Qobuz,

They are French,

You have all Deezer and Spotify perks,

They pay artists,

Music is often in High Resolution, they have partnerships with Hi-Fi audio brands,

You can reach them if your favorite artist or album is missing.

Remember: Never, ever, let a Vogon recite poetry.

That’s amazing. Embark is awesome for testing and thinking about Linux players as well.

I like Lucy Lawless (hello there BSG) but I don’t think it’s the right place for this post.

Or let some doors open so their Russian masters will be able to get in without triggering any alarm.

I also with two of you. I also think, personally, that us, humans, are really bad at taking decisions.

We are not seeing the long term vision of things or the whole. Someone having a lot of resources will not be eager to share those with its less fortunate neighbor. In the US, doing so would be called socialism. On the long term it would be the most profitable option for everyone though.

Governments in democracies should totally have those steering bodies composed of people having a long term vision of things. Maybe engineers, scientists, lawyers… But also with objectiveness about matters presented to them.

That vision cans be projected in dictatorships but you are right. The whole thing will crumble when the person at the top will die. Be it a king, president or anyone else at a position of power being nearly venerated.

I would support a mix of both personally. A government represented by its institutions and not people. Taking information from the population itself and processing happening at the top. Information is a weapon by itself too, many insider groups would try to steer the whole or a part of it for themselves and profit from it.

The human component is a variable component here. It seems there is no outcome to that equation as long humans aren’t aware how people are different around them and accept those differences. Plus being able to share when one as a lot and another nothing.

Printers are known in IT to be a utter pain in the ass. Most brands are also using a lot of proprietary stuff and it limits interoperability. Drivers for example.

Well known example is about ink cartridges. HP added identification chips on them, so if you want to use an other brand, not HP, to fill your printer, you can’t because if no chip is detected despite a cartridge being inserted, the machine will tell you it is not genuine.

Another example with Rycoh. I don’t know if their printers still use this method, so take it as an example of capitalist greed more than a current situation. Laser printers are using a sealed container to process waste created during printing. Rycoh had placed a led detector inside to know when it was full and trigger an alert, stopping the machine and request for a change. Good idea in theory but in practice the detector was placed very oddly or on purpose near or in front of dust intake. So it was bathed very quickly in electrostatic dust and thus triggered the alarm very quickly, even if your container was not fully filled. The only way to solve this was to shake your waste storage, hoping it would clean the led enough to keep going for a few days or change it.

Lastly, I have a Brother printer, bought to a neighbor sale. The oven inside, which is in charge of heating the ink, had a failure. It had melted. For the price, it was a deal. I only needed to buy a new part, unplug it, replace and I had a laser printer with colours. Well, Brother had lightly soldered pins linking the connector to PCB. When I unplugged it, soldering came with it. I contacted a repair store near me telling me they don’t do it and I should ask for a repair to a certified Brother technician. Which is overpriced. I also can’t open it fully as it is placed to be impossible to repair without disassembling half of the machine.

No printer is the same, some brands are better than others. Some are well accepted on Linux with CUPS, some other not. But so far, not one brand impressed me well enough by their design to keep it open, easily fixable and long lasting.

Fuck printers

Nom one invented a good printer still

I wonder if EU has some specifications regarding odometers.

It can’t believe we don’t have a standard on how that it needs to work.

If your state requires ID verification, then most apps will probably comply. You can try Matrix with Element or just Signal with a group.

More more “off-the-line” alternatives you can look at Mumble and own your own server.

Fairphone brand is basically saying to everyone “Hey look at our generic Android phone with everything you need from Google, including AI stuff and data collection” and when you ask if you can have a privacy friendly features they basically say “Nope, we just do a phone with replaceable parts, that’s all. Don’t ask for more”

Intrusive thoughts while I was writing my post. I was talking. Thanks for telling me. :)

Ah Pizzacakes comics are always so fun and entertaining to read.

Edit: wording

Ah yes, the good old way of throwing electromagnetic waves at people after putting their cymatic scans inside a shared pool of neutrally and selected shared consciousness of dissected sociopaths brains.

I didn’t have it on my Bingo card.

Psycho Pass.

Another one to the list. Great anime. It’s like if Blade Runner and Minority Report had a loving relationship and a beautiful child was the byproduct of this union.

I am personally certain you are open to learn and I will try to explain why it is like that.

Because the openness of Linux makes it prone to a model of iterations if someone desires and has the need for it. Instead of Windows and Microsoft only offering a standardized path for users to take.

Plus, it is not a waste of time either if you are passionate about it. Many people working on Linux are often doing it on their spare time. It is an unpaid job done because that one person thought it would be nice to do it.

On your second point, I also disagree. Many languages exist and some people might not like a certain implementation of a software in a certain language, for many reasons. Thus, desire to port it to another arises and they do it. Again, Linux and open source software is by essence an invitation to take something and modify it as you wish.

We often think that someone writing a piece of software in a language did it because it was the best language to do it. It is quite untrue. For many years Linux was mostly written in C language. Rust arrived and some people saw its perks as it was more secure in some aspects. Then they started to write modules for Linux in Rust. It brought up some discussions across the community because views diverged between its members. Some didn’t want to see Rust take a larger part into the kernel and some wanted it to be more present.

Also, programming languages and softwares are written by humans and humans have bias. We often have preferences or personal experiences shaping our lives. So points of view are divergent. Like right now, you have some arguments and I have mine. All that helps us evolve and change our views on the world around us.

Indeed, it’s huge and this is why were going towards a Cyberpunk 2077 and Weyland-Yutani future. At least as long money and power runs.

I would really prefer a Star Trek one but I think our dear Gene was quite optimistic in the fact human nature would change after an age of endless wars (I know Star Trek needed a world war 3 for the age of peace, science and exploration to exist but let’s hope we won’t nuke ourselves for that to happen).

I’m not a dev but does Swift will restrict it to Apple platforms since it is Apple language?

I went with Trade Rep and they are serious. Their app still needs few things but otherwise well made.

For ETF, pick only Europeans Providers, here is a list:

• AXA (France)
• Amundi (France)
• BNP Paribas (France)
• HANetf (Netherlands)
• HSBC (UK)
• Legal & General (UK)
• Ossiam (France)
• Robeco (Netherlands)
• Tabula Investment Management (UK)
• UBS (Swiss)
• Xtrackers (Germany)

Feel free to expand if there is more you know, I listed my ETF providers

I think everyone is pissed of Orban being a whiny b**** but no one wants to move strongly. EU seems to respect a step by step process for reasons. If we had room, let’s just break into Hungary and take out Orban out of his seat, bring some lubricant, he’s stuck in it. Then let’s roll for new elections and call it a day.

But that would mean nations of the EU are letting UE take a part of their sovereignty.