Direct link: https://www.printables.com/@Philips

Quite a few distros use systemd.

Good to know. I guess I managed to only look at their Android offerings.

PocketBooks use Android, which can be a positive or a negative. It gives you access to Play Store, but it’s also Google.

Calibre can also convert between various file formats, and with DeDRM plugin, it can also remove Amazon and Adobe DRM.

Also subscription services typically pay the actual authors only pennies. If you want to support the authors, buy the books or use libraries.

There are stores in many European countries that sell DRM-free e-books in local languages. They might use the term watermarked instead of DRM-free. See if you can find one in your country. Because they are DRM-free, you can use any device to read them.

Many libraries also lets you rent audiobooks and e-books. Many European libraries have moved to using Readium LCP DRM for e-books. You will probably have to use their own app to read them, which means you can’t use e-readers, such as Kobo to read them.

At full operation, ITER is expected to produce 500 megawatts of fusion power from only 50 megawatts of input heating power, a tenfold gain. At this level of efficiency, the fusion reaction largely self-heats, becoming a “burning plasma.”

That 10x gain would be pretty huge, if they can make it to work. I believe the record so far is only 1.5x.

The Fascist States of Trumpistan

They recommend Galaxus over Amazon, but many of the product links lead to… Amazon.

As I understand it, the energy efficiency class is based on how long the device works with a full charge. They have laid out a test cycle that needs to be repeated until the device turns off. The rest of the information on that label is just for your information.

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ%3AJOL_2023_214_R_0002 (Annex II)

One problem I can see with this is that it pushes manufactures to set as high maximum charge level, and as low minimum charge level for the battery as possible. What is “full” and “empty” for a battery is something that the manufacturer sets. The higher the “full” level is, and the lower the “empty” level is, the more stress is caused for the battery, which leads to the battery dying sooner. If you for example limit battery charging to 80% charge level, you can double the expected lifetime of a lithium battery. But this rating system doesn’t take that in consideration. It’s up to the consumer to choose between Class A device with 500 cycle battery and Class B (or something) device with 1000 cycle battery.

• https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries

The EU now mandate that smartphones and tablets must be repairable, with parts like batteries, cameras, displays to be available for 7 years from the time the device enters market.

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1670/oj (Annex II)

This might be the reason for requiring glibc 2.31 and newer:

Security related changes:

CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.

Anyone want to take bets on how many deaths/injuries will there be before they’re pulled?

DOGE will make sure it won’t be pulled. They’ll shut down any administration that tries.

This LiDAR tech vs Tesla video makes me wish Tesla will use LiDAR in their self-driving Robotaxi fleet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ&t=556s

This is also good article:
https://www.ecuradio.eu/2025/04/decay-capitalism-post/

Decay Capitalism. A system where economic value is meticulously created only to be relentlessly siphoned later, almost always at the public’s expense, and invariably with appalling consequences.

I just use Firefox, so I guess that one. I have meant to look into Vivaldi and Mullvad, and perhaps LibreWolf.

One reason is, that there is no guarantee that the forks are safe to use. Any claims for “privacy-focused”, “secure”, etc should be considered marketing terms until they are somehow sufficiently proven to be true. For example, Zen Browser is one of the many Firefox forks. Its developer has made some major mistakes and otherwise behaved in questionable manner, and have basically shown to be an inexperienced developer.

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/5947
https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927

How many hours until Russia blame Ukraine for breaking the truce without providing any proof?

https://gohug.eu/join/alternatives/ lists Exit 50 as a service for finding European alternatives. It gives wrong information about where companies are based in. For example, it claims that Brave browser is by a Swiss company, even though it’s American. At one point, it claimed that McDonald’s is a Swiss company, but now it doesn’t say where it’s based on. Excluding one alternative, all the alternatives for McDonald’s are American (such as KFC, Domino’s Pizza, Burger King), even though it claims otherwise. I’m sure there are many other examples. This type of service should in my opinion give accurate information. Because of that, I think it should be removed.

There is an application called Mainline, or Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer, which should work on every Ubuntu based distro. It lets you install kernels up to the very latest one (currently 6.14.2). It has a GUI, or you can just enter sudo mainline install-latest in terminal to install the latest kernel.

Here’s a guide how to install it: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/08/mainline-install-latest-kernel-ubuntu-linux-mint/

If you are gaming, it’s recommended to use the latest kernel. Newer kernels not only provides support for newer hardware, but can also improve performance.

Apple actually open sourced Swift language, and it’s available for other operating systems as well: https://www.swift.org/

Xcode is the app you need to use, if you want to submit your app to macOS or iOS App Store. You can build macOS apps with other tools, but you can’t distribute them in the App Store. There are developers who sell their apps through their own websites, or through other marketplaces, such as Steam. And while you can build iOS apps with other tools as well, it’s mostly pointless as you can’t distribute them, because iPhone doesn’t support sideloading. Jailbroken iPhones are an exemption to that.