Good question… If I remember correctly his motivation was to give a choice besides the only person that would have been on the ballot otherwise. Perhaps a moral choice because he thought that there should be at least another choice even if the result is the same in a good democracy.

And it’s a good right to exercise for everyone even if you then choose not to take that position for one reason or another. Who knows what reason someone has, maybe just to be more well known…

Depends on what is getting voted on. Posts on Lemmy? Eh… Maybe if I find them especially good or bad. Can’t be bothered otherwise.

In that one instance where I didn’t vote… It was a local election with exactly two candidates. One of which told ahead of election day that should he win he would refuse to take office. So yeah… Didn’t bother with that.

So… I rarely if at all consent to spoilers. Most things that got spoiled happened because someone else was too impatient to get there himself and then couldn’t keep his mouth shut when it finally came up. Did I regret getting spoiled? Eh, I tend to find most things people get all excited about to be not that exciting or shocking or what have you. I still don’t like getting spoiled because it takes the discovery out of the experience and that’s what it is all about.

It is called a stable bank balance for a reason… Cause the money will eventually end up in the stable with the horses.

Still wouldn’t trade it for something else.

Well… Great that I don’t need to worry about it but I still need to worry about it for my horses. So believe it or not. I would still work to afford that.

Doppelte? Du meinst vier oder sechsfache. Die Mehrkosten tragen selbstverständlich die bürger. Die wollen ja teuren Atom Strom von unsicheren und veralteten Kraftwerken die allesamt erst sehr teuer wieder in einen betriebsfähigen Zustand gebracht werden müssen oder noch viel teurer neu gebaut werden müssen. Endlagerung ist uns ja auch egal, das ist ein Problem für die Zukunft wenn wir tot sind.

Irgendwie so denken die.

Iirc I did that for roughly a year and then proton hit. It was a bit of a different experience for sure but even at that time it was not all that bad. coincidentally that time also taught me a lot on how to troubleshoot stuff so I suppose it had it’s benefits despite the added hassle that it was sometimes.

To add to that. Meta has been found to have used a man in the middle attack to gain acces to data from competing services. Intercepting and selling that user data before it got encrypted. They literally are evil. Do not let them in.

AFAIK: First one to be available on mobile and was independent too. Yes there was a time when WhatsApp was not infested by what we know as meta now. Also people are LAZY DUCKS and don’t want to put in the most minimal of efforts to switch to different platforms.

Es geht also doch… Weniger arbeiten, gleicher Lohn und auch noch Lohnerhöhungen im Verlauf vom Vertrag. Stark

Klingt jetzt doof aber gerade wenn es sich nach rechts verschiebt und es mehr nach Krieg aussieht und die Gefahr dafür steigt ist es sinnvoll.

Die Idee ist simpel: wenn alle eine oder mehrere davon haben traut sich keiner den anderen anzugreifen weil praktisch keine Seite gewinnen kann. Und der beste Zug in einem Spiel wo keiner gewinnen kann ist nicht zu spielen. Problematisch wird es immer erst dann wenn eine Seite welche hat und die andere nicht. Und genau das ist ja der Fall. Zumal in Zukunft wohl auch noch offen ist ob wir uns auf den einen oder anderen bündnis Partner verlassen können. Stichwort USA.

Effektiv muss eben die praktikable lösung gewählt werden, ob man will oder nicht. Gerade aus dem Bewegtpunkt ist die Diskussion darum aktuell gut und sinnvoll.

Zusammen mit Russland, gegen den Rest…

Ich bin von so Dingen ja echt kein Fan, eben gerade weil die Folgen von so Dingern doch eben sehr verheerend sind. Aber auf der anderen Seite verschiebt sich politisch und auch militärisch gerade sehr viel nach rechts. Und da hab ich doch lieber auch einen totschläger anstatt zu versuchen was mit nett reden zu erreichen wenn die anderen nicht reden (oder verhandeln) wollen.

Unabhängig davon… Sind wir mit Staaten wie Russland schon seit über 10 Jahren in einem Informationskrieg. Und aktuell trau ich so Staaten (Amerika auch falls Trump gewinnt) eben doch auch zu einen richtigen Krieg mit allen anzufangen. Also lieber vorbereitet sein.

