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I won't easily pardon the US and Israel for making me pine for Iran.

In France, where we have relatively cheap and clean energy, they plan to build GW DCs with GWs setups of diesel backup generators. When these will run, the pollution will be stagge…

ifconfig is still the standard on *BSD, MacOS and other Unixen. Plus its output is more readable on Linux than ip IMO, because it adds a blank line between interfaces.

In case it can help, you don't need to install Microsoft authenticator. FreeOTP+, Aegis etc will do just as well.

Annoyingly many useful tools like the "Page Assist" browser extension or "Murmure" are plug-and-play only with Ollama...

There is no autocompletion, that's not realist. I never type "apt-get install nginx" I type "apt-g ins ngi "

Being too poor to buy professional software, with Rodney Zack's book in hand I wrote myself a Z80 assembly in MSX BASIC in 1986/87 :) That was my first tough programming stint ever…

I think Slackware would have been a good fit, and much easier to install :)

I have one (ANKER IIRC?) that looks very much like this, but with two-position buttons that actually cut power, and USB3.0 level connection on all ports I tried. Also comes with th…

In the 90s, at SGI (at least in France) they had Macs as workstations for tasks that didn't require or weren't compatible with an expensive SGI computer (like running MS Office or …

In Aliens (the second episode), the automatic cannons are controlled by a pair of Grid Compass.

Actually were a prop in Aliens :)

In Stefan Wul's SF novel "Nyourk", octopi evolve to become the Earth's dominant species, which was quite prescient back in 1957, when almost nobody knew octopi to be intelligent. :…

I miss nntp newsgroups :)

I've already disabled Play Protect ages ago because it kept removing apps I had installed through F-Droid. Actually, I almost only install apps via F-Droid. I wonder if the ADV wil…

The process is as follows : 1° the wasp digs a hole in soft ground 2° it paralyses a caterpillar (some other species use different worms, or beetles, as their victims; but each spe…

There are many such mysterious mysteries in evolution. Some wasps paralyse a caterpillar of a particular species by stinging it very precisely in its nervous centres, then carries …

Please explain how we run AC to avoid our forests burning, agricultural fields and orchards from drying, and the Mediterranean ecosystem from collapsing. We must stop using fossil …

For more serious information, in my work PC I have a cache SSD which is a 2009 Intel 32GB, it got more than 46 TB of writes over 67000 hours of uptime, and is still working fine.

81500 for me, but I'm French, and I've often remarked that supposedly "hard words" are just quite ordinary french words.

Hypo is Greek too, not Latin "small" for a latin radical would be "mini" (from "minus") like in miniature, minuscule, etc.

Yep. I removed the last Windows98SE partition from my PC in 2003. Never looked back.

In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet. In case of a fall the in-ear device could cause grave injuries. Wearing a recent helmet and protective gloves…

My handle and real name give more or less correct results with a 220-243 score (whatever that means). Gemini insists on me working in sound engineering, something I did in the 90s,…

Typical EU corrupt bureaucracy at work.