brennesel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, that wasn’t meant to sound so accusatory. I guess I (and probably a lot of other downvoters) are just very frustrated because your assumption doesn’t hold true, at least for Germany. I’m very envious of the Internet infrastructure that has been built in Latvia and Romania, for example. I would like to see the same here, but the government already considers 50 MBit DSL to be progressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  most having infinite data

  That’s a bold claim. Do you have some official figures to back that up? Where I live, I don’t know of anyone with truly unlimited mobile internet.

  The cheaper unlimited tariffs cost around €30, but have at least one of the following restrictions:

  • Speed limit after x volume used
  • Poor network coverage
  • <15MBit/s speed
  • Significantly increased costs after 2 years of contract term
  • Cancellation by provider if consumption is too high
  • only a few Gb at full speed included in EU roaming

  Genuine unlimited contracts with stable network coverage and 300 Mbit/s usually cost around €80-100 per month here. And unlimited EU roaming is still not included by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same experience with Ubuntu many years ago. And I can’t speak for Pop!_OS since I never used it. Most developers only provide commands for Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora on their websites. So they don’t work all the time in derived distros.

  At least in Bazzite there is an “App Store” called Bazaar, containing many popular apps as flatpaks --> 1 click install. I generally like using the command line, but it was not necessary at all so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so much easier than I had anticipated. Funnily enough, the most complicated thing was organizing a 16Gb USB stick to boot because I only had 20 year old ones with 4Gb. On a newly purchased bare AMD PC, I was able to set everything up after work and play games with my buddies the same evening.

  I opted for Bazzite and everything ran right out of the box without any additional hardware drivers: gaming mouse, wifi, wireless PS4 controller, printer, NAS, Android phone. The game libraries from Steam, Epic, gog etc. can all be easily connected via Lutris and so far all the games I’ve tried have run. For programs that are only offered for other distributions, I have installed BoxBuddy, where you can create Distroboxes. For most Windows native programs Wine just works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same this month. My hardware wasn’t supported by Win11, so I installed Bazzite. It works so smoothly that I’ve already installed it on another PC and will do so on every PC in my household. I’ve been able to run every single game so far, whether they were from Steam, Ubisoft Connect, GOG, Battle.net or the EA app. I had no idea we were at this point already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kickstarter adds a 'tariff manager' to let creators add surcharges to previously funded projects⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s already been reversed: DHL lifts suspension of high-value deliveries to US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who all wants a silent spring?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure you’re referring to these Opalithplättchen, aren’t you?

  Impressive that you could remember the name. I’m German and had to look it up since I never heard about Opalith before.