My fridge stopped working correctly, only the freezer part would actually cool. I called the local service company. Tech came when I wasn’t home, told my partner “compressor’s broken, though shit” , took 60€ and left.

My combination washer dryer has stopped drying. From what I gather it seems like a compressor gas leak, guess what? Too expensive to fix, so I would have to throw away several tens of kilos of machine just because of a fart’s worth of gas.

I have a Neato robot vacuum which I’ve kept clean and repaired for years, only for fucking Vorwerk, may they go bankrupt tomorrow, to shut down its servers, so now it’s dumb as a rock and next to useless.

It’s not your mother’s fault for assuming a malfunctioning appliance must be replaced.

Speedrunning “American intervention in the middle east” scenario.

Europe thanks the USA for messing up our neighborhood ONCE AGAIN. With friends like these…

Some entities have too much money to invest in stupid endeavors, money that they took from everyone else and they can lose without worrying too much. It’s a rotten society.

The MIC thanks everyone involved

Felt it was going to be oglaf

Italy for this cycle elected our first female prime minister. She’s a fascist.

A music collection on your harddive is a joy for you personally for ever

As long as you take care of backups

I use Navidrome and scrobble to ListenBrainz and Last.fm for suggestions. I’ve recently learnt about Sonobarr but haven’t tried it yet.

It’s not as seamless as playing a song/artist station on spotify or just letting it decide what to continue with at the end of a playlist, but it’s also free (in both ways!).

A decimated enemy still has 90% of its strength

The complaint about the one I have on my work ZBook is that removing the cable is more fiddly

wipping?

Are you assuming Tux’s gender?

Nah, wine prefixes are good

95 wasn’t good. That’s when the “just format C: and reinstall windows” tradition started. I had to do that to my computer at least yearly until 2000 came along.

That’s how the matrix started!

You don’t own proprietary software. When you allow it access to your computing resources, you can just hope it does what you want it to do, the way you want it to.

Sounds like a bonkers extremist position, and in a way it is, but it’s also true.

Distribution choice makes a lot of difference, but they’re not wrong, manufacturers just don’t write drivers for Linux. Sure, we’ve got AMD, Intel, and even nVidia (fuck nVidia btw) writing theirs, but peripherals are way more hit or miss.

That’s only going to be solved with wider adoption.

Don’t you remember the turning point of the 2002 Hartford kidnapping that turned the US society from a tolerant and inclusive society to a racist and violent hell?

You assume they have morals, yet they work for X on an advanced feature