My ISA Fritz! ISDN card fucking killed me…
I could, and did, live with the terminal for quite some while, surfing with Links, listening to music and even watching videos. Besides the obvious open IIRC chat in one terminal.
But the Fritz Card was horrible to setup. I need to say, that it was ok, when it worked, but as far as I remember, I needed to compile the kernel with support for it and afterwards needed to configure some memory or bus addresses somewhere.

As this was my only computer as a teenager, this was just a horrific experience. Cutting myself off from the information live line multiple times until I got it right.
Also setting up dual boot the first time was a fun adventure…

Just wait for Hurd!
Hurd will kick all those little asses, you’ll see, whenever it comes out!
And then GNU will be really independent and superior!
Can just be like a few years now!

Edit: I shouldn’t type anymore today …

Thank you!

I always tell my wife, I couldn’t even switch to a younger girlfriend, just because of the smell

Don’t know what’s up with that, but can’t stand the smell of schools either…

Yeah, in my student single flat, I didn’t had a dishwasher for quite some time.

Couldn’t keep up in any way, although this shit kitchen wasn’t even up to really cook something big, but hand washing every little thing, really put me off cooking for quite some time.

I think, I re-used the same set of plate and knife for years, just because I didn’t want to use up more dishes, that I need to wash…

Interpreted it the same, but I’m coming from C++

Every time I hear the word “elites”, I already know it’s some right wing/russian conspiracy bullshit

Ah, comprehensive insurance!
Ok, thanks!

Sorry, English isn’t my first language, so I’m not sure what you mean with “buy comprehensive”

It’s a bit hard to describe for me, how I understand it, without just translating it directly ;⁠-⁠)
(Would be “umfassend” if that helps)

So, I understood it like extensive, exhaustive

But I’m not sure how that would translate to my shopping.
Would I just buy everything I need all at once?
But what signal would that send?

I guess, I just don’t understand it correctly.

Thanks for helping me out here, I’m a bit stuck here…

Many people save up for such a major expense, like a car
So they save up for years, because they really would like to have that one specific car and then some idiot comes around and destroys it, because he doesn’t like the owner of the manufacturer

And many people bought it while Tesla was pretty much the only decent EV

and even if the driver could buy the car without selling his kidney, it doesn’t mean, that he has a bunch of cars in his home

Yeah, I recently saw a Tesla here with a sticker on its back reading:
“I bought this before Elon went crazy”

Those will probably get wildly popular to secure their cars

And I’m all with you, that destroying people’s property is just a shit move…

Edit: and forgot to add:
There are still quite some anti-EV people around, that just seem to hate on EVs in general
If such a fucker destroys my Renault EV, I’d be more than just pissed

Didn’t knew about that one
What’s up with that?

Would have thought that a legal trade of coca leaves would work out reasonable…well, I’m naive it seems

Just check it with lsusb on Linux and you’ll see the device and vendor id stays the same, independent of the port - else no udev rules would work

Don’t know though what ever the fuck windows is doing…

Usually you have a vendor and a device id to identify the connected device on the bus

You’re right though, that in every different port it will get its own memory allocated an so on (at least I also believe that), but that’s no reason to not identify the already known device

Well, depends on what you need to restart.

If it’s just a service or two, then it’s pretty quick.

Obviously you need to know, what you’re doing.
And I think that’s pretty hard with windows, because it never tells you, what it’s actually doing during an update.

With Linux it’s much more transparent and often the restart of a service is just part of my update routine.
No need to close and save all my open stuff, and reboot. Just restart the few services that got an update and that’s pretty much it.

So, really depends on the update, the transparency of it and also the personal insight/skill

Not of you need to wait for ever for an update to finish during shutdown, when you just want to pack up your laptop and finally leave the work site - and afterwards it somehow needs the same time to boot up again, because it’s preparing out finishing something, without ever telling you, what the hell it’s actually doing all the time

And usual reboot only takes like 20s, you’re right there, but not with a windows update blocking a normal shutdown or startup

Yeah, wasn’t sure if it’s a painting or a photograph until I zoomed in a bit

Absolutely perfect picture

So, like Trump, Musk, Putin, Kim Jong-Un,…?
Pretty much every (wanna-be) dictator was/is a narcissistic petulant child.

I’m not sure how the image looks on your side, but on my end there is nothing highlighted, but only striked through and I can’t read these text parts anymore

And you still went for your edited version on not just gave up and post the original?
Not sure what to say. Maybe respect for your commitment?

I don’t know, if I have enough Daniel Abrahams for the job :⁠-⁠(