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You may find this surprising, but as an IT technician, being German myself, I do not use nor recommend WhatsApp to anyone, because of the large data collection and profile building by the corporation that owns Whatsapp. Also, even before that, some time in 2010 or 2011, I actually downloaded it for a short amount of time, but then the app asked me whether it was allowed to upload the contacts in my phone to their servers, and that was the moment when I deleted it again right away, because this would have been a violation of the BDSG (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), which was in place way bevore the DSGVO/GDPR. However, I'd rather use Signal or some other messenger to contact people. But if they only have Whatsapp, I will use SMS, because that's still the common denominator for all those who aren't willing to use something that's less illegal.
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Besides ALF, I remember "Knight Rider" being my favorite American TV show as a kid, and then "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (in German, it's called: "Raumschiff Enterprise: Das nächste Jahrhundert"). And of course all the 90s spin-offs of that show, which were Deep Space 9 and Voyager. But then, Star Trek was basically dead. The attempt of revival with the prequel series "Enterprise" wasn't really it, and anything that followed afterwards was just a shame for the saga. Anyhow, another sitcom that I liked as a kid was "Hör mal wer da hämmert", but I'm not sure how it was called in the original, I think it was something with home improvement or so? Not sure...but I quite liked it. Although, I didn't even have any privat TV stations until the 90s, and then at first only 2 with bad quality, and only since about 97 or so, I could receive all the private channels. So basically, I was stuck what public TV brought, which wasn't all that much. Although I remember watching the Sesame Street from the age of about 3 or 4.
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I guess, if the water were purified H2O (or "distilled water"), it would not produce any charge, but in normal water, there are always other types of atoms present, which exist in a state of ionization, being partly bonded to the water molecules, like if you put salt into water. If I remember my school chemistry correctly, that becomes Na+ and Cl- molecules which bond to the according side of the water molecules. That can only happen because water is a dipole molecule, it has one end that is positively charged and an other end that is negatively charged. So these ions will cross the charged wire mesh and then lose their charge. Because the water has before flown through the metal rings with the opposite charge of the wire mesh, the effect increases itself.
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Sabrina Bürger Es gibt sogar Familien, die sind glücklicher, weil nicht immer alle aufeinander hocken, und wenn das dann mal doch so ist (z.B. wegen Urlaub oder Krankheit), dann gibts ganz schnell Krach und Streit. Von daher, sei froh, dass es so gut funktioniert bei Euch. Gibt natürlich auch andere Familien bzw. Beziehungen, wo das Elternteil, was nicht LKW fährt sondern zuhause ist, nicht damit klar kommt, dass der/die Partner/in dauernd weg ist, die gehen dann in die Brüche (was für die Kinder noch mit am schlimmsten sein dürfte).
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I think it is dangerous to imply Google or Facebook as information hosts to be hard to censor, because they are both US corporations and have to abide by whatever National Security Letter they receive (without telling the general public about it). So had Edward Snowden used one of these services to pass on his sensitive information, he hadn't succeeded, and the world would have lost an important opportunity for establishing more freedom in those its areas that are already labeled 'free'. So, decentralizing information, and making it as redundant as possible, hosting it not only on one site or service, but on many, and having different users host the same information on all the possible sites and services that can host information would be the most important thing. Additionally, decentralizing the network even more by having people operate home servers at their home which can be used to host sensitive and important information as well, is also a very important step.
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Thanks for this comprehensible explanation! I've been using Linux on a desktop since 2006, and there were maybe two or three times when I've had to run a compiler, and none past, say, 2015. Here's my history with Desktop Linux: I've started with Debian Etch (and parallel to that, also Kubuntu 6.06 for a short time - back in KDE 3.5 times, I was a KDE fan), then Lenny when Etch became stable and Testing was "freezed" feature-wise. Then at some time, there came KDE4, so I switched to Gnome2 and with that also to Ubuntu, I think it was 9.04 at first, which I then upgraded to 10.04 LTS. Starting with 12.04 however, they introduced their new Unity desktop, which I didn't like, so I was looking around for what I wanted to use and ending up with Mint because of the Cinnamon desktop environment, which was still configurable to look and act like a modernized version of Gnome2 (MATE wasn't a thing yet back then, and later on when it existed, I found it to look somewhat out of date). Mint always had some disadvantages over Ubuntu, like not including kernel updates by default (never had a problem with doing them anyways), and also no dist-upgrades, which they later on started changing towards better solutions (although the warning about kernel updates are still unnnecessary in my opinion, and the dist-upgrade is currently still as much work or more as reinstalling the system). At the same time however, Ubuntu became worse and worse, with switching from Unity to Gnome3, which completely threw all known-to-me concepts of GUI usage over board, not offering an official Cinnamon flavour, and most recently the introduction of the proprietary SNAP package format. Oh, SNAP packages and the package manager can still be open source, but the only server that will ever distribute snap packages is run and owned by Canonical, and it is not open source software. So they want their gatekeeper role of software distribution, and I cannot accept that, therefore nowadays I always advise against Ubuntu, even for people who think their GUI is good. It's just inacceptable. Plus, I once installed a calculator app via snap on a PC (not mine), and it was somewhere around 25MB (I was like WTF is wrong here, this should be only a few kB or maybe a Meg or two), and when I clicked onto the launcher for the program to load, it took something like 30 seconds to load a zucking calculator! So it's slow, meaning resource inefficient and therefore absolutely out of the race. Hence: No Ubuntu here. Mint fortunately uses Flatpak, which at least is a truely free package format, where everybody can set up their own flatpak repository to distribute their own software...
I thought about trying Arch or Manjaro, but in reality, I'm lazy, and why try something new when the thing I've got works so well for me?
On my home server, I run Debian, because it has no GUI, it runs my Nextcloud to function as the backend of my phone. Although, I think I'm still on Buster there and should probably upgrade it to Bullseye...darn laziness! ;)
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@jasonleetalk9498 Alle Autos immer autonom machen wird schwierig. Zum einen fahren ja Autos immer ein paar Jahrzehnte auf den Straßen herum, und daher kann es nur eine Übergangsphase geben, die dan schon so 10-20 Jahre sein muss. Und dann fahren ja auch immer mal Oldtimer durch die Gegend, sollte man das dann verbieten? Ich finde diese Anforderung sehr bedenklich! Und zwar nicht, weil ich gegen autonomes Fahren wäre, absolut nicht! Aber ich bin halt auch dagegen, allen was aufzuzwingen. Und wer sich nur einen Gebrauchtwagen leisten kann, der noch nicht autonom fährt, sollte auch nicht davon ausgeschlossen werden, sonst sind wir wieder einen Schritt weiter in der Diskriminierung von Menschen aufgrund deren Reichtums, und das ist eigentlich etwas, was aufhören müsste!
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Eddie Penta Is there a decentralized web3 internet that people are using today? Okay, I run my linux box at home with nextcloud on it, and a TOR relay, and an instance of Prosody for peer-to-peer communication via XMPP, but there are only very few users that actually do that, because, as Derek said, you need to be tech-savvy with linux in order to do that. I also use only smartphones that are completely void of Google or Apple software (as long as it isn't open source, non-proprietary), but again, that is something many people are not capable of, and others aren't even willing to put up with not having live traffic in Google maps, but using an OpenStreetMap navigation instead, and so on. So where is this decentralized web3 internet for the masses today? I only see people using WhatsApp and Skype and other centralized services, making those companies rich and be in control with the data they provide through their usage of the services.
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+Boundless Shot Kannst Du ja machen, aber mach Dich bereit, dass Du mit Deinem Einsatz dann eben nicht Deinem Land (also den MENSCHEN, die hier leben) dienst, sondern eben den Mächtigen, die uns regieren, und deren Plänen (die, wie sich immer deutlicher abzeichnet, nicht unbedingt in unserem Sinne sind). Kann man zwar alles machen, aber man sollte eben vorher wissen, worauf man sich da wirklich einlässt.
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I don't do video editing, but on my PCs, I use basically >90% free software. I went away from Windows 2000 in 2006 and started using Linux, first Kubuntu 6.10, then Debian (Etch, then Lenny) until 2009 and then Ubuntu again, now since 2012 I use Linux Mint, because I like the Cinnamon desktop environment. So the only non-free software I can currently think of on my machines is the Flash plugin. Unfortunately, that isn't true for my mobile phone (running Android). There's so much non-free stuff in Android, and even if I had flashed my phone with a custom firmware, to get the full use out of it I'd need the Google services framework, which again presses me back into having to rely on non-free software :-(
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@shubinternet It's funny that, because since Facebook owns Whatsapp, they could easily advertise it more strongly to their users. On the other hand, they have a competing product in house, called Facebook Messenger, which doesn't even e2e encrypt, so of course they rather have their users on that platform, being able to also read the contents instead of only the metadata.
However, no, it doesn't depend on the community you're trying to communicate with. I can easily live without Whatsapp, although everyone around me has it, and can still communicate with people. It is absolutely not necessary to succumb to total loss of privacy towards the players of surveillance capitalism, and I make it a point not to, because I do not want surveillance capitalism turn into corporate totalitarianism, and that is an actual danger we're facing here (even without governments noticing or - if it happened - being able to do something about it).
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I love these explanations from Professor Brailsford, he has such a soothing tone in his voice! ;-)
Anyhow, since you're digging into computer history, I'd really like to know where the usage of pointy brackets for doing something came from, back in the days of the FIDO net (the FIDO net may in itself be worth a whole computerphile video!). They were later, in the late 90s on the www replaced by stars. So when I got "online-socialized", you'd write something like <ROTFLOL> or <duck&run>, while later on people wrote (asterisk)ROTFLOL(asterisk) and (asterisk)duck&run(asterisk), sometimes leaving out the end asterisk, and nowadays things like <lol> are just written without any indicating characters for the special type of "chain of letters" that is not to be read as a normal word, but as something the writer is doing, or an acronym of that. How did this change come to pass, and how was it "invented" in the first place? It goes along with the first smileys ": - )" (w/o the spaces), but somehow I have never found a good explanation of how it all came to be that way, and the changes that were made to this "informal notation" over time. I'd really like to hear someone (preferrably Prof. Brailsford, if he knows anything about it) talk about this - maybe in conjuncture with the times of mailboxes and the FIDO net and so on....this is an important part of computer history, especially ("old style" asterisk usage - notation for bold text here - fortunately adopted by the youtube/G+ comment system) since it was a decentralized way of spreading information digitally, which is something we almost don't have any more today, because everyone uses a platform or at least a web host company for their data to be spread...
