I don't give two cents for the american auto brands but spare me the drama: try and make a proper car.
Looking at Ford: try importing a few models from the european line and offer it in the states. Small, economic, somewhat reliable, fuel efficient cars.
Stellantis has a slew of models that could be brought into the american market. They make good cars.
And I'm willing to bet GM as a few models they build and market overseas that would be guaranteed sucesses.
Thumbing through the feed, the news on how this or that organization letting go of commercial options for day to day operations are mounting.
This led me to wonder what would be the impact if FOSS, be it on the OS front, productivity front or whatever, was to become truly a relevant option.
I'm painfully aware of the difficulties I've faced trying to take a few online courses to be faced with borderline desdain for not using Windows/Office/Etc and opting for FOSS solutions.
Paying/supporting a FOSS solution does not offend me. I'm happier when giving money directly to a developer or project than to an opaque company. But I'm just one.
But what could happen if the ones became millions, actively contributing with a few coins per year to projects we use daily?
What could/would happen in the short term (under a year), medium-long (one to three years) and the long term (over ten years)?
Brazil is an independent country. The guy is a bit over the horizon on this.
Technically, unless adoption or donated eggs come to play, 50% of all of us attended the parents wedding, as an ovule inside our mothers ovary.
Then again, some couples never marry. So, there's another exception.
To answer your question: 50% of me was there at the occasion.
Ambos sabemos que o eucalipto cresce a um ritmo que àrvores autóctones não crescem e por isso é tão cultivado. E não comparemos o cânhamo a uma árvore, quer porque cresce muito mais depressa, porque não requer as extensões de terreno que árvores requerem para produzir a celulose equivalente e porque pode conviver com outras culturas.
Consigo imaginar com algumas facilidade plantações de cânhamo de norte a sul, com os campos abertos do Ribatejo e Alentejo. Mesmo nas zonas mais montanhosas seria fácil de implementar a cultura em campos menos extensos, devolvendo algum interesse económico a pequenos produtores.
Quanto a esforços de reflorestação, sérios, não há.
Como vivemos numa lógica de que não se pode constrangir a livre iniciativa económica (treta!), o plantio de pinheiro não é restringido, porque cresce rápido e é uma madeira apta para o mobiliário e construção civil e com necessidade mínima ou nula de regadio.
Ignoremos que um pinhal é uma acendalha natural...
Isto deixa a Serra da Estrela e interior, zonas onde o pinheiro não pertence, à míngua de incentivos e apoio à reflorestação autóctone, que é sabido gera muito mais dinheiro por hectare e de muitas mais formas que a porra do pinhal mas só se pode extrair esse valor numa janela temporal acima dos 50 anos.
E toda a gente quer dinheiro já. Especialmente quem dele não precisa.
Eu vivo em zona de eucaliptais.
Sim, a árvore é um cancro e o plantio é abusivo, especialmente em zonas com escassez de água (que o último inverno inverteu mas continuemos) mas é uma fonte de rendimento para muita gente.
Como não temos os tintins para plantar cânhamo para produção de papel, até lá o que podemos forçar é que mais gente faça a devida gestão florestal.
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Portuguese and, aledgelly, one of the biggest european paper paste and paper products manufacturers.
They don't have a direct shop but search for their products.
The Arch users being so vocal is more of a trope to me. Never fails to make me smile.
Ubuntu started as a great endeavour. They made Linux much more approachable to the less tech inclined user.
It is an achievement to get a distro capable of basically work out of the box that hides the hard/technical stuff under the hood and delivers a working machine, and they did it and popularized Linux in the process.
Unfortunately, they abused the good faith they garnered. The Amazon partnership, their desktop that nobody really enjoyed, the Snap push. These are the ones I was made aware of but I risk there were more issues.
I was a user of Ubuntu for less than six months. Strange as it may sound, after trying SUSE and Debian, when I actively searched for a more friendly distro, I rolled back to Debian exactly because Ubuntu felt awkward.
Ubuntu is still a strong contributor but unless they grow a spine and actually create a product people will want to pay for, with no unpopular or weird options on the direction the OS "must" take, they won't get much support from the wide user community.
That's a sub trope that makes me wonder: why animate a corpse when animating the skeleton alone achieves the same purposes? For visual impact?
And even in magic universes, physics still afects everything. Frost freezes the undead, heat cinzes their flesh, etc.
I like the zombie trope but you really can't get only the good parts and leave out the bad ones.
If zombies are rotting corpses, every carrion eating insect is going to have a field day. Plus any other predator or even any animal feeling threaned.
Plus the weather. Heat accelerates decomposition. Cold burns tissues. Water logfing from rain would be a nuisance, at least. Too dry, you get mummies.
