Get Ukraine and Iceland in.

Call up Canada and work on the rules so they’re a member, even if a non core country.

The EU could be crushing it going forward if the member states can keep dictators out of presidency seats.

Do it! Canada and the EU already have a ton in common.

Use what works for you.

Develop what scratches your itch.

Don’t tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.

If you want a solution that’s non-systemd go for it. If it doesn’t exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That’s the way of the Bazaar.

I’ll be in my unenlightened “things work for me good enough” Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I’m not even sure I can remember any.

Huge thank you’s to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!

Percentage-wise of our wealth, the few dollars I can tip a driver is more than that greedy bastard gave.

Oh, he’s on my grandmother’s birth certificate. I’ve got a complete and solid chain of birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, places and dates of births, the whole thing.

I even have his Canadian draft papers from WWI.

It’s basically as clean of a history as you can get when it’s back to the late 1800’s.

In my case we’ll be staying in Germany, but having an option to move to Canada with our multiple Phds instead of going back to the US (if forced out of Germany for some reason) would be preferable.

We also have some kids who are going to be looking at college in a few years. If they could have an option to to Canada cheap, that’d rock. Then you’d have some more educated Canadians hanging out and paying taxes.

I did make sure to teach the kids the rules of ice hockey. I know it’s on the driving test there, right?

We already had much of the family archives gathered for genealogical research done. There was a (mostly unknown) great grandfather that we didn’t track down. We just knew he was from canada, fathered one of the ancestors and bailed back to Saskatchewan.

Turns out he’s now findable online (new records were added) and he’s multi generational Canadian. The birth certificate has been ordered. The process might take a while, but we’re filing the day his records show up in our mailbox.

Now we just need Canada to join the EU somehow and all of the stars will align.

This whole debacle was a rousing success. The question is for whom. It wasn’t a victory for the US citizens writ large. It wasn’t a win for any NATO allies. It wasn’t a win for the vast majority of the people in the world.

There’s a few people/groups we can assume did win:

• The wealthy: they were given insider trading info and made billions
• Iran’s leadership: they have come out regionally stronger
• Israel’s government: they got to genocide more Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, and Gazans under the cover of a regional war.
• The inside circle in the executive branch that weren’t outright fired

It’s mostly an insider trading game at the expense of lives, money, and the US’ sitting on the geopolitical stage. This is all part of the smash and grab stage of this presidency.

Why the every living FUCK would a serious agency rely on Microslop for any technical component anywhere? Haven’t they learned from the last 40 years of terrible products?

Is this the real life?

I’m still running the last release of Hannah Montana Linux. Just waiting for something better to come out.

No. Full stop NO.

It’s my computer and my family. Stop trying to justify yet more tracking us in our own homes and on our own devices. Get fucked.

OP is also complaining because he is trying to pirate the game. The process of stripping the DRM is better documented on Windows than on Linux, and somehow it’s the fault of the Linux ecosystem.

This FIFA event might be the US version of the 1936 Olympics.

Strange that once you start having ways to make people identify themselves the government would expand it’s use! Who would have foreseen that?

I don’t feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of “protecting the children with age verification” is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It’s the same war we’ve been fighting for 30 years now.

Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90’s. What’s old is new again.

Berlin would be 100% down if it wasn’t for the S-Bahns being DB unions.

Us too! High five! We’re still getting our sea legs, but it’s way nicer to live in a modern city instead of a US-designed one.

Does a UK passport allow you to live in other parts of the Commonwealth than just British Isles?

Elbows up, Canada. I’m so happy to see the Neighbors to the North take little shit from the Bully Cowards to the South.