Absolutely - me,too.

But, to play the optimist for once - Canva could bring some good to Affinity/Serif. Canva is available as a native linux app and Serif in the past has stated multiple times it’s mainly the lack of Linux resources and experience that stops them from providing Linux support. So maybe that could be a good influence.

Canva also has a workflow that is based on a webapp that is more “beginner friendly” than Affinity and a good integration between these services could be a good thing as it may remove barriers.

And Canva for a long time had a desire to provide a full production workflow, so maybe affinity gets the long missing library features.

BUT: Now enough with that optimism, sadly I am rather sure enshitification is around the corner. Which will be a sad day for me.

Had a lengthy mail exchange on that topix with them - before them being bought, though.

While they don’t plan a native Linux version they absolutely were open to optimise towards better Wine usability - which I totally could live with for now.

But I have no idea how the buying by Canva influenced things - Canva does have a linux app so maybe there are more resources and a different focus now.

Blue-Ray Discs are basically the only viable WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) that is available to normal and small scale professional users. The cheapest alternative, Tandberg RDX is a few hundred bucks per TB. And these are far inferior in terms of protection against outside influences compared to BD media.

And considering that a lot of professional data (e.g. tax reports) are legally required to be saved on WORM in a lot of countries it is indeed an issue, even more so in times of crypto/ransomviruses. None wants to loose their precious baby or wedding photos to a untimely virus. And no, normal Dropbox/OneDrive is no proper backup. And USB drives/external harddrives degrade over time, especially if not used.

No. TP-Link Omada is usually better and cheaper these days and offers nearly identical features.

And TP Link can be used standalone,the controller is just a gimmick.

For pure networking (not WiFi) Mikrotik is also a reasonable alternative,but requires more knowledge.

Of course it’s possible to be a part time CEO and there are more and more leadership positions that are job shared, etc.

Everything else is sexist and ableist bullshit, because it usually disadvantages women and disabled disproportionately.

Actually Swiss disability provisions are worse than US provisions (worse than most industrial nations, btw)

Which is kind of ironic seen the current problems.

But it’s indeed incredibly beautiful.

Lisboa has a similar but smaller and older district, built there to rebuild after an earthquake.

Und das wo sich doch seine Parteifreunde im Osten Land auf Land ab auf eine Koalition mit der AfD vorbereiten…als Juniorpartner.

Nein, hätte man tatsächlich nicht - die Briten waren nicht im Rahmen der NATO unterwegs sondern als “Showtruppe” und hatten wohl auch tlw. zivile Mitglieder dabei. Damit fallen die Schengen Sonderregelungen dafür raus. Und da eine Grenzkontrolle auf britischer Seite aus britischer wie französischer Sicht nicht möglich ist ohne entsprechenden Vertrag hat man es halt genau so geregelt: Man hat ganz kulant eine Einreisekontrolle auf freiem Feld errichtet.

Am Ende haben beide Seiten den schnellsten Weg genutzt der möglich war ohne geltendes Recht zu brechen.

Just to everyone saying it’s a lenient sentence: The guys fucked anyway. He lost all his retirement fund and very likely a lot of personal money (/everything) as the police can charge him for some of their costs and lawyers and shit are expensive.

He will have to pay for his own private health insurance when back out and is not eligible for public insurance anymore. And he is ineligible for a lot of jobs as he won’t pass the most basic background checks, he won’t even be allowed to drive a school bus until he is at an age that he needs to retire anyway. Even amazon will not hire him.

Basically he fucked his whole life over. For what? For things the Russian intelligence services very likely already knew.

(And no, tbh, I feel no pitty for him. I am all for resocialisation, but this way intentionally and beyond stupid)

Das ist schon richtig so - sonst hast du schnell bei aktuellen Ereignissen (siehe: Anschläge/Katastrophen) ein riesen Problem an dem potentiell Menschen sterben können (siehe die Reddit-Boston-Bomber-Geschichte, aber auch div. Fälle bei X, von COVID will ich gar nicht reden…)

The infotainment is utter garbage for a proper car(!) infotainment and OTA updates are available for basically all major car brands these days.

Homöopathie für Eigenheimbesitzer und Landwirte und eine nette Gelegenheit für Kleinflugzeugpiloten auf Flugstunden zu kommen.

In der Pflege werden mittlerweile hohe Beträge für die Vermittlung von Bewerbern geboten - 5.000€ sind tlw. auch außerhalb der Leiharbeit, nur unter Kollegen. Da gibt es schnell mal Leute die Kontakte von Kollegen,etc. wild verteilen. Ich kenne einen Fachlehrer der gleich die ganzen Kontaktdaten einer Klasse “weiterverkauft” hat.

Not macht erfinderisch …

Die Stelle ist übrigens nicht mal besonders unübersichtlich oder so.

Und Helis sind in der Endphase des Anflugs sehr sensibel was seitliche Berührungen angeht - es ist also weit mehr als eine Lapallie.

Tatsächlich muss man sagen,dass auf der Höri oft Tempo 30 indiziert wäre…Und wohl zu mindestens laut einem befreundeten kommunalen Verkehrsplaner aus Singen tlw. auch möglich - aber die Lokalpolitiker haben mit den freiwilligen Schildern halt den enormen Vorteil,dass sie so auf der einen Seite nicht den Zorn derer die 50 fahren wollen (ist ne Goldküste da hinten) auf sich ziehen, andererseits aber auch bei den 30 Befürwortern “wir haben ja die freiwilligen Schildern und ich würde ja,aber Konstanz/Stuttgart/Berlin…” rufen können.

Österreicher gehen halt nicht nur zum lachen in den Keller, siehe auch Kampusch.

Ich, währenddessen früher als Consultant in den Kliniken: Liebe Führungskräfte, schafft ein vernünftiges, freiwilliges, Rotationsprogramm für eure PFKs,dass erhöht -insert jede Menge Evidenz here- die Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit.

The system does exactly that - But that is done automatically without intervention.

The system recognises by checking on our devices and the presence detectors if we are at home. If we aren’t it reduces the temperature.* Then it looks into our calendars when we can be expected to be back and increases the temperature accordingly (additionally once we enter a certain Geofence).

*:The overall heating effort is also based on the current and expected weather and sun-influx,as I have some rooms that basically heat themselves when the sun is out. The system is using that effort to adjust shades (e.g. it would allow a lower living room temperature in the morning after we left when it knows that there will likely be a sunny afternoon heating the room without the need to add external heat)

This is what I mean with smart: A smart system is only smart if the user doesn’t have to fiddle around with it. Everything else is a remote.

(My next goal is to add personalised heating. I want the system to recognise who is/comes home and adjust the temperature accordingly as my wife wants other temperatures as I do. O can do it room based, e.g. the kid’s room is adjusted according to the kid being there, but overall I am not quite there yet)

The good thing is: You can easily replace OpenTherm with KNX. Afaik there are Gateways that mimic Opentherm towards the heater so you can use KNC for the actual control.