There are too many things wrong in this entire situation.
If you did not want children, you should not had let your partner pressure you into it. And that 5 figure she wanted tells me she was indoctrinated to be a brood mare, not an independent woman.
Have you tried your best? Are you still trying? Yes. But I risk things will only get worst in the future between you and your partner. Respect was broken; that is the worst that can happen in a relationship.
Regarding the child - and I am going to be cold and cruel here: man up.
That child did not ask to be conceived and born. Their entire world is you - again, because regardless your state of mind, you seem a lot more involved than the mother - and even though the connection isn't there, consider it a duty towards a completely defenceless human being. I'm not telling you to love them but to protect and care for them as if you were in their situation: show kindness and respect.
Which you seem to be showing and makes you a bigger human being.
There is no magic solution for this situation. Sincerely speaking, it wasn't the right time for that child to be born, if ever, but they're here now. Find a solution as adults.
I wish I could spare some face to face time to hear you out and give some real support but I fear we live in too far away parts of the world for that to happen.
Be brave and be honest, just like you've been doing and done here.
That is exactly the layout of the card I was looking at.
Thank you.
I have a GigaByte AB350M-DASH motherboard.
This motherboard has a M2_WIFI socket, M keyed, if I correctly understood what I've been reading on it.
I have already bought a standard PCI card, as buying an M2 card would end being more expensive, but would an E keyed card work on this motherboard too?
I was looking at an AX200 card, and it keyed as such.
"I'll show you mine, if you show me yours."
Innuendo is nice.
Works for everyone, good mix of cheeky and bold, while not being too graphical and leaves room for escape routes.
I was the recipient of this one in my teens and it snapped into reality very quick.
Yes, I was that oblivious.
You do understand all the ramifications underneath that simple and silly question, right?
I'm laic.
What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.
Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.
Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?
Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.
Looking at my own digital dependency and comparing it to people I know, although being personally more of a tech geek than most, I find my dependency of technology lower.
Hardware wise, I tend to run everything I buy until it is rendered completely unuseable or it breaks down. This obviously ties with my preference towards FOSS but I think it is more of a tangent.
Services wise, I am a complete outlier. I never subscribed to a streaming service, I was quick to leave mainstream social media behind, I never boarded fads around wearables. Most applications that inhabit my acquaintances smartphones don't find a way to mine (Whatsapp, Amazon, Aliexpress, Uber, UberEats, etc).
This is the most extreme part of my behaviour but I have refused services that do not have a means of contact/interaction besides an application.
And I do not feel inconvinienced in my day to day life by this.
I'm feeling out of touch with how the world, society or whatever is trying to function.
I wanted a cake some time ago. Just a little something to celebrate a special moment. So I decided to stop at a local bakery that makes cakes on order.
Now let me underline the following: I wanted a cake. Something sweet to share.
However...
Once I say what I wanted, they call the "cake designer" to come sit with me to go over the details of the cake.
I wanted a plain old cake, rectangular in shape, light fluffy sponge, double layered, with strawberry jam filling, with vanilla scented cream cover and a single word on it, written in dark chocolate.
I could see the disdain mountain on the "cake designers" eyes as I described what I wanted. Followed by their soul leaving their body as I refused every single alternative or change to what I wanted.
Order settled, I asked to pay in advance, against an invoice. Some hesitation but it did happen.
Then, as I was about to leave, I was asked to add the bakery in Instagram, to which I asked why. It was for them to tag me in the photo of the cake, so I was alerted it was ready for delivery. But I don't have Instagram. Nor FB. Nor Whatsapp.
I literally live 50 meters away from the store. I said I could just stop by the next day and pick up the cake. It was like explaining an alien concept.
I'm going insane. It has to be that.
The cake was fine. But I won't risk going there again.
I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.
3D printing is not a concern
I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.
A long time ago, when I was more invested into TTRPGs, I grew increasingly frustrated with the system of only distributing advancement/experience points at the end of a session.
This always made me think that certain challenges could be better dealt with if the players could access/develop abilities as the game progressed in real time.
At some point, I started to divise a play system that relied on a split experience atribution system, with players being able to automatically rack experience points from directly using their skills/habilties, while the DM would keep a tally of points from goals/missions achieved, distributable at session end.
A practical example: a burglar would have the lockpick skill. The skill would be tiered, with each tier having 100 points to max it out, and the higher the tier, the less experience would be given by making use of the skill, as the skill would be further and further refined and new breakthroughs in its understanding become harder to achieve. But DM attributed XP could either be spent towards maxing out the skill faster or gain a new or linked one, like disarming booby traps.
I drifted away from TTRPG and simply let my idea sit in a drawer in a notebook. Today I found my notes again as I was rummaging through the junk and the it brought some nostalgia.