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Wow, that is amazing, in a weird way. You grew up in Bavaria, a region that is clearly very much determined by the Roman Catholic Church, and you say that "We don't have separation of church and state in Germany", while I grew up a bit further north in Hesse, and I learned in school that in fact state and church are separate in Germany. However, after my school was finished, I started questioning this and quickly came to the same conclusion, religion is far too much integrated into our state (i.e. with "Autobahnkirchen" and the state actually taking church tax from you if you don't resign from the religion into which you were unvoluntarily christened as a baby, and so on and so forth). We should really change something about that!
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Veritasium Ryan did not say that! All he said was that it is impossible to say either this or that. This is the true "final frontier" of not being able to know the truth, especially since it defies the scientific definition of truth to be something anyone can reproduce independently, since it can only be lived personally (or, not lived, if you want to see it like that). The act of assuming in itself - either, that consciousness is permanent, or that it isn't - is the irresponsible and/or arrogant thing. That goes for every religion just like for every nihilist. People tend to try to find a universal truth, but this doesn't work for a subject that can't be generalized. Anyways, it's philosophy - not science. So if you want to go there, where science and philosophy meet, then I'll be expecting lots of totally awesome videos from you, about quantum physics, string theory and so on and so forth!
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Boundless Shot Im Gegenteil, ich habe kein Problem mit Geflüchteten, das sind einfach Menschen in einer beschissenen Situation, und uns geht es gut, also können wir ihnen helfen und sollten das auch tun. Aber nicht mit Friedenspanzern oder ähnlichem. Und ganz sicher auch nicht als transatlantische Vasallen der imperialistischen Gewaltherrscher namens USA. Und genau an der Stelle steht unsere Regierung. Wobei die Regierung der USA, ebenso wie unsere und jede andere westliche Regierung, als Marionetten für Konzerne und Banken fungiert, die in Gemeinschaft mit den Geheimdiensten wirklich bestimmen, wo es lang geht. Ich habe noch keinen Menschen getroffen, der nicht lieber friedlich leben würde. Irgendjemand hat aber einigen davon den Hirnfurz eingeimpft, dass das nur ginge, wenn man die "bösen" "bekämpfen" würde, und das halte ich nunmal für Bullshit.
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No, you are downloading part of the file info (like its name), in some cases even its timestamp, but the other stuff is written onto your hard drive when the downloaded file is actually being saved (like where its position on the disk starts, or how many bytes it contains) Otherwise, if you interrupted a download after 10%, the file size would still be the full size of the file, although only 10% of it are there. In some cases, the timestamp is being taken from the original file you downloaded (so if you download an mp3 file that was created in 2010, it may say 2010 on your computer as well, although you downloaded it in 2016), in other cases it shows the actual date when the download was complete - I never figured out when it would use which timestamp though.
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Same here since 2006 now, so 15 years! Started with Kubuntu 6.06, then KDE4 came and I quickly went to Debian Etch and then Lenny, then back to Ubuntu (then the standard Gnome2 version) until 12.04, which introduced Unity, so I was on the lookout for something else. Tried out several distros, stuck with Mint, I love the Cinnamon desktop, it can be configured with two panels on top and bottom just like Gnome2, but with a much more modern look and functionality. Up until 3-4 years ago, I'd have said: If there were an official Cinnamon flavour of Ubuntu, I wouldn't need or want Mint, but then Ubuntu introduced Snap, while Mint avoided it, so now I'm happily staying with Mint, which is a good distro anyways (the only reason why Rob didn't like it was the icons...well, you can quickly change those to a different theme).
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@RedRat98074 I am doing just that. In fact, since my phones are de-googled, they don't even contain Chrome (as an app, of course the Chromium WebView component is still there, but that's open source software, so it's fine). Also, I use Blokada (the version from F-Droid of course) for system-wide blocking, as well as an adblocker on my OpenWRT router, and on the computer I also use Chromium (not Chrome, which isn't needed any more) only for YouTube, and for other sites I use Firefox, Brave or even other browsers - but all of them have an ad blocking component in them. In addition to this, on my phone, there's of course also other safety software installed, i.e. AFWall+ which restricts apps from using the internet (like, most apps don't need to do that, why would a calculator have to go online? and so on). So you can believe me that I'm somewhat proficient in protecting myself from a) annoyances and b) automated privacy intrusions by surveillance capitalism.
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Die große Gefahr, die von China ausgeht, ist halt, dass es sich um einen totalitären (Überwachungs-)Staat handelt, in dem die Grund- und Menschenrechte im Zweifel nicht viel gelten, bzw. dem von einer Elite bestimmten "großen Ganzen" geopfert werden. OK, der totalitäre Überwachungsstaat wird auch hier gerade aufgebaut, und unsere Eliten würden sich wahrscheinlich eine ähnliche Macht wünschen, einfach komplett ihre Wünsche durchzusetzen. Von daher sehe ich die Gefahr eher darin, dass global die Freiheit tendenziell mehr verschwindet (im Westen auch durch den Abbau der Mittelklasse erkennbar - wer "Unterschicht" ist, hat mit dem Überlebenskampf zu viel zu tun, um sich über Freiheit Gedanken zu machen - und so ist es in China ja schon lange, bzw. war es nie anders, bzw. ändert sich erst jetzt langsam und nur für einen kleinen Teil der Bevölkerung). Tendenziell ist also eher der gesellschaftliche Einfluss Chinas auf der Erde insgesamt problematisch, wobei der natürlich auch dadurch gestärkt wird, wenn China jetzt auch noch zur Weltraummacht wird...
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So, I'll have to rephrase my second comment: SNAP is NOT an advantage, but a DISADVANTAGE! It is SLOW, and it is UNFREE! Canonical are the only ones who run a SNAP SERVER, since it is not open source, so they are the only ones who get to decide which software is available through SNAP and which isn't. Therefore, Mint doesn't use SNAP, but the competing FLATPAK instead! This is much better, because a) programs packaged with it aren't such a resouce hog, and b) the server is free, so everyone can distribute their own software through it!!
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Boundless Shot Also, viele Fragen die Du mir gestellt hast. Ich beantworte sie der Reihe nach: Solange westliche und östliche Geheimdienste radikale Extremisten finanzieren und somit ihre Macht aufbauen, ist alles, was wir tun, nur eine weitere Gewaltspirale. Das war mit Al Quaida so, und ist mit IS nicht anders - zuerst muss das einmal aufhören, egal aus welchem Land der diese Gewalttäter finanzierende Geheimdienst kommt. Und was man dann, nachdem diese Menschen entwaffnet wurden, dagegen tun kann, ist klassische Bildung und Entwicklungshilfe. Niemand mit einem gewissen Bildungsstand ist mehr gewillt, Gewalt auszuüben um seine Ziele zu erreichen. Man könnte sogar islamische Gelehrte hinschicken, um den entwaffneten (dann Ex-)Terroristen eine gemäßigte Form des Islam nahezulegen, der eben nicht auf der gewaltsamen Durchsetzung seiner Ziele basiert. Man bedenke, der Islam ist hier noch um einige Jahrhunderte hinter den anderen Religionen zurück, d.h. das ist eine Entwicklung, die es im globalen Vergleich aufzuholen gilt (wie wurde die Gewaltherrschaft der kath. Kirche im Mittelalter gebrochen? Durch Bildung der Massen!)
An einem Strang ziehen ist natürlich immer gut (am besten wäre es, allen Menschen - auch denen vom IS - klar zu machen, dass wir alle im selben Boot sitzen), aber das würde bedingen, dass "wir" restlichen Nationen uns einig wären. Doch das sind sich nicht mal die westlichen (wenn ich jetzt mal Deine Meinung als die annehme, die Deutschland auch "offiziell" als Staat in der Angelegenheit vertritt), denn "nicht wie die Amis" ist ja genau das, was unter dieser "Zusammenarbeit" nie geschehen wird, einfach weil sie die größten Gewalttäter sind.
Und nun zum Thema Staat und Bundeswehr: Die Bundeswehr ist ein ziemlich direktes Staatsorgan, gehört soweit ich weiß ebenso wie die Polizei zur Exekutive (wenn auch hauptsächlich im Auslandseinsatz - bisher). Das Problem mit der Bundeswehr ist also das Problem der Weisungsgebundenheit gegenüber den falschen Leuten (nämlich denen, die unseren Staat führen). Und das ist sogar ebenfalls wieder ein Grundlegendes Problem, denn dort, wo eine Rangordnung herrscht und Befehle zu befolgen sind (oder die Gefahr besteht, sich der Befehlsverweigerung oder schlimmerem schuldig zu machen), kann keine Initiative entstehen. Wenn ein Angehöriger eines Militärs einen Schießbefehl bekommt, muss er diesen befolgen, auch wenn er eine Möglichkeit sieht, eine Situation ohne Waffengewalt aufzulösen. Mit etwas Glück kann er diese - aus seiner Sicht womöglich sogar bessere - Alternative vortragen, aber wenn der Vorgesetzte davon nichts hält, oder trotzdem schießen will, dann muss er es tun. Damit habe ich ein gewaltiges Problem, denn es widerspricht letztendlich der Freiheit, und auch dem Gedanken der Demokratie, und vor allem der Grundidee des "an einem Strang ziehens", denn hier gibt jemand anderes die Richtung vor, in der gezogen wird, anstatt dass man sich unter allen Beteiligten auf die gemeinsam als beste angesehene Richtung einigt. Das steht dem Eigenständigen Denken so diametral entgegen, dass ich darin sogar bereits den Grenzbereich zur Verletzung der Menschenwürde, also Bruch unseres wichtigsten Verfassungsartikels nahen sehe. Und wenn eine AfD an die Macht kommt (was zum Glück hoffentlich nie passieren wird), und die dann der Bundeswehr den Befehl gibt, die Grenzen von Deutschland gegen Flüchtlinge zu verteidigen, notfalls auch mit Waffengewalt, dann muss der Bundeswehrangehörige, der da an der Grenze steht, womöglich auf schwerverletzte, Kranke, geschwächte Menschen, sowie Frauen und Kinder schießen. Nein, danke, das kann ich nicht mit meinem Gewissen vereinbaren - ehrlich gesagt schäme ich mich sogar für diese Eigenschaft meines Staates, auch wenn diese Staatsangehörigkeit natürlich sehr viele unglaublich tolle Aspekte hat, die es so sonst nirgends auf der Welt gibt.
