> you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments.

uh? i lost interest in bitcoin a few years ago, did bitcoin get actually usable for payments ?

Not really. I mean, I guess the lightning stuff makes it settle/confirm faster than doing an on-chain transaction, but bitcoin as a store of value is still essentially gambling. So you'd want to immediately sell it and convert it to USD (or a stable coin, I guess), and presumably you're incurring fees at whatever exchange you're using.

5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks, but I feel like any lower fee you'd end up paying with bitcoin would get eaten up by complexity, annoyance, and currency conversion risk.

> 5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks

Don't underestimate the benefit of it doing international VAT collection and payment. Especially for small amounts.

lightning also works for USDT, if you prefer that.

Now that's a name I haven't heard in many years.

It's the direct descendant of Mandrake Linux, IIRC...

I recently installed and spent some weeks testing the past release, Mageia 9. Nice system. I'm currently learning R, one thing I noticed is that mandriva-derived distributions are some of the few that have RStudio packaged in the repositories. When LMDE 7 was released I installed it instead, as the package versions in Mageia 9 were quite old, but once Mageia 10 is released I intend to go back.

I think Taiwan invasion by China will happen after foundries are built in the UI.

My conspiracy theory is that there is some kind of "gentleman agreement" on this topic between the US and China.

As soon as Taiwan is not needed anymore by the US for chip fabrication, the US will at the very least loose their grip on it.

Note to commenters: that's my theory, does not mean I endorse it in any way.

I’d call it stupidity rather than masochism.

It wasn’t that hard to see that energy needs were only going to increase rather than diminish. And not because of ai datacenters, but (to make a simple example) for example because of the already ongoing at the time push for the electrification of the automotive industry.

It’s also crazy that the initiative was supposed at all by environmentalists.

Anyway, props to Mertz for admitting the mistake, we’ll see if they will fix it somehow.

Anyway, props to Mertz for admitting the mistake, we’ll see if they will fix it somehow

That‘s the thing. Everyone knew it was costly, nobody ever thought it was good strategically. If he now says it’s a „strategic mistake“ that‘s laughable, did he think it was strategically clever before? If so he was the only one.

The whole issue is that Germany overestimated its own resilience and economic power, which is deteriorating. Of course environmentalists knew that this is not good for the economy but the Green Party is mostly left aligned they were ok with incurring some damage to the economy for their cause, after all that’s their whole point. But they thought well we are such a economic powerhouse anyway, we can do it. So the real strategic mistake was arrogance. And saying that particular action was a „strategic mistake“ instead reflecting on the whole self-image of the country, shows that exactly this arrogance persists

autonomy, for a nation, is hardly a strategic mistake

So you are saying this has the potential to make Germany more autonomous and less dependent?

Where is the stupidity?

Do you think companies who couldn’t built a safe airport or train station can suddenly built something more complex like a nuclear power plant without massively going over budget, construction time and safety?

And I guess nobody fears Russian drone flying over WECs instead of nuclear power plants

> The US has become a nation that values persuasion over reality. It values the propaganda over truth.

These things don’t happen overnight. That thing has been boiling for at least a decade.

As a non American, that’s evident…

It really started with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

I love how more than twenty five years after its release i keep learning about easter eggs from Kojima and Metal Gear Solid i had no idea about

I will forever love the Dilbert cartoons. They were a masterpiece.

> The biggest reason I had not to run a home server was security: I'm worried that I might fall behind on updates and end up compromised.

In my experience this is much less of an issue depending on your configuration and what you actually expose to the public internet.

Os-side, as long as you pick a good server os (for me that’s rocky linux) you can safely update once every six months.

Applications-wise, i try and expose as little as possible to the public internet and everything exposed is running in an unprivileged podman container. Random test stuff is only exposed within the vpn.

Also tailscale is not even a hard requirement: i rub openvpn and that works as well, on my iphone too.

The truly differentiating factor is methodological, not technological.

> This thing may look like broken DNS, but it's just Alpine's resolver behaving as intended.

That’s only okay if you intend to lack features...

> But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could drive improvement without sacrificing freedom.

Are you sure? My second-hand thinkpad still won't hibernate properly. It's not a weird model, it's a ryzen-based X13 Gen1 so not even shiny new. You can imagine on a laptop one would want hibernation to just work.

The fault is surely on Lenovo's table... Yet it would work if I was to run Windows (which I don't want to do).

So yeah... Now I have a laptop from a brand which is known and appreciated for linux compatibility, and a basic thing like hibernation does not work.

> You can imagine on a laptop one would want hibernation to just work.

Well, I think MS took care of that by removing the hibernation option from the start menu. You have to manually turn it back on from the old control panel.