A friend of mine insisted on bringing a GPS for our bicycle trip through Europe.
From the beginning, the GPS took center stage.
At every fork in the road, instead of broadly riding in the right direction, we had to stop so he could determine which was the correct path on the tiny black-and-white display.
And half the time, he was wrong. The punch line came when a bike path he found on his device turned out to be a stair going up a 200m high hill. Took us 2 hours to get up there cause we first had to carry our bikes up, then our luggage.
The first half of the trip he spent hours trouble-shooting the connector he had built himself to keep the GPS batteries charged off the hub dynamo.
The second half of the trip we had to book camp-sites or hostels most of the time, instead of just sleeping under the stars, because the charger still didn’t work, but THE DEVICE NEEDS POWER.
tl/dr: it sucked a lot of fun out of the trip. And it made me avoid all electronics on bicycle trips ever since.
Now when I ride, my phone stays in my pocket (for emergencies). I navigate by the sun when it’s shining and a compass otherwise.
At the end of the day, I’ll look at a paper map to see if I’m broadly in the right place and to plan the next day.
The only time I’ll use my phone to navigate is when the bike breaks down or I run out of water, to find the quickest way to get help.
Just a heads-up: A fix is available. I got an update to libcups-filters last night.
The girl on the right definitely looks like someone living in a post-apocalyptic tribe, 1000 years after the break-down of human civiliation.
Then Allah obviously doesn’t want you to be able to enter a government office.
Actually translated it literally. Except they always translate gun to “Kanone” which is a field gun, not a handgun. But the German word for handgun is “Handfeuerwaffe” so I kinda understand.
Läderlappen would be a great term for Harley riders.
KDE for desktops with a mouse, Gnome for laptops with a touchpad. Both are great!
Germany:
“Airplane” = The Incredible Journey On A Crazy Airplane
Then there’s The Incredible Journey On A Crazy Spaceship (original “Airplane II: The Sequel”)
and The Outragious Journey On A Crazy Bus (original: “The Big Bus”, in no way related to the other movies)
But one scene in the first movie is even funnier than the original in the German dubbed version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkI0cH_rK4
(The 2 black guys speak a thick Bavarian dialect, which is the closest thing in Germany to Hillbilly slang. The subtitles say something completely different)
It’s a children’s book.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was taking part in a protest against Jewish settlement expansion in the town of Beita, in the occupied West Bank
Jewish-Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, who was at the protest, told BBC World Service’s Newshour programme he had seen “soldiers on the rooftop aiming”.
He said he had heard two separate shots, “with like a second or two distance between them”.
"I looked up, there was a clear line of sight between the soldiers and where we were.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said: "During Israeli security forces activity adjacent to the area of Beita, the forces responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them.
Damn, she must have been quite strong, to be able to hurl rocks at snipers on a rooftop.
the Fungi kingdom is something of an untapped goldmine for cybernetic technology.
Imagine hearing this sentence coming from a TV screen at the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie.
It’s the bartender in the background.
You can definitely avoid buying stuff from mainland China for most product categories.
And for those you can’t, buy second-hand.
Israel will make sure the Palestinian children get their shot.
Can you change the fact that you first have to hit a key combo to activate all other key combos?
Cause that is a hard no for me in any software.
Even on a laptop keyboard, you have 9 function keys and 77 others available. That’s 702 possible combos without even getting into any weird 3-key-stuff. More than anyone could ever remember or use.
In that case, I’ll switch you to Slackware.
Maybe if you count the inedible parts of the food you buy as “waste”.
Sorry, but I’m not into Avocado pits.
Upgrade their PC to Windows 11 overnight
Click yes on all “recommended” options
Left-align taskbar and make it black
Restore their desktop wallpaper
A CARROT
I didn’t know I need to know anything about SVG cursors.