Und nein, ich bin nicht der Meinung, Gewalt in dem Maße müsste sein. Aber um das halbwegs unvoreingenommen diskutieren zu können, müssten erst mal so "deutsche" Unternehmen wie KMW, HK und Co aufgelöst werden.
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***** The things you get for 300 bucks are more like craptops, not laptops. Seriously, I don't want a machine that I have to throw away after 2 years, because it doesn't work any more, the case is broken or the fan is clogged up or worn out, and there is no way to get to it other than disassembeling the whole unit, let alone replacement parts. Also, I don't need that much processing power for the stuff I do, so I really see no use in buying a new machine. But 300 bucks can get you a decent used T-series Thinkpad.
Why Windows is useless? Well, ask Microsoft why they made it that way.
And yes, I could theoretically run a virtual machine with Windows in it, but the goal is to not need Windows software or "compatibility" (which in most cases means incompatibility to sincere computers). So why would I want to? Every computer free from Microsoft software is one machine less contributing to the ever-too-big dying empire. So let's increase the speed of Microsoft's dying process by not use their crap, thus being independent and not vendor-locked-in.
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EACPentrit In the olden times, they had something called "Zweikanalton", two channel audio. One channel had the German dub, the other had the original language, whichever it was. And yes, both channels were Stereo. This was quite enjoyable. With languages other than English and German, I'd turn on subtitles which are translated into a laguage I understand, and it would be fine. Just depriving everyone of the enjoyment to chose the original audio because the majority wouldn't understand it (although, with English and even Turkish, that isn't even clear) is simply wrong, especially nowadays in a time where we have enough bandwidth for digital transport and good compression algorithms.
But anyways, I don't have a TV any more since 15 years, and nowadays, watching everything over the internet is even better (plus, I can't be bothered with the 99% BS on 99% of all stations).
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EACPentrit Well, it seems we're going in circles here, because the same thing happens in Germany as well: Every election, the parties which make the worst decisions get elected. So one could assume that our representative democracies may be compromised somehow, but if that is the case (either through subtle manipulation of the masses through the media, or through direct election fraud, or through any other means possible), then the people are not to blame - with that same logic, it could have been OK if the other guy who posted in this thread called most Germans idiots, because we have the same effect in our democracy.
So basically, this thread now ran around in a circle while it went way off topic on a tangent, and now we are having something that should look like one of those old cassette player signs...
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@hansbrix2495 Oh, there are bad Döner places in Germany, trust me on that. Sometimes when I'm not in Berlin but outside somewhere, and I'd like to eat a Döner, and then I see the local Döner place, my appetite is gone. Even in Berlin there are some that radiate a lack of cleanliness and an odor which drives away your hunger in an instant, so if you really wanted, you could get a bad Döner (it's just that a few hundred meters down the road, there's the next Döner place and it is probably better).
I haven't seen any other US fast food chains here, besides McD, BK, KFC and Subway. But we have quite a number of small, really good burger places. These are mini chains with something like 5-10 restaurants spread out over the city, and their quality is often really high and basically not comparable with the stuff you get at McD or BK.
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But wait, isn't the European UMTS also a CDMA technology? Funnily enough, there are some European countries that have switched off the old GSM standard from 1991 and keep UMTS active as a fall-back until 5G is rolled out nationally, while other countries like Germany have switched off the CDMA-based UMTS networks in favor of keeping the 30 year old GSM networks running, because there are so many industrial appliances still running on GSM, which only transmit minute amounts of data so GSM is sufficient for that, or they only use voice calling like elevator emergency call modules, and all this stuff would be too expensive to exchange, so GSM keeps running while UMTS is gone by now. With the interesting side-effect that on a phone which doesn't use VoLTE (which are still many phones!), you can't do a phone-call and use the internet at the same time, when you're not connected to the internet vie Wifi. I'm really looking forward to SailfishOS implementing VoLTE in early 2022.
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Oh, but here you're wrong! There are actually Germans who do pronounce the d at the end of a word like Brand as a d and not as a t. It's even a voiceless d. But since this is a northern German thing, I've only started noticing it myself since I've been living in Berlin, because before that, I was more in the south, and there it was common. I'd say, using a soft t instead of a hard d at the end of a word is a southern dialect thing. (And yes, I'm aware that I've used "soft" and "hard" here exactly opposit as it's commonly used, that is because I think t, k and p sound soft, while d, g and b have a harder popping sound in their pronunciation, so to me, the way soft and hard is commonly assigned to these consonants is just wrong).
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@Calphool222 Wow, you are really not used to that then! But hey, the hardest bread stuff you get in Spain, Italy, Croatia, France and other mediterranean countries is basically the croissant stuff (from my experience), which is again totally mushy on the inside and only the crust is hard. Plus, it's whiter as a Scandinavian in Winter, so it isn't really nutritious dough. In good German breads, the crust isn't as hard as on a croissant, but the inner part is much more chewy, heavier in density and therefore really gives you the feeling you've eaten something (which doesn't really happen with white bread, with a crispy crust or without). And no, I'm not referring to Pumpernickel, there are basically 50 thousand different shades, depending on what kind of flour has been used and which grains have been embedded. Some bread doughs even have something like sunflower seeds, linseed and shredded carrots in them, which is really tasty, and they are often based on rye flour sourdough or something like that - these are all things you don't know the first bit about! But they are really, really good. If you have bad teeth, you can for example cut off the crust and still have an inner part that a) keeps its shape, and b) gives you the feeling that you have actually eaten something.
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@prich0382 I've tried different mice of those that dont't have a red light that's visible to the naked eye, and with some of them, I could see it, and with others, there was just no chance. They are all cordless mice, so in order to save the battery, they will turn off the LED when not moved, however I also swiped my finger over the sensor, and didn't get the right angle immediately afterwards. Or does a cordless mouse actually receive a feedback from its USB dongle whether it is plugged in to a running computer (I thought their radio connection is just one-way), because the one that I've just tried and couldn't see anything has its USB dongle currently plugged into an empty Laptop dock, so it would not make a radio connection with anything. Could be that it didn't light up the LED due to that, but I'll see once there's a laptop docked to this workplace again.
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Darf ich einmal etwas konstruktive Kritik an Deinen Videos - oder zumindest an diesem - anbringen? Ich habe während des Anschauens die Lautstärke während Ihr beiden gesprochen habt, auf 75-80% hochgestellt, und immer wenn dann Musik kam, wurde ich davon fast erschlagen, und musste auf 1-5% runterdrehen, um dann, wenn wieder gesprochen wurde, schnell auf ~80% zu gehen, damit ich was verstehe. Leider machen das viele Youtuber (und - noch schlimmer - selbst Hollywood-Filme!), ist das irgendwie eine Mode oder so? Dass einem die Musik einen virtuellen Baseballschläger über die Rübe zieht, und die Sprache als so unwichtig(?) betrachtet wird, dass sie flüsterleise ist? OK, ich übertreibe etwas, aber das ist mein Kritikpunkt: Bitte schau doch mal, ob Du nicht beides auf ein gutes Niveau ausnivellieren kannst (Audio normalization), so dass der Unterschied da nicht mehr so gravierend (oder idealerweise überhaupt nicht mehr existent) ist. Danke!
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Except for the IP address (no VPN), I use all these measures fully "naturally", as a result of my understanding of how technology works. For example I recently bought a new Xiaomi phone, which needed some type of "waiting period" before the bootloader could be opened, and it also needed a Google account, so of course I created a new one which never gets used again, and didn't actually use the phone (except for reading ebooks, which I copied onto it locally and read with an app from f-droid), until I could finally unlock it and degoogle it so that it's now usable. I only use this google account, and I only use it in this PC browser (on different PCs though, but with the profile data copied from one machine to the othe), and I don't use anything else in this browser. Everything "not youtube" I do, I do on other browsers. I don't even go into this gmail account all that often (and if I do, of course I use this "youtube browser" for it). So the only thing I don't do is IP obfuscation through a VPN, basically because it's yet another level of complexity, having to decide when the VPN should be active and when it shouldn't, stopping email clients from downloading emails via POP3/IMAP while the VPN is active and stuff like that...
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We did have "regular" gas with 91 octane (RON) like your 97 (PON), but that was phased out some time in the 90s. Nowadays, above the 98RON fuels, which are called "Super Plus" and are the same at every gas station, the big brands like Shell, Esso (Exxon), BP/ARAL have their own brand names for ultra high grade fuel, so that will then be 100+ octane (it's got names like V-Power and stuff like that), I think the highest I've seen advertised was 102 octane. Although I don't know what the unit of the ocatne number actually is (if it's per cent, then anything above 100 wouldn't be possible), and therefore I can't really tell what it actually means.
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"Your Windows, your Mac or your Android" - so is this channel not for me? I've been using Linux since 2006, but not at a high knowledge level like a programmer - more like amateur admin level. For example, my avahi-daemon always sucked 100% of one of my CPU-cores, and when I disabled it via systemctl, it came back anyways! Therefore now I have masked the socket (although I don't even know what this means, it were just the commands I entered) and am now hoping that it won't respawn. But is this avahi-daemon sucking 100% of one CPU core already a hint of an intruder or malware? Because, I have actually found bug reports of other users on the internet who have experienced the same thing - albeit in a large LAN, while all I have here is one NAS, one debian home server and 2 mobile phones (one SailfishOS/one AOSP without Google), so not really a big network? Really strange...
