For a moment I thought you wrote “GREAT LEADER MEETS WITH GENITALS.”, guess that could also have been true.

That’s of course easy said, but not so easily done. Are these welders living anywhere near the manufacturing sites of the defense industries? Can you pay them enough for them to be willing to move across Europe? And why would they even consider it with jobs for the taking everywhere?

You seem to be forgetting that every industry is currently having a raging shortage of experienced welders and similar skill sets. If the defense industry raises pay, you can bet the infrastructure industry, which is also critical will just follow. And the building industry. And the oil industry, etc etc.

Edit: I don’t mean to say I agree with enforcing a 60-hour work week by the way, but I don’t think just paying more will automatically resolve labour shortages.

Try the Dutch climate. Here everything above 28 degrees C is, in my opinion, unbearable.

My Nokia 7650 begs to differ.

And stop plants from drinking it too!

Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.

What happens in the nono-room stays in the nono-room.

I don’t know, but for me it was undiagnosed ADHD. 😋 Fortunately IT is one of the areas where lack of a degree isn’t a showstopper.

What? I make that kind of money by dabbling in Ansible, Python and Kubernetes. $5000 sounds pretty lowball for fairly niche knowledge like COBOL.

Driving stick is still the norm here. Learned it in a Suzuki Swift, which did not do honour to its name.

Zwarte Piet has nothing to do with Christmas, it’s part of Sinterklaas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas). While Santa Clause was based off this character, its an entirely different festivity.

It’s almost as if he is just a Trump lackey without the slightest idea of what he’s talking about…

I do wonder how many hours you need to microwave yourself to get a crispy, dried out face like that by the way.

Watch your genetically inferior tongue, Freebirth!

That would be a Timber Wolf I suspect.

As a man I distance myself so far from this post I’ve now advanced to the stars and beyond.

Don’t forget deporting Musk back to South Africa while you are at it.

Debian was a horrible choice actually, my laptop’s WiFi card didn’t have a kernel driver available at the time. Tracking down the correct one was an interesting journey by itself, getting it compiled and loaded was another. In my 20 years of Linux experience I’ve compiled my fair share of drivers from source, but this thing was a complete disaster and simply refused to work.

I even tried Ubuntu (still feel dirty about that one): also no support out of the box.

So I needed a rolling release, as kernel support would drop fairly soon. Being downstream from Arch I reckoned any major issues will be worked out in Manjaro before hitting their release.

So far I’m actually quite happy with it, my only gripe is the stability of Pamac. The frontend tends to hang during updates from time to time or require a manual database update to show available updates again.

And of course the issue with packages not building anymore, until you clear the build cache. The (bi-) weekly reboots because of kernel updates are annoying, but something I can live with.

Meanwhile:

My W11 Pro PC: I’ll wait installing my monthly updates until you give me the okay. And I’ll wait for the reboot until you say so.

My Manjaro laptop: sorry, I couldn’t build package X. Go f*ck yourself while I provide you with no information on how to fix this.

*A manual build cache clear later*: all good! But now perform our weekly reboot.

It’s ironic, but these days Windows updates actually give me less issues AND require less reboots than Manjaro. 😞

Yeah, and I can’t believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him! I didn’t see that one coming.

Can you tell that to my pair of AirPods Pros? The amount of times only one of the in-ears decides to connect to my phone or laptop is just plain infuriating. All those devices support Bluetooth 5.0, but reliable is not the word I’d use to describe my experience.

Same for stuff like file transfers between my phone and laptop, I’m sick of that generic “file transfer failed” message without any helpful hint as to what went wrong this time. A cable is reliable, Bluetooth is definitely not in my personal experience. Sorry.

But they are still using Bluetooth right? That’s a hard nope, it must be my personal dark aura or something, but Bluetooth devices just refuse to work reliably for me. I just don’t want to deal with that anymore.

I really miss the good old jack port, not only does it just work, you can both charge your phone and listen to something at the same time as I do often in the evening. Having the charging port double as the headphone connector is such a step backwards.