I bought a Philips many years ago, and it was perfect until an update suddenly gave me a lot of crap (ads) on the home screen.
Ironically they also provided a button where I could "adjust what you see on the home screen", but it turned out I could only add more crap. Not take anything away.
It's annoying, because it is not the same product I bought. It's worse.
Norwegian here. While I do not have an electic car myself (yet), I would more or less agree that roughly half of the cars I see on the road (in my area) are electric.
There are a lot of Teslas (easy to spot), but also cars like Volkswagen Golf where you basically can't see the difference unless you either check the registration number (most of the electical cars have a plate that begins with EB, EC, EE, EV, ...) or notice that there is no air intake in the front grill.
Wonder how long Windows 7 will last for him. I have Windows 8.1 at home (not my daily driver, for that I use Linux), and Google Chrome is no longer updated. Nor is much else. But it works for my tasks, which is Lightroom (the last one that was not subscription I guess).
2) I have a fixed IPv4 address, and a dynamic IPv6. So far the latter also seems to be fairly stable, and I host my webpages on both IPv4 and IPv6 these days.
My server is a ThinkPad X240 with VMware ESXi which in turn host Ubuntu for SSH, Web, etc... And a Pi-hole VM just to block the "wost" of the internet.
I recently installed KDE and I'm surprised how good it is. It's miles ahead of both Windows and Gnome. I mean, it's crazy good.
Like the small things: when I plug my laptop into the docking, the various applications are moved to the correct external monitor. That never happens on Windows.
Tbh for me the monitor behaviour in KDE is great until it isn't. It works fine on my hardware at home but not on my Dell laptop and docking station at work. But I can live (and have lived) with it given the rest of KDE is as you say awesome.
Fighting the urge to debug, and failing, are they running the same software? I could see it being a hardware issue, but highly doubt it. For me it works flawlessly with an old T460 and its dock, but maybe the USB-C codepath is less robust, even today?
For what it's worth, I had a similar problem with a USB-C dock for my Framework in KDE. Check the Thunderbolt permissions under System Settings -> Hardware. I had to do a pairing dance to get it to work correctly.
From users point of view, from developer tooling experience, not really when compared to Visual Studio, .NET and C++ frameworks, even with the GUI civil war going at Redmond.
Although KParts and DCOP/D-Bus is certainly nicer than dealing with COM stuff.
As a Swede I used to feel this way too, at least to some extent. But then I came to need the system for a period, and that has radically changed my view. It’s not so much that the healthcare and benefits you get are limited, I can accept that. It’s that these systems are full of nasty people who take advantage of their power to satisfy their own psychological needs, at the expense of the vulnerable (read: me 5 years ago).
Now I just have an uneasy feeling of being half-enslaved: I have to pay 60-70% of all the value I create into this system, and if I do fall seriously ill I could very well die on a park bench.
Sadly my conclusion is that I have to get out of here. I don’t think I could take another iteration of this without succumbing to bitterness.
Before you judge me think about the Fundamental Attribution Error: yes, I’m not exactly like you as a person, but more importantly I have information you probably don’t have (i.e. what it’s like to be at the bottom of this kind of society).
One more important difference: It’s terrible to die on a park bench because you can’t support yourself and other people won’t help you. But in my mind it’s worse to die on a park bench because the state extracted 60-70% taxes from you, and now won’t give you even a small portion of that back. To me that’s just inhuman…
I think this is what may be hard to understand if you haven’t experienced it: if you fall far enough in Swedish society you are essentially dehumanized.
>It’s that these systems are full of nasty people who take advantage of their power to satisfy their own psychological needs, at the expense of the vulnerable (read: me 5 years ago).
As a fellow Swede, elaborate?
If what I am going to healthcare for is REAL they take very good care of you. They know when it's serious or not. If you waste their time, gtfo.
That’s only true when they can identify with you. If you have very REAL health problems (e.g. drug addiction or serious mental health issues) you are essentially dehumanized.
Same in the Netherlands. I look around and think "yup, that's why I'm paying taxes".
What I can't fathom though, is what what goes on in England. They pay just as high taxes, and it looks like a dump. Broken roads, rubbish strewn everywhere, take-your-life-in-your-hands "healthcare system", soul crushing training camps posturing as schools, I could go on, but it's essentially every aspect of life. This has nothing to do with Brexit either, as it's been like this since I can remember, going back 30 years.
I moved from a (nominally "first-world") country off this list to a country on the list (first class first-world) near the turn of the century; although I won't rule out moving back, it would have to be an extremely sweet deal to be enticing: I consider myself, not an expat, but an immigrant.
Let me ask, do you have a job with the countries median or average salary? Or you have a western job salary, and therefore you can live it up? Did you bring all your gadgets, pc, laptop, phone etc or did you buy those in the country or ?
What I mean is of course you will have it better in a third world cheap country if you come in with a western salary or even western tools already bought in from elsewhere.
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I immigrated to one of {AT, CA, CH, DE, DK, FI, IS, NL, NO, SE}, none of which are third world cheap countries. (and average salaries are also high in my home country, it's just that those [mean] high salaries, for whatever reasons, do not translate to [modal] high quality of life)
For sure. And that is how it should be. I absolutely love Norway and think that it is a beautiful country. But I also couldn't ever imagine living there because of the weather. So perhaps "quality of life" has much more to it than socialized healthcare and benefits. No?
TLDR: Love Norway and think they're doing it right. But also think that these rankings are broken.
With "quality of life" I mean that I don't feel like I have to protect myself from my peers. Kids growing up poor still get an education. Kids (mostly) have access to some sort of activity keeping them out of trouble. It's not perfect, but it's something.
With regards to the weather: "Winter depression" is a real thing for many (including me), and the health care system is still far better with physical issues then with mental issues.
But there is a safety net in place. When I broke my shoulder in 2017 I did not loose any of my income, and it didn't cost me anything in the hospital (with some exceptions). Still, I would prefer not to break the shoulder again. :D
The only reason I have Ubuntu right now is that I was never able to get DisplayLink drivers to work on anything else. Not that I tried that hard, I tested SuSE and then Ubuntu... and stopped since, well, it kind of just worked.
I'm not too happy with Ubuntu, but it's better then Windows 11.
Thanks. I did search myself and found the same results. But as I wrote, it worked when I came to Ubuntu and I gave it a shot. But I feel it's time to try Fedora now. :-)
Ironically they also provided a button where I could "adjust what you see on the home screen", but it turned out I could only add more crap. Not take anything away.
It's annoying, because it is not the same product I bought. It's worse.