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We don't have Acura in Germany, we only have Honda. I don't even think we have Infiniti here, but we definitely have Nissan. We do have Lexus though, in addition to Toyota. Škoda and SEAT are basically Volkswagens, so they are very similar. Opel hasn't been available in the US (and never will be), because it's been a GM brand until a few years ago, therefore they had a few models, but under other GM brand names (i.e. the Saturn Astra, which is basically an Opel Astra). I must also correct you about your notion that BMW isn't seen as a luxury brand in Germany. While that may be true for Munich, or possibly even a large-ish part of Bavaria, it's definitely considered a luxury brand for most of the rest of Germany (plus, the people driving BMWs are known to be the biggest jerks). OK, that was all that came to my mind. Probably all of it has been written before, so I don't even know why I bother commenting ;)
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As for upgrading the hardware, if you're not on spinning rust any more (which still is very fine for long-term storage of large amounts of data, like, if you're into the terabytes of stuff, I wouldn't recommend an SSD just yet, let them get cheaper first), there isn't really any need to update either - as long as you keep your software up to date, it all works fine. So on the aforementioned ThinkPads from 2011, I use a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS based Linux Mint (because I like the Cinnamon Desktop environment very much, and that's the only Ubuntu flavour that comes with it as a standard, so I don't have to bother installing and integrating it into the system), and when the next version of Mint comes out, which will be based on the 20.04 LTS Ubuntu, I will upgrade to it as well. Or I might change to LMDE, which is a rolling release, meaning never needing to upgrade the whole system ever again, because all the parts of it get upgraded gradually through the normal updates that you do anyways.
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My main phone runs on SailfishOS, which is a non-Android Linux OS, however in its licensed version (available for phones from the Sony open device program) it does have an Android VM called AlienDalvik, so it can run Android apps as well, but of course it doesn't come with any Google spyware.
I recently bought a new secondary phone, which is made by Xiaomi. Big disadvantage: I couldn't use the phone for a week or so, because I had to wait a certain time to unlock the bootloader (and it had to have a SIM card inserted and used mobile data - but it is certainly not the SIM that I'm going to be using in it afterwards). Also, the only available program to do that with runs on Windows, so I had to use a VirtualBox for that, since I only run Linux on my computers. But it eventually worked, and while the LineageOS fork called crDroid I'm currently running on the phone seems to be a little too uncritical (or unaware) of the Google spyware issue, it still provides me with a degoogled phone, and with apps like AFWall+ and AdAware, I can also block unwanted connections to hostnames from privacy invaders like Google or Facebook, since I'm not using any of their services (except Youtube on this one PC in this one browser only, which doesn't get used for anything else).
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Wow, Feli, das ist ja mal eine riiiieeeesseeeen Bildungslücke die Du da hast in Bezug auf Waldmeister! Nagut, bist ja auch ein Stadtkind... Ich bin auf dem Lande aufgewachsen in einem kleinen Dorf, und in meiner Kindheit sind wir um Anfang/Mitte April herum raus in den Wald gegangen und haben Waldmeister gesammelt! Das hieß auch "Maikraut". Wurde dann zusammen gebündelt, ein paar Tage getrocknet, und dann konnte man damit für die Erwachsenen Maibowle machen, und für die Kinder Waldmeister-Limonade, indem man es in klare Limo wie Sprite o.ä. reingehängt hat (wobei Sprite sich dazu nicht so gut eignet, weil es zu süß ist, aber es gibt ja genügend andere Zitronenlimonaden die so ähnlich sind und weniger süß). Irgendwann ging dann aber so ein "Gefahren-Hype" um, und dann wurde das unterbunden. Ich weiß nicht mehr, weswegen, ob es wegen Fuchsbandwürmern war, oder vielleicht sogar wegen Tschernobyl oder ähnliches, jedenfalls war das um die Zeit rum, ich war noch einige Jahre vom 10. Geburtstag weg....werde mich aber mal erkundigen, warum das auf einmal nicht mehr "ein Ding" war, denn eigentlich fand ich die Limo immer total lecker als kleines Kind...
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Robo9400 I don't know exactly how it is with OSX, since I am a Linux user and thus I know Linux. The ease of becoming root is basically the ease of typing "su -" (without the quotation marks) and the appropriate password. In OSX, I think there is a checkbox somewhere which is needed to enable this function first.
And yes, of course you have to know how a computer system works if you want to administrate it or go "deeper under the hood" in any way. Still, the fact that Windows does it make appear to be so easy is part of the problem why so many Windows users without a clue do stuff and break their systems and need it reinstalled.
As for "doing as much", if you are referring to the variety of apps, then you may be right, of course, since Windows unfortunately still is the most used desktop system. If you are referring to "power over the system", then you are wrong. With an Administrator's account on Windows, there are still certain limitations to what you can do and what you can't. On a Unix-like system, with root privileges, there are no limitations whatsoever, you could even physically break your machine if you were determined enough to do so. Which of course makes it necessary to know what you're doing, but then again, it's the same with any technology, you have to know what you're doing if you want to be a responsible user. Although, of course, the American focus on convenience, has diluted that fact to a mere minimum, it still stays a fact. You can get away with lots in a convenience oriented environment, but if you overdo it, you're really screwed, as in comparison to an environment that requires more responsibility, but in turn grants more freedoms as well.
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First of all, I think it's great that this concept is now adapted to become available with free software and open source operating systems as well, so while Microsoft has done it already, it was always practically useless because of Microsoft ;-) - I mean, if I have the choice between an awesome proprietary technology, or a slightly less awesome open source technology, I'll always chose the open one. Also, about full screen apps: Since the human mind is only capable to process one information at a time, is there any use in using windows besides each other, or that partially covering each other and so on? If I want to use one, I'll have to pull it up first anyways, so I don't really see the sense in having non-full-screen technologies.
With touch screens nowadays, I'm a bit annoyed about capacitive touch sensors, because they are less accurate, and especially on a smaller screen, you'd need to be more accurate than with an external graphical input device. So I loved using my N900 with resistive touch technology, or even the Palm Pilot in the 90s, but capacitive touch has always been more of a struggle than an actual user experience.
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Wow, these automatic transmissions are finnicky and sensitive suckers! Much easier to drive a stick (which are most of the cars over here in Germany, anyways - in fact, if you get your drivers license and have never learned to drive a stick, you're not allowed to do so for life, or until you retake the exam on a manual car). Although, in recent years, more and more automatic transmissions started appearing (not only the "classical" hydraulically actuated ones, but also CVTs or - very popular, unfortunately - those crappy, unreliable double clutch thingys. But yeah, I don't like any of those, even in city traffic, I don't mind operating the clutch and shifter by hand and foot).
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pH7oslo I see now that the P-series models have doubled the volume keys, once on F1-F4 and once above the num pad. But where the heck is the PrintScreen key?!? And I also miss the back/forward keys that are above the left/right arrow keys where there's PgUp/PgDn on the newer models, these keys are just missing, like PrintScreen. And the annoyance starts already by the printing on the keyboard being the "Fn-function" as big huge symbols in the center of the F1-F12 keys, and the actual key function only very tiny and in the corner. That's also the dysfunctional default setting, which you have to change in the BIOS in order to get the proper functionality back (but still keep the bad key markings). Yeah, I'm not liking the new keyboard layout one bit. It may be that the chicklet keyboards are better to type on, I can't judge that from experience (or due to lack thereof), but with that layout, I really am missing some keys there.
As for the touchpad, I completely agree, but since I am using Thinkpads (first IBM then Lenovo, I got my first one in 2008, which was an IBM T23 from 2002 back then, ancient but awesome build quality compared to Lenovos nowadays), I use the Trackpoint and am just loving it. Move the mouse with the index finger of your dominant hand, and click the buttons with the thumb of that same hand, all while not changing the position of your palms one bit - to me, that's a real feature I miss on every laptop that has no trackpoint.
As for the keyboard being off-center, I am not sure if I could live with that. I am using a T520, so it's got a 15" screen like the P50 has, but my keyboard is exactly centered. If anything, it's something you have to get used to, but I'm not sure if my spinal column wouldn't twist even more due to that.
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ray Yes, that's how it should work. But for it to be secure, also from MITM attacks which use a "foreign" root certificate to fake a cert for the site you're visiting, you'd need the information about the certificate from a different instance than the server you're visiting (and which may be redirected to the MITM). This could be implemented in DNS, so the DNS server doesn't only give you the IP belonging to the URL, but also which root CA signed the certificate, and the fingerprint of the cert the site is supposed to use. So that nobody can use "honest ali ca" to fake a valid certificate for your verisign signed site, because your browser knows the certificate is supposed to be signed by verisign and not by "honest ali ca". Something like that, anyways. Of course, this would only make it more difficult for an attacker to be a MITM (they would have to fake the DNS response as well), and not inherently safe. Still, until the whole concept has been reinvented in an inherently safe way, it would be an improvement.
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Wow, "practice driving stick" - that's so totally unusual over here, because most cars are manuals, in fact you have to pay extra if you order an automatic. And when we make our driver's license (which involves way, way more learning and testing than it does in the US!), we automatically learn how to drive manual. I think there are a few driving schools that have an automatic car as well, but if you learn to drive on that, it will be marked in your license that you're only allowed to drive automatic cars, which is usually not done, only for people that have a physical condition which requires them to drive an automatic.
(Abnd yes, driving schools are actual businesses here, and it's not cheap to make that license, especially when you've gotta repeat a test, which means repeating certain mandatory lessons as well...)
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Kandi Gloss Because they aren't so insane, and also have some base, even if it's just in rumor (well, of course it is, if they made anything public, it wouldn't go well for them). But OK, now you may bring the political catchword 'conspiracy theory' in order to discredit anything I say. I rest my case, and keep my opinion, because, well, it's mine to keep (and express).
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***** I was speaking hypothetical, at least for me. And, a decent laptop is not a consumer grade machine. Decent laptops are only available in the "business customer" range of any manufacturer, starting around 1300€ or so. I personally am a dedicated user of Lenovo Thinkpads, but I use the older, more affordable models, which serve me quite well (T400, X61 etc).
Dual Boot however is preposterous, because while in Windows, I wouldn't be able to use my computer in any decent manner. So why would I want to boot into Windows...
And no, WINE Is Not An Emulator.
