Yeah, it all still is more experimental than I’d hope. The whole reason I’m using Silverblue is low maintenance and less risk.

The plus side is that it didn’t render my system unusable - I could boot into the old version. But hopefully lessons will have been learned, and this will happen less often in the future.

There’s always butt hair.

should of

It’s hard to tell, as there are so many things that influence it. A huge factor is selection bias, as only a small number of website embed StatCounter, and that’s very likely to not be a representative sample. I’d bet that the influence of that is magnitudes larger than of user agent spoofing.

I’m fairly sure it’s deficiencies in StatCounter’s measurement that’s accounting for it. Statistical noise, basically.

Yeah that’s what I mean - it’s not that the file size reduction is minimal, but that the benefits of that are fine, but not earth-shattering.

Oh! Note that in Settings under Network, there’s also a VPN setting that allows you to manually configure a VPN. It has an “Import from file…” option, so presumably, there’s a way to obtain a config file that should make it work. If not, knowing which options to set might work as well.

A VPN is definitely an example of software you should use rpm-ostree to install.

I think it’s fine if you use rpm-ostree for it, but it’s not necessarily required. I recently found out that the Mozilla VPN developers are experimenting (!) with building a Flatpak, and having tried it myself, it works very well.

What is it with this obsession with JPEG-XL? I keep seeing it mentioned on lots of threads, but as a user, the benefits seem marginal? Like: would be nice, but I’d expect more significant benefits from something that’s brought up this often - so which benefits am I missing?

That is a classic. Personally, for the Netherlands, I was thinking some Doe Maar.

Or possibly Little Green Bag, but I’m guessing that doesn’t fit the “relatively unknown outside the Netherlands” criterion, nor is it in Dutch.

But also leaving the artist’s signature on an edited comic and not mentioning it’s modified feels shitty too

Removing their signature would be way shittier 😅 And it’s pretty clear that it’s edited anyway.

There’s definitely the bureau kredietregistratie in the Netherlands.

As far as I know you can’t “freeze” it like you describe, though you can request information on what is stored about you and who accessed it. It also costs money to run a check, and credit history doesn’t go back more than five years, doesn’t include your mortgage unless you missed paying that for longer than three months, and doesn’t include debts less than €250.

Edit: also just checked, but the information is only shared with parties that share credit history with the BKR. I think that means that it’s basically frozen by default, i.e. only parties that are actually about to do business with you can access it, but I’m not entirely sure. They’ll at least have to do some kind of business, i.e. not be a generic data broker.

If you’re in the centre of my city, it really is quite lovely on a summer day. Masses of people, but their sound is calm and not that noisy.

Granted, it’s not a huge city on the scale of NYC, but it would still be terribly noisy if 10% of those people had been in cars.

That’s some fine future Dutch soil you got there.

Their main point is that they want to enable true pan-European parties 😅

Yeah, which seems a bit of a hassle, given that there’s only two possible opinions one could have on any given matter. Don’t know why they bother with more than two parties, really.

The Netherlands has Stemwijzer and Kieskompas. Of course, we already voted on Wednesday.

In the Netherlands, the parties PvdA and GroenLinks have started working together very closely, participating in elections with combined lists. They did the same for the EP elections, but had the challenge that PvdA was part of S&D, whereas GroenLinks was part of the Greens.

They went for the same solution: half the list (the PvdA part) will join S&D, and half (the GroenLinks part) will join the Greens. They will align their votes, though.

The way I interpret that, is that it’ll be easier to influence the Greens (since it’s a smaller group and thus GroenLinks is a larger part of it), but if the S&D position can be swayed, it’ll have more effect. And in general, both parties presumably aren’t that far from their group’s stances anyway.

Polls predicted both to be at around 8 seats. Exit polls have PVV at 7, Labour-Greens at 8, with a margin of error of 1. So pretty much what was expected.

Whether one or the other is larger is mostly irrelevant, as that only pertains to the Dutch share of seats in the European Parliament - there are way more seats to be assigned, and there will not be an absolute majority for anyone anyway.

Unfortunately I have the same symptoms you do… On GNOME.

It doesn’t always happen, but every now and then the system will get into a state that suspend doesn’t work.