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This sounds a lot like trickle down economy. It did not really help anyone other than capital owners.

Due to Partitions of Poland a lot of of territory was under Prussian influence for over a century - that had to have some culinary effect (other than forced germanization).

Vivaldi was only an option until Google removed any real way to run adblocking extensions from Chromium source. If there was a fork of Chromium allowing Ublock Origin to run it could be considered but as it is now there is no real point to consider Vivaldi or any other Chromium based browsers if you want real ad blocking.

Used Vivaldi and it was always slower and more clunkier than Chrome/Chromium but it had its advantages. The team behind it was old Opera team and tried/tries to bring that feel back to the browser with some success. I had been user of old Presto based Opera, the Blink version wasn't really what I looked for and the change of ownership was really questionable.

That Eastern European immigrant is a result of centuries of feudal slavery. The serfdom of population east of Oder meant lack of freedom of movement, mandatory free work for the lord and the clergy, great poverty and no education. Lord could decide about life and death of their serfs and killing of serf by a different noble was just resolved as part of the business with a fine/repayment. Serfs were just another commodity in lords property, the further east, the worse serfs were exploited.

Despite XIX century reforms dismissing serfdom in some regions, generational poverty of peasants kept them in serfdom like conditions up until end of WW2. And even after WW2 you could end in Ukraine with forced exports of food resulting in genocidal famine.

That Eastern European immigrant has family history of half a millennium or more in slave like conditions.

Thunderbird has no modifier shortcuts too.

I used SciDavis a lot and before that tried QtiPlot. When I had a chance to I used Origin. SciDavis was clunky and had some issues (liked to crash) but it worked well enough for what I wanted. Had some problems with setting plots styles, maybe it was just me but it wasn't obvious how to copy style between plots.

Tried LabPlot recently and had issues with csv import with datetime data not really recognising date and time series format even after using advanced import options and setting it myself manually. Tried to find some solutions, the LabPlot manual website is just a bunch of youtube videos [1]. That is really not helpful, I am not browsing manual to be forced to watch clips of what I already tried. Developers really need to think about making traditional manual.

There is also a AlphaPlot, a more or less alive fork of SciDavis. Still have its own issues but still has the same issue with yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.zzz dates. Other than that it is a useful bit of kit.

But when I want to do some batch processing and generate multiple plots, automate and have it reproducible I go with gnuplot. The learning curve is steep, but after writing gnuplot scripts few time you just have a personal template and know relevant parts. It is really good.

All in all I am glad there is an opensource movement in this area. It is always better to have more options.

1. https://docs.labplot.org/en/2D_plotting/2D_plotting_xycurve....

I have found some footage of the seedpod exploding [1]. It seems that Impatiens parviflora is invasive species that propagated from botanical gardens in Europe. One research [2] states it can shoot seed up to 3.4 meters.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QUzag5u7Pi0 [2] über Impatiens parviflora Dc. als Agriophyt in mitteleuropa, L Trepl - 1984

A plant with similarly exploding feature is Impatiens parviflora [1]. It is quite easy to spot in the wild in Europe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens_parviflora

It is not really US-centric. VISA and Mastercard actions resulted in delisting content in all the markets globally. Steam and Itch.io pulled games from all regions, Manga Library Z was hit in Japan, Patreon and Stripe are pressured globally. Suggesting to boycott VISA and Mastercard if you have an alternative is valid.

You can do that with pihole, if you set it up to keep the logs. Just adjust dhcp settings so your devices get its address as DNS server.

I think Ponal Holzleim Super 3 he tested is PVA based wood glue. MSDS states it based on polyvinyl acetate dispersion.

Light fixtures were designed for incandescent bulbs. Even with advent of fluorescent bulbs and now LED based bulbs little has changed with how light fixtures are made. Old style tungsten bulbs had no problem with high temperature, fixtures trapped heat - hot air rises up and is kept inside. Components of LED bulbs like electrolytic capacitors have known life expectancy based on ambient temperature, even high temperature ones (105degC series) degrade fast when in such conditions.

Another problem is that manufacturers overdrive components. To make bulbs cheaper they just use few more mA of current, that makes LEDs run hotter, more smoothing is needed and caps get hammered by switch mode power supplies.

Without changing light fixtures to be open, allowing circulation of air nothing really can be done for standard e27/bayonet bulbs. I have personally experienced this and had clearly seen the huge difference in LED bulb lifetime between light fixture - glass globe with hole in the bottom (no air vents at the top) and another one that was just a bowl with open top. Never had to change a bulb in second one versus 5-6 changes in globe one.

3 letter intelligence agencies.

