectively taking up a spot for someone who needs a place to live.

  12. Try scanning the QR-code. It works.
  13. Well, there's Gateron and Keychron.. But from what I gather Cherry still are considered the choice if you want longevity.
  14. Your comment is the first one after many to talk any sense.

    I recently had an encounter with a sight impaired person that had less than 10% left of his eyesight, and his exact words were "dark mode makes my experience easier".

    Since meeting him, everything I do when it comes to UI, I try to be more mindful.

  15. They'll change their tune soon enough when the coin slows down.

    Myself and many I know go to pubs/bars alone, have a drink and talk with a complete stranger or just sit people watching while decompressing after a long week.

  16. I am pretty sure that is what I wrote
  17. ITT people saying you don't need strong headlights on the country side, you just need to drive slower..

    One thing doesn't need to exclude the other, especially as you begin to go above 50 and your eye sight isn't as good as it was when you were twenty-five.

    Strong headlight that makes night go day saves lives, just remember to shut when meeting another vehicle or pedestrian.

  18. No schizophrenia, more like constant anxiety that he found another way to end himself prematurely.
  19. The comments from the public.. Just wow we are doomed..

    To explain, Googles vulnerability scanner found a problem in an obscure decoder for a 1990s game files (Lucasfilm Smush). Devs are not happy they get timewasting reports on stuff that rarely anyone ever uses except an exceptionally tiny group.

    Then people start berating them without even knowing the full story...

  20. To change settings, others also have a camera inside the fridge so you can see on screen the contents without opening it.
  21. Bit of clarification here, anyone working at Tesla in Sweden are free to join the union, Telsa can not stop them nor terminate them for that.

    It is up to the individual.

    And even on a individual level you can join a strike if the union wants it, and again Tesla can not do anything about it. Strong labour laws in Sweden.

    What the union is trying to do here is make Tesla the company to sign a collective labour agreement.

    These agreements are voluntary, and you can ask ChatGPT what all benefits/drawbacks are with them. In any case Tesla doesn't want it but let the it be an individual decision.

    Well, by law voluntary, but the unions will force it.

  22. Question from the ignorant, how does this relate to OpenStreetMap?
  23. Well, I don't entirely agree.

    But where we live there is a huuge fanbase of veteran cars like Chevrolet, people are nuts about them and arrange day long cruising around the city a few times a year.

    Considering the complexity and rapid technology changes of electric cars, I doubt we'll see many working VW ID.5 in 70 years cruising the streets.

  24. Reolink have one.

    Used Reolink ages ago for home surveillance and it worked well then.

  25. Too bad the built-in ssh client/agent in MacOS doesn't seem to support keys in hardware. Need to install a newer using brew.
  26. Think what you will about Amazon, but they proved their usefulness to me last week.

    It was two days before a birthday and I needed a present, which interestingly was as unusual as a spotting scope. I found it on Amazon, paid a tiny amount extra for express delivery, and it arrived the next day at lunch time. Fully functional, no scams or trickery.

    Before I bought it, I checked with all shops in mine and nearby cities, no luck. I went on PriceRunner, where the cheapest option was 30% more expensive and everyone had (at best) 3-5 days delivery. Then as a last check, I went on Amazon.

    I don't love Amazon, there seem to be a lot of things that doesn't seem right. Plus they easily push out small shops everywhere.

    But they do deliver.

  27. Being in the IT business for a few decades, email is superior to anything else for record keeping. Especially with Thunderbird I find it almost too easy to find information I need, and addendums neatly threaded.

    And, it is quite difficult for the other part to hide/delete stupidness they send, which thankfully saved my behind twice.

    Chats are good for now-communication, but energy- and time consuming when you need to look up something that happened months ago.

  28. I don't think they are out to compete with anything, but provide educational tools and an amazing community.

    So I believe a lot of people simply misunderstand what the Raspberry Pi foundation is trying to do.

  29. I don't think the point is to eliminate all illegal work.

    But the new form of ID makes work place checks real easy and fast.

    Add a real hefty fine for the owner and possibly ban from conducting any form business for a few years, that will have undoubtedly have effect.

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