Glad you all are back!

Windows: “I gotchu, fam.”

Jerboa, because it just works and doesn’t overcomplicate things.

I think OP is referring to NAT hairpinning though.

Between 6-10 hours of what?

edit: oh, you mean the xkcd, LOL. Well let me know if it works out for you haha

Some BIOSes have trouble booting anything other than Windows, so some distros default to clobbering the Windows Boot Manager and trying to manage everything from GRUB. It sounds to me like this is what happened to you except it somehow got borked.

If the Windows install is still present on your drive it should be possible to restore the Windows Boot Manager. Then you won’t be able to boot Linux but you’ll at least be able to get into Windows.

Try booting off Windows install media and running Startup Repair using the following instructions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/windows-boot-issues-troubleshooting#method-1-startup-repair-tool

If that doesn’t work try one of these solutions:

https://superuser.com/questions/460762/how-can-i-repair-the-windows-8-efi-bootloader

https://superuser.com/questions/612830/how-to-reinstall-windows-boot-manager-on-efi-partition

Good luck!

Also relevant xkcd

http://cov.fefe.de/

IIRC all plugins you can get via the offical plugin directory are GPL-3

They could already have access to your emails, because… you’re running their OS. They can slip in any code they want and run it with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM-level privileges (comparable to root-level privileges on Linux systems).

If you run any other OS you’ll also have to trivially trust the makers of that OS with root-level privileges (or comparable).

(Personally I don’t believe that MS is scanning all your local emails, but they certainly have the technical possibilities to do so very trivially.)

And that’s why I’m explicitly noting that they’re not FOSS, doofus. Besides, if you’re using Windows anyway, using its built-in email client is not a huge stretch.

The built-in Mail app is pretty nice, other than that eM Client is good too

IIRC apt actually does support external media (because back in the day, not everyone had fast internet).

Because Apple ships a great one with the OS, so the necessity to make an alternative is less. Compare this to the garbage that passes for e.g. the Samsung weather app.

Where do you get that from?

Duitsland zet vol in op kolen, maar vooral transport blijkt knelpunt - https://nos.nl/l/2438762

Germany to reactivate coal power plants as Russia curbs gas flow - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/germany-reactivate-coal-power-plants-russia-curbs-gas-flow

The eviction of Lützerath: the village being destroyed for a coalmine – a photo essay - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/24/eviction-lutzerath-village-destroyed-coalmine-a-photo-essay

Yes congrats, we will need to build energy storages. Thats nothing new.

Ok, so where are the energy storages currently being built? This is not exactly a problem that’s cheap or trivial to solve.

It should be 0.

The renewables generate electricity mostly when there is sun/wind, so there is an oversupply at those times and a need to burn natural gas at other times.

The nuclear plants would generate electricity 24/7 with little waste.

Either way, now they are investing the money in digging up lignite, so it’s worse than either renewables or nuclear.

Beancount + Fava

Isn’t it just an improperly displayed network error? Those show up in red in the top left corner

Belgium has them

ACHINES