Would Chinese TikTok allow anti-CCP content? I genuinely asking. If it does then yes, we can say it’s more democratic. If you mean that the “Chinese” TikTok allows anti-ICE and anti-MAGA/Trump content then this is just a foreign country that has nothing to loose from this, which is not necessarily “democratic”, it’s just that they probably have something to gain from it.

I got something more important — a life lesson! It serves me well now that I work in a corporate environment and turns out school is not that different, some of the management in my company even gives me back memories of the kindergarden.

You are right, I can’t imagine that happening in the real world

Yeah, I completely forgot that during the install Debian gave me multiple choice for the DE. I think I am using GNOME. I don’t remember if I chose it on purpose or it was the default choice and I just rolled with it.

Yes, I thought it might be a code issue. It just seemed weird that with other Debian based distros (ubuntu and mint) I have never had this issue. I hope this weekend I get enough free time to investigate further. Thank you for the tip.

Thank you for the suggestion, it might be this. I haven’t had a lot of free time lately, but I hope this weekend I can sit down and investigate.

Yeah, I know, but as I said I kind of like it and I think I can get used to it. It’s not necessarily something wrong with Debian, it’s just that I have been a long time windows user, and then used mint also for a long time, so this is just a habit.

When I was in high school we got to write an essay (or something like that, I don’t remember anymore) on some topic I didn’t have any opinions about, so I gave an empty sheet of paper with only my name on it. The teacher was really puzzled, an brought up this to me and my mom. She wondered why I didn’t cheat and copy something from the internet like a lot of my classmates did actually. We already had smartphones, it was around 2012-2013. I didn’t cheat because my parents taught me honesty, that was my answer to my teacher.

Guess what? I got the lowest possible grade (essentially I failed this exam). People who cheated, and she knew they cheated got higher grades. Not that I’m complaining, I got the grade I deserved in my opinion. I would like to note that I wasn’t a lazy student or anything, it was this one time that I slipped up, and preferred to be honest about it.

What school taught me is that cheating will get you further than honesty. If you can’t make it, fake it. This translated very well when I started working in a corporate environment.

I switched from Mint to Debian recently and it’s been great so far. I’m still getting used to the idea of no “panel” (tasks bar), but I think I will keep it that way since it looks cleaner. I find it really easy to navigate with just keyboard shortcuts. It does really feel universal.

Only issue that keeps bugging me is that for some reason the sound quality on any Bluetooth device is trash. €100 headset sounds like a €10 one. An issue I didn’t have with Mint, Ubuntu or Windows. I haven’t had time to investigate it yet though, maybe something is missing in the default installation and is just a matter of installing the right package.

Sounds like the average Arch user to me

I wish! As someone who have lived in one of those concrete apartments from the communist era of my country, at least as they were made here, you do hear your neighbours. And if your neighbours have an active kid or a bigger breed dog that likes to jump a lot especially. Also every time they drop something on the fooor. I’m not very familiar with construction and material propeties, but there is something about concrete that carries vibrations easily. When a neighbour starts doing some renovations the power drill can be heard in half of the building (it was a nightmare for me, who worked night shifts at the time).

Don’t get me wrong, I’d still prefer that hell to being homeless.

Why do you need to take control over an ally’s territory? The US already has a shot of pretecting Greenland from China or Russia occupying it, because it will be essentially attack on Denmark which is a NATO member.

If there is still anyone out there that believes that the orange turd wants Greenland for security reasons, they must have some negative IQ.

Now, those minerals mentioned… They are another story. That will be for the financial security of Trump’s family and friends.

I’m happy to say I have nothing in common with him

They will just change it to something better, I think “Work makes you free” sounds good. /s

Joke aside, the US is leaning more and more into that Nazi shit and that’s scary

As a driver I hate electric scooters on the road.

As a cyclist I hate electric scooters on the road.

As a pedestrian I hate electric scooters on the road.

Knowing my YouTube feed it’s most probable that I end up in one of those DIY videos where they tell me how everyone can make thing easily at home and then proceed to use their thousands of dollars worth of professional workshop machinery to show me how to make thing.

"How to build a difference engine at home (2026 edition) "

Someone told me recently that “everything temporary is permanent as long as it works good enough” or something like that.

Well, LLM spells awfully similar to MLM

Sir, may I see your Office 365 license and Microsoft registration please