A Czech reporter’s name is Jan Tuna. Please keep saying “tuna fish” for his* sake.

* he/him, Jan is a common male name here derived from John, the female counterpart is Jana

When a public service gets privatized:

I’ll be assuming the pole is not grounded (electrically isolated from Earth, the earth pin of sockets, radiators, plumbing etc.)

The difference is not DC vs AC but between it being connected across two screws, for which a high current source (hundreds of amps at negligible voltage) will heat the metal up - as opposed to connecting a voltage (like 120V mains for AC or 170V single-diode-rectified & smoothed mains for DC) referenced to ground to the pole. The former will draw a lot of current from the source through the screws and metal between them, heating it up. A car battery could briefly deliver hundreds of amps and several kW, making them glow red hot. The latter will create a potential between the pole and ground, which will only draw current when a load is connected between the pole and the ground. For AC, a person’s body’s capacitance to ground, even with insulating shoes, is enough to feel a tingle. For AC or DC of sufficient voltage (above 60 V), they will get a shock if they touch ground and the pole, completing the circuit.

CGA 320x200 palette 1 is the colors of reality rupture. Noted.

And salty. Not good for robotic joints & electronics

That’s not the weirdest German keybard https://feddit.org/comment/9013552

There was an easter egg/leak (?) in the German subtitiles: the sun knight’s off-screen voice was preceded with “Artus:” (German localized Arthur) so we now know his name.

Strg

German QWERTZ user spotted

If they don’t prosecute child sex criminals, we can’t expect borderline child casino operators to face consequences either. But Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO at the time) now has a scapegoat.

You are right but the field is not too far off, geologists should know where to obtain info on street lamps’ hellhound resistance.

Everyone will be blaming Epstein for everything. Often justifiably, but that also takes away responsibility from people who can and should suffer consequences.

You can stick wires with mains voltage into any two pins of any motherboard connector but there’s a reason they’re not shaped like an AC receptacle 💥. Unless it’s a ZX Spectrum, that cheap thing used the most basic connector (3.5mm jack) for everything: cassette I/O, video output and, unregulated 9V DC power input from the transformer brick, and people would often fry it.

Technically, a CPU fan is also optional but you need to provide some other cooling (water pump?) or accept massive throttling.

Windows is not even source-available. Windows XP is source-unintentionally-available thanks to a leak but there’s no AI loophole in that.

I tried it, most functionality is there but the look and feel would take some getting used to…

Is George a hint at the target audience (femboys)?

I was making a joke about optical cables, and you?

The book, Das doppelte Lottchen, is better, and I think it had been adapted too

Optician?

Notepad++ would have been so amazing on Linux. With direct filesystem access, not via Wine.