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It always makes me clench my teeth when I read things like “Bayrou is center”. Anyone who negotiates with RN or appoints B.Rotailleau to their government, is a fascist and definitely not center.

• Set a decently good password (password is required frequently on Linux, so do go overboard with a 40-random-characters-long password, you will regret it)
• don’t install programs or run scripts from shady sources, prefer to install programs from the Software store (package manager and flatpak)
• setup a backup system to regularly copy all your files to a separate storage device. This is the way to protect yourself from ransomware but also user errors! Having the possibility to format your drive, reinstall and restore backup in a 1 hour time span is going to give you the peace of mine you need for exploring and experimenting with Linux

The guitar playing with the missing fingers made me cry instantly.

It’s funny to me, maybe not to anyone else. If you would take an advice from a random internet stranger: Try to learn a bit of Mandarin, travel to China, maybe your local communist party can even support you with that. Get a some first hand experience with this country your clearly very passionate about.

Not as well supported by sources as you previous replies, such a shame. But you gave me a good laugh 🤣

Alright, you did convince me that the Chinese people report strong support to the CCP and report a strong perception of democracy. What I am still not convinced of however, is that PRC IS democratic.

In my book, for a country to be democratic it needs to have:

• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of press
• Freedom of reunion
• Freedom of protest
• Universal access to education
• Political plurality
• Universal suffrage
• Universal respect of human right

My opinion today is that, I highly doubt PRC qualifies to any of this points, but I don’t know for sure. If you convince me with credible evidence that PRC is better than, let’s say, France, Germany or Norway, on all these points, then I am ready to move to China with you next year.

Edit: I forgot a few important point on my democratic list of requirements:

• Laicity (division of state and religion and tolerance for all religions)
• Division of power (Legislative, Justice, Executive, etc, must be help by different institution regulating each other)

The data from this article is up to 2016. Things have changed quite a bit since the COVID crisis.

Better answer the survey correctly when you live in a country that has laws like “disagreeing with the government is a crime”

That’s horrible and properly terrifying. My condolences to the families of the victims. I hope the investigation leads to improving the safety of the funicular so that they can put it back in service. It’s such an important feature of the city.

Is it Signal and Threema leadership that doesn’t want to implement interoperability with WhatsApp or it’s WhatsApp preventing it? Is there any existing 3rd party app that’s compatible with WhatsApp?

I read another headline today that India is now the 1st provider of Diesel fuel to Ukraine.

Yeah, looks like they only have it for the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro. Well, I’m not gona buy a new phone for that, but it looks pretty cool.

Where did you get this keyboard case and do they make one for the Pixel 7 ?

In Germany people mostly follow the rules while driving. Most important ones being:

1. Stick to the right lane unless overtaking
2. No overtaking from the right

I don’t recall ever seeing cars slaloming in between other vehicles on the highway in Germany like it’s common place in other countries like France.

The discipline of all drivers makes the German Autobahn safe.

Another thing to note: when driving over 120km/h on the unlimited Autobahn, you are automatically responsible at least 50% with any accidents you’re involved with. So, you speed “at your own risk” in a sense.

There is no amount of blocking the Internet that will safeguard the children effectively. The real solution is this:

Just vibecoding a kernel module, nothing out of the ordinary at Microsoft.

It’s perfectly reliable. You only need caution when using RAID5 and RAID6 as these features are still in the experimental phase.

School bullying in China is systemic and perpetrated by students, teachers and parents alike.

Looking at your down vote count, it’s pretty clear most people outside of France don’t know who François Bayrou is. He is indeed a disgusting lying magot. Even though I agree with him about the US-EU deal, this doesn’t make him less of a coward, lying, fascist facilitator and religious extremist.

Biggest public spending by far: gifts to private companies, going completely uncheck for decades, no one know what any of the 2000+ schemes are and why this money is given and for what and nothing is expected in return. But if we are missing 17 billions on healthcare budget, we are supposed to get screwed and shut up.