It’s also the biggest language (in terms of native speakers) in the EU. Not that it’s anywhere close to a majority…

I switched around 7-8 years ago and pledged to stick it out despite any annoyances.

About a year later I needed to use windows for a job and found it incredibly annoying to use. So much of it is just what you are used to.

These days I love gnome and tend to use OpenSUSE or Fedora

I use opensuse (tumbleweed and slowroll) because I just wanted to try it out a few years back and it mostly just works.

If I were to reinstall today, I’d probably use fedora again, since it’s much easier to use things like Waydroid.

It’s technically a QWERTY-variant, but I use EurKey

Cars in cities.

You don’t realize how insane they are until you spend time somewhere without them.

I had this too! I think my high frequency hearing is just really good.

I recently was at a wedding and only the little kids and myself (in my 30s) were really annoyed by this device the venue had which used high frequency beeps to scare away rodents and things.

The feed/social network bit is useless, but it’s (sadly) by far the best job-search tool for my industry (tech).

I always try to use other platforms, but my last 3 jobs have all been found through linkedin. This across various European countries, if that helps as a reference point.

Just (like most places in Croatia) make sure not to go during peak season!

Yeah I have used opensuse for the past couple years (still do!) but while there is plenty to like, if I were to do a reinstall I would likely move back to Fedora.

Then again, I basically never use YaST, which I suppose is one of the main song points.

It’s literally not any different. Starlink is just a less-reliable broadband internet connection, it has nothing to do with WiFi

For me, I like that it isn’t overcomplicated and just works. It being basic is a big pro to me.

Wanting less/more immigration are both perfectly valid positions.

Immigration can provide opportunities to a country but can also cause issues and it’s undemocratic and dangerous to demonize either position on the issue.

It’s hard to imagine, but modern inequality is actually very extreme in historical context

No love for Assad, but given all the islamist groups involved I have a bad feeling that this is going to end up even worse…

I went through a pretty big libertarian phase way back in my late teens.

Not the ‘deregulate everything’ type, but rather more of a ‘everyone’s place in society is governed by the choices they make’ social-darwinist sort of angle.

Once I got out and experienced real life more (and learned about all the little nuances behind everything) I realized just how wrong I was.

Nowadays I’m a big leftist/socialist

I can’t check at the moment, but that sounds like something ‘Simply Perfection’ would be capable of.

It’s essentially an addon specifically for tweaking the appearance of gnome stuff.

It’s not colonialism to prefer one culture (or certain cultural traits) to another. In fact, it’s natural.

I’ve lived in a number of countries and each had their own distinct cultural norms. Each has had aspects which I perceived as either positive or negative.

Add it all together and I definitely have preferred certain cultures, not because they are “better” but because they more closely match my own preferences. Other people would prefer different cultural norms.

IPTV is generally for live TV channels rather than on-demand.

Not a raspi, but I had similar issues on my opensuse HTPC which turned it to be related to issues with (or missing) media codecs in Firefox.

After (re)installing all of them, it worked like a charm.

Imagine your town/city starts completely catering to people from richer countries coming there to get completely wasted and intentionally act crazy… that’s what happened to a huge portion of Spain.