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Currency exchange rates in the early 80s meant that most US machines were much more expensive than their European equivalents.

Commodore, the owner of Amiga, was an American company but they had factories in Europe.

Diesel did use peanut oil, though only after someone else showed that it was possible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel#Use_of_vegetable...


Nice find, I missed that.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I don't like GNOME's engineering or license, but as far as the UI and design are concerned I don't think anyone has topped it (minus the hot corner I guess).

Meh, it looks pretty in screenshots but it's a huge waste of screen space in the end.

I suppose 'power-users' can put up with 'small-button' GUIs but I do think a general purpose GUI needs to be easy to use for people who aren't used to controlling mice and keyboards all the time.

Being able to use mouse and keyboard makes you a power user in 2025?


Then what was your preceding comment supposed to mean?

My point is that small button GUIs should be a choice for the people who want to put up with them, not something that's pushed for universal use.

Those users won't use Devuan or Gnome but Android/iOS.

They may not personally choose Devuan or GNOME but they might end up using them because an administrator chose them.

antiX will be creating a Trixie-based 32-bit ISO. There's also Void, Alpine and Slackware (at least).

Yes, MX Linux will be doing this (as a separate ISO, until now they're been able to provide a single ISO that lets you choose between systemd and sysvinit at every boot):

https://mxlinux.org/blog/changes-coming-with-mx-25/


There was a "clean" version too, with the woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "Moral Majority" on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeioVSvl1w


Yes, because I'm not a psychopath.


"(The/an) alternate" is probably the ahem _alternative_ term you're looking for...


I am not a native English speaker, so I honestly was not aware of this English word.

Addendum: nevertheless: "alternate" is also derived fron "alter, altera, alterum" (the other one), so my point above still holds.


> everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law

I have one word for you: "cisgender".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...


> “You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease,”

How does this make it different than other website's policies in terms of free speech?


Its pretty easy to find large profiles calling others the n word without any reprocussions. cisgender is the only one that gets automatically filtered no matter the context.


cis is not a slur or attack. The only people who believe this are the transphobes.


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