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This. I was hanging on to Ubuntu 16.04 until a month ago just to keep Unity. After finally upgrading to 18.04, I spent a week on Gnome 3 and it was quite a frustrating experience. …

France and Germany have had very different energy strategies for ages. Germany still has significant domestic coal reserves. France pretty much ran out of coal decades ago and ther…

(Next moon landing I hope the mission lays down an enormous silver blanket that can be seen by amateur astronomers and ordinary people are encouraged to come out and look through a…

I had a lecturer in a class on infrastructure policy at (German) university who was an ICT exec and always said that the first rule of the business was "Wer gräbt, verliert." (you …

Seeing the same here (German IP), maybe GeoIP blocking?

I was surprised how light the T-Series models have become, hadn't looked at them in years and only remembered the heavy clunky units that made me go for the X-Series. The current m…

Thinkpads are generally a safe bet. I've been using different models from the X-Series with Ubuntu since 08.04 and am currently looking at the T450s (14", but still an Ultrabook an…

There's also the argument that 432 Hz is more in tune with our planet, see "Cosmic Octave" by Hans Cousto.

Why swipe around when you could just press a button?

I think this is an idea worth exploring and I wish I'd thought of that :-)

Not all keyboards are the same. Think Laptops, international keyboard layouts etc.

Not everyone is using a desktop keyboard, or a US keyboard layout. FWIW, on my laptop, ALT+Left would be a full spread of the hand and I have to move my torso to get the hand in po…

> If you're accidently clicking on things, maybe learn to use a mouse better. Not everyone uses a mouse all the time.

Call me supremely lazy, but I use the spacebar all the time (Thinkpad), since my thumb already rests on it and it's so big that I can't miss it. I even prefer it over scrolling. Pa…

It was used a couple times in recent times: Chomeini, the Pope, and others.

Most people seem to focus on the political side of this whole affair, but at the same time it is clearly a legal case as well (and a rather interesting one) with hundreds of pendin…

For those interested in some of the finer legal aspects of the situation, here's an interesting article in German (excellent discussion there as well): http://verfassungsblog.de/er…

Side note: as someone who pays that fee, I would never think of myself as a 'customer' of public broadcasting, since it's a public service -- just like I wouldn't think of myself a…

I'd argue that engineering improvements would be key for user acquisition. Where is that massive growth supposed to come from if the app is too complicated for users older than 30 …

I think you might be reading too much "right now" into "-ende". Counterexamples: Tragende Wand, führende Persönlichkeiten, rollende Landstraße etc.

Well of course we can! We can also buffer arbitrarily long sentences with only one verb at the very end without any signs of impatience ;-)

Unwieldy is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. As a native speaker, I definitely prefer "Parkraumbewirtschaftungszone" over "Zone bewirtschafteten Parkraumes", "Zone, in welcher …

"Im Sitzen Pinkelnder" would definitely be less catchy.

Native german speaker here, thinking the other way around: if it is one thing, why would you want to use more than one word to name it?

It's called a "Gleitlaut" and it's supposed to make it easier to pronounce the word, for instance "Nutzungsrecht" vs "Nutzungrecht".