To those with more experience in TTRPGs: would this be feaseable? Or enticing? Interesting?
Simple shrimp and clam pasta. Quick, simple, nourishing. The picture is missing the parsley on top and the dish was missing a lot of chilli spice but there was one person at the table that can't tolerate it.
Per the title, what options exist in Europe for independent authors and creators to make themselves known and sell their work/receive support from fans, besides through their own personal websites?
Smashwords was the almost default option for years for indie authors; Amazon also took their piece of flesh. Then there was Patreon.
It always made sense to me to have an european alternative to those sites.
I've already found Xinxii and am in the process of exploring it.
What else is out there?
I'm getting constant system notifications alerting me that my alert - AMBER, etc - settings have been reset.
What is intriguing me is that these alerts are not broadcast in country. I'm in Europe. And those who do are broadcast through SMS service.
The first line on the system alert mentions something about "presedential communications".
Anyone else?
Pretty much that.
I've been trying to get a degree since I was in my early twenties. Too many things happened and I never got around to do it.
I have close to zero probability to ever work in my field of choice, which is Social Sciences, with a minor in Psychology, given my age.
Theoretically, I could try to become a high school teacher, as there is a great demand for teachers in my country and it will only grow in the next years to come, but entering public teaching is extremely hard and was made even harder after schools were handed direct hiring; nepotism grew ten fold.
I would like to be the first in my family to get a degree, if nothing else to say that I did it.
There is no need of going into debt for it, as I can enroll in a college where I can enroll only in one or two classes per semester and only pay for those; tuition would be around €98 per class.
But I know myself. I like to work alone. I have no patience to deal with group tasks. Never could. I don't mingle, I don't socialize. And I really have something against stuck up people, be them be teachers or fellow students. I'd get in trouble really fast.
I guess that is it. What do you say?
My partner is currently job hunting and I've got to know some very ugly behaviours from interviewers and train staff, towards the people applying for those jobs.
From snarky attitudes, to blattant lies and attempts on trying to withold information or ignore legal impositions and rights, these companies are power tripping and the people in them are deranged.
Well, I happen to have a job and am fairly aware of my rights, so I'm considering applying for these interviews and throw some poison back at this people.
Please allow me to share a little bit too much before going to the point of the post.
Last November I decided to enroll in a course to get official recognition of something I've been doing for the last twenty years, which is to put together and install computers. The course is Computer Hardware and Repair/Fault Diagnosis (loose translation)
I learned the hard way, by myself, making mistakes and taking apart old machines and trying to revive hardware I was constantly told it was useless and/or obsolete. Linux was a great part of this. I'm an obnoxious FOSS/Linux crusader and I'm not ashamed.
In order to finish a course where I gained absolutely zero new knowledge and was taken as non-serious for stating I do not use anything but Linux for my daily computer needs I now have to, with no relation whatsoever and classes on it, design on paper a computer network.
Because I'm petty, I'd like to design it completely around Linux and FOSS solutions. Just to mess with the people that have even imposed I have to write the assigment in Word, with Arial font.
Please, point me towards some sources I can use. Nothing too in depth is necessary.
I know the lithium batteries are supposed to be a pain to recycle but how are the conventional ones broken down to recover all the materials?
I have a bucket I throw dead batteries into and picking it up made me realize just how heavy it is. That is a lot of metal. And metal is money.
I'm about to start putting together some simple furniture and one thing I want is to have the option to collapse it, if I need to move it out of a room.
I've looked into confirmat screws and those are incredibly strong but have the downside of requiring specialized drill bits to use. These screws I can get easily in my market, in 500 units boxes.
Are there other options I can look into?
Added information
Material to be used will either be OSB3 or plywood.
Because this needs to be a regular thing, come forward warriors and announce the feats you have achieved! For the glory of the Empire!
Downloaded the android app through https://z-library.sk/ but after installing it will not run.
Are there any known conflicts between apps?
Some time ago, I read an article that all messenger apps, by EU directive, would have to build bridge protocols in order to have flow of communication between different networks.
Surfing the web, I read an article from 2016 where the Signal protocol was being integrated into Whatsapp. More recently, I read that Signal and Telegram could communicate.
What is the true status on this? The more I search, the more contradicting information I seem to find.
I'm in Europe, where american football isn't a thing and the NFL is nothing we care about.
We also tend to have better standards to serve and eat our food.
So why am I to find this crap in Lidl?
As per the title, I'm trying to find online courses to learn basic skills both on Krita and Inkscape, as I intend to use these tools to design board games for personal use.
Using Youtube videos doesn't work very well for me.
Can anyone suggest a source?
European guy, weird by default.
You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let's see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.