Berlin is a terrible place to drive a car. On the other hand, public transport is pretty good. Can’t understand why anyone would prefer to take a car. Same thing - and probably even more so - in Munich.

If it happens, I will pick a new career. Maybe something in waste disposal. I have a lot of experience with trash from interacting with management.

The Bosch SmartHome outdoor camera.

The only way to view the stream is through their app and over the cloud, and the recordings are kept in the cloud exclusively. There is no way to use it without the cloud account. Everything is slow, choppy, unreliable and buggy as hell. Replaced it with Frigate running on our homeserver and a proper Hikvision IP camera. Much better quality, viewable from everywhere, much faster, ultra reliable, perfect.

There are probably also ways to run nuclear power plants in a near 100% safe way, but this being capitalism, you just know it will not happen. Corners will be cut aggressively. Profit maximization above human life. All the way.

It’s an ice planet!

Carter, after exiting the second gate on Earth

It’s a hoot because even now they are trying to get just a few more people to join the Bundeswehr, and are already failing really hard at it.

Of course not, but that line of reasoning sounds similar to “I was just following orders”.

Honestly, most people working at a large corporation are not that impactful. Just a cog in the machine.

Just like any soldier in Nazi Germany’s army. Being a cog in the machine does not take away the guild from killing someone, or, if we are talking about “evil” companies, from denying someone treatment, or violating someone’s privacy, or…

The insurance company in question “partners with” United Healthcare, so… maybe not so much.

Time as you know had a beginning and time has an end and then time begins again. As we shall each live our lives again exactly as before, I have been gifted to see into the old cycles of time. Not very clearly mind you, but I have learned that… yeah, you’re all pretty much fucked.

That is what happens when I try to write a reply to an OP on my phone. Sorry!

Freddy Mercury, for sure.

Freddy Mercury for sure.

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RSH, or more likely telnet, not SSH.

Lots of good stuff mentioned already, but nobody mentioned the Rivers Of London series yet. It is about a young police constabulary who solves crime using magic. Sounds pretty silly, but it’s pretty good. The author, Ben Aaronovitch, also wrote some scripts for Doctor Who (Remembrance of the Daleks, for instance) and Blake’s 7, so there’s that.

Dude the way you compare a dehumanizing device to manipulate and control information at the core with a method to make oneself feel better about oneself is most non-triumphant.

Got you fooled, doesn’t he? He is not (that) confused, he is a criminal with zero scruples and near unlimited power who does seemingly random and idiotic things to manipulate markets and conditions in favour of his buddies and family.

The OS is just way more transparent and communicative in a way that facilitates learning (once you learn the basics of how to communicate with it, such as not being terrified of the terminal)

I could not agree more. Linux is not perfect in any way, but at least it tells you what the problem is. Windows? Oh sure, you can probably get that information somehow, somewhere, in some event log that is only recorded if you sacrifice a chicken at midnight and dance around a campfire on one foot.