Frostbeard

joined 11 months ago
[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

My mother worked in Germany in the late 60s (We are Norwegian) and her boss' (and life long friend of the family) husband was 16 when he was literally drafted from HJ to the SS in early 45. He was a good jugend and it was an "honor" and such BS. But having spent all his childhood in nazi Germany he knew nothing else. He was captured by the Russians in Czechoslovakia and spent 5 years as a POW and the only reason he made it as far as becoming a POW was his age and because the SS NCOs made sure he didn't get the SS serial number tattoo since he was so young.

God knows how he manages to survive, but I never knew him to not eat every morsel of food on his plate, and he never talked about his experience.

I shed no tears for Nazis, but I do shed tears for the duped and the "innocents" of any conflict.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

What the fuck does the world bank need to advertise for?

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Abolishing the word "automobile" since it mixes Greek and latin.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Norwegian here. I quit reddit and joined Lemmy after the API debacle. Installed mint because of W11. (A big factor was how Steam and proton enables me to play games)

Can't say either Lemmy or Linux has gotten any media attention in the big news sources as far as I can see.

I am the only one in my circle of friends that quit Reddit (most follow the various 40k reddits, and they have no replacement in federated options)

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Think they got replace ny screens many places. Think the reason they are forgotten is how insanely expsensive they can be.

I bought zip screens for my westward facing windows and it was ridiculously expensive. And then the electrical work on top. They are all custom ordered to fit the window so it hikes up the price.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

They are banned for possible connections to a country and an organization (IDF) that have been confirmed to perform war crimes.

If you willfully target children no matter your skin colour, creed, religion or whatever arbitrary set of parameters you are a criminal.

Israelis are now discovering the price of being associated with war criminals.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I installed Mint (no idea mint was old tbh) looked into Gentoo and tried the live boot USB option. 'This looks nice, no how do I install" The install option opened a web page (gentoo wiki) with several options for guides based on various permutations. All options send you in a ring without actually telling me how to install.

I went back to Mint as it does the few things I need a PC to do these days:

Some kind of office suite with spreadsheet and word processor, Steam, Netflix and Prime, Firefox

Added bonus is that it runs MegaMek natively AND i don't need to read pages of documentation, just click install.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

What's the issue? I installed mint because I know fuckall about Linux, and tbh it's a dice toss if I have used the Flatpak option not knowing what the actual difference between them are

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess the size has something to do with the size of Japanese roads and back alley space?

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No. But she loved the the reply :)

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 111 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I installed Linux on my gfs (now wife) old laptop years ago when the beginner distros was way less user friendly. When I asked on a forum for help it was just the sound of crickets. When she made her first post starting with "my boyfriend installed Linux and I don't understand how to..." They fucking fell out trees to answer her questions

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