When I bought my smart TV I've decided to not connect it to my WLAN and didn't plug in the Ethernet.
So it isn't able to send information or install anything. Everything I watch on it is through my home theater PC. If I ever wanted to update it I would connect it with Ethernet and then remove the ethernet cable after the update.
There is a good song of a German singer / songwriter Funny van Dannen - "Menschenverachtende Untergrundmusik" (inhuman ? underground-music) which says basically the same thing.
I would say from a technical point of view vinyl is one of the worst for archiving purposes. It degrades every time you play it, it can warp, playing it back is error prone...
The advantage of vinyl is in your last sentence: "once I own something on vinyl it feels much more like I own a permanent copy of the music".
That's totally fine for me if you feel this way, but I don't. I feel better with multiple digital copies of the music on multiple places.
Sorry if this triggered somthing in you, but I really meant "shitty MP3s".
I don't have got anything against MP3s in general, but back when I was buying MP3s (Amazon or Downloads when you are buying a record) sometimes I got 256kbps MP3s or even worse. I think one time I even got a 192kbps MP3. And that's my problem.
When I am buying music digitally I would like to have a very very good (or even perfect) digital copy of the music - not something that saves download bandwith and space on the hard drive(for me these days are over).
I am fine with 320kpbs MP3s - but if I pay for it I prefer FLAC.
Bandcamp is my preferred way of buying music these days. The only advantage of physival media is the record cover. But I am really pissed if I can't download the album or if I am just able to download a shitty MP3 of the music I've bought.
So Bandcamp works great for me. It offers all the options I want (FLAC) and I like that a band can set the price to 0$ so you can download it from Bandcamp for free but you can give them money if you want to.
Awesome experience all around. And with the music I like most of the bands are on Bandcamp.
I am sorry if this is not really the point of your post, but I am reminded of watching the movie "Meine keine Familie". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2917962/
As mich as i know there is no English version but it is a movie about someone growing up in a commune in Austria in the 70ies. It is a very interesting and sad movie. The "founding father" of this commune spent time in prison because of child molestation and harassment. His mother still thought that he "had a good childhood and time" in the commune without knowing his father. As much as I know from the movie he wasn't molested - but he experienced growing up there as a very strict and unfree experience (I am not sure if this is totally correct, but my memories are shady, I've watched it many years ago)
I've watches some videos on youtube of guys who try to salvage Tesla's. I am not sure if these are growing pains or if Tesla is just more interested in a model without independent mechanics.
In these videos it seems more that Tesla is VERY hostile against people who repair their car. They have no access whatsoever to parts, so their only chance is to buy damaged cars and salvage the parts. My feeling was that it was very hard for the owners to keep the cars updated and to super charge these cars.
My experience with dealers repairs and independent contractors is that most of the dealers change assembly groups and good mechanics change what's damaged. You've got less problems if you change assembly groups but it is way more expensive.
Yes it does - but it's not as prevalent in humor as it is in the US.
I'd say that most of these double meanings are hard to translate. At least if you compare German and English (the two languages I am "proficient" in).
If you want this in a more modern context I would be completely unable to translate Dendemann lyrics to English so it would still be lyrical or funny.
Yeah this joke didn't make any sense in German. The problem I see with this kind of jokes is that they can't be translated to German.
e.g. another joke like this
Did you hear about the country with the fastest growing capital? It's Ireland - every day it's Dublin.
I can't think of any way how to translate this joke so it would be funny in German.
But I have a feeling that these word play jokes aren't used much in German speaking countries anyways. Most of the humor is about people acting different or surprising.
I am incredible happy that Unicode is the de facto standard and that encoding problems are (mostly) a thing from the past.
But sometimes it doesn't work out and you still hve these problems (Microsoft I am looking at you and your bad Unicode CSV support in Excel).
The last time I've really tried out KDE (many years ago, in the KDE4 era) it didn't work and I had to install an extension (that didn't quite work for me) to get that to work. But I've heard that they've changed it later. After some configuration I've installed XFCE on this PC and was much happier. I even found a menu and a configuration for XFCE that worked like I wanted it to work.
I have no experience with Mate, but the feature I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.
I know that you can use Alt+F2 for this, but using super is much more ingrained for me since I've seen Windows Vista (I am using Linux at home and Windows systems at work)