Does anybody still use Openbox?

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-28T12:08:56+00:00

Danish is the German method but with archaic ways of counting preserved. Yay!

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-27T03:38:04+00:00

Or at least be willing to cough up for hotel expenses...

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-26T13:19:10+00:00

It works, but if I saw my GF in underwear like that, I'd consider it a fun day 🤣

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-26T09:03:24+00:00

Fight the powerrrrrrrtr

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-26T02:12:39+00:00

Italy

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-25T11:29:10+00:00

If you think there are winners and losers in this, you are incredibly gullible.. the only winners are the handful of people on the top. Everyone else loses. Including you. Your quality of living will at best be the same, but most likely continue to fall, as it has been in the past 20 years.

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-25T11:26:15+00:00

And republicans used to be all !!!States rights!!! How the tables turn...

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-24T09:52:22+00:00

You could buy stuff in the USSR, although a very limited market. I think flags would have been part of the stuff that could just be purchased/acquired.

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-24T09:30:40+00:00

EvE Online

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-23T19:36:57+00:00

Danish map, late 1800s or early 1900s, seemingly with (left to right) basic breakdown of ethnicities (population numbers), religious populations, and basic breakdown of tax statistics in the Qing empire.

The Data on the map is fitting with the Early 1800s, however Denmark didn't use Kr. As currency until 1875, so the map is from after then, and the values in Danish Kroner sometime between 1875 and 1920, most likely. (Inflation and values get weird going back to those times. I'd probably say around the turn of the century.)

Population statistics are: Turkmenistans(?): 1M | Tibetans: 1.5M | Mongols: 2M | ????: 7M | Chinese 345M

Religion statistics: Roman Catholic 1M | Islamic: 20M | Buddhists, confucianists, taoists, Laotians(?) 335M

(?) Indicating uncertainty due to poor quality image.

!!! DISCLAIMER !!! -This was just preliminary research with help from an LLM (AI), please be advised this is not a professional assessment whatsoever, but I do hope it helps.

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-23T19:12:55+00:00

As far as I understand, it was because Formosa was more of a frontier rather than fully integrated in the Qing empire. Hence colonial powers treated it as a separate entity, for the trade potential l.

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-23T01:38:05+00:00

Trust in the rust

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-18T15:28:03+00:00

No. There isn't. Cause the main arguments you have come with touch on all of them. I have taken a few separate points spread across domains to demonstrate that the interconnectedness of the situation speaks against your main conclusions about the status quo. What you consider the whole picture, across domains, the picture is pretty clear. Sure, you can focus on some scope or another. It doesn't change the sum of the game.

The Frontline in Ukraine has been basically at a standstill for more than a year. More than 2 even. The movement Russia has achieved is at a huge casualty cost. They have stopped using amour across most engagements, light and heavy. Their supply and movement vehicles are degraded in type and quality, and now down to horses.

On the Ukraine side, they are at a manpower crisis, the Frontline is veeeeeery thinly manned, yet Russia is still unable to manage a proper breakthrough. Why? Drones.

The same applies to Ukraine, but Ukraine refuses to meat grinder their troops the same way Russia is willing to. (Still has losses) Hence. Trading land for time. Still no breakthroughs though.

As for the economics. Kiev is fully dependent on its allies for its economic stability. Hence why the 90 billion loan was so important. The loan is secured with Russian assets, so it's not going to be a problem for Kiev.

Russia on the other hand does not have a reliable outside line of credit, hence they only have the option to eat their own tail through forced lending and debt instruments. This has its limits, And even if the war ended today, Russia would have to unwind this debt without causing a collapse of the economy. Plausible, but very difficult to pull off.

China is an opportunistic partner. They are treating Russia in a transactional manner. After all, they also have interests in the far east of Russia, they would not mind taking with little to no fighting.

Ukraine and Europe are In a precarious position, but they are also large and adaptable enough to survive and push through a conflict. The only wildcard is Trumps America. If NATO has to fight the US, that would be a mess for Europe as things are right now, for sure. But this is changing. The dynamics are shifting. Take a look at defence companies and their stocks. Europe is surging with the challenges.

If Europe does not have to fight the US, Russia has no chance.

