Ich fühle mit Dir, bei mir ist es aber andersrum… 🥴

Depending on the age of the EEE, you might run into problems because the old low end CPU doesn’t support instruction set extensions that are assumed to be present by distros nowadays. I think it was SSE2…?

Can anybody tell me the background to this?

Not only the U.S. grid is weak compared to China’s… Strategically China seems to be outpacing the U.S. on many fronts, being much more stringent and focused on long term goals than the chaotic U.S. at the moment. I really don’t like the idea of living in a world with China as the leading nation, but it increasingly seems like the most probable development in the mid to long run. And transition will likely not be smooth…

That surprisingly wasn’t that hard, actually.

One side of the family already settled on Threema for communication years ago, the other side I had to first show Signal to and help with installing it, but now they are even using it in other contexts.

And apparently I live in a bubble that is quite open to Signal, so most of the people I know at least use it in parallel to WhatsApp. And for the rest there is still RCS.

The actual hard part are (since I became a parent) all the WhatsApp groups that exist for most kinds of organized child activity, including distributing much of the crucial information regarding school.
Also at my wife’s work WhatsApp is standard for coordinating with the colleagues.

For that purposes we use an old customized WhatsApp-only smartphone, that is used by the family like some old-fashioned fixed phone-terminal, only for messaging…

It’s not just weird hobbies here, but basically all that are somehow organized.
Also a lot of relevant school information is only shared within parent groups on WhatsApp.
My complete WhatsApp-boycott lasted exactly until the first of my childs entered school… :-(

No, in a very private part of the Cloud, so don’t be afraid!

Ja, aber das ist halt nur der übliche Zickenterror, gab es schon immer.

In der Vergangenheit hätte sich die Gute grollend in den abgeschlossenen Bar-Bereich des Weinzeltes verzogen, da ein paar Frust-Cocktails gekippt und übel über die “Ungerechtigkeit” ausgelassen und am nächsten Tag wäre wieder gut gewesen.

Inzwischen gibt es da immer die Versuchung, über Social-Media ein Fass in der Öffentlichkeit aufzumachen, und wenn man dann (absichtlich oder aus Naivität) die richtigen Hebel zieht, um den Mob aus hass-erfüllten Arschlöchern zu aktivieren…

Hey, didn’t you read? It uses “Meta’s Private Processing technology”!!1!

Also:

original message: “Please don’t leave dirty socks on the sofa.” The AI then offers “funny” rewrites, such as: “Please don’t make the sofa a sock graveyard,” “Breaking news: Socks found chilling on the couch. Please move them,” and “Hey, sock ninja, the laundry basket is that way!”

Am I the only one that thinks the “funny” ones in the given example are much more offensive than the original one?

Nice, another reason to not use WhatsApp…

They are not that common here in Germany in general, but my city has in the past years put up a dozen or so, mainly in public parks.
They are maintained by our municipal utility service and are basically always in perfect condition.
At least during summer. Being outdoor installations they are shut down (actually completely removed) during the winter months.

Other than that I only had one in elementary school 30 years ago, which also worked and a lot of actual natural springs with drinking outlets that are often maintained by rural communities.

Our city also has one of those natural water drinking fountains, but as it is the (still maintained and monitored) remains of a thermal baths project from a hundred years ago, it is not so suitable for actually quenching your thirst. Full of crazy salts and minerals with a faintly sulfuric aroma on top - but supposed to be healthy :-)

So, in general: no complaints where I live.

You are right. Just remembering e.g. the recent farce with the voting for Bundesverfassungsgericht…

Well, Bundestag is dominated by the CDU and she is a CDU member. So… 🤷‍♂️

And yes, the article is written more like a casual political comment and the German original also is a bit awkward, so your impression is right.

Well, an AI is incredibly patient and you can toy around with the language freely without perhaps feeling embarrassed. That alone lowers the entry bar (especially for slightly awkward persons like myself…) considerably.
On top of that AI is dirt cheap compared to a personal tutor or traveling around the world.
So it would open effective language learning to a much broader audience than before, which undoubtedly is a good thing!

I had to check and it seems you are right. Next vote of EU Commission president would normally be in 2029, so she would have to go two years early.

Noch ein kleiner Hinweis, dass “ZDF heute” da ein bisschen geschlampt hat:
Anders als es im Artikel-Text steht, sind das nämlich keine Dinosaurier…

Sehr cool ist das trotzdem, so große fleischfressende Amphibien gibt es ja heute auch nicht mehr.

Döner-mampfender Amphibienmensch wie es aussieht…

Short reminder that the German president is not comparable to the usual role of a president in other countries, e.g. the U.S.
It is by far not so powerful and has (apart from some key functions during the legislative process) mainly representative tasks.

I see, so probably based on the resemblance to “Kathy Deeds”… Wow, that is not even decent dad humour level…