Leider nein, dazu hatte ich wenig Zeit weil ich selber das ganze Wochenende an etwas anderem gearbeitet habe. Die nächste Demo von hier doch etwas weiter weg war und ich nach der arbeiterei einfach zu fertig mit der Welt war um da noch Energie dafür aufzubringen.

Aber ich bin wirklich froh zu sehen wie viele dafür aktuell auf die Straße gehen und mit etwas Glück bekomme ich das selber auch noch zeitnah hin das auch selber noch zu tun.

Welcome to Linux! Enjoy the stay.

Now when it comes to me, I had my windows system break on me when I tried to diagnose a HDD issue and decided that since it’s just a data drive I can just disconnect it and see if it was the right drive. How wrong I was, couldn’t even get it to boot after that. So since I didn’t like how windows 10 handled stuff like that and knew at the time that it would get worse… I set up a dual boot with windows 10 and Ubuntu. Figuring that I would probably use windows the most and only sometimes use Linux. After a short while I actually had moved everything I could to Ubuntu and only used windows for the very few things that were just too stubborn at the time. Mainly anti Cheat stuff. It was still 2018 after all. Since that eventually got solved I ditched windows completely and have never looked back. Though I still sometimes wonder about a few of the issues I see and hear about on windows these days.

I suppose it doesn’t quite qualify as breaking the system in a funny or stupid way but it certainly was one of those stupid things that was easy to fix after a ton of trouble shooting, ignoring the issue for a while and trying to fix it again.

So i had an old pc where I had a failed hard drive which I replaced. Obviously I also accidentally unplugged my optical disc drive and plugged it back in. Now that failed drive was just a data drive so the system should have booted up no problem since the os was on a SSD but instead it got a kernel panic and got stuck at boot. Since it was late I left it at that and came back to that the next day where it would still not boot. So I unplugged the disc drive and looked up what it could be. Tried a ton of different possible solutions but every time I added that disc drive it would panic.

I eventually kind of gave up and just didn’t use that disc drive at all and just had it as a paperweight in the system. Unplugged and all that. When my replacement SSDs for my old data drive and backup drive came in I tried again to get that optical drive working but to no avail. So I unplugged it again, got it all set up and ran into another issue where for some reason Linux couldn’t properly use my backup SSD. So I investigated that as well and trough some miracle found a post on the forum from my Mainboard manufacturer… Turns out that particular Mainboard had a data retention chip on it that didn’t like Linux.

So naturally I just plugged everything into the data ports that were not controlled by that chip and it all worked as intended.

Stupid dumb chip on a Mainboard, all I had to do was try the simple idea of unplugging and trying a different connector but instead I did all that other stuff first that didn’t work and cost me so much of my time.

Moral of the story, when in doubt try and put stuff on different connectors and see if that fixes it. Might just be a dead connector for all you know. Or an incompatible chip on the Mainboard.

FWIW I bought that Mainboard long before I switched to Linux and didn’t plan at all to switch at the time. But that’s a different story.

So, Benefits: Being able to play their games. Drawbacks : a lot, and it seems like they are not getting talked about a ton.

Here is the deal: Riot doesn’t trust you that you will interact with their entertainment software in a fair way witb other users of the same software. So they demand that you install a kernel level anti Cheat which gives them full control of your system. And then they demand that you trust them not to abuse that power. Because if you try to figure out if you can trust them… They will ban you. It’s the equivalent of having someone demand of you to take NSFW Pictures whenever, wherever, however much they like and telling you that they won’t share those.

Yes they can decrypt everything from your encrypted drive if they wanted to, so not even an encrypted file system that windows can’t even read natively will save you. Remember that they can read and write any file they want to so they can get to your decryption key, figure out your file system and get windows to read if they wanted to. It’s the same with kernel level cheat developers that likely charge money for their cheats. Heck if they wanted, they could use your machine to mine crypto if they wanted to. Or ransom it with encryption of their own. Or get you in legal trouble in so many other ways like putting incriminating files on your machine.

In short they don’t trust you and want full acces while demanding that you trust them with no way of knowing if you can. Which means you can’t have privacy with a kernel lever anti Cheat or rather rootkit because that is what it actually is.

Also consider who owns riot games. And think about how protected or in that case rather how not protected your data is.

And then ask if you want to give a third party that level of control over a machine you own and paid for.