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Hey there, seems like you used a code block (text between two lines of ```). This will prevent line-wrapping, so you have to scroll horizontally through the code block to read. For text that is supposed to be read it's better to use a quote (lines starting with > and a space):

Automatic Power Cut-Off: The system is “smart.” If you unplug the cord from the wall while the sun is shining, the metal prongs on the plug become “dead” in less than a second. This prevents anyone from getting a shock from the exposed plug.

Grid Outage Protection: If the power goes out in your neighborhood (a blackout), the panels automatically stop sending power to your home or the grid. This ensures utility workers fixing the lines aren’t accidentally shocked by your panels."

Well it for sure killed my entire "Suspension of disbelief".

Yeah, but the Prussian led is the crucial bit there. Austria wouldn't have had one bit of a problem with a German Reich led by the Austrian monarchy, which is conversely something Prussia was unable to accept. Catch-22 type situation. Hence the split.

Well it's not like Austria put up much of a fight... But anyway, my larger point was that Hitler, like many other people on both sides of the border, was explicitly opposed to the national distinction between Austria and Germany. They thought that the founding of the German Reich to the exclusion of Austria in 1871 was a mistake and that Austria should be part of Germany. So saying that somebody born in Austria, who believes Austria is part of Germany, is "a fully integrated German" (as opposed to Austrian) doesn't make much sense I think.

Hitler was a fully integrated German.

What's that even supposed to mean? He Anschluss'ed Austria basically the first chance he got.

Some later part of the Risen RPG series IIRC.

Well if you want the real basics of self-hosting then depending on your level of knowledge you may want to follow a Linux tutorial like this one: https://labex.io/linuxjourney

This will teach a lot of basic knowledge and terminology you may need when setting up or maintaining containers and VMs. Admittedly, this is somewhat tangential knowledge to your immediate goals, but if you want to actually use your self-hosted stuff remotely later this will become critical to doing so safely.

As for the map, for me it was something like:

Local LXC/QEMU → Remote LXD over SSH on a RPi → Proxmox on a dedicated box through the webinterface

In hindsight I would have started with Proxmox directly though I guess. One big downside is it doesn't integrate well with Docker containers, you have to set up a full VM as your Docker host. On the upside though you can install LXC containers from https://www.turnkeylinux.org/ in a few clicks, so it's very good for just testing stuff out and playing around.

IDK man, console access and cheats are still pretty common for PC games. Although there are exceptions too, at least one game series I know, first few titles had console access and cheats, then they removed it after they stupidly left DLC content accessible through console commands in the base game... Which is pretty much an example of what OP claimed. So maybe it's not always the reason, but it sure is sometimes.

Well I don't know. Their response overall is quite incoherent in places, but they mentioned somebody, presumably German, interfering twice now:

we didn’t port the feedback from our German QA to other languages

https://x.com/GOGcom/status/2062981104362242551

This was noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/ts_gotta_be_racist_gog_explain/opxtour/

And yeah I can absolutely see a German translator/QA person just going, "No, I'm not sending out a fucking SS rune. That's a fucking crime." Because apparently it was only censored in the German language version of the newsletter, Germans with language set to English still received it with the runes. So that part, the "hey the German censor was the only one who caught this", that I can believe. And some PR person rephrasing this embarrassing state of affairs as "German QA" and "respect for local sensitivities" that I can believe too.

Beyond that, there is pretty deep lore on this already. The developer used an Indian sun wheel before being made aware of possible "connotations", and then apparently misinterpreted the term connotations, see here (same reddit thread as above, but different comment). Then the GoG rep saying in the reddit thread above the S-like runes were supposed to be Sowilō runes, which are indeed sun symbols, although not Slavic ones, which may comes in pairs, but not in the same orientation, and seem to render different depending on fonts. But the email seems to have used Greek Kappa, which may or may not render differently, looks like it doesn't. It's confusing, but plausible enough to have a difficult time disbelieving it outright.