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There is also the question of how much computing power we actually need. I mean, most applications hardly use all that power which hardware provides nowadays. Sure, there are always areas where you can't get enough computing power, like cracking encryption codes or realtime rendering a photorealistic 3d environment, but these are not the things that "Joe Average" would use nor need on their desktop PC, laptop or tablet computer. So basically, for the normal standard usage (except gaming of course, but that's one of those special applications I mentioned above), PCs that are 5 years old and older most of the time are very much powerful enough, and even a machine that is 10 years or older can still be of some decent use for lots of things to do. That wasn't the case in the year 2000, when a 10 year old PC was practically useless for most things you might want to do with a computer. My oldest PC I'm currently using is a P3 from 1999. OK, it serves only as a print server in my wireless local network, but it is set up to be able to use the www as well, although it is dead slow if one would actually try that (even with the now 4 year old Xubuntu 10.04LTS on it).
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I'd really love to hear more about the subject of artificial intelligence by Professor Brailsford. I think, if the machines and the AI programs just get complex enough by becoming powerful enough (in calculations per time), so they can closely approximate the human ambiguity, while being programmed with the knowledge about the world, it should be possible to create something that talks and responds almost like a human being. Of course, like with the travelling salesman problem, there will be this 5% of error margin, but I think that is also something which can be reduced to "good enough" by other clever algorithms for pattern recognition. There is so much in the human mind that works based on pattern recognition, and if we have machines with enough layers of pattern recognition connected to the actual "processing engine", it will be possible to closely approximate a human being. Maybe nowadays, we still need the power of several mainframes for that, so it is still impractical, but as always, technology progresses and will provide more computational power on less space and energy consumption. So, in order to fool an average human being, it would not be necessary to understand any quantum effects in the brain that are possibly there (or maybe not). In the end, I think, we may even find out that there cannot be something like a perfectly conclusive Turing test (if that isn't an accepted fact already). Professor Brailsford, please talk more about this subject!
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Actually, the AC alone doesn't do enough to remove the water (of which I love your pronunciation BTW, funny accent! where's it from?) out of the air. So when you use the AC you should also crank up the heat. Because what the AC does is basically dry the air so there is no water left in it. But then, hot air can absorb a lot more water than cold one, so the AC alone just gives you cold, dry air, while heat + AC gives you hot, dry air which really absorbs a hell a lot more of water from any surface it touches (like the windows). I notice that when my hygrometer in my apartment shows me levels of moisture of 80% or more on hot summer days, but in cold winter days (below 0°C), when I have to heat the apartment, it goes down to 20-30%, so I have to have something to moisturize the air in order not to get a sore throat. It's basically all the beloved physics :-)
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I'm really excited to see what price you're going to negotiate, and if you're going to show the owner the pages you've printed out (like the one with the correct year, and the two estimates of value). Because, basically, he is not going below 2 grand, and one site valued it between 2,000 and 2,800, while the other site valued it between 1,000 and 1,500, which would be half than what he's asking - or even less. In the video you said "between 1 and 2 grand", but that would mean the buyer had to knock 30% off his asking price. I will bet that you get it for 2,500$.
Here in Germany, there's a centralized list of what cars in good or average value are worth - but it only gos down to the last 10 years or so, for reasons unknown to me. Also, cars are in much better condition generally (almost nobody drives around with a check engine light and doesn't at least have an appointment scheduled to have it fixed). Plus, if the tires are below the minimum mark (of I think 4mm), the car can easily be pulled off the road by the police - than you'll need a tow truck (a flat bed - because the tires aren't allowed to roll in traffic!) to get it home, and you'd be better off to have it transported to a shop instead, because you wouldn't be allowed to drive there, and you have a number of days to show them you fixed it, or else they just take your plates away (or something similar) so you can't drive it any more.
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Thank you Chris for making these awesome videos, and for being so positive in them all the time! They really are a blast to watch, and I am happy that you'll keep making them! :)
Have a happy new year and all the best to you and your family!
As for my "biggest accomplishment", it's to finally own a car again (which I wouldn't really need, living in a big city with a great public transport system and owning a scooter as well). It's nothing fancy, a really small station wagon (because of practicality) from 1999, which I bought for 600€ (completely rust-free), I have put in another 1400, and now it's safetied and runs well... Next up, it needs a new clutch (which is another 400) and possibly a starter (for about 150), but hey, that's how it goes, and owning a car again is really giving me a feeling of personal freedom that I've missed during the years without one. And while I am not mechanically inclined (I'm more of a fine motor skills type of person, not so good with all the stuff where you need elbow grease), I am happy and blessed to have a friend who works at a shop, so I pay a lot less than I would if I had someone else fix it for me (after all, I fix his computers, so it's a "one hand washes the other" type of deal).
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HumbleMechanic Oh, I see. Well, due to strong regulations, we don't have that much of this here in Germany. For example you can't just use any part that fits, it has to have an operating permit (often for the exact make and model of the vehicle). That doesn't mean there aren't cheap parts that are useless, just that "real hack jobs" (like replacing the exhaust with a straight pipe right from the manifold, or putting any lights on the vehicle and so on) are very rare here, and they last 2 years at most, because after 2 years there's a mandatory safety ínspection for every vehicle, and they check everything. As soon as a dashboard light is on, it won't pass, and so on.
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I have a different story: My car won't start every time, and when it doesn't, it doesn't even make a clicking sund. It turns out that it's the contact in the key switch that is worn out a bit. So whenever it doesn't start, I just turn it off, rattle the key a bit, and it will start without a problem afterwards! The fix is quite cheap, but first things first... (I need a new battery, maybe a new alternator, or at least a regulator, and possibly even more, maybe an ignition coil).
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Nowadays, this question "Mac or PC" doesn't go far enough. This duality of those two doesn't fully cover today's situation in the desktop computing world. First of all, a Mac is also a PC as in it is the same hardware. Then, it comes down to the operating system, but when I'm asked which machine I use, I would have to say PC and would be offended by people thinking I'm a Windows user, because I am not. But you can install Windows, Linux and MacOS both on a Mac or on a PC (although with MacOS, it's quite a bit more of a hassle, since it was never designed to work with non-Apple hardware). So basically, while a Mac is still the combination of Apple hardware and the Apple OS, it does not necessarily need to be. There are people running Windows or Linux on their Macs, just because they like the hardware. And on the other hand, the equation of PC = Windows is a thing of the 80s, maybe the 90s as well. But at least since 10 years or so, I consider it outrageous to associate PCs with the Windows (operation-preventing) system (since Windows is not really to be considered an OS, but more of an OPS). So this duality is at least a trinity of which Software you use: Windows(yuck!), Linux or MacOS. And then there is another dimension to it, because now you'd have to ask which hardware people use: Apple PCs, or other PCs. Then again, reducing the "everything but Apple" to "other" also doesn't go far enough. Yes, I use PCs, but I despise Windows, so I would never use it. And of the PCs I use, 100% are IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, because there is nothing better than that. But do you ask "Mac, Thinkpad or other PC?" - no you don't. And it wouldn't be right, because then you'd have to ask "Mac, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, or other PC?", which doesn't go far enough either, since there are so many more makes of PCs out there, although not many quite as distinguished as a Dell, HP, Lenovo or Apple machine. And for the desktop users, there is a great number of people who build their machine from scratch, buying every single component and assembling it themselves. Also, what about multi boot users? If I were playing computer games with sophisticated graphics, I would probably use Windows as a Game loader, but I would never even think of daring to dream about using Windows for anything critical, like going on the internet, buying stuff online or do banking over the internet, and so on, so I would certainly have at least one Linux OS on my PC even if I were a gamer and thus unfortunately needed Windows.
And so on, and so forth...I think you get my point.
Please, put those questions in a more realistic way so they are appropriate to today's situation in the personal computing world!
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deltaxcd The ability to tell if another human actually feels emotions is called empathy. That's something one would have to teach a machine as well (but I guess, without actual emotions, empathy is impossible, too).
Also, while I am not proposing anything, all the purely scientific explanations of what emotions are (or, of what consciousness is - while in my opinion, a certain level of consciousness is necessary in order to feel emotions) somehow leave me with more questions than answers. They explain this stuff just "too easy". As if you were to explain someone how a PC worked by showing them just the GUI and not explaining the inner workings (like data storage, files/directory trees/filetypes, programs being executed etc), if you get what I mean.
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These problems started a long time ago and if you were into cars, you could see them coming. I recently bought myself a used car again: It's from 1999, and it already has electronics in it, more than you would like: The heater/fan (no AC) is controlled via push buttons for the heater and fan speed, with an LCD display (one of the older ones, monochrome, like in an 80s Casio watch), and it doesn't show every segment any more. You can still use it, but you still have to take your eyes off the road to see at what level you are (with a small round bar from cold to hot). Then, there was some drain inside the engine bay that was clogged with leafs, and I drove after heavy rain, and the ECU got an "unreasonable signal" from the throttle sensor, so the engine went into emergency mode so that I could only pull to the side of the road and call a tow truck. This all in a 17 year old car (admitted, it comes from VW, they were always among the first to implement technology like that), so I am glad it's not much newer, since then it would be even worse.
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What you said about the Volvo, this brings another dimension to the whole test: Since you don't know how well maintained the parttaking vehicles are, so how much the additive cleaned the fuel system, the increase in fuel economy is only circumstantial. Also, considering that your Vette didn't gain any: Well, you're a guy who loves his cars and takes very good care of them, so they are always well maintained, which also includes clean fuel systems. So the additive has nothing to clean, thus no increase in fuel economy. Then, there are people who don't care much about their cars, so they lack maintenance, which also means their fuel systems have more stuff in them for the additive to clean out.
I know, it's totally unrealistic, but in order to be really representative, this test would have to be done with all new cars. Or every car being in the same state of maintenance (i.e. clean fuel system first).
Just a thought about the whole thing. I still like that you do this stuff, and honestly want to find true results. Then it's just something to consider.
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ChrisFix I agree, especially on how hard it is to actually get all those people together and do this test. However, I think the sample size is still too small in order to compensate for all these variables, so it is not that conclusive. However, since it is already great what you did (and was not easy as well), doing a test with a sufficient sample size (I am thinking about at least 100 drivers, or better 300 - however, this is just a gut feeling, since I don't know enough of my statistics to accurately calculate this) is practically impossible for a single person. But then, if the marketing department of such a fuel additive did do this test, it wouldn't be believable any more. I guess I'll be happy with hat I got here...
