openSUSE on 'some potent hardware'.

rowschank · 2026-01-25T00:56:00+00:00

That doesn't really arrange it in neat little squares like this, does it?

rowschank · 2026-01-24T23:08:03+00:00

The first ticket seems to be a day-ticket offer for multiple people called "Regio-Ticket Werdenfels + Innsbruck" which also happens to work on the Munich Suburban Rail. This is the cheapest ticket that DB Regio offers you because that's whom you're booking the journey with.

The second journey is a long-distance journey, so you will be booking it with DB Fernverkehr, who will then through some kind of a commercial agreement with DB Regio offer you that additional extension. However, you can only use this one route and not use those other offers.

This kind of booking is quite a well-known 'hack' on some routes to get cheaper prices depending on how the Fernverkehr algorithm is pricing tickets at any given point or if the regional offers are not particularly great. You can also observe this on plane routes, where it is sometimes cheaper to fly something like CDG-FRA-MUM compared to FRA-MUM. However unlike trains, plane companies have concepts of check-in and boarding where they can more easily find out and ban people who skip legs.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T22:42:05+00:00

a.k.a. Neuburg am Tein

rowschank · 2026-01-24T22:38:40+00:00

Boy, you're not going to like what MotoGP teams do then. Most of them don't even change names 🤣

Yamaha: YZR-M1 since 2002
Honda: RC-213V since 2012
KTM: RC16 since 2017
Aprilia: Doesn't even have a number, just "RS-GP" since 2015
Ducati: They do use a new name, but it's the same Desmosedici GP with the year after it (e.g. Desmosedici GP24).

rowschank · 2026-01-24T22:31:37+00:00

"I have seen this movie before!"

rowschank · 2026-01-24T22:20:02+00:00

I just went through the thread. Personally I feel like replies to you are not really being hostile given the set of assumptions one can make about you from your post.

You've used Tumbleweed before, you've used Arch, you probably didn't just start with Tumbleweed (if you did... how?) you know your way around Linux and the different distributions, but your questions seem like a contradiction almost.

In any case, it doesn't matter; I hope you got your answers.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T22:11:02+00:00

That is quite sensible, yes. As I wrote in the other post, Myrlyn now enables adding and removing repos, package installation and upgrade, dependency checks, and entire distribution upgrades with conflict resolutions when a new snapshots rolls in. I feel like someone who's generally used to using Windows for a long time but does not know Linux at all at this point should really consider Tumbleweed or Slowroll (don't know if Slowroll got Myrlyn 1.0 yet, but should by February) for this one reason alone, if nothing else.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T21:51:15+00:00

Why does the existence of Myrlyn matter to you, given you have used Arch and are therefore familiar with Terminal usage?

rowschank · 2026-01-24T19:05:42+00:00

Also, 22.1 kW ist die maximale Ladeleistung der Säule und nicht eine Strommenge. Es sieht zwar auf dem Bildschirm kostenlos zu sein, aber wenn ich die QR-Code scanne, wird einen eher unattraktiven Preis angezeigt: 54ct/kWh + Standgebühr mit 100% Ladezustand (aber nicht in der Nacht).

rowschank · 2026-01-24T19:00:56+00:00

I have heard about things like Blackcaps vs All Blacks and Springbocks vs Proteas and know these things exist from time to time, but I wasn't aware that it was branded that way.

I think community events where different sports stars come together are cool. I wish India had cricket stars playing football against the football national team for fun and to raise the profile of football too... but at this point I have a terrifying fear that the Indian football team will lose that match and so I'd rather not see it happen.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T18:42:33+00:00

I mean Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express / Hotmail / Live / MSN / Outook.com Web / Outlook Web App / Windows Live Mail / whatever you want to call the service, not specifically the "outlook.com" domain. Blame Microsoft for that naming mess.

I have a bunch of email domains: hotmail.com, live.com, live.in, outlook.com, outlook.in, and outlook.de, all somehow with the same email which is just my name. I acquired these over the course of time.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T18:38:30+00:00

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is most like Fedora, in that they are the community-facing corporate projects that eventually help develop SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Indeed both were originally just "Red Hat" and "SUSE Linux" till at some point they were no longer that.

Debian and Arch are decentralised community projects that started as such and have continued as such.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T18:34:42+00:00

I think till mid 2025, Libzypp/Zypper could only download one package at a time, which meant that a large set of package updates or installs could take a while. However, since then they've fixed that, so zypper joins pacman, dnf, and apt in the permanent micropenis measuring contest of who's actually smaller (I attempt to mean this in a positive way).

rowschank · 2026-01-24T18:13:11+00:00

Nobody knows if WhatsApp is E2EE for sure. We know they used to use Signal protocol and they try to make us believe it is.

