The sequel’s plot is somehow weak with a couple of cringe moments. Given the twist is revealed in part one, the movie expresses one of many solutions to what should be free roaming of your own thoughts after the first film.

Sequels can be awful at destroying the ‘blew my mind’ effect in general by streamlining a great, open idea to a specific plot I guess.

Yes, and in fact, the complete jetbrains toolbox works fine on Linux. Setup is commonly done by simply unzipping an archive.

Remmina is nice to manage remote access, see https://remmina.org/

I heard negative criticism of rustdesk in terms of security, can anyone confirm or refute this?

Ah, great, I was not aware of that. I typically stick to the defaults, but this may help to convince others.

My impression is that LO criticism is unexpectedly harsh. After all, it’s a free and powerful alternative to MO and you are in no way forced to use it.

It’s less polished, obviously, but great for a wide range of use cases. Power users relying on specific features: different story.

For some reason I don’t fully understand, LibreOffice hides the option to switch the UI in View > User Interface. The option Tabbed seems to resemble MS ribbon-like style.

They should possibly consider to make that a default question on first start-up, like: ‘What interface layout feels familiar?’

I like these:

• https://katzundgoldt.de/rumpfkluft.htm
• https://www.getdigital.de/

Hey, I changed my desktop background and color theme… but yes, customization for me is copying all my scripts to ~/bin and set a keyboard shortcut to open a terminal. I’m-old-Gandalf-meme around here

edit: yes, .vimrc as well

I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.

Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.

In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.

What do you recommend?

If Signal was not simple, my family and friends would likely use Telegram or WhatsApp. Even switching to Signal required a number of (general) newspaper articles criticising the status quo. It’s likely not optimal, but okayish and sharing opinions and holiday impressions feels a bit better.

Switching a service is a slow, difficult process and many contacts will not follow, given they would abandon other contacts among friends, family, parents at school, sports teams, … (now, I’m here, using 4+ solutions).

If training or even curiosity for the technical process is required, very few people will follow. If it takes me (with strong IT background) more than 30 minutes to understand/implement, I may have a decent private solution, but I will feel quite lonely soon.

Definitely. Also, one could get the impression that profit is not always helpful for sustainable use of resources. Better not open a thread on forestry, agriculture or … whatever really …

Nuclear power is usually not abandoned for being dangerous, but because it’s weirdly complex to keep it safe as compared to the alternatives [1]. This makes it one of the most expensive ways to produce energy (at least given European regulations). Also, the raw material is expected to be quite rare relatively soon.

I guess this may be more about the way caveman made their fire… and the multi-billion cavedollar structure for holding the magic stone can be annoying.

[1] reading other comments, I feel like it is necessary to clarify that by alternatives, I do refer to green energy like wind, solar and water, plus energy storage.

I agree that atomic energy is preferable to fossil energy in almost all regards. The most convincing aspect for me is that you can see, pack and store your by-products, at least somehow, while CO₂ emissions can only insufficiently be handled using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

People tend to understand dangers with visible effects easier (impressive boom) than indirect effects like climate change (less impressive, slow motion, yet possibly apocalyptic boom).

1. Password Safe Pro
2. My Expenses
3. FL Studio, formerly Fruity Loops (also: Desktop)
4. Threema
5. Through the Ages (boardgame adaption)

Otherwise, I usually prefer free open source solutions (FDroid), but I regularly donate to keep the projects alive. 1 and 2 are small dev studios that I am happy to support.

Just wanted to add that it’s a music sequencing/composition/recording tool. I also bought it some 20 years ago and they really delivered the lifetime free upgrade thing - bought some upgrades and plug-in packs now and then nonetheless - - great tool. I feel that presently, I use roughly 20% of its features, but I never find the time to dig deeper.

edit: refering to the Desktop version

I could provide a low-effort option…

iconic!

My daughter wishes to contribute

Like this?

love the hat and also the grumpy face for the tech-duck (seemingly, you beat me to the idea)

• Brute Force Attack
• Markov Chain
• Singular Matrix
• Pow
• map
• bind
• variable name (thief’s favorite)
• Ballmer Peak
• Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
• Gaussian Elimination
• Double