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Nordic, works just fine, i only have an HMD 'Nokia' non-smartphone (i detest capacitive touchscreens, and my previous ungoogled qwerty android phone broke, waiting for my next one to arrive in 2026-12 or thereabouts).

No QR-code-only restaurants that i have seen, and i would walk out without a word if that happened (even if i had a device that can do that). Bank does 2FAs second part with an SMS, first part is username, password and an otp code from a paper. Bank login is also a very common way of logging into governmental systems, but those only use the username, password and otp code, skipping the SMS, alternatively i could use an id card with a reader, state provides even Linux software for that.

The housing companys winter car engine heating sockets operate with an app, or alternatively just opening the lid and setting the timer yourself.

Additional data point: my dad, when he was still alive (-2025), had a smartphone but wouldn't use apps beyond facebook, did his banking by mailing in signed bills or at the bank in person, without an appointment.

I have blocked it for years with ublock origin, if a site doesn't work, ctrl-w. Nowadays i cannot even use google search because of this, any search will trigger a captcha, hilarious (atleast on chromium-based browsers, firefox lets me get a page or two).

1209 across 8 windows, been like this since the year 2000 or thereabouts (netscape with a tabbed window manager back then, then opera), most of them are hibernated. Why? Bookmarks just dont seem to work for me, i do have some thousands of those for stuff that is not related to anything thats going on right now.

Also seemed to work over ICMP ping, with "+++ATH0M0DT112", they did not return to the channel.

I think it was some buggy Rockwell modem chips that did not require the delay between +++ and switching to command mode, but it has been some decades.

No keyboard, enormous bulbous camera. (Was just dreaming after unihertz said it doesn't deliver to my EU country (after taking my money), guess i'll stick to my featurephone for now).

G-klasse W465 is shorter than the equivalent medium sized sedan (E-klasse W214, and even shorter than my W212), and the hood is nowhere near as high as those overseas pickup trucks.

The monstrously large (5.8 meters) G63 6x6 is considerably rarer (i have never seen one in person).

Ran synapse for a few months, figured out all the tui clients are either abandonware or broken (originally thought i could use bitlbee, and did the install before realizing it was unusable).

Looked at current tui offerings now some years later, situation seems to be unchanged, the only client that ran back then was gomuks, and that has received a rewrite that hasn't reached feature parity yet.

I am probably the type of person referred to in the last part of xkcd 1782.

I also remember churning enough butter to fill backpacks in Ultima VI. (don't recall offhand whether bread was doable)

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news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser):has-text(/\bbschmidt.*\b/)

Is what mine is, altho a simple :has-text('bschmidt') might work.

edit: news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser:has-text('bschmidt'))

might work better, it seems mine also had the same problem as yours..

Patch localization/en-US/browser/browserSets.ftl in your browser/omni.ja (a .zip with a weird file extension), it contains stuff like: close-shortcut = .key = W

See: https://github.com/SebastianSimon/firefox-omni-tweaks how it can be done.

I do this myself as ctrl-n has to be new tab for me, forever, and firefox broke the old keyconfig extension years and years ago. (I had ctrl-n create tabs with an external window manager back in netscape 4 times and opera (pre-chrome-fork one) after that.)

Indeed, google never behaves for me, always hands me language localized to my ip, even though my Accept-Language contains "en-US,en;q=0.9" (the local language is my native one, but i find using services or software that are originally in English translated to my (non-PIE) language awful, even anger-inducing).

For search i have had &hl=en added to the search parameters since forever.

A lot of these seem to use zmap (https://github.com/zmap/zmap) or masscan (https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan) for the initial scan.

Often with default parameters such as zmap setting ip id to 54321, having tcp initial window at 65535, having no SACK bit set and masscan with no SACK bit either, tcp initial window at 1024, tcp maximum segment size 1460 (which is strange to put below initial window size!), (older versions having fixed src port 61000 or 60000 from documentation examples and no MSS set), all of which are extremly uncommon in legitimate traffic and thus easily identified.

Even those so called "legitimate" scanners (emphasis on the "") seem to use these tools with little or no extra configuration.

With this setup the last time my high-port ssh (key-only) has got an attempt on it was 2023-07-26 (previous intruders get permanently firewalled).

38"? ASUS ROG PG38UQ, 144Hz ips 4k (bought one recently as i wanted a >35" 4k ips with atleast then 120Hz), and from what i can gather it is the only ips screen those specs so far. (I am afraid of oled burnin as i tend to use my monitors for decade+.)

I seem to recall that USRobotics Total Control (dialup servers, ISDN PRI E1 (E1 for me in EU) / T1) to ~30ish dialup lines/ISDN BRI used x86 in the form of 80386ex (386 without real mode).

Whether it was 386ex or just a 386 is a bit hazy as it has been 25+ years since i last opened one up.

I think each line card that supported analog modems up to 4x 56kbit per card had one, along with some DSPs.

Also old Lucent WaveLAN (802.11 era, possibly even the non-standard predecessor) access points had a x86 processor sbc in them.