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Eisi Kater Yes, well, stereo tubes weren't very common back then, either - I remember only having had those where you could switch from channel A to channel B in my childhood. They had one speaker, and that was it.
However: Nowadays in the digital age, it therefore is way, way, waaay more easy. In fact, it's so easy that if TV stations don't decide to include the original audio as one track of choice, they should make a law that makes including the original audio track mandatory, at least as an option. While I can't listen to voice actors sitting in their audio booth recording something they can never get right, I don't want to take away people's right to watch a rough approximation of the original production, but in a language they can understand, but I also don't want to be deprived of that same right: To chose the original audio whenever I understand the language it is in.
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Mike, Ghostery is fine, but if you really want to have control over what the websites you're visiting do with your computer, I'd recommend tools like uBlock Origin, uMatrix (which is awesome!), NoScript and of course self-destructing cookies. RequestPolicy however is obsolete if you set up the "u-Addons" (uBlock/uMatrix) accordingly, because they can be set up in such a way that no cross-site-requests are being followed. Of course, most websites don't work in that setting, but then you can allow individual FQDNs (in uBlock Origin) and what is allowed to be loaded from an individual FQDN (in uMatrix), and in such a way websites can display their content, but don't execute the script that is intended to detect a tracking blocker, and so on.
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Henrik Sommerland Yes, of course. And if you're programming a small µC, it will be the "language" of choice, but try doing this with a modern day's personal computer program (I mean any kind of personal computer, even your TV is one now, as is your phone etc.), where you have APIs and stuff - nobody would want to do this, especially since it's almost impossible to produce a programm that is smaller than 1kB and still does something on the computer. Even as soon as you'd have to integrate any "external" library, you'd be in for a ride.... It would just take so much longer and be so much more inefficient. Although, of course, you could always use it to modify an existing program. But hell, even when we changed the string "Start" in Windows95's "explorer.exe" into "F*ck!" with a Hex editor, this wasn't machine code! ;-)
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With IBM compatible PCs, there was actually a time when much more stuff sat on (e)ISA or VLB or PCI extension cards. For example, my first 386 had an ISA card for the hard disk controller and for the graphics card, and then I upgraded it with 2 more cards, one was a sound card, the other was a CD-ROM drive controller card. The next generation of PCs included the IDE hard disk and CD-ROM controllers on the motherboard, but the graphics card, sound card and network card were still cards on the VLB or PCI bus. Later on, the sound card wandered onto the motherboard as well, as did the network card. And a bit later, even the graphics card got there. So now there is a motherboard which has 4 functions integrated that were separate before. I think this trend will continue as well.
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I've had the EPC light come on a couple weeks ago. The brake pedal switch was corroded (that's what the error code said), so we tried reworking it and it worked for a while, with the light coming on only a few times, but with a hard push on the brakes, it always went out again. But then it came on for good, so all I could do was to replace the switch. No biggy, a 12€ part and almost no tools required to replace it. But I keep asking myself: Where does the water come from that corroded the old switch that much??? I don't have any holes in my body, in fact it's practically rust-free, so how can a switch that sits by the pedals, on the inside of the car, under the dash, get wet and start to corrode??
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The first computer I used was the Commodore SX-64, the "portable" version of the C-64, it was also used for playing games.. The first computer I owned was a 386, upgraded from being a 286 earlier. It was an AMD 386-DX 40MHz with 4MB RAM and a 120MB hard drive. Was quite the machine back then, and I upgraded it with a cheap knockoff soundblaster compatible card that never worked right for MIDI in games, and a single speed CD-ROM drive (back when you could either hook the drive up to the sound card or plug in a separate controller for it, which came with the drive). The first computer I actually completely bought by myself was a Pentium 90MHz, with 16MB RAM and a 850MB hard drive, a couple of years later. And because that old "Mozart" sound card in the 386 was so crappy, I actually bought a SoundBlaster AWE-32 sound card, which was a full length 32-bit ISA card, a really big board.
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Hey Gerolf, cool, Dich hier zu treffen! :-) - Ja, ich finde das auch toll, aber das Thema muss viel tiefer in die Köpfe der Menschen hinein! Die müssen alle erst mal ans Reparieren denken, bevor sie ans Neukaufen denken! Und ich könnte mir sogar vorstellen, dass das wieder zu einem eigenen Wirtschaftszweig werden kann bzw. sollte - Reparaturwerkstätten für Geräte aller Art. So wie es früher noch Radio- und Fernsehtechniker gab, die solche Geräte repariert haben, nur halt für alles, was irgendwie elektronisch oder elektrisch ist. So lange, bis es völlig natürlich ist, sich eher für ein reparierbares Gerät zu entscheiden, als für eines, was man nicht reparieren kann.
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@hansbrix2495 I actually know of no Greek fast food place, so I wouldn't even know what bread Gyros is put into. I know that Arabs use much thinner bread for their Shawarma (a bit like the Dürüm roll at the Turkish Döner place), but they have the better Fallafel instead. As for Gyros, I only know it from real restaurants (the stuff that isn't open any more right now due to the pandemic), and there it is served on a plate. It is also spiced very much different than any Döner - or even Shawarma - meat, so for me those two aren't really comparable, or the comparison ends at a rough similarity of the texture of the meat, but then again, not even that really...
Anyways, if you come to Berlin, I'll show you the best Yabrak Döner there is in the whole city! :-)
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Also ich habe durch dieses Video keinen großen Erkenntnisgewinn erlangt, muss ich leider sagen. Und das, obwohl es mir der Algorithmus von Youtube empfohlen hat, wahrscheinlich weil ich in die "Datenschutzkritische" Kategorie eingeordnet wurde. Trotzdem steht eines fest: Diese Unternehmen sind nicht vertrauenswürdig, und werden es auch nie sein. Mit Facebook und deren Sub-Diensten (Whatsapp, Instagram etc) habe ich nichts am Hut. Die Anfragen zu deren Servern werden bei mir auch so gut wie überall geblockt. Google als Suchmaschine nutze ich nur in einem Browser, dessen Session nicht bei Google eingeloggt ist (außer, wenn ich was für einen YT-Kommentar suche, dann nutze ich dafür natürlich den dedizierten Youtube-Browser, sonst ließe sich das ja wieder einander zuordnen). Cookies werden sowieso alle 24h automatisch gelöscht, und ebenso beim Schließen des Browsers/Tabs. Außer im Youtube-Browser, aber der wird halt auch nur für Youtube genutzt.
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Früher habe ich es so gemacht, dass meine Smartphones immer Wegwerf-Google-Accounts hatten. Inzwischen nutze ich aber gar keine Stock-Android-Smartphones mehr (Apple sowieso nicht, ist mir zu teuer bzw. zu sehr "goldener Käfig"), sondern so schöne Sachen wie SailfishOS, wo man ein normales Linux (mit schickem GUI) auf dem Handy hat, wie auch auf jedem vernünftigen PC. Oder eben ein Custom-ROM wie LineageOS oder das darauf basierende /e/ (e.foundation), und da natürlich komplett ohne gapps, Google-Dienste oder Playstore und das ganze Schnüffel-Framework von Google. Funktioniert wunderbar. Phantomvibrationen habe ich nicht, aber ich glaube manchmal, den Klingelton meines Handys zu hören, aber da stellt es sich immer heraus, dass irgendwelche Stadtgeräusche halt zufällig einen oder zwei Töne derselben Tonhöhe, wie mein Handy-Klingelton, enthielten. Durch genaueres Hinhören erkenne ich das idR, ohne mein Handy dafür rausholen zu müssen. Es passiert mir auch nur, wenn ich draußen in der Stadt bin und irgendwas lärmendes in meiner Nähe ist, wie eine Straßenbahn oder Baustelle oder so.
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Okay, das war alles, was ich niemals übers Oktoberfest wissen wollte! ;-)
Nein, ehrlich, für mich als Nichtbayern klingt das wie ein absoluter Horror, und ich glaube, ich würde niemals freiwillig dort hingehen wollen. Okay, außer vielleicht wenn Du dabei wärst ;) aber grundsätzlich ist das einzige, was bisher daran attraktiv klang, die Käsespätzle, und die gibts bestimmt auch anderswo.
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I agree about electric, and probably also autonomous, but I can't go along with shared. I want my car, not only individualized in all the electronic settings that suit me, but also with all the stuff I have in the interior, I want to take with me, even something simple as an umbrella (which would easily be stolen if it came with a shared vehicle). So while I'd love to have an electric car (preferrably one that is able to drive 500km for trips I take once or twice a year), I'd also want to own that car myself, and have noone drive it - or at least noone I don't know and trust. autonomous shared vehicles may provide a form of individual mass public transport and therefore may be helpful in a city, but not for longer trips or even trips that go outside the city. And if you have a commute of 25km, of which are 23km within the city limits, but 2km aren't, then you wouldn't be able to use one of these cars, which would be kinda stupid.
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Oh, here, my car is a total beater! I mean, everything works on it, but it looks just nasty. I never clean it on the outside (just because I don't see the sense in it), and it does have accident damage on the right rear side where the rear door is dented in and then bondo was smeared onto it, and they even put some primer on it, but never painted it over with the original color. This was done by the previous owner. I just had the wheel arch protected from rust (with Rostschutz in yet another color) so that it wouldn't get worse, but other than that, I don't have any problem with just leaving it like that. Otherwise, it's all pretty scratched and dinged up. But I love it, because it's my car and it's the car I can afford (owning a car in the USA is much cheaper than here in Germany, as you may know). Dem TÜV muss ich dann immer sagen: "Außen pfui, innen hui", und wenn er sich es dann genau angeschaut hat, sieht er, dass es doch völlig in Ordnung ist, nur halt nicht so aussieht ;-)
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Hmm. Irgendwie hatte ich bei dem Video die ganze Zeit das Gefühl, da kommt noch was. Der Punkt, der gemacht werden soll, kommt bestimmt noch! Ach, jetzt kommt erst der Sponsor, aber danach geht es bestimmt noch weiter, und dann kommt der Casus Cnacsus. Aber nein - nix da, das Video war zuende. Und was ist für mich davon geblieben? "Brücken sind toll" - ja, gut, das weiß ich... Schade auch, dass kein einziger Ausschnitt aus dem berühmten Video des Brücken-Fails (ich glaube aus den 40er Jahren in den USA) zu sehen war, wo die ganze Brücke von links nach rechts und zurück wabbelt. Und von den Megapendeln in der erdbebensicheren Brücke hätte ich auch gerne mehr gesehen. Und wie behebt man den Schaden, wenn sich Brückenpfeiler zueinander verschoben haben? Alles sehr interessant, wie ich finde - aber leider kaum im Video behandelt, sondern nur mal eben kurz erwähnt.
