What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?

Your organization can’t host a federated Signal server, and email isn’t private.

Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?

My previous organization has used it for over 4 years without issues, however mostly limited to text.

How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?

Simply using? Not very much, basically like Lemmy.

Wenn man irgendwann mal eine Immobilie kaufen will, muss man mit mindestens 80000 Euro Eigenanteil starten. Da muss man entweder erben oder sparen (unter Letzterem verstehe ich auch Geldanlagen auf dem Anlagenmarkt, da gibt es ja Sparpläne). Wie soll es sonst irgendwie funktionieren?

Blue screens were much more common back in the day, I guess nowadays they’re equally stable. Windows current issues are the deliberate choices Microsoft makes

That’s a normal architecture though, all consoles of that generation and at least the one before create the image digitally and just in the last step convert to analog so that the TVs from that time can display an image. The Dreamcast isn’t an outlier in that regard. It made sense to use these components; the strength of the Dreamcast from my point of view was that it was a very complete package at the time. Sure it couldn’t play DVDs, but it was quite earlier than the PlayStation 2, which came in more expensive with subsidies from Sony who as a member of the DVD Consortium (later DVD Forum) and movie studio had a vested interest in broadening the install base for DVD players. Plus Sony manufactured the drives themselves, which have them the numbers, there was no such option for Sega at that point in time.

Anyhow, I liked the Dreamcast for having 4 controller ports like the N64 instead of 2, and I also liked the selection of games because it was very arcade-y, but I had no arcades close by. But I also enjoyed the Sonic Adventures back then (not sure I still would though), Shenmue and Headhunter.

Personally I wouldn’t call the Dreamcast revolutionary, even though it’s my favorite console is all time. My biggest gripe with it isn’t the lack of a DVD drive, this is completely irrelevant nowadays with SD card loaders, but the rarity of Ethernet adapters because of the piracy issue. But it was a good package (I still can’t believe how good SoulCalibur looked back then, it agreed really well which is rare for 3D games from that time) for a fair price and a library that I really enjoyed.

I see, though in fairness, most users probably didn’t use their consoles on screens with VGA input.

Anyhow, nowadays, if you’re willing to shell out the cash and mod your Dreamcast, it too can have HDMI output ;)

Maybe you could try to rationalize the 480p thing as an advantage today, but at the time screenshot comparisons looked a generation apart next to the PS2.

Which 480p thing? GameCube, PS2 and Dreamcast all output at 480p. Some games on the PS2 can upscale. But they render at that resolution.

Believe it or not, even the thugs beating down protests enjoy western luxuries… Or not having 20% inflation.

Plus, enforcing your government’s policies becomes a whole lot less attractive if all your neighbors dislike your employer. It all trickles down eventually.

Ist immerhin auch schon wieder über 5 Jahre her, dass ein Mitglied aus seiner Partei erschossen wurde. Übrigens nicht von den Grünen, sondern einem Rechtsextremisten.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordfall_Walter_Lübcke

Wirklich widerlich.

And I don’t know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren’t working that well… Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

I’m in favor of more of them, but I don’t think the current ones aren’t working. It was clear from the beginning that they’d be escalating so that Russia has a way out. They’re not using it so sanctions get worse.

Sure… Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

And then what? They’ll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn’t he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?

The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?

One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.

We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.

We have entered that territory at least 10 years ago.

The rest I agree with. But I also think this is in fact the right move: you need to create pressure that hurts both the leadership and the people.

Taucht man die Hände nicht komplett ein?

In the face of death, the occupiers show their true essence. They throw their helmets hysterically, fight back with automatic weapons, try to escape, but get what they deserve.

The true essence being… afraid of dying? I’d probably react the same.

Whether each individual deserves this is questionable. Though this doesn’t mean I don’t approve of the Ukrainian measures, in fact I support these fully,

However, as I’m not Ukrainian, my view on the matter is naturally different from someone’s who is currently being invaded. So I do get the sentiment. Just that I don’t want to celebrate it

Qualcomm paying as much as other licensees should be preferable to Qualcomm than bankruptcy.

Not saying this is wrong, but where do you get it from? The article just states that ARM considers Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia a breach of license. Both companies held ARM licenses before. What’s the issue with such a purchase?

From memory: Convert text to path, then have it redrawn.

(Caveat, not including multipliers, like “273 billion”).

Billion is ambiguous, better use powers of 10, e.g. 273e9 or 273e12, depending on which one you mean

Or use SI units.

In theory, yes.

In practice, trucks are possibly the greatest hazard to cyclist, and the don’t are ridiculously low. In one case, the driver list good license for a month and had to pay a fine of 4500 euros.

Initially, he called the judgement “too harsh” and that he wants to appeal, which it seems he retracted.

Die Polizei kann beschreiben, was sie gesehen hat und dann ihre Schlüsse ziehen. Es steht der Person dann frei, dagegen Einspruch zu erheben oder erheben zu lassen, z.B. durch einen Anwalt.

Second time I’m reading “indorsement” from these morons, are they all just illiterate or is there some deeper idiocy to it?