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Bleep.

Ah yes, the good old religion of peace.

Unfortunately several European countries consider people with 2 shots unvaccinated by now, and more countries are scheduled to follow that strategy. France, Italy and Austria are the ones I know of. They consider the original 2nd shot to "expire" after 6 months, so you are forced to take the booster unless you want to live like a hermit. I strongly dislike this.

Clickbait nonsense. My advice, life is too short to use tools you don't like (and subsequently makes you complain about it). I personally love python, vim and debian. So that's what I'm using for the past 20 years. If I was forced to write java for a living I would probably end up unhappy as well.

Very crazy, and unfortunately the example of Germany made my own country (Belgium) decide to commit the same awful mistake, which will be paid in full (in drastically increased CO2 output, enormous energy price increases and dancing to the tune of a Russian dictator).

Thank you! I don't understand why we're supposed to live in a democracy, except when it comes to mass immigration, on that topic you are not allowed to have an opinion because it makes you a straight up nazi. I live in Brussels and I can see first hand what mass immigration does to a city. Specifically immigration from outside of Europe, bringing in droves of people from a culture and religion which is simply incompatible with western values. The proof is that even 3rd or 4th generation immigrations still haven't integrated, let alone assimilated, most often living in ghettos with massive unemployment, high crime, drug dealing, where ideas and culture run rampant which can best be described as medieval (with respect to homosexuality, work ethics, religion, women, behavior in public, ...).

My own country has a VERY generous social security system, which combined with mass immigration for decades, and little to no effort spent on integration & assimilation, leads to destruction of society, total lack of support for politics and a general pessimistic view on the future.

Better? Half the article is opinion and taste, the other half is simply wrong, as others have described here in detail.

Over here in Belgium we're one of the few countries that have an automatic salary indexation process. So my salary goes up about 3,5% on the first of January to match inflation. Previous indexation adjustment was about 1% a year ago. It's a double edged sword however: the pay rise is welcome, but because of this mechanism labour is more expensive here than in neighboring countries, resulting in a competitive handicap.

Thank you for putting this into words. Wayland solves problems I never had, while creating new ones at the same time. I'll stick to Xorg + openbox for as long as I can.

Agreed. The Quake scene has been very vibrant for 25 years now, even increasing in quantity AND quality of maps and mods in recent years. I always have quakespasm-spiked installed on all of my computers and play new and old maps weekly. DOPA, Alkaline, Arcane Dimensions, and so many other map jams and map packs, it's awesome!

I like that this re-release sparked extra interest, but I think QSS is by far the better engine.

Why does the article get flagged twice in a row? The author seems to have a point. It pains me to see the direction that the woke hysteria is heading us all in, contaminating newspapers, literature, Hollywood, politics and now even math education.

Why would I want to read their woke hysteria anyway...

Maybe you didn't read my comment? Based on having used it for over 20 years.

I have used strictly Nvidia gpus, on debian Linux, for 20 years, using the binary drivers, and I have none of the issues you describe. It just works, very well, stable and fast. Xorg is an amazing piece of software and combined with openbox it does exactly what I need.

Wayland solves problems that I don't have, while introducing new ones (my Nvidia GPU isn't well supported, remote X doesn't exist and none of the wm's I love support it, like openbox). So I'll stay on Xorg for as long as I can.

Very useful contribution, thanks! Mainly to demonstrate your own ignorance on the topic at hand.

An article of unsubstantiated nonsense with a flamebait title.

I installed debian just a few weeks ago on my brand new desktop. AMD Ryzen 5800x, MSI B550 motherboard, MSI Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti. Everything worked, out of the box, without adding anything magical. Including Ethernet, wifi, Bluetooth and hardware accelerated graphics. Have been buying Nvidia gpu's since forever and their (proprietary) drivers have never let me down.

So I'm not sure what you're talking about. Also, more up to date software, I'm quite certain my Debian Sid has more recent versions of everything compared to what Ubuntu has.

