My grandparent’s desktop computer. I didn’t break the hardware, but i set the default font size in windows 98 to some ludicrously high value. That made it so large the OS became unusable and the dialog to change it back was also unusable. Probably a quick terminal command would have fixed it within a couple seconds but I wasn’t old enough to understand that and my parents weren’t very tech-savvy.

I think 5 or 6. I’d get to experience living in different cultures without having to abandon friends and family in my current location.

And nearly all of that is usually prefilled correctly to the euro by the Belastingdienst.

Why did this take the IRS so long where other nations have been doing this for decades?

Official government recommendation for Dutch school is to ban smartphones in class. For now it’s just an advice, but it may become law in the future.

This does not entirely surprise me. When Tesla became well-known a significant fraction of taxi services in my country switched to Tesla. Why: a) it was cheaper to buy since subsidies for EVs, b) electricity being cheaper than fuel, and c) Tesla being perceived as luxury.

Within a couple years most taxi services had gone back to ICE cars. The Teslas had inferior build quality, and repair turnaround time was awful compared to regular ICE cars. This meant a large fraction of the Tesla fleet was idle as they were waiting to be repaired.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Hertz encountered the same. It’s not that EVs are bad. It’s that the largest supplier of EVs in the West, Tesla, is bad and slow to repair cars.

A website where you can download paywalled scientific literature. Most scientific literature is paywalled by publishers, and costs a real significant amount to read (like 30-50$ per article if you don’t have a subscription).

Scihub basically just pirates it. And has been shut down several times. But as most scientific studies are already laid with public money, scihub isn’t that unethical at all.

Sigh…

Authy desktop was extremely useful when my phone broke during an international trip, and getting a new one obviously took some time due to well… being abroad.

Yeah this sounds more like a distraction so as not to spend a single dollar extra on real measures.

That has been tried with the DoNotTrack header. Turned out servers didn’t oblige by it.

Whether or not it was a plug, at the time of the incident this piece its role was basically that of a portion of fuselage.

Venus is interesting. While the surface is extremely hostile, the upper atmosphere is maybe the most similar to Earth-like environment out there in the solar system. At about 50km up in the air, the air pressure is about 1 Earth atmosphere, and the ambient temperature is about 20C. A 80/20% nitrogen-oxygen gas mixture is buoyant too at that depth, so a balloon filled with breathable air will just float. A rupture won’t cause explosive decompression like it would on Mars either. In addition, the gravity one would experience is only very slightly less than that of Earth, and the large atmosphere also provides some shielding against radiation.

Mars doesn’t have these perks. Mars is cold, really cold, with only 1/3rd of the gravity of Earth, has practically no radiation shielding, and any breach would cause explosive decompression and almost instant unconsciousness. On top of that, regular solar panels really don’t work that well on Mars because of the extra distance from the Sun, while solar panels would actually work better in the upper atmosphere of Venus.

And the rest of the world will say the same with respect to American spyware.

Concurrent is not the same as parallel.

This is damn great.

Insanely vile.

Martin Shkreli, now that’s a name I would never associate with even anything remotely positive. Not someone you want as a “supporter” usually.

Even if you ignore the latter half of 2023 there is a huge and consistent decline in number of posts per day.

Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.

Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