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Wow, I find it really hard to be asked about my dream car. I mean, there are so many great cars, and they serve so many different purposes, for example a truck vs a sports car, and so I don't have only one single dream car. But if I had to chose one that I'd want to daily drive, it would be an electric car, maybe a Tesla S or 3 (although they don't have a sunroof, so that's a big bummer), or maybe this EV from Jaguar that is so freaking expensive, lol.
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Huch, das Video war aber abrupt zuende. Naja, wie auch immer, ich finde eine dezentrale Infrastruktur am sinnvollsten. Also jedes Haus mit Solarzellen auf dem Dach sollte auch eine entsprechend ausreichend dimensionierte Speichermöglichkeit haben, LiFePO4-Akkus bieten sich hierfür wunderbar an, weil sie leistungsstark und vor allem sicher sind (i.Ggs. zu LiPo-/Li-Ion-Akkus). Ein netter Nebeneffekt wäre noch, dass man das Stromnetz massiv entlasten würde, wenn jedes Haus erst mal seinen eigenen Strom verbrauchen würde, und nur bei Bedarf einspeisen würde - aber halt dann aufgeteilt auf hunderte, tausende Haushalte, von denen jeweils immer nur ein kleines Bisschen an Strom eingespeist wird. Natürlich sind da elektrotechnisch noch einige Hürden zu nehmen, aber es würde die Infrastruktur halt viel robuster gegenüber Ausfällen machen, Blackouts wären praktisch immer nur lokal begrenzt, oder gar nicht vorhanden (bzw. wenn, dann würden sie sich halt auf das Netz beziehen, mit dem jedes Haus als Insel miteinander verbunden ist, aber die Inseln als solches würden darunter nicht leiden bzw. könnten alleine weiter funktionieren).
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@volldillo I can understand that and partially, I'm doing similar things. However, for me it is important that they don't associate i.e. this account with my real identity. As for ads, I just leave them off, no use in checking this. Also, there are other data collectors i.e. Amazon which are to also be vigilant about (for example what you order, just use it to order stuff for other people as well, but also basically any website that uses AWS servers for their service). It's all really complex, and I'm not even sure it's possible to not have these despicable surveillance corporations generate a personality profile of you, based upon which they would be easily able to manipulate you, i.e. your choice of voting (or whether to vote or not), as Cambridge Analytica did. So these corporations are inherently undemocratic, and that's a huge problem we have (as a global society - well, maybe except countries like China where there never was any democracy in the first place).
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@FelifromGermany Wow, jetzt fühle ich mich geehrt, eine Antwort zu bekommen, und dann ist es eine Rechtfertigung ;-) - Nagut, alles OK. Meine Kritik war nicht als Angriff gemeint, ich konnte es ja auch abspielen, aber hab halt Lautsprecher am Laptop hängen, und da war mir persönlich die Musik etwas zu laut. Geht mir aber wie gesagt öfters so, von daher kannst Du das auch als hint nehmen, dass das Problem vielleicht eher meins ist, als eines der Mehrheit ;) - wie auch immer, keep doing the cool, interesting and often cute videos that you do and I'll be looking forward to watch them in the future. All is good, and have a nice sunday in Ohio! Grüße aus Berlin!
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@FelifromGermany RSS Feed für AntennaPod reicht mir, vielen Dank. Ich nutze praktisch keine porprietären Dienste, und schon gar nicht auf dem Handy, da ist alles "entgooglet" (und Apple-Kunde war ich eh noch nie, auch wenn ich heute gerne so einen alten "Würfel-Mac" aus meiner Kindheit hätte, aber die sind ja inzwischen gefragte Sammlerstücke, und haben zugleich keinen praktischen Anwendungszweck mehr - huch, jetzt bin ich doch wieder an der Tangente abgerutscht, egal). Aber der RSS Link steht ja auf Eurer Website, und damit seid Ihr dann auch auffindbar. Noch ein Tipp auf der technischen Ebene: Die erste Episode ist nur 55 Minuten lang, aber trotzdem 126MB groß. Wahrscheinlich in .mp3 encoded, wenn Ihr dafür .opus nehmt, kommt Ihr locker auf die Hälfte für dieselbe Spielzeit und Qualität. Selbst .ogg wäre noch sparsamer, als MP3. Ist vielleicht irgendwann mal wichtig, wenn ihr viele Abonnenten und Episoden habt und für die übertragenen Daten von Euerm Server zahlen müsst ;-)
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@crimestoppers1877 I know about LFS, but I've never seen the necessity to go throuh with it - it would be an intense learning experience, I'm sure, but on the other hand, I'm also certain that it wouldn't really serve me all that much. As for the rest, I already stated that I'm happy with the distro I use, and while I could run virtual machines to try others out, I don't see any use in that either - the computer has become more and more a tool for me, and as long as it works as I want it to, I don't need any changes, so I'll stick with what I have and what serves me best. Thanks for the encouragement anyways.
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Also, biometric markers, no matter if it's a fingerprint, a face image, voice print or gait recognition, are never useful as an authenticator - because an authenticator (as in "your password") must have the ability to be changed, but you can't change your biometric markers. Which makes them useful only as the identifyier, that is the "user name" part of the authentication process. So if you swipe your finger or hold your face into a camera, and it recognizes who you are and then asks you for authentification (no matter how many factors), that would be acceptable for a service that is allowed to know you real identity. However, if it knows who wants to log in and then uses your biometric marker to log you in automatically, that is just stupidly unsafe. And yes, we all do it - I even installed fingerprint-gui on my laptop as a convenience feature, instead of having to type my password for every time I want to sudo something. But that works only locally, not over the interent.
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@BreakingLab Naja, wenn man verschiedene Browser nutzt, können das auch unterschiedliche Nutzer auf unterschiedlichen oder demselben Gerät(en) sein. Dann sind die Cookies nämlich nicht mehr vorhanden, d.h. es wird keinem Konto zugeordnet, bzw. kann nicht zweifelsfrei zugeordnet werden - lediglich der IP, und ob dahinter einer, zwei oder zwanzig Personen sitzen, ist zumindest auf diese Weise nicht beweisbar. Aber stimmt schon, Google sollte man eigentlich nur über TOR benutzen ;-P - ansonsten suche ich natürlich mit duckduckgo, da gibts das alles gar nicht. Und auch sämtliche Mobilgeräte haben keine Google Dienste, kein Android oder iOS, sondern Alternativen (z.T. europäische wie SailfishOS). Ich würde sagen, mein Youtube-Konto (nur in einem Browser auf nur einem Gerät) ist der meiste Kontakt, den Google mit "mir" bzw. meinen Daten oder meinem Persönlichkeitsprofil hat. Das ist zwar auch da schon kein schönes Gefühl, aber durch kognitive Dissonanz blende ich das eben aus...
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@DerekDavis213 I used Windows 3.0, 3.11, 95, 98SE, NT4.0 and 2K. Didn't even switch to XP, because every new version hid what was truely going on in the PC a bit better from the user. In 2006, I stopped using Windows, and I'm happy that now I have an OS that gives me all access, and which doesn't use GUI to obscure knowledge about how computers work. I think this is geared deliberately towards "dumbing down" its users, because that way, users can be more easily incapacitated from doing what they want with their machines, I reference the 2013 talk "The coming war on general computation" (or something like that) by Cory Doctorow. Granted, I have to chose which hardware I buy with regards of Linux compatibility, but that hasn't ever really limited me in what I can do. Plus, I just don't like the way of thinking you need to apply in order to operate a Windows machine - starting with small things like drive letters or mouse-wheel-scrolling not happening where the mouse cursor is located, but instead in the window which has the focus. But also that you basically learn "click orders" in order to achieve certain things (mostly administrative in nature), instead of learning how the system really works. In contrast to that, I'm really happy with a system that's totally open to me as the user in regards of its intrecate functionalities, so it's all logically comprehensible, while with Windows, it often isn't. Starting with, again, little things, like how Microsoft calls their Linux-subsystem for Windows the wrong way, thex call it Windows-Subsystem for Linux, when in fact, it's a Linux-Subsystem for Windows. They've got their thinking all twisted around somehow, and it shows in so many more places, not just what I've listed as examples here. So basically, let's say: I don't like it, I don't like using it, I don't like having to download software programs from some potentially shady website, I don't like how they all don't update through the system update functionality, I don't like how there's no shared library system, I don't like how you need antivirus stuff and how they don't even show filename extensions by default, making inept users click on a malicious file "file.pdf.exe" with an Acrobat reader icon, and how this file automatically has the right to be executed.
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@DerekDavis213 I agree with your opinion about Macs, but let me give you an example of your initial question: Windows showed the "Desktop" as the uppermost level of its file hierarchy, while in truth it was first bureid under "C:\DOKUME~1\...." etc and now it's buried under "C:\Users\....something" - it's just an utter lie, how they structure even the most basic structure of their GUI. These are things that Android is by the way also guilty of, like often making it overly difficult to find out the real path to a file, when only showing it in an app, so you can view/open the file, but can't actually use it (as in copying it or doing whatever with it), these are things that just aren't necessary and are only there in order to make it harder for the user. Hiding the concepts of basic operation so that the user doesn't learn anything, and then doesn't even know how to help themselves often with the most simple things.
And then there's stuff where Windows could just be better, but it isn't being used, like the file privileges of NTFS and stuff.