Someone filmed that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42xq7TnCt4

Seeing the carnage I thought that there were no fuses for devices powered from 12V lead acid battery and some few hundred amps went through device.

But, this is not really a failure of solar power system, just failure of a Netgear device. It seems that it used it's battery as a high current source for when it needed more peak power for wireless transmission, thus the instability and failures when just plugged to USB charger. I don't think such constant drain and constant recharge was really healthy for the battery. I wonder if it was/is stated in manual that it was supposed to be used charged and unplugged and not really as full time usage device.

Do you know a reson?

I find it kinda similar to:

-USA tax system where Turbofax created a niche for itself and fights hard to keep the system as convoluted as it can be to detriment of everyone

-USA healthcare insurance system where insurance companies do the same

Seems like best way to profit is to become a parasite that does not fix the problem but just defends the current situation.

Thunderbird at least since 2005. Default setup just wastes so much space on widescreen. I use "MoreLayouts" plugin to fix that a bit and "Manually sort folders" plugin to fix folders. And some eye candy like DKIM verifier and display user agent plugins.

Still no way to disable sync/turn off accounts while keeping the mail in place.

Disagree.

I can run multiple 1080p twitch streams with mpv using streamlink and setting appropriate decoder flags while using chromium to watch even one stream puts a lot of strain on my laptop and gets fan running immediately.

So from my perspective it is very usefull to offload video decoding to gpu and leave cpu cycles for other work. Is it more energy efficient? Never checked that but gpu fan does not really spin any faster and looking at the temperature graphs it does not seem it really strains it.

I tried enabling gpu acceleration for browser (chromium based) and I still don't really know why it is so flaky and unreliable.

I think everyone here seen this but I like to remind myself from time to time: https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E

I would suggest watching some Bob Andersen old radio restoration projects to see how old radios evolved. Some projects go into double digit number of episodes so one needs some time to digest them. Apart from electronics, Bob does cosmetic restorations too.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bandersentv

1. Automatic driver installation and device discovery. IIRC Windows Me could install my first flash drive without resorting to fumbling with mini cd drive disc.

2. Steam Proton, most of my library of games just works and it is in easy and convenient format.

3. Norton/Midnight Commander style of file managers.

4. Live CD distributions.

5. Password managers (Keepass)

Is there a way to boot it from systemd-boot?

Yes, probably it would not be making enough money to sustain operation.

But I still think that we (as a world) should start capture carbon actively during this decade. Last summer in Europe was hottest yet and with such hot winter we are for even hotter summer this year. Keeping energy prices up would be just added benefit.

Why not capture carbon from air with surplus energy? Build few capture plants and buy energy to keep price positive, then sell carbon cerificates on european market.

I think that this is extension of semantic play that such leaks lead to "identity theft". Even if you took due diligence to protect your credit card and SSN or other personal info after the fact you are being played as "victim of identity theft". No it is not identity theft that someone used yours info to take fast loan or buy bitcoin with your credict card that incompetent business lost and now you are SOL with ruined life/credit score - it is bank fraud and banks should stop making it look like it is not their problem/fault.

It even is stamped on CC that it is property of the issuing bank. So you made it such way that skimmer can copy your card at gas station and empty someones account in few minutes but you are not part of the problem at all? Then what is the point of of plastic other that milking fees?

In Vienna, the shop I bought my supplies had all products tested by local TÜV NORD and they mixed liquids on site. Nowadays I buy and mix myself from standard 50/50 PG/VG mix from known source. I had mixed results with imported premixed liquids (off smell, not consistent viscosity - went to bin) and that promptly stopped me from buying more of premixed stuff (along with problematic regulations of container sizes).

Anything you add to the liqiud other than nicotine and PG/VG may be problematic. You never really know what is in imported premixed liquid, what cutting agents were used, what purity of source material was.

It seems that CDC is seeing some results of cost cutting, using stuff that was not really meant to be vaped mixed to keep margins better.

Yes, that's good point. Before polio immunization all similar cases may have been attributed to polio directly and now that polio cases are filtered every such case stands out. Did not think about that.

Is there any way that propagation of polio related viruses is linked with reduced immunization rate? Like opening new "natural" reservoir for it to exploit/mutate in?

Your comment motivated me to check if I could make my home router fallback to my second connection (I flashed it with OpenWRT). After fiddling with using usb wifi dongle as second wan entry and looking over if any nearby electronic shop has usb lan adapters in stock, I discovered that my router has vlans and I can "rob" one switch port for second wan.

So I set up mwan3 and have more and more respect for what one can do with Openwrt and off-the-shelf router.