syklemil

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is the GSM2 network still functioning? I think here it was shut down so the frequencies could be reused for 5G

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's how it starts. Just let it develop for a century or something and you'll probably be decent at it

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might've been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

But it'll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don't wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we'll come back to), so I don't have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I'd expect

  • documentation
  • date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can't have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
  • sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with "foreign" letters and diacritics.
  • Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can't think of off the top of my head

but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don't even think about as long as it looks normal.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Between that and the uutils-coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 sounds like it'll be an interesting experience for users, especially those with accessibility and internationalisation needs.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Having had a look at the archived version linked below, it seems pretty clear that it's entirely hogwash:

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago

The Commission chose this route to avoid its proposals being vetoed by Slovakia and Hungary, whose governments have opposed the ban. Sanctions would be the strongest legal basis for banning Russian gas, but require unanimous approval from all EU countries.

It's good that they found a way around those fifth columns!

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 weeks ago

No, but a bad MS/Windows decision is often a catalyst. I came over to Linux from Windows ME. :)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's generally conspicuous consumption, where the main point is to flaunt wealth.

Functional aspects like how well an engine runs or a clock displays time are part of that, as poorly functioning but expensive-looking stuff is generally derided, but you also can get great-working stuff that doesn't look flashy.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

I escaped reddit for this?

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The O is for the kind of whooshing sound

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