I think you replied this in the wrong thread, but I generally agree with this person. Use GitBash as the terminal and only use VS Code as an editor (or even skip VS Code entirely). Not because it’s MS, but just because it adds complexity you don’t need while learning.

By the way, if you just want to learn git you can try this website, it’s a fully self-contained learning experience with a terminal emulator inside the browser: https://learngitbranching.js.org/

Drives, not drivers. HDDs and SSDs.

Theoretically yes, but I would recommend the terminal git brings with it. You should be able to just open any location on your drives, right-click, and select “GitBash here”. This will start a terminal with the directory you were in as the working directory.

Ideally, the readme.md has already been created by the time l reach here or no ?

Depends, if you followed the tutorial precisely it should already have been created in the step “Create the repository 3.”. You can use the ls command in the WSL terminal to see if it exists.

If not, where do I create the readme ?

In the base directory of the git repository you cloned from Github. You can do so with the command echo "blaaaa" > README.md (this will overwrite the file if it exists already).

In the WSL terminal or the vs code terminal ?

See I think this is your misunderstanding right here. The tutorial tells you to enter code ., where code means “start VS Code” and . means “in the current directory”. You are supposed to then use the file explorer inside VS Code to select the README.md and modify it.

This may not work as intended in WSL. If you enter which code and there is no output it won’t work. Is there any reason why you are using WSL instead of just installing git for Windows? It comes with a terminal emulator, so there should be no problem following the tutorial and you can eliminate WSL as a possible friction point.

Well it for sure killed my entire “Suspension of disbelief”.

Yeah, but the Prussian led is the crucial bit there. Austria wouldn’t have had one bit of a problem with a German Reich led by the Austrian monarchy, which is conversely something Prussia was unable to accept. Catch-22 type situation. Hence the split.

Well it’s not like Austria put up much of a fight… But anyway, my larger point was that Hitler, like many other people on both sides of the border, was explicitly opposed to the national distinction between Austria and Germany. They thought that the founding of the German Reich to the exclusion of Austria in 1871 was a mistake and that Austria should be part of Germany. So saying that somebody born in Austria, who believes Austria is part of Germany, is “a fully integrated German” (as opposed to Austrian) doesn’t make much sense I think.

Hitler was a fully integrated German.

What’s that even supposed to mean? He Anschluss’ed Austria basically the first chance he got.

Some later part of the Risen RPG series IIRC.

IDK man, console access and cheats are still pretty common for PC games. Although there are exceptions too, at least one game series I know, first few titles had console access and cheats, then they removed it after they stupidly left DLC content accessible through console commands in the base game… Which is pretty much an example of what OP claimed. So maybe it’s not always the reason, but it sure is sometimes.

Well I don’t know. Their response overall is quite incoherent in places, but they mentioned somebody, presumably German, interfering twice now:

we didn’t port the feedback from our German QA to other languages

https://x.com/GOGcom/status/2062981104362242551

This was noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/ts_gotta_be_racist_gog_explain/opxtour/

And yeah I can absolutely see a German translator/QA person just going, “No, I’m not sending out a fucking SS rune. That’s a fucking crime.” Because apparently it was only censored in the German language version of the newsletter, Germans with language set to English still received it with the runes. So that part, the “hey the German censor was the only one who caught this”, that I can believe. And some PR person rephrasing this embarrassing state of affairs as “German QA” and “respect for local sensitivities” that I can believe too.

Beyond that, there is pretty deep lore on this already. The developer used an Indian sun wheel before being made aware of possible “connotations”, and then apparently misinterpreted the term connotations, see here (same reddit thread as above, but different comment). Then the GoG rep saying in the reddit thread above the S-like runes were supposed to be Sowilō runes, which are indeed sun symbols, although not Slavic ones, which may comes in pairs, but not in the same orientation, and seem to render different depending on fonts. But the email seems to have used Greek Kappa, which may or may not render differently, looks like it doesn’t. It’s confusing, but plausible enough to have a difficult time disbelieving it outright.

But on the whole, those three/four symbols just don’t come together by accident. Some person put those there on purpose and is trying to play it off as a mistake. I suspect the author of that first damage control message on reddit.

I think you mean *wields.

Although *yields would also make sense in this particular context. :D

This kind of behavior simply isn’t possible under anything that can be described as an occupation.

Well if its still a de jure occupation, by virtue of other countries having rights over the subject country, I think that alone already makes it fair to still call it an occupation. If the occupying powers furthermore do in fact still have active military deployments in the country I am beginning to wonder how you could not call it a military occupation.

This is incorrect. Occupation ended in West-Germany in 1955, […] exceptions: The right to station troops […] even without explicit consent from the West-German government

Lol, the occupation ended, except it didn’t end. Yeah ok. The actual end of the Allied Control Council was in 1990/1991, following the two+four treaty and reunification. That’s when the US (and others) lost rights to station troops in Germany at their discretion and Germany was granted full sovereignty. And until then there had been occupation troops there, doesn’t matter that they had been much reduced compared to the first ten years.

the US didn’t just flippantly “figured something out”

I didn’t say figuring out, I said figuring. Presented with two choices, close everything down or pay rent, they chose the latter.

but kept it active as both a logistics center […] and as a deterrent against Russia

Which was all I said, so we agree essentially: “why not rent already existing bases instead of building new ones elsewhere”

Ignoring the rhetoricity of the question: The military occupation of Germany after WW2 lasting for 45 years (1945-1990/1991) resulted in a lot NATO-standard military infrastructure being already established throughout the country; So when the occupation officially ended the US essentially just figured “why not rent already existing bases instead of building new ones elsewhere”.

Man fuck Axel Voss! Damn copyright shill. Guess we can take solace in the fact that he seemed to be the only one clearly taking the publishers side here.

And if I’m not mistaken, the European Commission representative argued in his reply to Voss (around 12:20) that “collective management organisations” or “cultural heritage institutions” might well be allowed to preserve games that are not commercially available anymore already under the current framework.

Well yeah kind of, except for the caveat that there are some things in those tests a website can’t really check. The tests are standardised and publicly available. There isn’t really any reason to not implement a (half-way) proper test, even if you are just harvesting data.

Above average that has to count for something right?

Well they aren’t though, 345/1000 people having a worse score than you means there are 654/1000 people who have a better score.

“IQ 100” is a moving target that gets regularly updated to the new average (which relatively speaking has been mostly climbing for decades).

cool-new-thing factor: KDE plasma 6!

I found the “Fall apart” option last week which makes windows explode into tiny bits when you close them. Never had so few lingering windows open in my life.

Give Ubuntu Studio a try maybe? It comes with a lot of audio production stuff preinstalled and preconfigured, one of the most important ones in this context being low-latency process scheduling.

Essentially most distros just have default process scheduling options, which means a process might be starved for CPU time, theoretically for up to 2s or so at a time, which is very bad if that process is generating or consuming an audio stream. Low-latency scheduling, while not entirely preventing it from happening, should significantly reduce this.

You could also just configure most other distros Kernels to do low-latency scheduling of course. Or if you don’t want to muck about with kernel settings try Ubuntu Studio, which has that and more all ready to use.