chris

Exactly. Someone has to pay for it. The infrastructure, the bandwidth the creator payouts. That all costs money. A lot of money. We can talk about if the cut Google takes is too big and if they could do with less ads or cheaper premium but someone has to pay something.

Also happy cake day.

I acknowledged problems with reliability and repairability in my own post.

Factoring in the lifespan of an appliance is definitely a good idea, but it's also true that old appliances are often incredibly inefficient compared to their counterparts. As always you have to be a savvy shopper to find out what is good and what is bad. I'd never get myself a smart fridge but a modern one has features I wouldn't want to miss.

That sucks but how does that relate to my comment?

My modern fridge automatically defrost itself and has an incredibly silent compressor. More than once I forgot to close the freezer door correctly and still it's not covered in ice on the inside. It uses so little energy into its day to day operation.

My modern drier has a heat pump built in to effeciently heat the air. It also detects how long it needs to run to get my clothes to the perfect dryness.

My modern dishwasher has a heat exchanger system to retain the heat from the dirty water to warm the fresh water. This saves energy.

Modern devices maybe have their problems. Sometimes with cheaper components or worse repairability. But don't pretend like the only innovation we had over the years was to add wifi to your appliances.

And probably uses 3 times the energy. My drier has a heatpump built in. I can't imagen the old one has that. Things get more complex net just to fuck with you but because they innovate.

I don't have a problem with wishing bad things. My wishes don't have any power. They won't change a thing.

I also don't believe in karma. Too many bad things happen to good people and vice versa.

I'm still mad that they won't do a sequelto days gone. I want closure!

Maybe you could try the system in live mode to get a feel. You can simply make an install USB stick and boot from that and just select the live install. This will start the system directly form the USB stick without installing anything and then you can just play around with it and get a feel. Just be aware that all changes are temporary and are not saved to the stick. Most major distributions have such a functionality.

At this day and age it works pretty much as you expect it to work. I'd recommend something like ubuntu (or kubuntu if you want it to look and feel more like windows). Something that is stable and not on the bleeding edge and mainstream so you can easily Google for help if you need it. Apart from that I think you can use a gui for pretty much anything you might need.

Little side note: the new long term support version of Ubuntu will be released this month. I'd wait for that so you have a pretty up to date version. If you need help or advice you can DM me if you like.

Partially. I recently wanted to type 𰻝𰻝面 but my keyboard didn't suggest 𰻝 even when I tried biang or biang biang. The is that there are several characters with the same syllable and then I still have to know which character is the correct one. And even though there are so many the still sometimes have several meanings. For example in Chinese the character 面 means noodle or flour or side or face (maybe even more). And I still can only sometimes infer the sound from the character. If someone were to ask me I'd ditch Kanji in Japanese and only us Romaji. Unlike English the sounds are actually standardized and it would make writing more compatible with a lot of countries. I'd also accept Hiragana or Katakana. But only one of them. I'd also start a writing reform in English so that the spoken and the written English fit together better.

Falls du einen GoAsia in der Nähe hast probier mal den Treiber Tofu . Günstiger als Taifun, in Deutschland hergestellt, super lecker. Und für festen Tofu greife ich mittlerweile immer zur Kaufland Eigenmarke. Der schmeckt auch gut und ist günstig.

Yes I find them hard and also not a very good writing system. Especially in Japanese where you have four writing systems. Drawing pictograms means I have to learn a spoken word, a pictogram (or worse pictogram combination) and a meaning for both. I know that English isn't always written as it is spoken but for the most part it is. Even if I only hear a word I can have a guess at how it's written and from the writing I have an idea how it might be spoken.