But on the whole, those three/four symbols just don't come together by accident. Some person put those there on purpose and is trying to play it off as a mistake. I suspect the author of that first damage control message on reddit.

only to cave to Microsoft soon after?

LiMux ran for 13-16 years, depending on how you want to read it. And after the 2017 cancellation the government in 2020 decided to "use open standards where possible".

is it cool if I skip ahead to the next exit?

No, you will be fined upwards of 240€, lose your license for a month, and get 2 points on your license (8 points means you lose it permanently, you will have to redo the license and take a so-called "idiot-test" beforehand).

So I should ask the Nobel prize winner to find out he doesn’t have an opinion on the matter and that is supposed to be evidence that it doesn’t work?

No you should take it as evidence that what the person answering you before me said, that Ivermectin is not intended for use against Coronaviruses, or any viruses for that matter, is true. There was a false quote from Campbell floating around on social media and he publicly disclaimed it. Ivermectin is not an antiviral, its intended use are roundworm infections. That was the point of OPs comment I believe.

Haruo Ozaki made his recommendation to use Ivermectin as a treatment for covid on February 9th, 2021. Not exactly “early days” of the pandemic. It was well over a year into the virus spreading and nearly a year into it officially being a pandemic.

Well you know, relatively speaking it's early days, we are in year 6 now. Kind of besides the point really. Anyway I think I tracked down the (second-hand) quote from Haruo from some pro-Ivermectin website:

The Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, Dr. Haruo Ozaki, recommends Ivermectin for use with COVID patients.

He notes that the parts of Africa that use ivermectin to control parasites have a COVID death rate of just 2.2 per 100,000 population, as compared to 13 times that death rate among African countries that do not use ivermectin. – SurfguardCR

https://www.brightworkresearch.com/how-the-media-lied-about-japan-not-using-ivermectin-for-coronavirus/

You will note here that he specifically refers to parasite infections, i.e. worms. He could just be saying "Hey if your Covid patient has worms, maybe take care of that first".

On a side note the Tokyo Medical Association seems to be a private company, not a public medical authority. Japan did recommend and distribute vaccines as soon as they became available.

As far as I can tell there is no “current consensus” regarding Ivermectin outside of the mainstream narrative that its “deboonked conservative quackery”.

It's a bit more complicated than that, but if you want a one sentence summary I guess it fits. It was a meme that mostly conservatives seem to have fallen for.

Looking into it further there seems to be one side that is willing to point to clinical data like Haruo did when making his recommendation

Any specifics you can share? Like I said above, it seems Haruo was referring to worm infections and was taken out of context.

Coincidently, only one of these positions seems to have a financial incentive for big pharma but im sure that’s not relevant to the conversation.

Lol, who do you think sells Ivermectin? Small pharma?

Looking at the timeline of events regarding Ivermectin there isnt a single study from before the topic became a political issue that found it to be ineffective.

That's untrue AFAIK, but anyway - My original point was that most of the studies that showed a positive effect came from places with relatively high incidences of roundworm infections. And it just makes sense that if you use ivermectin to treat a pre-existing worm infection it will help a patients immune system to fight an additional later Coronavirus infection. There was a false signal in the data and people just ran with it. No need for big (or small) pharma conspiracy here...

That alleged recommendation from Haruo Ozaki you keep quoting for example is five years old now, and specifically citing "parts of Africa" (many of which have a relatively high incidence of roundworm infections).

Anyone who’s actually looked into the matter and is honest would conclude that at best, we still dont actually know whether its effective or not because the more recent studies on the matter seem to have gone out of their way to ensure that any effect from the ivermectin wouldn’t be found.

Or maybe they are showing no effect because there is no effect (except in patients with a pre-existing roundworm infection, which Ivermectin is meant to treat). Sorry but unless you have something more concrete I'm sticking with my "people were panicking and grasping at straws" perspective.