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  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • I wondered why I didn't remember a mini series to exist - then saw its Rotten Tomato rating...

    So perhaps better watch the film instead.It has a few 60s movie moments, but overall was really fun to watch, with most of the science being surprisingly solid, given its age.

  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • You are confusing that with Galactica from Andromeda out of the "Hello Spencer" TV series.

    The "Andromeda Strain" was about human hubris and the reasons we are probably not going to become intergalactic travellers...

  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • Totally.

    The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, so we are already on our way!

  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • xkcd: Groundhog Day Meaning

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  • Well, actually, we celebrate the guy becoming zombie three days after nailing him to wood.Also, the guy is often called "the lamb".So we naturally eat roasted lamb as a traditional celebration, while the bunnies hide colored eggs for us to search.

  • A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum

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  • But wait... Isn't he much too young to have fought in WWI?

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • I owned one of the nice Microsoft cable free Keyboards in the early 00s.That is, until I threw it to the garbage, after some tinkerer had a look at the RF protocol and discovered that the entire encryption just consisted of XORing each keystroke with a fixed 8 bit value...

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Guess who some time ago grapped the entry level guitar a friend wanted to give away and already mastered his first few accords! :-)

    But things are going slooow when you have reached a certain age.I just wish I already had started when I was still younger...

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Would be guitar for me.You can carry it around and has a nice social aspect...

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Learning to play an instrument.

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • I am also an engineer, so my kids have had contact with advanced IT equipment since early childhood and are quite proficient by now. :-)

    We also have a Chromebook with touchscreen at home, mainly so they can comfortably use some Android apps in a controlled environment (the 9 yo doesn't yet have a smartphone of her own). Chromebooks in school are not really a thing here in Germany afaik.

    Both kids have an account on our Linux desktop in our work/office room.This is set up with a special German DNS that provides age-group appropriate filtered hostlists ("jusprog").To integrate that I used dnsmasq, which lets me easily modify the filters if needed.

    It's not perfect, as it could be easily circumvented, but we talk openly about it and I try to minimize severe restrictions, so they feel no need to tamper with it.The kids are sometimes a little annoyed when something new doesn't work directly, but know that this is the way that allows them to use the PC relative freely, so they are quite happy with the arrangement for now.

    We also have a Linux Laptop and a tiny Mini-PC with Linux Mint attached to the TV, both of which they are only allowed to use with some supervision.

    Edit:They have some games that can be used with their accounts (the usual, Luanti, Supertux, Tuxracer).The more complex Games are on a special account for which they don't have the password themselves, but have to ask for access.Older kid just got really involved in playing Oblivion, so proud! ;-)

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • Nope, neither a joke, nor Boomer.

    GenX with late GenZ and early GenAlpha kids.So no humor, just empiric observation.

    Just this week my GenZ son told me to my astonishment, that out of his class of 30, only 3 still have a printer at home.

    For my daughter in elementary school it is even worse.Mobile phones and tablets essentially have completely replaced PCs and Laptops at home.

    First time the kids come in contact with a text processing program is sometime during secondary school in class if they are lucky.

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • Meanwhile Gen Alpha:"What is Word??"

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • I think neither, but "Ursula von der Leyen" and so am not convinced... ;-)

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • Individually, each of the girls is super sweet, thoughtful and considerate.

    As a group it is all about fitting in and punishing any kind of non-conformity.

    They are slowly learning, though.

    This type of group dynamic seems not to be uncommon, I've been told.Especially (but not exclusively) within girl groups.

    Hence my earlier call for caution.

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • I wonder if by now it would have become acceptable as a girl's name by the German authorities.There might already exist real-life Frierens in Germany!

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • That's a British name, though.

    In German, "Imogen" sounds like it is the name of some prescription medicine.

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • TIL that "Rosine" had been a common name in Southern Germany until the end of the 19. century, when it started being used the way it is today (as the name for raisins).

    I also learned that the word for "raisin" before "Rosine" was "Zibebe".