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pedz

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  • "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

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  • If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn't pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.

    Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.

    It also happened with circumflex.

    Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.

    Here's a whole video about exactly this.

  • "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

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  • The Netherlands, but in English the language is called Dutch.

    But I prefer when it happens to cities. Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen. Liège or Luik or Lüttich. Ghent or Gand or Gent.

  • It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat.

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  • Sure. It's always "better" to burn stuff to generate more pollution in the air that you breathe, and also continue to depend on fossil fuel.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/gas-stoves-air-pollution-1.6394514

    And "better" depends on your sources of energy and what your goals are. Like most people here, I grew up with an electric stove and we are just used to cook this way. It's just an adaptation. I use gas stoves in camping and in my cabin, and I'm so used to an electric one, that I hate using gas.

    Electricity here is cheap and clean so if you want to eat hot and warm food and minimize the impact on the environment, and your bank account, you should probably get used to cooking with electricity. There's also different technologies. My mother prefers a glass-ceramic stove but induction stoves are also getting pretty popular. Or you can pay more, pollute more, continue to breathe the results of combustion and keep buying fossil fuel to cook "better". I consider less pollution for millions of people, and less reliance on the oil & gas industry to be "better".

    For more facts about this, you can just watch an hour long video on that very topic from Technology Connextras.

  • crises into opportunities

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  • Have you worked as a Customer Advocate for a hosting company at some point? Because that looks like the training material they showed me when I did this job.

  • What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?

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  • "There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza."

    Daria Morgendorffer

  • It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat.

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  • Where I live everything is electric for the vast majority of people. The norm here is to have electric stoves and electric water heaters. Even heating houses is mainly done through electricity.

    I was so surprised to learn as a teen that this is not the norm everywhere, and that some people are actually still lighting fires in their houses to cook food.

  • Deleting Files

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  • It's one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It's nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

  • Very accessible

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  • That reminds me of a story I saw about a handicapped athlete in Montreal's metro. He was literally dragging his wheelchair while going upstairs and holding to the handrail.

    He shouldn't have to do that but the metro here is only partly accessible, and not his station.

    Add a handrail and this might be for him.

  • Sonetimes i feel like its a lot of work to stick with linux

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  • I grew up with DOS and used Windows 1 (barely, DOS was better), 3.1, 95, 98, etc... But curiosity made me try a bunch of OS in the beginning of the 2000s, like BeOS, QNX, and Linux (Kheops, Mandrake, SuSE). I dual booted for many years, keeping Linux as my main OS but having to boot Windows for games. I preferred Linux but I was pretty much OS agnostic for a while. I even worked as level 1 tech support for many years, helping people with Windows and Office products.

    But then came Windows 8, 10, and now 11, + Office 365 + OneDrive. It's very difficult to stand any of those new versions, with the ads, the constant peddling for Microsoft products, the "forced" login with a Microsoft account, the updates whenever they feel like it if you don't pay enough for Windows, if the updates are not breaking something. A few years ago I was helping a friend and discovered a version of Windows 7 where you can't even change the wallpaper.

    TBF, I knew it was coming. Anyone in IT knew for years that Microsoft planned of having everything subscription based. To me, every new versions of Windows or Office, or Teams, is now more intolerable than the previous one.

    Anyway, at some point I stopped gaming/dual booting and pretty much kept exclusively on Linux. My workplace used Windows, and I use Linux at home. I've been using Debian for 15 years now and despite minor issues with sound recently, since pipewire, every time I use Windows, I'm reminded of how much worse it could be.

    Recently I quit my job as a level 1 tech. I can't help people with Microsoft products anymore. Having calls from people telling me they cannot delete files from their OneDrive when it tells them it's full, then discover it's a bug and users with their drives full cannot delete anything, is just disconcerting. Before all that, I could at least see/understand the reason why things were working like they did; I could help and explain it to the users. Now, I'm as frustrated as they are when I use Microsoft products.

  • Netherlands will boycott 2026 Eurovision if Israel participates, says broadcaster

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  • And yet Germany and Italy are threatening to boycott if Israel is not included.

  • What is the current state of Matrix?

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  • I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and I gave up because I already had a simple IRC setup that's working for me and my friends.

    Some IRC clients are now web based and it's been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There's also push notifications and it's mobile friendly.

    Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do video chat but I've never got it to work.

    I've recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I'm pretty sure my friends are going to stay on "modern" IRC anyway.

  • What notifications do you receive?

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  • Email and IRC push notifications through The Lounge. The rest is disabled. Even amber alerts, because my government uses them for everything. It's "illegal" to disable them here but with a few commands on adb its possible to disable the service and never have to hear that end of the world alarm for an elderly person missing 200 km away from me.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Raccoons.

    The tourists visiting Mount Royal park in Montréal are often charmed by the raccoons. Enough so that they feed them and some even let the raccoons climb on them. The city tries to warn people but they obviously ignore the signs. So now we have gangs of raccoons begging for food near the two most popular view points.

    I go camping in provincial parks and the same seems to happen there. It's obviously also locals doing this but, people feed the raccoons, they come back, they harass you for food, they can carry rabies, and it's annoying as hell. I watch people hiking and camping in other countries, like the UK, and I'm constantly jealous that they can keep their food and cook near their tents. Doing this here will result in frequent annoying visits from raccoons (if not bigger animals).

  • Remember to vote.

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  • I actually prefer to vote in local elections. The people and the power are closer to you. Your town/city provides you public transit, water and waste management (and snow removal here). They can install new bike paths and create new parks easily. They can pass environmental laws like banning fire places, or certain chemicals.

    Maybe it's just because I want my city to become more livable and a better place, a 15 minutes city, but to me this shit is much more exciting than elections on higher levels of government, where they fake interest in public transit and active travels. The provincial government here renamed the "Ministry of Transports" to the "Ministry of Transports and Sustainable Mobility" but the only sustainable thing they have is for cars.

    Whatever I vote on the provincial, or federal level, nothing seems to change much. But at the municipal level, oh boy, can I see the difference!

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  • I don't want to gatekeep and you do what works for you.

    I can only hope that you are kind enough to stop torturing this poor Debian with WSL, and can find it a proper home.

    Or have you considered getting therapy for this?

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  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • A decade ago I was whining to my friends that I didn't like Steam because I was using Linux and Steam was really shitty on that OS at some point. I remember not being able to get the correct keyboard layout in chats, and tons of little annoyances, like not being able to choose where you install games. It was disappointing.

    As someone that loves FOSS, I never really liked the model of "not owning my games" but I must admit that it works for most people that don't care about such things. Valve made huge progress with Steam for Linux over the years, and Proton was indeed a game changer.

    I have to tip my hat to them.

  • We’re Suing Minecraft in a Class Action Lawsuit — Kian Brose

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  • So, he's suing because Mojang didn't let him add guns to the game.

    I for one don't give much of a fuck. There's already a shit ton of games with guns. Guns are us! When it comes to games, guns guns guns! In fact, is there not ports of Minecraft, or similar games, with guns?

    He may be right on a technicality. And I don't care that much for Mojang. But to be frank, I also don't care if they tried to stop people from adding guns.

  • VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power

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  • Sadly, it's been a good part of IBM's business model for years. They call it Capacity on Demand.

    Inactive processor cores and inactive memory units are resources that are included with your server, but are not available for use until you activate them.

    I learned this when I moved into a corporate IT environment with Power servers. I couldn't believe that some companies would pay a quarter of a million for a server that is intentionally stunted/limited unless you pay even more.

    But cars are computers now. "Everything's computer!". So they will follow that subscription model.