The position of Caps Lock is because on mechanical typewriters, the shift lock key physically held down Shift using a push-to-toggle mechanism. (Windows’ default German layout still does that! “German extended (E1)” and “German (IBM)”, aka DIN T1, don’t.)

For people that type a lot using Level 3 (e.g. using the QWERTZ layout), AltGr on Caps is probably more important. On NixOS, it’s set with two options:

{
  services.xserver.xkb.options = "lv3:caps_switch_capslock_with_ctrl";
  console.useXkbConfig = true;
}

The kernel console REALLY doesn’t like E1 putting the lv5 switch on <M-f>, and instead deletes the f key, so don’t use the second option if your layout does that. (Just try it out and don’t gc until you’ve verified all keys work.)

That’s actually how diabetes diagnoses worked. And diabetes mellitus just means sweet piss.

Apparently that was actually a plan once, but the SNES wasn’t backwards compatible (which sparked complaints back then!), while the Switch 2 is. (My sauce is a YouTube short tho, so take this with a grain of salt)

Actually, in the Boot Services stage, UEFI can do a lot of things, like providing file systems (though only FAT32 is guaranteed), keyboard and mouse input, video output …

If the machine has enough power (which for a Pi is heavily varying between generations), yes, you absolutely can! Look into something like Docker Compose (or even running NixOS).

If you own a 3D printer, there are even quite OK model files available. Just print them in the right orientation (so they don’t break along the layer lines).

ICANN can (theoretically) not force anyone to deregister your domain. If your stack is all outside the US, and everyone collectively decided to disobey the US, the Internet’s decentralization would be true.

The hard part about building a decentralized network is finding out where to hide the centralization.

For the Internet, the centralization is hidden in the IP block and DNS Zone delegation. After this is done, that region is decentralized. A/I’s problem was that the registry for .org is a subsidiary of IANA. With EU servers, EU DNS and a EU domain, EU clients cannot be prevented from connecting solely from the outside. The US would need a collaborator.

You are free to implement any filesystem driver, and either load it in your custom implementation of EFI, or from an EFI image stored on a FAT partition. The EfiFs project provides many drivers under a GPL, including exFAT, Btrfs, ext2-4, NTFS, ISO9660 (cdfs), ZFS and also HFS(+).

iBoot is the bootloader on all Apple products.

UEFI doesn’t forbid you from implementing additional file systems, it just requires everyone to support UEFI-FAT. iBoot for example supports booting from HFS volumes.

Mass transport (of rich people and military) before the invention of the jet engine.

But maybe those route settings are exactly what they are looking for.

Yeah – that’s not how the gas chambers worked. They used Zyklon B, which was designed to be painful (or at least a welcome coincidence).

The land of the Antichrist will fall dark … I’m seeing an increasing number of parallels to Revelation 16 in recent times. It’s quite interesting, especially considering the history of that text: Threatening the Romans and Nero (the original and literal Anti-Christ). History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.

I know someone with a wall clock (broken now lol) made out of a yellow mainboard and a stack of CDs.

Well yes, but this will never exist in ISO 8601, sadly. We’ll take what we can get, see you in 3141!
#iso8601ultras!

This. Swap files on LUKS encrypted partition. Also, the swapspace daemon!

Because it’s a user-specific folder that says “This is mine, but you can see it.”