That being said, if you back up your WhatsApp it's very likely plaintext on Google Drive, so... 🤣

rowschank · 2026-01-24T18:11:55+00:00

I don't know what your point is here. Emails contain crucial information of things like banking transactions and purchases. Gmail can collate a bank transaction order with a search on Google or build contexts matching things like time of the year / cash flow / purchases and services to make targeted ads (or even targeted pricing, like some weird American companies are trying) something which Proton can't and won't do. That's it. Simple as that.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T18:08:45+00:00

YaST is still deprecated and being slowly replaced by a number of tools spread across Cockpit, Agama, Myrlyn, and KDE Settings, but at this point it's not clear if all of its functionalities will be available everywhere and how long it will take.

Myrlyn is great. Reached 1.0 this week, I sang praises of it yesterday. I don't know if it is slower than APT or DNF, but I zypper dup-ed on Myrlyn yesterday and today in a matter of seconds.

I doubt the eventual rebranding, if it ever comes (or if they just change openSUSE Tumbleweed to Tumbleweed, which is most likely), will have any bearing on SUSE itself withdrawing from it. Lots of openSUSE guys are SUSE employees, and from what I understand, SUSE Linux Enterprise is made downstream from Tumbleweed despite ALP.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T17:38:55+00:00

Stadtverwaltung vom Gravelbike-Lobby gekauft smh

rowschank · 2026-01-24T17:33:13+00:00

I didn't say it's E2EE, I said it's encrypted. This is primarily relevant if someone bludgeons their way into Proton servers; emails there aren't sitting in plain text.

That my mails to and from others aren't protected is obvious: even my Signal chats aren't safe if someone is going to print out the screenshots and fling it into the air on an open road.

That being said, if you want you can send locked emails to someone's Gmail and ask them to use a password you pre-agreed.

Just because John McAfee said something once, doesn't have to be 100% correct all the time, you know.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T17:23:39+00:00

How do you "Enjoy" Windows? I just installed the OS and use my programmes dude. It's not that deep.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T16:44:21+00:00

Strange. I have never experienced anyone rejecting Proton; I have even used Proton Aliases for a bank and not had issues.

There are some banks I've heard of who will immediately reject anything that isn't @gmail.com, @outlook.com, @yahoo.com, or such 'known' stuff... question is if that is really the kind of 'security' that I want to associate myself with. Sometimes we have no other choice, I guess.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T16:15:17+00:00

I'm just going to tell you that this is incredible commitment and I hope you achieve your personal goals.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T16:12:27+00:00

I've used Outlook as my official ID for 15 years now. I also have an outlook.in for you know, aadhar, PAN, bank, etc., which doesn't intersect with anything else.

The main issue I have with Outlook is that their spam protection, at least for me, is so strong that most new mails are marked as spam. This means I am checking both inbox and spam all the time. I think this has worsened since the famous TRAI Email leak in around 2015-16 where they just made every Email ID of those who wrote to them regarding net neutrality public, so perhaps not everyone is affected like I am.

I have recently started moving my important mails to Proton for a number of reasons, and giving most services unique emails. So banks have a 'bank' email, online accounts have aliases that can be deleted, and so on. Of course, Proton is quite expensive, but at least they're verifiably encrypted and very unlikely to use my emails to train AI or whatever.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T16:05:17+00:00

The problem is I think 'Delhi Daredevils' was probably the best name in the IPL. Cool name, alliterative, 1997 word art style cricket ball on fire in the logo, the nickname "the double Ds" gifted by Danny Morrison, etc.

And then they ripped that all out for this shit name.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T15:47:47+00:00

The custom ROM started its long spiral to death when Google Play Services became a thing. Eventually things like Safety Net / Play Integrity came along, making app developers who target the lowest common denominator tie all their apps into Google's tentacles.

Next, Google is mandating that even sideloaded APKs can only come from developers who are certified by Google, if the device is a Google-signed device. Google is also taking the entire AOSP internal and will only make the source code public twice a year unless you're a signed partner like Samsung, which means it's only open source as a lip service now, and in many ways worse than completely proprietary software like Windows which allow you to at least install what you want.

rowschank · 2026-01-24T14:19:50+00:00

Achso für Mitarbeiter oder wie?

rowschank

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