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LibreOffice is working great and is compatible. I have never had any issues with formulas. I suppose if there are some very complex macros or formulas then it will break, but then you are probably using the wrong tool anyway.

If they do serious financial work I for sure hope they do not use Excel or any other spread sheet tool. It can go wrong so many ways.

To be honest, I would be more surprised if he came from a more normal middle class background.

Your reasoning makes no sense. If you swap a stock for another you have tu use the closing price of that day as you sell/buy price respectively and you trigger a tax event.

Forex is also typically taxed on every trade.

> But "stable" isn't really want they want or need.

Yes, that is exactly what they need. They need stable energy over let's say a 1-2 week period. A windy week is often followed by a non-windy week. So if they can store the energy from the windy week and use it in the following week then they can rely on wind power as a stable energy source.

What's stupid about that?

> Now I've just blocked them all with CF.

Yeah, they for sure let nothing through right now. ;)

Thanks. Well, in that case I would for sure select KDE Plasma over XFCE as it feels more modern from a design point of view and for someone coming from Windows or MacOS they would probably feel more at home.

Maybe not to install, but to chose what to install. Saying "install Debian instead of Ubuntu" is not a complete answer, because you have to select a window manager as well. If you go "pure" Debian, what should you then select? GNOME, KDE, cinnamon, xfce, Mate...?

It's an easier path to go with Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Less overwhelming choices when you just want to get started. Linux Mint is good for people used to Windows as it feels familiar. If you still want to go "pure" Debian you can use LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

Good point, but is Google Docs more compatible with MS Office than Libre Office? Can one work fricitonless between a Google Docs user and an MS Word user?

There is also OnlyOffice as an alternative to Google Docs. https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop

They can not, as Nvidia owns very little of its own stock.

It's the owners of the Nvidia stock who potentially could trade their Nvidia stocks for the other 230 companies stocks. But then they have no Nvidia stocks anymore, on the other hand.

The water temperature which you deliver to radiators are not defined by capacity of the heatpump, but how hot the radiators can be for safety/comfort reasons. If the radiators are too hot people could burn by touching them or stuff like platsic chairs would melt. Also the piping in the walls and floors cannot support too hot temperatures.

The temp for water used in radiators 60-70C is easily achievable by an air-top-water heat pump. It does not depend on the energy source, gas/oil/electricity.

> Why is there so much fact-free anti-US sentiment on HN?

Firstly, it's the US government themselves saying there are imbalances and therefore they have to add tariffs on imports from almost every country. It's the US government who spreads hate towards most other countries, not the other way around.

Secondly, could it be because people living in the US seem to not notice (or don't want to believe) the US is turning into a dictatorship and the rest of the world does. People don't like the new values of the USA, they liked the old values. If it continues like this, it's game over for the USA.

Yes, and US bad at everything else.

The keyboard issue when switching from Windows/Linux to Mac is understated. It's a pain and I think it's worse for non-english keyboards/characters. You have to use plugins/3rd party software and relearn new keys.

Or forward your gmail to another proper email domain.

The article does not discuss what to use instead of Microsoft's products, it discusses a better architecture for authorization than the one Microsoft uses. The architecture which Microsoft uses is flawed and too many companies rely on it.

The solution in short: "...distributed in the form a key who’s pieces live across a decentralized network."

If looking for alternatives to Microsoft's products I would recommend Infomaniak [0]. They have a fairly complete solution of business tools (email, contacts, calendar, cloud storage, file sharing, chat, video meetings, docs and sheets).

[0] https://www.infomaniak.com

While your comment makes sense if you were commenting on an Apple or Samsung phone, but this is a Linux phone. We should be glad there are Linux phones being made available at all and the smallest problem is if there is a camera bump or not.

I hope one day comes when the biggest issue with a Linux phone is a camera bump or some other mechanical detail.

I agree. I think the reason why Rails (and Laravel) set the default to SQLite is that it makes it easier for newcomers to start. No install needed of MySQL/Postgres.

The problem with making this the default is that people then think it is the recommended way, even if it is not. It is the easiest way to fast get something up and running locally, but it is typically not the best for a production setup. Experienced users will know this, but for beginners to these frameworks, it leads them in the wrong direction.

The author of the article says he could not have implemented the app without SQLite, but nowhere in the article does he explain why he could do it with SQLite and not with MySQL/PostgreSQL.

> Feed Your Email is only possible as a service because of SQLite—if I had to maintain three Postgres instances and a couple of web instances and a couple of worker instances, I would have felt like it was too much hassle and cost too much money, and given up.

What's the issue to run MySQL instead and all on one server? You can do it for $5-10 on a Hetzner server.

The issue with size I have with phones is that they are too high, so I cannot have it in my jeans front pocket and then sit down.

Thinness has not been an issue in the last 10-15 years.

A thin phone is also very hard to hold, it kind of flips in your hand.

How can one know it is due to DNA or how the brain works versus learned behaviour? I suppose it is possible to learn different traits and behaviour from parents so that the offspring behave in an autistic way even if they are not "physically" autistic.

Using Wise within Europe, also between non-Euro currencies/countries takes less than 4-8 hours most of the time.

For stocks on the stock market, yes, but not if it is your own private company. Then the taxes are much higher.

> You start the day in a dopamine deficit and need to start with small tasks that gives you quick wins. You can't tackle the important but absolutely boring work head on, you need to do some stimulating activities first to get the ball rolling.

Sounds like just about every human being.

Because it is not allowed and it does not count. It is the origin country that counts, even if you ship via another 3rd party country.

I suppose the person means that you have to pay about 50% in taxes to take out the capital/profit from the company before you can use it as a private person.

Laravel builds on Symfony so it is in some way natural that more real products/applications are released based on Laravel than on pure Symfony. Laravel has more functions built in and more practical packages for real use cases. Developing a similar app based on Symfony would require much more work.

Yes, a standard Linux computer is the way to go. I would argue most people do not need complicated redundant drive setups. A regular computer with a standard SSD works fine. Probably good to start out with a new one though and not reuse an old one from an old computer.

I'm curious. Why do you need four monitors for you workflow? Is it to avoid using Alt-Tab or similar to switch between apps? Do you have to be able to see all four monitors at exactly the same time? Couldn't having two monitors and two app screens on each monitor work?

I'm not questioning you, just curious and wonder if I miss something using only one monitor and Alt-Tabbing my way around.