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What can an ordinary person do about this? I moved my savings to ETFs that specifically exclude the US the moment Trump was elected. But my debit card is connected to Mastercard and there’s no europan alternative in my country. Or is it more about the big picture and not what I personally do or avoid?

The area of an A0 is 1 square meter, so that’s 10000 cm2. A1 is half of that, etc.

I get chills when I say the area of the A0 paper out loud, a feeling of order in the universe, and of beauty.

If a country weakens their currency to boost exports or anything, and it’s not part of a cooperative environment but instead hostile, won’t other countries just respond with countermeasures like a round of QE or lowering interest rates?

I wish Linux distro devs would interview you about your experience. If the goal is wider adoption, we need to understand how to make it friendly for real. Your opinions are very valuable.

I’m a little bit confused by this, “For decades its share of global GDP has been shrinking and its geopolitical influence eroding.” Isn’t this another way of saying that many poor countries have managed to get out of poverty and gain their independence? A good thing.
We should keep our ideals of democracy and rule of law, but is that in conflict with the world getting richer generally? Do we need to be above everyone else to protect our values?

If your threat model involves spying on that level, sure, self-hosting at home is probably warranted. What I mean is that I’d rather have one powerful computer and the rest, laptop, phone, etc, use that resource instead of each device being an island. I don’t want my files spread out over so many devices, I want access to everything from everything.

I’m not opposed to this, but we (the users) need control over that cloud.

But… we do want the money they owe us back right? Just not in worthless dollars.

Can we just add the trillions in euros to EUs bank account and tell the US they don’t have to pay us back?

On the other hand, Kerckhoffs’s principle. For example SSH is not obscure, and it’s considered safer than alternatives.

I don’t have any statistics, but I’ve heard that OpenBSD has more dogfooding than FreeBSD.

Is this like when Idi Amin called himself King of Scotland?

It’s not scientific, but on some level it makes the point that different people have different goals and motivations. If we assume that everyone has the same goal as we do, then we can become frustrated and think they are stupid for doing things wrong. I think that’s the main point of the book, not as a universal categorization of humans into behaviour groups.

Congrats on the electrician apprenticeship program! As a swede I know how seasonal affective disorder can be, winter depression, it’s dark all the time, and cold. But, it won’t last forever.

You can do it, each day is one day closer to the end (of january). If things seem bleak now, don’t rule out that it can change in the future.

For most computer users, the OS itself isn’t the hobby. It’s a tool that lets them do things like writing, browsing, drawing, gaming, etc, projects of various kinds, concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown, in a word using their computer. It does not help them to say that ed(1) is the standard editor and that vi is bloated.

If Hungary is against it, it’s probably something that will be good for the EU in general.

I had to call my ISP when the connection was glitchy, and after a while they paused and asked “how many bits are in a byte?” and I said eight and then they were like “ok, let’s troubleshoot this, first do this…” etc. Turns out, someone had hammered a nail straight through the cat5 cable to fasten it to the wall.

Mint is a solid choice.
Ps. My (unsolicited) advice is this: at any time, make sure you have at least one computer that works.