Good. I'm glad someone else understood that gesture. I feel old sometimes, but I think I'm at the point where I'm at the very middle of my past and my future. Where I'm both old, and not old enough just quite yet. Anyway, glad I could make you chuckle a bit.
Hey, yall! Are you transfeminine and wanna help Do A Science?
Some folks based out of Vassar are doing research on how transfeminine people communicate to each other about medical stuff. If you're interested and can sit for an hour, maybe consider it.
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hello! my laptop stopped working recently and i don't have a clue why. i am pretty sure my motherboard is toast and i don't really have ~us$90 to spare on a fresh one. are you in possession of a spare #Lenovo 14282-2M LRV1 motherboard for a 4th (?) gen #ThinkPad X1 Carbon? i would be happy to pay for shipping.
thank you for you time, consideration, and boosts!
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Had a short below a bulk cap, which fried the voltage regulator and the microcontroller. To access the regulator i also had to remove the potentiometer at the back side.
That C book was still used when I studied software engineering in the 2010s. It was even considered a 'modern' C book because it had been updated to include ANSI C...
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daylily, as your first responder suggested. If you see it fully open, the asymmetrical shape will distinguish it from the true lilies. Foliage format is also very different.
Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off
If you see someone in an emacs-themed shirt, that will be the only thing they're wearing - they don't have any other clothes b/c emacs does everything they need
Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.
Note, that deployment is super old (>10 years), and that's only one of the two interior security forces in France.
The Gendarmerie (under military status) and the Police National (civilian), are both answerable to the interior ministry and fulfil the same missions, with a mostly rural / urban area of responsibility split.
Only the Gendarmerie migrated, and it was recently published that the Police National are going to spend millions due to the Win11 migration.
This is not true. The police is still on Microsoft, and the 15 millions € migration cost to Win11 has made the headline 1 or 2 weeks ago.
The Gendarmerie Nationale is an army corp, not police. And they switched to linux a long time ago. It was not easy (as I’ve learned during a training at ANSSI) high rank officers have received threats when the project of migration to Linux started.
Was this not prosecuted ? Or were those over the internet and couldn't be tied to the culprits ?
The Gendarmery status I would not described as an Army Corps. They are an interior security force, fulfilling police missions, and under the authority of the interior ministry*.
The Gendarmes have a military status, and it is worth pointing out the split is mostly rural / urban in area of responsibility. But you don't want to confuse the Gendarmes with the actual armed forces. (The Army would be undertood as Armée de Terre).
And I second the fact that the Gendbuntu migration is quite old at this point. It is frustrating that it hasn't been taken as an example elsewhere. (I heard some feedback of that deployment over 5 years ago)
(* Some small specific units are placed under the control of various other entities, typically those forces ensuring the safety of various military sites).
While I am pleased at the decision to ditch Microsoft, I would’ve been happier had they chosen to use something like AlmaLinux instead. I’m not a Ubuntu fan at all.
they plan to throw away 25 000 computers (out of 100 000) because of Win11 next year. Cost 15 millions euros. They (we) also pay 7 millions/year to MS.
they have their GendBuntu, German cities have their distros, China had RedStar Linux (or something like that). Hope people don't think you can only use linux if you're a large organisation able maintain your own distro...
Well, Bill Gates is no #ceo anymore of #microsoft Also he gives money through his foundation to the community. Tax free so it benefits himself to. The ceo from #apple paid #trump one million dollar of his own money. Also tax affordable.
Danmark skal være mindre afhængig af de store tech-giganter, når det gælder de digitale løsninger i den offentlige sektor. Derfor går Digitaliseringsministeriet nu i gang med at teste ny open source-løsning.
Linux and open source have been rolled out many times. The measure of success sis not whether Linux got handed out, the measure is if it's still deployed after a year and not rolled back for compatibility reasons, which is what normally happens.
@NatureMC @patpro the news is factually right. It say that is concerning Gendarme (a police force) and the project started long time ago (in 2005 with the end of XP support)
It's not something that started with a finger snap. It take 2 decade and now with a great part of their infrastructure migrated they can say confidently it's a success and there's no reason that they will go back
For this kind of thing, it's hard to say when it's a success. There's no clear point of when
Gendarmes (like french Fireworkers) are military but they are assigned to civilian policing (police force) And like an other person said, the Gendarmerie is attached to the Interior Minister (since 2009) The main difference between Police and Gendarmerie is the area where they work on (and also Police was created by Pétain)
If you prefer, we can say that it's a military police force (as opposed to civilian police force for Police Nationale)
meanwhile Denmark is having a half of a small Ministry (so 40 people) switch to Linux and LibreOffice as a pilot. I'm hoping that it is a real attempt and not just a way to make the switch fail. Most digitalized country indeed (we are, just the wrong way).
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However, in doing so, he lets you
down
Thus creating the Astley Paradox
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