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  • Got to play with the front monitor on a fire engine today.

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  • It sounds exciting, it was fun for five minutes and then it was mostly cold and the cleanup was miserable. I'm voting for exercises on mild summer evenings only.

  • Got to play with the front monitor on a fire engine today.

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  • Nah, those are pretty chill around here. Usually we only see them when responding to traffic accidents or bigger structure fires and then they usually turn up way later than we do because they are stationed a lot further apart.

  • Got to play with the front monitor on a fire engine today.

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  • In German it's called a Wasserwerfer or Monitor. I found no exact translation.

  • Got to play with the front monitor on a fire engine today.

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  • Eternal and glorious.

  • Can we see a photo you took recently?

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  • Yep. 95% of firefighters in Germany are volunteers, so regular training is necessary, except for bigger cities there are no "professionals" that turn up if things get out of hand. There's just people with normal jobs that drop everything when the pager goes off and we provide everything from cutting people out of cars to containing chemical spills and fighting forest fires.

  • Got to play with the front monitor on a fire engine today.

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  • You overestimate the appeal of standing around in wet snowfall and waiting for everybody to cycle through all the stations in the training.

  • Can we see a photo you took recently?

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  • Got to play with the water thrower on a TLF in less than ideal weather conditions. Got a nice picture out of it though and hot soup later, so all was fine.

  • LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

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  • What they have is already done developing and they are flush in cash. A company that creates an ERP for a specialized industry does not care, unless a huge chunk of their customers demand a change all at once AND are ready to pay for it. I mean, I understand the idealism but this is just one of those "if everybody just..." situations that, imho, holds back open source solutions because their defendants look a bit excentric from established businesses' points of view.

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  • Well... Are you?

  • LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

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  • I'm reading all these comments and I guess no one here works outside of academia or 100% IT companies.

    Reality out there is, that O365 is so deeply integrated with other business related software, that it's never going away. My company uses an ERP system that has maybe 200 customers worldwide. It is highly specialized for what we do. There is zero financial incentive for the manufacturer to support any other ecosystem. So they won't.

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • We said that a few times, first it was the harddisk factories flooded in Thailand IIRC, then it was GPUs for crypto, now it's this shit. Not much bursting, more like a chain of bubbles.

  • Opening Netflix tonight

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  • More like, duplicating.

  • Bedtime

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  • Here I thought I was the only one. At about 10:30 he'll get up and and look for a human to accompany him upstairs for teeth brushing and blanket service. When the humans he finds are a bit slow, he'll stand in the most annoying way 35 kilos of street dog can stand. I can't explain, but he manages to convey the message by just standing around in the general vicinity of his chosen service person that night until you move, then he walks ahead of you a few steps upstairs, bathroom, teeth brush, bedroom, his corner, blanket over dog please, deep sigh, paw stretching.

  • Tony Perkins Calls For Boycotting "Woke" Chick-fil-A - Joe.My.God.

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  • "Something I don't like, but I want to make sure my buddies don't ask me to elaborate."

  • I vacuumed up a stink bug a few days ago and now I when I turn on the vacuum the stink comes out

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  • Yes, I am marvelling at the 0.08€ and I'm wondering in what kind of electrical price paradise you're living. Bit envious, honestly.

  • I vacuumed up a stink bug a few days ago and now I when I turn on the vacuum the stink comes out

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  • 0.08€/kWh only on a really sunny day, otherwise more like 0.3€.

  • Fat chance of convincing them to switch to Linux

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  • Yeah, but with immutable desktops it's just rebooting at your convenience and be done. Rolled that out for a few customers in the past two years.

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  • You missed a Warhammer 40k reference.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • My advice is, when you're recommending Linux be very sure that you're ready to be the 1st level support from then on. Personally I'm too old for that shit. People are ignorant and unhappy for so many self chosen reasons, their personal computer desktop is just another one and I just can't fix the world.