And no, I don't have any "bugs of day-to-day-use" in Linux. Or at least none that I didn't chose (i.e. I connect to my Synology via sshfs instead of SMB, because why use a non-native protocol, and there my file manager actually has a rare bug if reconnecting when the machine went into S3 and woke up again without properly unmounting the sshfs connection, but I know that and it's easily worked around, and it doesn't even occur daily). Also, I have set up several PCs for friends, some of which use Windows (i.e. because they need special software that only runs on Windows), and others were okay with Linux. The funny thing is: Most of the time, when one of these friends calls me because something about their computer doesn't work the way they want it to, it's those who run Windows, while those who run Linux usually don't have any problems, because their computer just works. OK, these are all people who really don't know anything about computers, so they don't even change anything about their systems or install new software, they mostly just use a browser, LibreOffice or MS Office, and that's about it. Here I can clearly see that, if Linux is set up right once, it'll run for years without ever having any problems, except clicking to install updates every couple days. With Windows, it's most of the time the case that after a certain amount of years, it'll need to be reinstalled, or "cleaned" as in removing malware/adware or other crap that has been added through their use of the internet, clicking on stuff not knowing what they do. So in a way, in order to use Windows effectively and not slowly break it along the way, you have to be much more knowledgable than with Linux.
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Kate says she uses Google Maps on occasion because in those cases, it is important to her to get from A to B as efficiently as possible - here, I'd like to ask if she doesn't feel corrupted by the convenience of it, sharing her data for the "price" of getting from A to B quickly? I mean, it's basically that - one is willng to compromise one's privacy because one gets some kind of benefit out of it. I know many people don't think about it that way, but Kate sounds like she does, so it would really be interesting if, in those cases where she uses Google Maps, she is at least a slight bit uncomfortable, or at least dissatisfied with the situation as it is?
I think all this tracking and data gathering will end up in some type of corporate totalitarianism, and that scares the hell out of me.
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Also, the naming conventions are different in different countries. In Europe, we've had GSM which was 2G (later enhanced for data rates above 9600baud with GPRS first and then EDGE). Previously, so the "1G" were basically national solutions that weren't commercialized, since telephone networks were state-owned until the 80s/90s. So in Germany, we've had three networks before "2G": A-, B- and C-Netz. The first one (from the 60s) was with a manual operator to patch you through, the second one (from the 70s) already used normal dialing, but the caller had to know the prefix of the cell tower to which the car you wanted to call was connected. Because they were all car phones, they took up to half the trunk space of a full-size sedan like a Mercedes S-Class, and if the phone didn't turn off 30 minutes after the engine was off, the car battery was drained on the next day. Anyways, the 3rd network from the 80s was still analog, but it actually implemented cell handover for the first time, so this was a huge advantage. And then, GSM started in 1991 (and would later be called "2G"), while the CDMA-based UMTS network (with totally different frequencies as the CDMA networks in the US) started around 2000, and was used until 4G or LTE had come in some time in the early 2010s. Now, they're talking 5G, but they don't call it LTE any more, so only the tech-savvy know that it's basically the same technology, just with a few enhancements and different frequencies.
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Zugriffszeit und Schreibgeschwindigkeit sind ein echtes Problem. Ein EB pro mm³ ist zwar eine nette Zahl, aber wenn Du zum Schreiben der Daten mehrere Tage brauchst (und dazu kommt noch die Zeit in Thermocycler um die nötige Redundanz zu schaffen), und dann zum lesen auch wieder halbe Ewigkeiten, dann ist das einfach nichts, wo man aktuell genutzte Daten darauf speichern will. Aber klar, wenn man einmal das gesamte Internet runterlädt und in so einen Literbeutel verpackt, dann ist das ein lustiger Symbolwert. Und wenn dann Archäologen der fernen Zukunft das finden (und es auch entschlüsseln können, d.h. wissen, was DNA ist und wie sie funktioniert, sowie wie man sie sequenzieren und lesen kann), werden die sich nur an den Kopf greifen. "Und dafür haben die einen Liter wertvollen Raums verschenkt?" werden die sich sagen! ;-)
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@publicvoidmain That's a point you can have, but then for you, being a software engineer is just a job, you could just as well do gardening for a living (or anything else). I've grown up with computers, and I like understanding them while I use them. It's a much more intrinsic approach than yours (not saying one is better or worse than the other), and I generally never appreciate it if the computer tries to take some thinking away from me, autocorrect is a prominent example for that, I always turn it off completely. Also, with understanding comes control over the machine, and that's another intrinsic thing I like to have. Which of course makes it hard to use modern online services that have the loss of control by the user built into themselves in a hard-wired fashion. I could also never use a stock ROM on my phone, because it neither allows me to gain root privileges, nor allows it for the whole spyware to be removed, so I would never store any personal data on it. I like my sovereignty, and I don't like it being taken away by machines that were designed by technocrats.
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@publicvoidmain The trust - that's the difference: I am not laid out to trust any corporation, this just isn't possible for me. So therefore I'd rather trust a programmer whose personal reputation is on the line for maliciously inserting unwanted code into their software (and nobody doesn't make any mistakes, so that's something which gets fixed much sooner in an open source project than in any commercial product where the manufacturer first has to calculate the cost of the fix and then to decide whether it's worth it). Hence I really don't use much commercial software at all. It's always better when it's a "project" rather than a "product", in my opinion. Because makers of projects usually don't have hidden agendas, and if they do, they're usually quickly discovered. With makers of products, you always have their main agenda which is profit, but with new business models, you often aren't the main customer, but sometimes also part of production. As for Apple, I did watch a bit of Louis Rossmann, so I know that they don't want my money, because they don't treat their customers right.
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You totally ignored what is probably the main reason for Microsoft to still push Edge, and that is - just like Google does with Chrome - the means of generating revenue by user tracking and data mining. The more people use Edge for their daily web browsing, the more Microsoft knows about these people. Same with Chrome, which is why Firefox is the only option for a "general use" browser. Smaller browser alternatives based on the Chrome platform, like Iridium, are a good way if you want the Chrome rendering engine, but don't want Google to see everything you do on the web (combined with helpful anti tracking addons which prevent sites from loading Google Analytics code). Same goes for Edge, it is probably also a really big snitch and tells Microsoft everything you do on the web - possibly even the passwords you enter to log into any websites you use. Be it just to "sync this data between devices", which makes inter-device-tracking even better possible. So yeah, if you use commercial browsers like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, your privacy gets thoroughly screwed up.
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Ich finde schon, dass das Oktoberfest eine in meinen Augen unangemessene Glorifizierung maßlosen Alkoholkonsums darstellt. OK, ich bin halt nicht damit aufgewachsen (bei uns gabs in den Dörfern im Sommer Kirmes, aber die waren immer nur ein Wochenende, oder zwei wenn man zum Nachbardorf gegangen ist), aber so im Nachhinein aus der Perspektive der Entscheidung, keinen Alkohol mehr trinken zu wollen, finde ich diese Feierlichkeiten von der Energie die dort herrscht eigentlich nur ziemlich räudig. Ja, das ist das passende Wort dafür... OK, wenn man Spaß dran hat, soll man's halt machen, ich werde mich weiter herzlich gerne davon fern halten ;)
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Wenn wir von heute auf morgen die Erdölproduktion reduzieren würden, würden ganze Wirtschaftszweige und ganze Gesellschaften einfach aufhören zu existieren, das wäre ziemlich fatal und würde (gerade in unseren technologisch fortgeschritteneren Ländern) viel Leid erzeugen. Es ist richtig, dass wir angefangen haben, auf erneuerbare Energien umzustellen, und diesen Weg auch weitergehen müssen. Zugleich ist es aber auch so, dass die erneuerbaren Energien momentan bisher noch nur wenige Prozent des gesamten Energieverbrauchs abdecken können, d.h. je mehr erneuerbare Energien ausgebaut werden, desto mehr können wir auf fossile Energieträger verzichten. Das Erdöl dürfte aber, bei der derzeitigen Ausbau- und Innovationsgeschwindigkeit, schon weit vorher arg knapp werden, das kann man einerseits positiv sehen, weil so der Ausbau der Erneuerbaren stärker gefordert ist, aber andererseits soll es ja auch nicht dazu kommen, dass wir sagen: "So, jetzt ist Strom nur noch von 5 Uhr morgens bis 22 Uhr abends verfügbar, bis wir genügend Solarzellen und Windräder inkl. Speicherkapazitäten gebaut haben, um wie gewohnt versorgen und nutzen zu können.", denn darauf würde es sonst hinauslaufen, natürlich auch bei allem anderen, was fossile Energien benutzt. Folglich ist das schon verständlich. Ob dieser Umschwung weg von den fossilen hin zu erneuerbaren Energien nicht insgesamt schon 20-30 (oder mehr) Jahre zu spät kommt, um unser Klima noch zu retten, steht auf einem anderen Blatt Papier, das kann durchaus möglich sein, aber ändert halt nichts daran, dass wir uns jetzt in diese Situation reingefahren haben, und da eben auch irgendwie mit umgehen müssen.
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Doch, Pickups mit Zwillingsreifen kannst Du in Deutschland auch zulassen - sind dann halt 7-einhalb-Tonner, die bei 85km/h oder so abgeriegelt sind, und eben als LKWs zugelassen sind. Braucht man natürlich dann auch einen LKW-Schein für, und viel Zuladung (wie in den USA) oder "towing capacity" haben sie auch nicht, weil so ein fettes Teil halt alleine schon mal 5 Tonnen wiegen kann, und dazu passen die Fahrzeugklassen, die wir hier haben, einfach nicht. Obwohl, man könnte einen F550 hier wohl auch als Zugmaschine für Sattelauflieger zulassen, ist ja ungefähr dieselbe Gewichts- und Größenklasse. Macht aber keiner, denn für unsere engen Sträßchen und Orte sind diese Dinger einfach maximal unpraktisch. Aber jeder große LKW und Sattelauflieger etc. hat hier bei uns auch Zwillingsreifen, nur sieht man die nicht, weil die halt nicht vorstehen, sondern hinter dem normalen Reifen, den man von außen sieht, ist halt noch ein zweiter Reifen versteckt ;-)
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Until last year, I've had one of those, but it was water damaged. It came complete with a monitor, cassette player, cabeling, lots of cassettes, and a self-made floppy controller as well as a second power supply (besides the original one). It was a model 1, but upgraded to 16kB of RAM. I've tried fixing it, but unfortunately, I have not been lucky. So I gave it to a real TRS-80 enthusiast at a local vintage computer show who will probably get it running again and take good care of it, preserving it for the future and bringing it to exhibitions and so on. Also, I got a bit of money for it.
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