Exactly, Debian has you covered depending on your needs. I run Debian Stable on servers and Debian Sid on my desktop and laptop. Had 2 or 3 non-booting Sid systems over the course of 20 years, none or which weren't solved in 10 minutes after asking for help on IRC.

I doubt Ubuntu offers newer packages than my Debian Sid installation.

As for drivers and firmware etc as I've mentioned below I've installed a new state of the art desktop in recent weeks and everything simply worked. From the wifi to Bluetooth to the Nvidia gpu. I wouldn't call enabling the non-free repo "work" since it's just a question to answer during the installation...

As a 20+ years Debian user I've never seen the added value of Ubuntu. Why use a derivative if you can get the real thing?

My experience installing several tools that are built on nodejs has led me to the conclusion that I will simply not use something if it's made with nodejs. I'm not installing 127 dependencies just to get some tiny CLI tool to run. Give me any Linux tool written in Rust, Go, C, C++, Python, it always goes well and without fuss. But nodejs and ruby based software has given me nothing but headaches.

Feel free to highlight the many falsehoods. I didn't say anything that Human Rights Watch and the UN haven't confirmed many times before.

Why would it be common? Israel is a nation built upon stolen land and decades of oppression of the Palestinian people. A modern day apartheid state with a strong and worldwide lobby apparatus. Labeling any criticism of the state as antisemitic is weak and dishonest.

Uh yeah no thanks, I'll just stick with Debian. Served me well 20+ years so far!

Where do you see negativity? I've been using it professionally for over a decade, and can highly recommend it. Very mature, polished, fully featured, reasonably performant, well documented and a pleasure to use. A real productivity boost. It's the most widely used web application framework in the python world, which happens to be my preferred programming language.

I've been writing web applications using python and django for close to 15 years now. Smooth, concise and stable. Doing the same using a verbose and boilerplate heavy language like golang doesn't sound attractive to me, at all.

Not sure I understand the fuss about upgrades either, at my current job I've gone from python 2 to 3 and from Django 1.8 all the way to 3.2 LTS without too many headaches. The release notes provide detailed instructions on what is deprecated and what you should do to fix it.

Lol yes of course, because debating and researching the impact of mass immigration makes us all fascists, clearly!

Ah yes, before you know it we're off slinging Hitler accusations left and right. If you've got counter arguments related to the paper, you're more than welcome to share them. But discarding the entire thing because it comes from a political direction which isn't your own is hardly a productive attitude.

It's in Dutch, and can be found here: http://www.demo-demo.nl/files/Grenzeloze_Verzorgingsstaat.pd...

Of course take things with a grain of salt, as always, but it's quite a hefty and well documented piece of research.

Ah yes, the myth of immigration as both cultural enrichment and economically beneficial. I can tell you that at least in my own (Belgium) and neighboring country (Netherlands) this hasn't been the case.

The cost of immigration, especially from outside of the EU, is catastrophically high, and remains that way, even for 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants. A paper studied the cost of immigration in the Netherlands to be around 400 billion euros between 1995 and 2019 (I can only find the paper in Dutch from the Renaissance institute, performed by several PhD / processors). The people arriving here from outside of the EU are often unskilled, in certain cases illiterate, and come from a cultural and religious background which proves to be nearly impossible to integrate, let alone assimilate.

As a result, in Brussels and many cities all around western Europe, it's riddled with ghettos, people living outside of the system, in poverty, with ideas that aren't compatible with our society (about topics such as religion, rule of law, sexuality, equality and so on). In my own neighborhood there are parts where as a woman you can't walk the street without a headscarf or you'll be harassed. And I'm not even suggesting what happens if you're openly gay in said streets.

Even multiple generations down the line the situation doesn't improve.

Why, in countries that are supposedly democratic, should mass immigration be the one thing that is shoved down our throats, without having any influence or say in it?

Side note: Belgium has a very flexible and generous social security system. We are known for providing unemployment benefits without any limit in duration, and with too little stimulus and followup, resulting in a lot of people simply exploiting the system. This is why immigration and the access to said system is a sensitive topic. We are also famous for having bungled the topic of integration for decades, resulting in people having lived here for ages and still not even speak the local language.