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  • Breezy feels more like KDE. It's okay if you're willing to spend a lifetime with confusing settings to make it useable.

    And it doesn't work well with some screen resolutions either. I'm stuck with a tablet-like UI on a phone with larger GUI settings. If you're 20 years old with perfect eyes it's probably not an issue. I created a ticket for it but I was met with a quite dismissive attitude and no fix.

    WeatherMaster on the other hand looks better and it comes with sane defaults. It doesn't have as much settings, but you really don't need them sense the defaults is perfectly fine. It feels like this person knows something about good UX design.

  • My advice would be to not overthink things. Whatever you do, there's always a way to undo and/or change it

  • I don't know anything about what happened in the US in regards to Trump. However. I find it unlikely that any meme has ever had any play in him being a president, but I said, I don't know anything about the US history, so I don't have much to say about it.

    Regarding the PC Master Race joke, you should read this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race#History

    PS. Joking about things doesn't make them true. We have made fun about various serious topics over multiple centuries now, none of them have come true so far.

  • No. It was a joke that made fun of the PC users as well.

  • You do know that the PC Master Race was originally intended to make fun of the pseudoscientific Nazi ideology "master race"?

    It feels like we need this joke more than ever before.

  • Linux Mint!

    It's based on Ubuntu, which means broad support for basically everything, including niche things like the Mullvad VPN client.

    Mint has been around for a long time and they have had plenty of time to prove their place as a stable and reliable alternative.

    Their software center includes well integrated support for Flatpaks, which is a a must have for things like Steam.

    Mint is polished both visually and technically speaking. It's a great general purpose option for both beginners and experienced users.

    However. I might not be as 'cool' as some other new shiny players, which seems to be important for some, but I don't feel comfortable recommending something that most likely last for a few years.

    Mint is not something that I use myself, but it's what I generally recommend to most users. I hope that excludes me me as some Mint fanboy.

  • It seems that IVPN is getting a lot of new customers. I have never heard about them before though. Don't take this as any sort of recommendation or anything.

  • Well. Why didn't you say so then. :D

  • A few years ago? I had this on my Android phone almost two decades ago. :D

  • No worries!

    Rice, ricing, ricer, etc. It's common racist lingo that's been used for decades.

    It's also a common term used (for customising your desktop) on Reddit. They literally borrowed the word due to it's rasist meaning.

    However. This is not Reddit, and it would be nice if we could keep it more civil here, which is why I'm bringing it up. :)

  • Understandable how?

  • Oh! You mean crypto currencies, not crypto. I was confused there for a bit. :D

  • The cars since 2020 have been decent quality. What you are paying for is an EV with good range and good power. Tesla definitely pushed the U.S. ev adoption ahead by a number of years.

    I guess everything is relative. Tesla is still a crappy car in terms of quality here, with tons of unresolved issues with faulty cars that Tesla refused to help their customers with.

    I’m curious about how that board works - is it a judicial system that other car manufacturers follow?

    Råd & Rönis is an independent, non-profit consumer magazine owned by the Swedish Consumer Agency. Their funding comes from subscriptions and government grants (no advertising and no corporate money). They test products, expose bad companies and protect consumers. Their "Black List" (Svarta Listan) is highly influential, and being on it can destroy sales completely.

    Customers can file a complaint at The National Board for Consumer Disputes (ARN), a government-run arbitration(?) service. Their decisions are not legally binding, but companies that ignore them get publicly shamed (and often blacklisted by Råd & Rön). Tesla has ignored basically every single case. Any remotely serious company here in Sweden comply with ARN. We take ARN very seriously here.

    What kind of rulings have they made against Tesla?

    Our law is equal for everyone. We don't care if you're some local dude selling hotdogs or Elon Musk selling Teslas.

    I found that Tesla follows their own warranty quite well [...]

    That's the issue. Their warranty basically means that they ignore you and will fuck you over, even if the issue is their own fault. People have ended up with repair costs close to what a new car costs, and even if it's Teslas fault, they refuse to do shit.

    [...] and after that I don’t think any a car manufacturers will fix stuff for free.

    Of course they have to, if the issue is their own fault.

  • They are? How?

  • The only issue with Tesla is that the quality of their cars is mediocre at best, while you're paying premium, and that Tesla is the most childish and obstinate company to work with.

    We have something called Råd & Rön's Blacklist, which is respected Swedish consumer magazine's list of products to avoid. Tesla is one of the brands that's listed there. Partly because of the poor quality of the cars and partly because they don't follow the rulings from the National Board for Consumer Complaints here in Sweden.

    And they don't give a **** about insurance companies either. If something happens to your Tesla, you're on your own buying a new one yourself. You can forget about getting any sort of help from Tesla.