I don’t understand why tourism hasn’t dropped more than it has. I

Probably because something so big as a voyage to the US is often planned for years before which may make it too difficult or expensive to cancel. A year from now, things might look a lot different.

You wish it’d be that easy. Building a phone isn’t the difficult part; building an ecosystem around is a huge task.

Where I live, you are almost forced to own either an Android or an iPhone, otherwise it’s tough luck getting banking, secure net identification, way to interact with the government agencies, bus or train tickets, etc.

Out of those you listed, LibreWolf and SwiftFox are not NounNoun: they are AdjectiveNoun.

I wonder, when they get a grown-up president again, will they finally also begin to move to the 21st century?

…and being boring is only one of Europe’s strong points.

The figures only make sense in “first past the post” (or “winner takes it all”) systems.

This just came out. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026

The humanity does. Well, maybe not “need” it but deserve it. Finding out about the world around us is what we exist for.

It’s tRump. He probably has the codes written in a post-it note that’s attached to his bedroom TV frame.

There’s a easy rule. Allow ~ 45 min per beer and think how long the meeting will last. Most will actually not drink that much, but it’s good to have spare ones.

Debian used to have quite old software before version 6.0 or so. Ever since then it’s been quite a good daily driver for workstations too.

Well… not really. My current installation of Tumbleweed is three and a half years old, and back in 2022 the only reason I re-installed it was changing the NVMe drive. I’ve never read factory mailing list and don’t ever recall having made manual interventions. I’ve just booted it, updated (zypper ref; zypper dup), rebooted and continued working.

”Homicidal maniacs”? Do they need to be maniacs?

Win10 or Win11? :p

Which is not going to happen, and not only because he’s not born a US citizen.

How ’bout some actual chocolate? https://www.fazer.fi/...

“$4/gallon gas” is terrifying America?! It’s $9/gallon ATM in Finland (by quickly converting the funny American units) :D

Agreed — but from the point of view of a private person, it doesn’t much matter what epithet you need to prefix the word “problem”, it still remains a problem.

From the point of view of a potential phone manufacturer, it also means that whatever you do and no matter how great your product is, very, very few people are ever going to use it at all unless they can use it in whatever they need to do; and that means you will probably fail as a manufacturer.

“Strictly phonetic”—no. But more-or-less-strictly phonological, yes. Finnish is also one of those.

Well, I don’t know about Balkans, but at least for me, a half-liter beer of any kind takes 30–45 minutes. Stouts and porters are too thick to drink faster, ales too bitter etc. A light lager may be, but why bother?