Overworked healthcare staff since nobody can realistically replace the cheap labor coming from a government program, plus an understaffed military (180k personnel instead of 203k as per the budget).

We had something like that in Germany, if you opted out of military service, you had to do civil service instead, i.e. you had to work in an institution that provided some benefit to the general public.

Most of those jobs were healthcare related, such as working in a hospital, as ambulance driver, kindergarten teacher, assisted living helper etc., or working in a supervisory rule for a company that employed people with disabilities to make sure they don’t get injured in the workplace.

Both my brother and I did it (they later scraped military service, and the civil service as a consequence), and it was really amazing. He went to work in a food factory where people with mental disabilities were employed to sort raw ingredients (think removing debris and washing fruit and vegetables for juice, yoghurt & pickling), I worked as a nurse in a hospital.

Gave both of us a good twist for our careers, he moved on to study education for people with disabilities and now works as a special ed teacher for an integrative school, I went on to work in the development aid sector all across Africa and Central Asia for years.

It does a bit, since every party will be represented in the European council based on the number of votes they have. It’s not an election where the winner takes all.

I think the pirates had one or two representatives in the council, which is enough to start debates and make proposals. They obviously can’t push anything through by themselves.

They just plaster the brand name all over the web to score high in number of results. Not intended to rank high on google, just to fake visibility in general.

Kernel level anti-cheat won’t work, thank heavens the Linux developers won’t allow that abomination.

No process deserves that kind of elevated permissions.

Thin crust Italian style pizza, topped with tomato sauce, walnuts, thinly sliced Italian ham, and a mix of gorgonzola and mozzarella chunks. Heaven.

No, that’s the whole point of using encryption. If the windows boatloader had a means of scanning the content of an encrypted file system, it would have already been exploited to circumvent encryption.

I’ve just bought some HEPA filters and ziptied them to one of those square fans. Works like a charm.

When I played Superhot. It’s a slow motion shooter where enemies and bullets only move in real time when the player is moving.

I only played it a few minutes at a time, but each time I looked up from my desktop I was surprised that stuff was in motion even though I wasn’t.

Very weird effect and it set in each time I played.

So you are running a full-fledged OS on a standalone computer that functions as a router. An actual router has a very limited operating system with no such functionality, plus it’s always online by design, so you’d basically have to have a key that is permanently plugged in; or depending on the setup you’d have to re-authenticate ever so often. Not exactly great considering most routers are hidden somewhere in an inaccessible corner.

You can’t use those on a router, and they are painful on mobile.

Any examples? I live in China and even the worst shoebox on wheels has a touch screen and built-in always online capabilities.

Ignorance is a bliss.

I’ve been using kagi for a while now, but I’m not ready to pay for search results. So I’ll basically stick with google plus a bunch of excluded terms for the time being, and use the free search contingent from kagi if that doesn’t yield and useful results regardless.

That power connector is not supposed to hang loose in the air. Check the handbook for the mainboard to find out where it’s supposed to connect to.

You can’t pick a naked man’s pocket.

That Windows store never worked for me. I tried to buy something out of perceived convenience once, and tried to install some freeware once or twice (7zip and something else), and it never worked. On a genuine, activated Windows, that is. Never bothered to try again.

Comments are cached until you reload, to reduce the traffic. Open the comments view of the post and pull down to refresh, then you should be able to see them all.

In the context of a game, let’s say a clearly outdated graphics engine that everyone can agree on looks very dated. Or game-stopping bugs. Constant crashes. Etc.

Then we’ll all be speaking Russian in 15 years.