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10 days agoYes, price is the point. Of course, a Mercedes is going to nicer than a Toyota, but is it worth its price tag?
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I miss the times when bodies found off the Sicilian coast meant Mafia.
The decomposed bodies were discovered near the island of Sicily, which lies off the southwestern tip of the Italian mainland.
The bodies were taken to another Italian island, Lampedusa, about 350 kilometers (217 miles) away.
The bodies are believed to have been on board a boat that sunk earlier this week in Libyan waters, Italian media said, citing officials.
So, even if they are dead we push them back to Lampedusa. And claim that they sunk in Syrian waters. Because nothing bad can happen in Europe.
I don’t think the German car industry has ever competed solely on price. Outside Germany and some European countries, German brands are luxury items. In Germany, they oscillate between bread-and-butter and above-average.
The problem is value-for-money and market fit. German car makers (used to) have the best margins in the most expensive products, luxury items sold outside of Germany. Those cars aren’t built to last (like a Japanese car) nor are they fancy (like the first Tesla model).
German ICE cars are (and have always been) less reliable than Japenese cars. And more expensive. And come with very basic interior design / electronics unless you go for the luxury option.
AND NO EVs.
Who buys German cars? Show me one person who wants a VW.
- signed, a German engineer
MBFS fact checks itself and surprisingly likes itself.
10·1 month agoI’m not worried about e-ink price tags. Aldi has them. I’m worry if it says, use your phone to find special offers only for you.
Not sure about Russian units, but in the west, the acceleration towards earth aka gravity aka what happens when you stand to close to a window while not cheering for Putin is 9.81m/s^2.
Not sure what 9.8 square metres is…
The bot says you can block them.
My mind: What kind of strike or labour protest causes bystanders to loose a limb. What’s wrong with Isreali strikes?
Of fuck, that kind of strike.
Sounds like fun.
Chinese technology
30·3 months agoObviously. It was a nice small PR to fix a typo and a pronoun in a readme file. This is the kind of change where you just press Accept, Merge, and go on with your life.
13·4 months agoYou guys get to retire?
Without iMessage, right?
Most specialized software are web apps running in a browser hosted on the cloud these days. I’m sure they exist, but I couldn’t name any HR, ERM, CRM, … software that’s not a web app.
The desktop OS is becoming irrelevant. That’s why those who want a Mac or Linux notebook can make it work, at least from a purely technical point of view; i.e. if the company allows it. That’s also, why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop. (I mention Macs here, because while OS X gets some commercial software that you won’t get on Linux, it’s not that much outside of some niches)
There will never be a year of the Linux desktop because you gain very little from replacing Edge on Windows with Firefox on Linux (a different software that does the same thing). However, you loose some specialised software and your IT supplier, your IT service provider, half of your IT staff and some of your non-IT employees’ skills. This does not sound like a good business case.
Linux on the desktop never happened, because Linux on the server replaced desktop applications.
I don’t know if it is fair to call it a disaster. I don’t know enough from the inside, but I believe in retrospect the goal was maybe to ambitious or plain wrong.
They were attempting to port huge amounts of decades old Office macros to OpenOffice. That failed, but before the LiMux project they had already failed to migrate the same to a modern version of MS Office.
The goal for LiMux was to be a better Windows than the best Windows Microsoft would offer at the time. Literally impossible.
That combined with strong lobbying and users confused with a different UI and probably a lot of small day-to-day issues (which happens with any software, but can make an IT department look bad) made it politically hard to sustain an ‘experiment’.
The current IT lead of Munich, hired after migrating back to Microsoft, does not seem to be a Microsoft fan.
Sounds like Javascript and co-pilot to me.
Yes, but they are all up-side down.