I might be exaggerating a but I've never been a real fan of Bluetooth headphones or earphones. Sound quality never matched cabled ones (I also have the popular Sony one) and battery life sucks for the time I want to use it

I understand it's a very subjective experience. And tbh, one thing that bothers me about cabled ones is the cable noise when moving. Or accidentally pulling off the headphones from my head, although that's not a common issue,but for sitting experience they're perfect. Aside from that, my music preference is very eclectic, so e.g. the level of bass really needs to adapt properly to the genre I'm listening to atm, so the boosted bass Bluetooth headphones just don't work for me. I've never experienced a Bluetooth pair that doesn't have too much bass.

Over has always been more effective, also to take it with one hand

Yeah the moving around thing is also a benefit to me too

Convince governments to move over from Windows, because Bill is gonna be all up in their ass to protect his $$$

Innovation my ass. Their UI has been as a disaster as ever. Major reason why I stopped paying for their crappy service years ago

I'd discourage you from formatting and using Linux (as a long time Linux user myself). Keep your setup for your education because that's most important. If you can, get another device to install Linux on and learn how to use it that way. It'll also be very beneficial for your career

An opinion so strongly shared by a vast majority is worth being sceptic about.

I would argue both have evolved in the opposite way though. Windows has become so unintuitive for me with every version after win 7. Splitting up control panel in many different locations. Multiple methods to remove different applications,... On windows server, it was even worse, and as soon as I moved away from Microsoft's default built-in crap to third party tools, things actually became much easier.

While with Linux, things worked out of the box for me for a long time already and the process of things make sense a lot times, taking into account the requires minimal knowledge is there.

Too bad about the choice for qwant. I've been using them for many years and they have big flaws: they block visits from unsupported countries, so if you're traveling, you're fucked. They also started blocking ad blocking users and their main webpage is full of crap that you have to disable manually. Their support is non existing. And they use the same censorship as Microsoft. I moved to brave search recently

Actually I think AI in browser could potentially become a much more effective content blocker than ad blockers like ublock in the future.

Reality proves enough that forbidding drugs doesn't work though, it just creates a lot of other problems. Forbidding some parts of it like ads about them, selling to minors etc do have effect however

Boobstreamers eroticizing themselves in front of kids and luring them to their onlyfans sites. Should be treated as pedophilia

A more private and secure messenger than WhatsApp, signal and telegram, like simplex

Play this game to understand more about the mindset of today and how people are losing trust in each other and how to solve it: https://ncase.me/trust/

A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There's just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they've never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can't modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain't that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.

Newpipe
Aurora store
Organic maps
PDF viewer
Molly
Audile
Jellyfin
Nova Wallet
Openboard (though seems dead and looking for alternative)
Internxt

Also a noob, but I think Microsoft improved low-level access in recent DX versions

"I don't want to live on this planet anymore" saying is appropriate

If you don't own it, don't pay for it. That's one of my main principles and the motivation why I don't pay for streaming services anymore. I also noticed that I wasn't enjoying music and movies as much anymore anyway when it was in such high quantities. That's just about saving money.

Other one is, I don't buy anything of which i know of that it won't work or keep much of its value anymore after several years. So I rarely buy anything with irreplaceable batteries, that basically ends up on the junk pile after 3 years.

I still have 200 euro wired in ear headphones that are my favorite pair so I need to 3,5mm port. But I never got the loud commotion over the disappearance of the port, because you can easily use a 3,5mm to USB-c cable. Having said that,I do still appreciate such a port in my phone because sometimes I forget to take the cable with me or I lose it.

Scaleway has educative blog posts about water usage footprint of datacenters and how they're approaching it more efficiently. Recommended reads

Actually no. The thing is just that systemd handles so many things that makes the lives both developers/distro maintainers and users easier, but most of it happens in the background. You can forget about having to learning complexer tools, just do it all via systemd

Here's some more examples:

Systemctl edit: create an extension for the unit file and add some changes
S edit --full: edit the full unit file (and timer too iirc)
S enable --now: enable + start
S disable --now: disable + stop

In Europe we have PSD2 but I dunno if it's enough to create a full app

Arch could use better standard MAC security applied to systemd units like Debian does.
Arch could have an easy few clicks installer, something like a default modern setup.
Live kernel patching.

Probably spend it on a favorites restaurant visit

He's also the first one to be somewhere to lobby where a government decides to move away from windows, because it's gonna hurt his stock value

Sounds like a good plan, since you're not financially dependent on it, Why not try it? Alternatively, what about working at a bar?

Good is relative tbf. I've had issues installing something natively while installing flatpak just worked

Amen to the DRM part, that was really a stab in our back by them

Bookmarked for later watching

I never felt OpenOffice and libreoffice were a decent replacement for MS office. It was too different in many ways and compatibility was never top. Since I moved to softmaker (not OSS), I've been happier.

Tbf you only need iwd, as systemd can take care of the rest. But it's not an option for me on desktop anyway because signal and vpn connection visibility are important for me and that's not possible without a GUI running

It can also be used very simply though. It works out of the box with any changes necessary. The issue I find with gnome is that its simplicity quickly became a bottleneck for me. E.g. Konsole is just so great and I couldn't live without it anymore

What about a hardware key? Like nitrokey or yubikey?

I have good experience with brave search, after I moved away from the crap Qwant actually is

That's worthy to be sceptic about indeed, because its a fact rather than an opinion

As KVM is part if the Linux kernel, I assume you'll have to look into kernel hardening instead, next to OS hardening. Hardware is also important to consider when talking about VM escaping. A CPU that supports better VM isolation features and encrypted memory

Windows server and all the half-working crap it comes with it. I ended up replacing most functionalities with third party tools because Microsoft doesn't know about good UX. OS deployment? Replaced, GPO? Replaced where possible. Patch management? Replaced.