Die Sonne scheint. Bäume wiegen sich im Wind. Rehe brechen aus dem Wald - UAAARGH.

Thank you very much for the explanation. I would never have guessed. My mind is blown.

Is there a difference between Budweiser and having sex in a canoe? Nope. Both are fucking close to water.

You are absolutely correct. Know what, the original post also is available just a click away on github ( https://github.com/dhitchenor/hubzilla) , maybe we should delete the post in the first place.

There is no place for lazyness and redundancy we need to eradicate it!

I have never seen or heard anything about that. Over here 95% of the crappers are wall mount with a hidden - whatever Spülkasten is called in English. The water reservoir with all the mechanics inside. What does frequently happen: If you got freshwater with a lot of minerals the flush mechanism can get stuck after 5 years or so. Therefore I open up mine once a year or so (no tools needed) and add some acid to decalcify stuff.

They got common in the late 80s / early 90s, before a very weird kind of crappers were common here which I can just call poop inspection crappers. Poop landed on a kind of “dry plate” and flushing would flush it off. You needed to brush more with a toilet brush, the advantage was no splashback. Those typically were floor. mount.

You can service and repair every part through the opening. It’s a bit tight, but doable.

Definitely, if cutting down aluminum posts in public, the most inconspicuous thing is doing it im the daytime, wearing a hard hat, tinted saftey glasses, a high vis vest, saftey gloves etc.

Kink is stuff “out of the percieved norm”, so it has developed a culture of finding consent, that - sadly! - a lot of “normal people” don’t have.

I want this always.

(And I’ve probably confused the person following up to my comment with my attempt of sarcasm)

Should I have added a sarcasm marker? I experience it regularly that people involved in kink care about consent - and a lot of vanilla people don’t. Which is awful.

Yes, you always need consent.

It was a bit of bitterness and attempt at sarcasm that so many people do not talk about consent - and I know from kink even that can be fun and sexy. (Also in vanilla).

Yes. “Regular sex” is the kind where people just assume what the other wants, where they don’t talk about it and where they don’t agree about consent before and do what both think is “common practice”.

Kinky sex is where you find out what both like, whatever it is, what’s ok for both (consent) and where you have fun and do what the fuck you both like, not thinking about what the fuck someone else might think.

I edited the post you replied to and added a link to an article

Neither does the Windows kernel have the specific apis that Windows applications call.

It’s not very visible nowadays but the Windows kernel has it’s own api and loads subsystems to support different apis for applications. All these subsystems died out long ago but the win32 subsystem which still lives on.

The win32 subsystem conceptually is not too far from Wine. The big difference is just how much effort MS puts into it and their long experience (and hacks and special cases for backwards compatibility).

Long time ago MS offered a posix subsystem, for example, so you could run Unix apps on Windows. (It was a bit half-assed however, they didn’t really want people to use it, they just wanted people not to buy Unix workstations)

The Win 32 API is a continuation of the API from the Windows 95 line of OSes that still used DOS below. Windows NT supported Win32 on a completely different kernel, the Windows NT kernel was inspired by the VMS operating system.

NT is the great-granddaddy (via 2000, XP, Vista, 8, 10) of Windows 11. It’s basically still the same kernel, just modernized.

The Win95 line, where the Win32 API originated, died out after 98 and ME.

(And I’m ignoring the 64 bit switch for this discussion, that would complicate things even more)

They also did the opposite, they have their own “thing” to run Windows software on Linux. It’s a quite thin “kernel-like” layer offering most of the important Windows kernel calls on Linux. This is what they used to port their DB2 Sql Server database to Linux. Sql Server on Linux uses a few calls directly on the Linux kernel for performance (File IO for the DB), but other stuff lives in a Windows emulator (Like DLLs it loads).

Read a white paper about it a few years ago.

If they wanted, they could easily port all their applications to Linux, but (understandibly) they don’t want to for end user stuff.

Edit: It was SQL Server of course, DB2 is IBM: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-an-old-drawbridge-helped-microsoft-bring-sql-server-to-linux/

When the ex wife and me split up (she did, but didn’t bother to file for divorce, so I had to) the first time I made a mistake in filing, so things didn’t proceed, then did again. After all it took four years (yeah we could have expedited it, but we were on ok terms, so why bother)

In the end we were only divorced 4 years after we split up. Legally in my country there’s a mandatory 1 year separation phase anyway.

The only sad thing, I met someone whom I was interested in in that time, and (she communicated right from the beginning) that was something of a “no go” for her.

I was quite sad about that, specifically it would have been quite easy to confirm I’m not cheating by having her talk to my ex wife for once.

The ex and me do have children, so we’ll be meeting each other every now and then for the rest of our lives. I do know her new partner, she knows mine.

Talking to each other can give a lot of information in such cases. And OP would quickly find out if the guy is cheating by suggesting to all talk to each other for once. If he is blocking, I’d be careful, if he’s in a similar situation than I was he’d be very happy about that idea.

And it ruins the pasta, so the sauce doesn’t stick to it. Use less heat.

Hahahaaaaah.

Walmart tried to come here and lost. Das war sooo Scheiße.

We’re Walmart AND Costco Free. No Carrefour, either.

2038 Ford F150

Last year I was reading a bit about Mozilla, all that google money, their spendings, their CEO and got really really angry looking on how shit the Firefox is I use daily.

The reason Firefox still exists is that Google can prove it’s not a Chrome monopoly. Now this is just me forming conspiracy theories, but I do believe that Google would stop these payments the day Firefox would really out-innovate Chrome and get more market share.

I do believe all that Google money is not keeping Firefox alive, it’s keeping it dead.

At that moment I rage-donated money to Servo. Monthly. Didn’t regret it, yet. Found their transparency records what they use it for. Up to now they use their money very responsibly.

I’m not a Playstation fan, I just want to play on the sofa, so I bought it just for that. It was a PS1, PS3, PS4, PS5… ooh wait, in fact I did have nearly all of them

PS6? No way. For me the PS always was a good offer for couch gaming.

Unless Sony changes course, a future PS6 looks mighty unattractive, price and usage-wise.

My next “console” will be something with Steamos or Bazzite or any wine/proton install. Maybe something that I can also use for running LLMs when I work.

If memory wasn’t so expensive, I’d already have ordered a 128G Strix Halo box (good enough for most games, good enough for a lot of local models)

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