I prefer the steam “hardest” survey myself.

How so?

The CDU is incompetent. Solar power, Deutsche Bahn, Nuclear exit without a strategy, all victims of the same perpetrator.

Public discourse: made in China.

To EU citizens, there is something you can do about that:

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en

The fstab file is used to define how disk partitions or remote file systems are mounted into your computer. Removable drives such as USB drives or SD cards are not shown there, because if they were, your system would complain at boot that it can’t find the requested USB drive.

About F2FS having double the storage space of btrfs. In all honesty, it doesn’t make sense to me. Do you mean it shows you potentially being able to store 80 megabytes if you can get compression working or does it just show 80 megabytes instead of 40, after formatting the file system?

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Then replace “defaults” with “compress=zstd” on your desired partitions.

IMO stick with btrfs. Also, the storage space between file systems is exactly the same, given the same hardware.

Ubuntu has a history together with amazon, sending search queries in the application starter for example. There are better distros out there, like Mint.

Doctor of pseudology.

This bothers me because IMO it fundamentally misunderstands why people hate machine learning. Machine learning isn’t inherently bad. It’s what people do with it that’s bad, because image generators have scraped billions of images without the users or creators consent and regurgitate them according to probability. Now they have improved somewhat. The soup look is gone, instead exchanged with some weird plastic look. The result of an image generation will always be the lowest common denominator, even if it may look high quality. It isn’t. It is just an average of the specific word group you have chosen. And with that, it boils down to high quality cliches. So, just like Disney Marvel, you can pump out high quality looking slop and cliches at an unprecedented rate. And all happened by exploiting literally anyone who has ever created any image. What did people get? Not a single cent.

No, not the complete law, but it severely gimps it. No one’s going to make a car or a laptop submersible. But phones and tablets are easy to glue together.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1670/oj/eng

Section 5C point 2:

"From 20 June 2025, manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives shall ensure that the process for battery replacement:

(…)

or, as an alternative to point (i), ensure that:

(…)

• the battery endurance in cycles achieves a minimum of 1 000 full charge cycles, and after 1 000 full charge cycles the battery must, in addition, have in a fully charged state, a remaining capacity of at least 80 % of the rated capacity;
• the device is at least dust tight and protected against immersion in water up to one meter depth for a minimum of 30 minutes."

I could be too paranoid, but I found it always best to assume the most malicious interpretation when it comes to corporate law.

Sadly, the law has a loophole which allows flagship phones, which keep 80% of their capacity after 1000 cycles and have at least an IP67 rating, to be exempt from this. So it’s unlikely because right now there are some phone manufacturers which claim this durability. :(

I hope I’m wrong, though.

Don’t @ me, I just stole it. :(

We do control our politicians, and that’s the benefit of democracy. If we don’t like our leaders, exchange them. That is a valuable right that has been fought for for thousands of years. It’s important to use that.

Aged like fine milk.

Bollocks. 99% of gamblers stop before they win big. Maximum bet every time. Go big or go home. Just need to secure that one win, then all of the sunken costs will have made sense!

Seriously though, I once bought 20 quid worth of Overwatch loot boxes during playing I felt exactly the same way playing a slot machine. I have been once in my life to a casino because a friend wanted to go. I played the slot machine for 30 quid in total. Both after the Overwatch loot boxes and the slot machine I felt exactly this same mix of anger and shame. But during it was the exact same mentality of, hey, if I just continue, I can win something I want. The realisation came after. And so, by thinking about this experience, I essentially stayed away from gambling for good. Gambling, be it loot boxes, slot machines, casinos or anything else are a cancer upon society, keeping people poor and preying off the hopes and dreams of people with problems.

Yes, the responses to the Iran raid have been bad from the EU. That doesn’t mean that we should stop working to be independent from the USA. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Again, 90% independence is better than 0%. We should always strive for more. And even if we were “just” 90% independent, we could have condemned them the way it should have been done and sanctioned them.

I always find the EV argument bizzare, that it’s either you can’t charge them in public or you can’t charge them at home. Even if you cannot charge it at home, it still is possible literally everywhere else. Plus you can plug it in into literally any wall outlet, even in the Americas where they only have 120 volts. The argument is mute, because literally every place ever has electricity. You don’t need your own power plant to charge your EV. A wall outlet you charge your phone from is sufficient. Plus, where I from, every bigger supermarket has at least two charging stations. It is possible to charge a vehicle from any wall outlet, be that public or private. Just like with a phone. Why not with cars? Add to that, most trips are less than 50 kilometers anyway, so there is also no range argument. Why stick to obsolete technologies if there’s a better alternative, a sovereign alternative.

I highly doubt that, as the Americans have behaved nothing but destructive in the past few years. Ever since the Munich Security Conference with JD Vance, there was a very big policy shift and no one’s going back to the Americans. That consensus has been reached, luckily. Things could be better, they could support Foss more, yes, but only because they fail at that doesn’t mean they suck up to the Americans. And as the EU is a democratic institution, if the general population doesn’t want that, they will elect differently. Just look at Hungary. Even there it was possible.