My fiber box broke some time ago and it took 3 days before a technician came by to replace it in that time I played Baldurs Gate 3… Had no problems at all… There’s still good games out there

All I know is that I ducked a dragon and it was marvelous

Issue: there are 27 different ways of writing a date.

Engineers: We most make a common standard that is unambiguous, easy to understand and can replace all of these.

Issue: there are 28 different ways of writing a date.

Joke aside, I really think the iso standard for dates is the superior one!

I think I just found my spirit animal

I wasn’t even aware that existed… Thanks for posting so I could subscribe /cheer

One of the reasons why Valheim is one of my favorite games these days… You buy it and then you play it… No loot boxes, no in game shop, Doesn’t force you to be online and a minimal amount of RNG at all… But the grind is real though…

Isn’t that just the other side of the same coin?

It’s the top 1% that is pushing for the short term gains… It’s being accelerated because everyone else and their pension funds try to match or beat them at it…

I understood the comment as “leave the port open to ssh, to easily allow fail2ban to hit the ip’s before they get through your full port range.” But thanks for the elaborate answer :)

I agree, what you described is much more work ;)

By all means, I am no expert, but isn’t it “just” the fail2ban?

As I said, they are trying to soften the boycott on them, and my feeling is that it is not working to the extent that they would like. Because it’s the most American product in existence.

Oh for sure!

In Denmark, Coca Cola is in full damage control trying to highlight that they are produced in Denmark and thus is basically as Danish as our native brands, but it is an uphill battle since Coca Cola is basically THE American brand.

To be honest I don’t know how well they’re succeeding in their damage control… But I’m getting a sense they are suffering…

Well the answer is definitely 42…

Yeah, because supporting and claiming the AFD is Germany’s only hope (Germany’s Nazi Party, which is not called Nazi Party because that would be illegal in Germany) is exactly what a none Nazi would do!

Hey someone spending money on toilets is good for the GDP! Is the correct response to that…

Not really using either these days, but suspect they might get more prevalent in the future. German seems more likely as it is closer to where I live, but as I understand there’s more synergy between French and other european languages. On the other hand English might just remain as the primary International language…

There’s literally nothing funny to laugh about here… No wonder you’re depressed ;)

In finding it difficult to figure out what I can do as a European… Staying away from American products and saying that I’m never going to the states seems kinda lackluster… I’ve considered learning French or German though :D

Har du nogen documentation for fyringer ved Cola? Mit indtryk er at de bare laver flere Squash, som jeg troede var lavet i Fredericia…

I honestly snickered at that… To be fair, chances are that she did have some document issue a decade ago which they could hold her on: D

I’m not sure I understand the question. As an European buying from small startups in the US hardly ever occur… I buy from local stores, and would expect Americans to do the same.

When it comes to software, indeed I could potentially choose to buy services from American startups, but the US government has vastly different rules on privacy which results in me preferring to keep it in EU.

And then there’s the whole tariff question. The point in tariffs is to minimize import from the countries affected. Which means there will be European companies which lacks sales. Buying more stuff from Europe will (hopefully) cushion that blow.

Which is also why it’s buy European and not necessarily boycott USA… Though there’s also some movement in that direction.

And finally there’s also the part of dependency, many Europeans have found themselves dependant on American products(Microsoft, Google, apple, Facebook etc.) and with the current administration we’ve realised that we probably need to sever those dependencies asap.

So why do we not buy from small US startups? Because in the current political landscape, it simply doesn’t make sense to send money to the USA and make ourselves more dependant and exposed to US surveillance.

That’s what I’m thinking… I need a fanfic version of this that I can read!