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Fair point. It remains to be seen how well this will work out for them. But given that doesn't seem to be even a vague launch date I'd say there's going to be plenty of time for a transitional phase where they can get their bugs sorted out – and the underlying operating systems can get Wayland running if they haven't already.

Xfce's stance is that they want to offer Wayland support soon but will remain X11-compatible for the foreseeable future. Going by what their wiki says about it, work seems to be progressing fairly well.

I know someone who bought one after the first FSD debacles because at the time it was the only available electric car rated to pull his trailer when fully loaded; most electrics wouldn't do more than 750 kg. He doesn't give a shit about FSD but he does have a big trailer.

Probably a bit of a bad look these days, though, given that he's politically active for the local Green Party.

If he keeps flipping like that we can hook him up to a turbine and use him as a renewable energy source.

I'm 50/50 on the episodic plots. I think that DS9 hit a good balance there: The plots were mostly episodic but usually connected to an overarching metaplot. That felt pretty good; not too loose and not too tight.

That's why I'm going to vote for a party I don't believe in. Normally I would vote for one of the parties I do believe in and help them build momentum on their path toward 5% – but with the AfD on the rise and the Union blatantly putting personal opportunism over the interests of the country, I can't afford my vote to not count.

Once more I wish we had a preferential voting system so people can vote for who they believe in and fall back to a less preferred alternative if necessary.

Ist auch wieder was dran. Die Realität ist bisweilen leider recht frustrierend, insbesondere Dinge wie unvermeidliche Ungenauigkeiten oder der Umstand, dass ein Wahlsystem mit allen wünschenswerten Eigenschaften mathematisch unmöglich ist. Es ist niemandes Schuld, aber trotzdem irritierend.

Ich hätte echt gerne bei diesen Umfragen die "Sonstige"-Spalte aufgeschlüsselt. Oder gleich Zugang zu den Rohdaten (und zwar gleich bei Veröffentlichung und nicht zwei Jahre später).

Ich würde gerne für eine Kleinpartei stimmen, da die Großparteien mich nicht adäquat vertreten, aber unser Wahlsystem macht leider strategisches Wählen nötig – insbesondere, wo die AfD so bedrückend viel Einfluss hat. Da hätte ich gerne schon Einsicht darin, wie die Kleinparteien sich im Laufe der Zeit machen, um zu sehen, wann und wie sehr eine von mir favorisierte Partei an Relevanz zunimmt und ob sich eine Stimmabgabe entsprechend meiner Überzeugungen lohnen könnte.

Kriege ich aber nicht. Nach der Wahl kann ich dann sehen, ob meine bevorzugte Partei 3% oder 0,3% gekriegt hat, aber vorher kriege ich darin nicht einfach Einsicht. Das beschränkt für mich das Potenzial von Umfragen als Instrument zur politischen Meinungsbildung.

Huh. For me it consistently refused when locally-hosted; even the section with the internal thoughts was completely blank. This goes for both the official release and a decensored version.

My bad. I went with the WD Red Plus, model WD40EFPX. It's basically the successor to the old CMR Red line. The Pro line has 7200 RPM and is a bit noisier, which isn't great for a living room server.

I'll correct my earlier comment.

Yeah, it doesn't take a lot to build a decent home server. I just rebuilt mine (the old one's Turion II Neo was perhaps a bit too weak) and the most expensive part were the HDDs. I didn't want to reuse the old ones.

A slightly underclocked Athlon 3000G, 16 gigs of spare RAM, and three 4 TB WD Red Pluses give me all the power I actually need at a reasonable power budget. I initially wanted to go with an N100 but those never support more than two SATA drives directly.

Depends. If you want something that will keep your files reasonably safe and accessible then a laptop isn't great because most of them won't let you mount multiple hard drives without doing something silly like running everything over USB.

Of course that's where an old desktop is the computer of choice.