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I'm waiting neither due to bugs nor because high price. I'm waiting because adult life happened and I simply don't have time to play. I still have even games I bought decade(s) ago and I haven't touched yet.. Yeah, yet, definitely yet. Will try to insert appropriate meme later.

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Try Vikunja, it might tick the box for you.

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I was buying new (used) car half a year ago. There were two reasons why I ended with ICE again.

  1. Price. EV, even used ones, are so damn expensive it's just not for normal people. Everyone is saying how they lose value instantly and so on, but when I look at the market, even the cheapest ones (over 10 years old Nissan Leaf that will do less than 80 km on battery at summer) are ridiculously priced compared to ICE of the same age and similar specs. At least that's what it is in my country.

  2. Chargers. I live in an appartement without garage, parking on the street. No way to charge it with "cheap household electricity" over night. There are I believe 3 chargers in my ~15k town and every single one is ridiculously overpriced. 1 kWh there costs almost as half a litre of gas. Considering fuel/electricity consumption, this is making the cost per km of both options virtually identical for me.

Everyone around me is very EV-skeptical and old fashioned. I'm not and I'm cheering for EVs. So I really wanted to switch, but hell it wasn't making any sense yet.

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )

Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....

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Tbh Apple Vision pro was probably designed to add more visual spam, not reduce it...

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You have quite a big inches in Germany, my friend.

kurcatovium ,
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It depends on what programs and how much do you need them. Some are fine with plain wine, some need more tinkering. There are multiple ways, starting from lutris, through bottles, to steam's "non-steam game". But still there are some SW that just won't work on linux no matter what.

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There's also mojeek.com running their own index. Not perfect, but sometimes usable.

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Holy cow, I hate rhubarb. We always had it in the garden and my grandma used to bake cakes with it. Thos sweet cakes would be sooo good, but that pos plant always ruined them to non-edible garbage. At least for me, some people like that taste, though. (Europe)

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Don't. It's evil. Even though you might like it, it's not worth the risk.

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I once met a Finnish and he gave me something like (salty?) liqorice candy. It was basically black jelly, shaped like small hockey puck. Pretty good.

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Mmm, Barf soda sounds so tempting... :-D

kurcatovium ,
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It is possible. It's been some time, though, so can't be 100% sure.

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There are multitude of OS & software in running. Some people still use DOS, but most of those were already upgraded - to windows XP. These machines are currently being replaced with Win10 ones. But due to some specific old SW there still need to be some DOS machines running, at least for couple upcoming years. Linux is sadly not an option for typical office workers, again due to some software in use. There's at least open source in places where possible with more (Firefox, Thunderbird, tightVNC, ...) or less (LibreOffice) success.

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Thanks for deep reply. I'll chew through it.

Documentation is non-existent now and that's what bothers me the most. I, at least, started to put my agenda and acquired how-tos to plain txt files for future, because with so much shit going on I tend to forget stuff. I'd like to extend it and make it system-wide to cover all the IT related stuff in the company with some proper software to do it in (no idea which). But there's virtually no way this lack of documentation will change dramatically anytime soon. There's simply no will from higher ups and even if there was, there would be no manpower to do it :-( We're barely holding things running.

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It's small grocery store chain in the middle of European nowhere, with about hundred of stores run mostly in small villages. Some of those ancient software was made in-house decades ago for internal ordering from wholesaler (also run by the company) to individual shops. Everything in wholesale warehouse runs on the same DOS thing too, with stock inventory, invoice, ordering, ... There's already plan to (finally!!) put it to sleep and replace with something newer and more flexible, but given how low on resources and manpower the company is, it's not going to happen fast.

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We recently had discussion on this too and 365 is also a possibility. Nobody wants to deal with MS and their licensing though :-D

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I haven't tried, but given how quirky it is (in house development decades ago with patches and hotfixes stuck to it over years) I highly doubt it would work. The main problem is that there's no will to use Linux in office environment...

We're at least running it on POS machines - about 150 openSUSE installs - where there's nothing fancy needed.

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That's what we're using now and where quite some problems come from. I don't have anything against it, it's awesome suite for personal use, but running it in company we constantly run into problems with compatibility. Every partner we're dealing with is using MS Office and when they're exchanging spreadsheets or documents with us it's often pain in the a*s to make it work. And MS is not helping in this...

As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....

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Apart from usuals like spotify or bandcamp, I'd also like to introduce gnod here: https://www.gnod.com/

I do not use it very often, but it's quite nice to browse the recommendations based on what you were recently listening once in a while.

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Yeah, that crypto part must be new(ish). I remember it definitely wasn't there about half year ago when I first find out presearch. I believe it had no account to create either.

Well, I'll give SearXNG another chance I assume.

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That crypto part must be new, it definitely wasn't there some time ago. Anyway, glad I'm not the only one smelling something fishy in this...

kurcatovium OP ,
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I was PRE-blind then, which is not unexpected...

kurcatovium OP ,
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My bad, did not notice it before. It could not be this visible, though, right?

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I don't know, the best I can do is hope. I'm not a native speaker and my english lessons are long gone, so I put words here and there as they came to my mind hoping the other side will understand... Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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Wow, that trackers bullshit is even worse than I thought.

After all I'm glad that I asked. Something felt fishy about Presearch from the start and I couldn't pin point what exactly. Reading through all the terms and technicalities was exhausting, so this thread was nice kind of tldr.

Thanks everyone.

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Makes sense, except for "one model". I think it would be better to have two options.

One low cost, thinking mini pc with integrated gpu (like steamdeck) for casual gamers, 2d gaming, old game(r)s, etc. Would also be perfect as "home office" PC or media consumption device.

Second one would be bigger and stronger with dedicated GPU capable of "real" gaming and running all the modern games. Yes, powerful hardware is expensive, but serious gaming is no cheap thing...

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Yep, I would buy steamdeck for that purpose except I'd feel it could be even cheaper as a simple and more convenient small brick without fancy display and controls.

kurcatovium ,
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I would buy it instantly for my daughter.

kurcatovium ,
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I'm a simple man, I see Monty Python reference I upvote.

Same goes for boobs.

kurcatovium ,
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I logged in to my bank account the other day...

kurcatovium ,
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I assume this is that famous american thing where you're punished for paying cash, avoiding leasing and subscriptions?

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I'm running it for over 3 years as complete linux moron with no issues whatsoever. It was default in openSUSE and its automatic snapshot feature saved my ass multiple times. I've heard everyone saying ext4 is super stable and I should use it, but I went with default and can't complain.

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Snapper is life saver. I don't get it why nobody else use it by default, it's so great. It saved me many times. My coworker, who happens to be kind of non-linux user forced there by MS bullshit, uses Ubuntu and she's got to problems so many times, and all those would be couple clicks repair with Snapper...

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Ah, yes, strike, the national sport of France.

kurcatovium ,
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While this is true IMO, it's needed to say that the redesigned Discord mobile app is complete shitshow.

kurcatovium ,
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Came here to write this.

Another one would be Jacob's ladder, but compared to Come and See it's fairytale.

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Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic movie. It's just... it kind of fucked my mind when I saw it.

Same applies for Come and See. It's amazingly done, but it's brutal. Which is no surprise given the theme, but the difference is it's so naturalistic and shows all the wartime horrors. Most films tend to avoid these and show only the heroic parts of war.

Speaking of which I'd sneak in Apocalypse Now and Casualties of War.

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Yep, that is the true mindfuck. Also the reason I rate these movies pretty high.

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Will never understand why becoming religious often means flushing ones brain down the toilet...

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