Arch comes without socks by default. It’s up to you which ones you install buy.

I was talking about the 10% that don’t run and how that is not a Linux problem but artificially created by publishers to not support games on Linux that could in fact run perfectly fine.

The majority of “we don’t support Linux because of DRM or anti-cheat”-cases are simply lies. They don’t want them to work on Linux so they put in extra checks to prevent it.

That’s my point. It would often just run so they go out of their way to not support Linux.

the ground is full of dust and we are now adults

I seem to see an easy solution there…

The cases got taller and the power buttons moved to the top edge (and often got smaller).

So now those under-the-desk units have their power buttons directly under the plate. Mine specifically it now more a knee- instead of a foot-job… I could press it with my finger without bending down but you have to keep traditiones alive.

Probably… with many cases of “we could support Linux without any problem but we don’t do because we just don’t want to” included.

I did not have “Trump could present an idea universally liked by people in Europe” on my bingo card.

Die MAGA-Freunde in unserer Regierung kopieren halt peinlichst genau jede Scheiße von da drüben, während genau wie dort die hirntote Hälfte der Wähler sie entweder trotzdem immer wieder wählt oder sogar gleich den Müll jubelnd nachplappert, der ihnen tagtäglich in die hohlen Köpfe gepumpt wird.

How are you surprised that people brain-washed by the same media and social media controlled by the same oligarchs and foreign actors 24/7 develop the exact same delusions?

would lobby against postal privacy

No, they wouldn’t because then the stupid masses might wake up and realize how their rights are stripped away. Instead they always pretend that existing constitutional and other laws would not actually protect communication.

Nonetheless, I’m convinced every minister of justice would state the same

You are right. But that only shows how hard they are trying to destroy democracy now as the EU and many countries’ constitutions consider privacy and the ability to confidentally communicate privately a basic human right.

References:

EU convention on Human Rights: “The European Convention on Human Rights protects the right to respect for private life, the home and correspondence. This includes protecting the privacy of messages, phone calls, and emails. Governments can only interfere with these rights when it is specifically allowed by law, and done for a good reason – like national security or public safety.”

Danish constitution: “§ 72 The dwelling shall be inviolable. House search, seizure, and examination of letters and other papers, or any breach of the secrecy that shall be observed in postal, telegraph, and telephone matters, shall not take place except under a judicial order, unless particular exception is warranted by statute.”

All those morons could at least openly talk about the fact that they want to change basic constitutional rights. But they don’t as people could realize what they are doing then. So it’s always the same bullshit of bending and bending laws until they break (or courts object), then pretend to be totally surprised, turn around and try the exact same shit again.

Oh, if you include the complete supply chain in the “car industry” there are surely some people who want to desperately stick with combustion engines for lack of another perspective.

But those don’t justify the massive amount of political and media coverage that always pretends (quite explicitly even) that it’s the big producers (thus employers) speaking and not some small “we produce a few parts for the manual transmission exclusively” - or “we are the leading supplier for fuel pumps”-companies that are complaining.

No, they don’t.

They are begging for strict guide lines to have some security in their planning for years. They are massively upscaling EV production. They stopped CE development years ago with the latest engines developed already on the streets for years. They have invested billions into EV production.

This is pure astroturfing. Fossil fuel producers (with the help of their paid stooges in politics and media) are telling a fairy tale of how car producers fight EVs because the tech/the infrastructure/whatever isn’t ready yet… all in the hope enough morons believe it so they can delay the actual development some more.

And given our wonderful new post-factual era and how people are eating up the lie and start ranting about those car producers it seems to be working as usual… If enough people fall for it and falsely believe that there are no proper EVs to chose from (sidenote: a lot of car dealers with repair workshops included are helping to spread that lie) they might be able to delay everythinhg for a few more years, or so they believe.

(For reference: here’s an article about all the new models presented on this year’s IAA and completely unsurprisingly there is exactly one CE/hybrid in the whole list… the latest Renault Clio iteration.)

Unfortunately you are severely underestimating the amount of idiots…

As we are living in a post-factual era the killer will be exactly what the narrative demands, reality will not matter.

The thing is: Germany doesn’t, for years that is (yes, the actual deliveries are public 😉)… Unless you pretend that air-defense, air-defense corvetttes, torpedos or submarines (all ongoing contracts for many years, too) are somehow used against Palestinians.

They do, they don’t, it’s all the same smoke screen to keep you occupied with nonsense.

Friedrich Merz did not decide or change anything. He ist just throwing out another diversion for you, so you won’t discuss the obvious corruption and destruction of social systems while enriching himself and his rich buddies.

What government?

He spend years ranting about the former governent’s uselessness (the one that did more work in 2 years than the usual C*U-led government in 8…) and making big promises… only to break them all within weeks of the election (some of the big ones even before becoming chancellor).

So what we got is yet another perfect example of right-wing populist reality: Making a big show of rolling back progress made by the former government as a diversion from all money gifted to his rich buddies while also silently keeping all the former government’s neccessary but often unpopular changes he was most outspoken against. Sadly neither reality nor economy actually care for culture war bullshit.

It’s basically “We are in power again so now everything will magically become better while we do nothing but enrich ourselves”. And their brain-dead voters see no actual problem. Sure… they criticise the (obviously non-existent) results, but will still vote exactly the same again, like they do every single time (for reference: C*U lost only about 1.something % or so in polls since the election).

Correct answer for basically every country: far-right extremists and the hardcore neoliberal capitalist right (that will happily cooperate with the former if given the chance)… constantly pushed by bad foreign (to destabilise democracies) and domestic (to enrich themselves at the expense of democracy) actors^(*).

^(*): bonus points for US tech bros often matching both categories

No science advisor will pay our corrupt politicians better than lobbyists so why have an additional position to get pointedly ignored 100% of the time?

The only thing the fell apart is the sanity of people like you.

When in countries that took in huge amounts of refugees, in countries that fought hard to not take any, and in countries that don’t even have any meaningful of immigration at all the narrative of how evil immigrants are to blame for everything suddenly is running wild at the same time everyone with two working brain cells should be able to see the organised campaign of desinformation and plain lies.

Sadly people stupid enough to fall for it have already proven to not match that “2-working-brain-cells” requirement and will keep helping far-right populist liars to find their own society…