Tommi Nieminen

Being aware of stuff is a fault?!

“$4/gallon gas” is terrifying America?! It’s $9/gallon ATM in Finland (by quickly converting the funny American units) :D

It’s tRump. He probably has the codes written in a post-it note that’s attached to his bedroom TV frame.

Every gdn teacher in the world knows that, or at least should know. It’s next to impossible to create tests that would measure understanding, and actually using that kind of tests in real life would be so time-taking and slow that schools and universities would grind to a halt.

As notabot below says, homework (and exams) are for the student. The “measuring” aspect in them gives only a sign that the student should note and act on (and of course, the society being what it is, the “measures” are also used in other ways whether we like it or not).

Debian used to have quite old software before version 6.0 or so. Ever since then it’s been quite a good daily driver for workstations too.

This just came out. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026

I wonder, when they get a grown-up president again, will they finally also begin to move to the 21st century?

How ’bout some actual chocolate? https://www.fazer.fi/tuotteet/tuotemerkit/fazerin-sininen/

Out of those you listed, LibreWolf and SwiftFox are not NounNoun: they are AdjectiveNoun.

…and being boring is only one of Europe’s strong points.

It supports 24h clocks all right and always has (I’ve used Plasma with SDDM for years and never have had issues with the clock!), but as you said in a different thread, it may have problems in separating the common locale from the time format.

You can’t really get a joke, can you?

Well, “inchic”, “football field-ic” or “large rock-ic” would be more appropriate than metric.

Well, I don’t know about Balkans, but at least for me, a half-liter beer of any kind takes 30–45 minutes. Stouts and porters are too thick to drink faster, ales too bitter etc. A light lager may be, but why bother?

There’s a easy rule. Allow ~ 45 min per beer and think how long the meeting will last. Most will actually not drink that much, but it’s good to have spare ones.

The figures only make sense in “first past the post” (or “winner takes it all”) systems.

I think a majority would find that unethical regardless. Majority of Americans, no doubt. Majority of the rest of the world, probably not.

When I was beginning to work at the university, there was a professor who had started an affair with his student. Everybody knew about that, no one cared a s***. Later on, the student got employed at the department, and then they got married. The only thing I ever heard of it being talked about was that it wasn’t quite sure whether it was the student or her professor who actually did her “maturity exam” (a then-compulsory exam after finishing your MA thesis, the questions of which were based on the thesis).

The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.

Well… not really. My current installation of Tumbleweed is three and a half years old, and back in 2022 the only reason I re-installed it was changing the NVMe drive. I’ve never read factory mailing list and don’t ever recall having made manual interventions. I’ve just booted it, updated (zypper ref; zypper dup), rebooted and continued working.

Basically a Sophie Scholl kind of resistance.