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  • Those only really work for American style up down windows. In Germany and most eu countries a different style are used. They are hinged on both the bottom and the side and you can choose which set of hinges to use. Very useful but not compatible with American style window AC units. If you google for “German window” you’ll see the memes.

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  • I think the difference is that those are reasonable and come from within the community of use. Even if a loud minority acted up for a few days.

    The examples in the post are just silly and are forced onto the community of use by political overlords.

  • One in four Dutch voters has lost faith in all political parties, survey finds
  • Not caring about the world around you and who makes the laws in your life is certainly one way to live.

    Very slave mentality.

    If the government told me I could not legally be with the person I love I would reject it and fight. Just being like “ok guess I have to accept that I can’t be with the person I love” is just crazy in my mind.

    Good for you that you can handle that. I could not.

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  • They probably won’t get specific.

    But I will say that the comment here is a quintessential example of an anti Wayland/SystemD complaint.

    Nothing specific ever. Just “it’s a mess and buggy and slow”.

    This being said by me making this comment the original poster might come up with the some specifics just because they feel called out.

  • Anon likes trains
  • What are you going to do with a hijacked train? The moment you hijack it they’ll just shutdown power. Hostages? Good luck there are like 30 carts on the train all of which have window break tools and emergency door open tools.

    Look at Germany or France. High speed trains are everywhere and there is no ID requirement beyond maybe a ticket check if you’re unlucky.

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]
  • I don’t think overprovisioning is a thing that is realistically is a problem in the U.S. or in Germany. I know that modern homes tend to have 300amp mains. Older homes 100amps. You would have to have a house that was wired in 1920 in order to have a 20amp mains available. In that case you have bigger issues safety wise.

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]
  • The way that it works in most countries is that the breakers are per circuit in your wall. The breakers trip in order to prevent that single circuit from overheating and starting a fire in your walls.

    Let’s say you have a wire that’s rated for 16amps. More than that and it becomes a fire risk just threw overheating. @230v that gives you 3680w per circuit.

    If you have your industrial microwave, water heater, and car charger all going at the same time on that same circuit. This will draw way more than 3680w and thus would go over that 16a limit.

    The breakers trips once you go over that 16a limit for safety. It’s a good thing. This all being said no sane electrician would put those three things on the same circuit. lol.

    Circuit breakers are actually what enable you to safely over provision. Without them fires would just be a matter of time.

    I know it works this way in the U.S. and Germany at least.

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  • If you are new to Linux I think it makes sense to use systemd. It’s the default for a reason. All major distros use it for a reason. It’s only a really small minority of very vocal people who are against it.

    If Debian and Fedora and Ubuntu and All the enterprise linuxes use the same thing, I think that says something.

    Despite claims to the contrary systemd is substantially faster and easier to use than its predecessor.

    It’s simpler and easier to use. Take a look at these examples. Service files are so so much easier to use and are much more robust than hundred line bash scripts.

    Systemd:

    [Unit]
    Description=OpenVPN tunnel for %i
    After=network-online.target
    Wants=network-online.target
    
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/%i.conf
    Restart=on-failure
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    

    Sysvinit

    #!/bin/sh
    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:          openvpn
    # Required-Start:    $network $remote_fs
    # Required-Stop:     $network $remote_fs
    # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
    # Short-Description: OpenVPN service
    # Description:       Start or stop OpenVPN tunnels.
    ### END INIT INFO
    
    DAEMON=/usr/sbin/openvpn
    CONFIG_DIR=/etc/openvpn
    PID_DIR=/run/openvpn
    DESC="OpenVPN service"
    NAME=openvpn
    
    . /lib/lsb/init-functions
    
    start() {
        log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC"
    
        mkdir -p "$PID_DIR"
    
        for conf in "$CONFIG_DIR"/*.conf; do
            [ -e "$conf" ] || continue
            inst=$(basename "$conf" .conf)
            pidfile="$PID_DIR/$inst.pid"
    
            if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background \
                --pidfile "$pidfile" --make-pidfile \
                --exec "$DAEMON" -- --daemon ovpn-$inst --writepid "$pidfile" --config "$conf"; then
                log_progress_msg "$inst"
            else
                log_warning_msg "Failed to start $inst"
            fi
        done
        log_end_msg 0
    }
    
    stop() {
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC"
        for pid in "$PID_DIR"/*.pid; do
            [ -e "$pid" ] || continue
            inst=$(basename "$pid" .pid)
            if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile "$pid"; then
                rm -f "$pid"
                log_progress_msg "$inst"
            else
                log_warning_msg "Failed to stop $inst"
            fi
        done
        log_end_msg 0
    }
    
    status() {
        for conf in "$CONFIG_DIR"/*.conf; do
            [ -e "$conf" ] || continue
            inst=$(basename "$conf" .conf)
            pidfile="$PID_DIR/$inst.pid"
            if [ -e "$pidfile" ] && kill -0 "$(cat "$pidfile" 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null; then
                echo "$inst is running (pid $(cat "$pidfile"))"
            else
                echo "$inst is not running"
            fi
        done
    }
    
    case "$1" in
        start) start ;;
        stop) stop ;;
        restart) stop; start ;;
        status) status ;;
        *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"; exit 1 ;;
    esac
    
    exit 0
    
  • Fedora Atomic is the bomb
  • The reason I wouldn’t give advice if you didn’t want it because unwanted unsolicited advice tends to be useless and annoying for most people. If you didn’t want the advice I wouldn’t waste my time.

    My advice is to focus on being able to organize your thoughts and write them out in a cohesive structured way.

    This helps you:

    1. Express yourself in a clear, understandable, and perhaps persuasive way.
    2. Organize your own personal wants, needs, and desires introspectively.

    Both of these are important life skills that are extremely beneficial. Using a LLM to organize and clarify positions is like using a crutch when you should be in physical therapy. On top of this using a LLM completely erases any personality in your writing and replaces it with corpo style speak.

    Practicing organizing and expressing your ideas (like physical therapy) can be hard and sometimes painful. But you get better.

    Using a LLM is like refusing to go to physical therapy and using crutches for the rest of your life by choice. Easier in the short term but bad for your own quality of life long term.

    Places like lemmy are great for writing practice. Rambling nonsense is pretty universally downloaded. Lemmy forces you to organize and classify what you are thinking and why.

    If you want to get started I would recommend the basic “5 Paragraph Essay” structure. In the case of a basic lemmy comment take those principles and make it a 5 sentence structure.

    I hope this helps.

  • [W] Drunkenslug invite

    Hello! I am looking for a drunken slug invite. While I have experience with private torrent communities, the usenet is new and exciting to me.

    If anyone could help I would appreciate it.

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