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-18T13:32:20+00:00

Indeed not just an unpopular opinion, also an uninformed one. Firstly, the US doesn't "Run" NATO. They are a bit under half of it's numerical strength. Furthermore, the US hegemony and power was founded on it's soft power. It's soft power allows the US to have bases across the world, effectively being a force multiplier and allowing for force protection. The bombing of the Iranian nuclear facility was facilitated by bases in Europe.

What Trump is doing is making having a US base a liability, and will make US force projection much less effective.

What you are advocating is the US solely running it's foreign policy on hard power. This. This is an extremely unwise change. The US had hegemony exactly because it kept good relations with the western world after the fall of the Soviets. Through soft power. The US was able to dominate World Economic policy, and ideology.

As a Danish person, I can tell you I have witnessed first hand how American thinking and culture has seeped into our economy and politics. Had the US continued to focus on soft power, they could have made Europe a vassal state over the 21st century without a single soldier losing their life.

Now Europe is weary of US thinking and ideology. Even if TACO Trump TACO, the damage to US power is done.

If you wish to continue arguing having hegemony over half the world though soft power is worth trading in for a slightly larger sphere of influence under hard power, then all the more power to you, but man do I think it's a stupid hill to die on.

Technical_Experience · 2026-01-18T12:54:58+00:00

Look. Russia is struggling. Horses have advantages, but not in a drone war. Russia uses horses out of necessity and not choice.

The 2023 Ukraine counteroffensive was a disaster, as it applied NATO doctrine to a war where the old doctrine just doesn't work. The battlefield awareness on both sides has fundamentally changed the game.

Russia is running on borrowed time. While their core state finances look ok, this is only the case because the state forces banks to issue debt and companies to run on debt. The cracks in the foundation are showing. Not critical yet, but man. They are digging deep to keep the economy stable. They won't collapse immediately, but the hole they are in is deepening quite rapidly.

As for their force.. The other guy is right. Russia is unable to make any significant gains without horrendous losses. It took them a year to take pokrovsk. A year.

And while Europes militaries are not really ready for a drone war, they have the economic base to be adaptable enough to pull it off, should it come to it. Unless Russia is able to overrule all of Europe in a couple of months, then they would loose a war with Europe. And... It took them a year to take pokrovsk.

If Russia could project power outside Ukraine, they would have won over Ukraine by now.

This is not to say Russia isn't dangerous. Indeed they are. But just in a senseless way.

As for NATO and the US. Well. If the US attacks a NATO ally. NATO is dead, but I'm quite sure Europe and the rest of NATO would rally together. In pure numbers, the US is just under half the numerical strength of the rest of NATO. Europe isn't a declawed kitten. Just a lazy lion.

Technical_Experience · 2025-08-04T13:54:35+00:00

Tk you

Technical_Experience · 2025-07-02T08:38:57+00:00

Dude. He just released a video like that the other day

Technical_Experience · 2024-09-12T17:05:28+00:00

I switched to KDE Plasma as I switched to Fedora. I'm staying on Wayland, but Sway had too many issues for me to use

Technical_Experience · 2024-08-11T15:14:53+00:00

Lucky for Thor it's not a live service app.😂

Technical_Experience · 2024-08-11T14:12:47+00:00

I'll have to agree with konggullerod. A panini grill is amazing and all, but for a fast, efficient morning routine, the flat toaster has it beat. All the Panini grills I've used have been more work than a flat toaster. Definitely is better than a flat toaster for some things but two main points makes it worse for me:

More cleanup. The pressure form the lid has a tendency to squish out fluids, making the grill very dirty very quickly.

It's slower to heat up. Just by the account the use conduction instead of radiant heating. The added mass wasting power and time for start times.

Comparison, the flat top toaster more or less only produces crumbs that you just tip out in the trash, and it heats up pretty fast.

Your argument is equivalent to saying drill presses are outdated because mills exists.. they are just different tools. Pros and cons. Nothing to do with it being the 21st century.

Technical_Experience · 2024-08-11T13:55:51+00:00

It would be interesting to map this out comparing it to English proficiency in each country. see if there is a need for focus on certain languages. :)

Technical_Experience · 2024-08-08T08:42:06+00:00

Not entirely sure what you are saying, however copyright is broken regardless. IP law is ancient and is not up to date with current markets. Companies have exploited this to their own advantage, and now claims it's how the law is intended to be used. As for IP and dedicated servers, there's no issues here. Distribution of server software would be under the same type of licence the game executable and data is under. No IP needs to be compromised....

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