I am sure they were fine machines. I don’t think they were profitable for Valve (that is what I meant with “not worked out well”). On the other hand, the Steamdeck might not exist without the Steam Machines, so maybe I am wrong and it did work out well.

True. Better allaround.

When I last entered the US in 2009 they took my fingerprints and a photo. I assumed it to be mandatory.

I also had to “please follow me” to a backroom, but I kinda expected this as a muslim. Met some friendly mexican and pakistani people there, so it wasn’t that bad. I still decided to refuse all business trips to the US from that day on (and avoided tourist travel there as well), as I just didn’t feel safe.

Didn’t work out that well last time. But Valve got a lot better with Hardware since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)

You both have valid points that are most likely both true.

Reality is more complicated thatn theories. Israel is a US vassal and completly depending on the US. The US needs Israel to assert power in the region. Israeli actors are influencing US politics. US actors have personal interests in Israel. US actors are depending on pro-zionist fundamentalist christian groups. Israeli actors are controlling parts of the US entertainment and news production. Other local players in the region depend on the US and thus support Israel to secure their own power. Racism in the general public is also part of this (some headlines produce more click, than others). And so on and on.

Imo these are all correct assumptions, but even this doesn’t show the whole picture. Reality is too intervowen to completly access it in simple terms.

They are literally citing the Jeruslam post, a conservative pro-zionist media… You are lost.

Germany often abstained in critical UN votes regarding Israel and Palestine. E.g. here or here.

And german “intellectuals” are already in the “it is not binding” mode… Germanies political and media class is lost, completly detached from the constituency, who is against the genocide by a large margin.

I use posteo.de which costs 1€/month. It is simple, but works fine.

UNRWA: https://www.unrwa.org/

Doctors without Borders: https://www.msf.org/

Both should be safe from landing you on a list. But tbh, who knows nowadays?

The problem is not so much that donations are missing, but that Israel blocks the aid. Despite that, donating is still important.

Doctors without Borders would also know, if nurses are needed, and more importantly, if nurses can get into Gaza. You should know that health care workers (including Doctors without Borders personell) has constanly been directly targeted by the Israeli airforce and you would, without a doubt, be in life threatening danger. More than 880 health care workers have been killed by now (https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-response-israel-gaza-war).

Germany strongly disagrees.

And Germany.

Also people without a work permit.

Also, the 20k is her fine, they gained the 790k between 20 people.

Don’t know how they distributed it, but 790k for 20 people isn’t a lot of money.

If it doesn’t provide a benefit for them, why should they bother? I understand why a teenager would, I would have as a teenager. But as an adult? Who got time for this?

A little unsure about the “peer based performance review”, sounds like bullying might somehow have to be kept in check. Otherwise this sounds awesome.

Bro, learn to write in paragraphs.

He is asking for much more than he currently holds. I’d expect this from a war party that is about to overrun the enemy. But despite Russia slowly getting the upper hand, they still have a long way to go to win this war and they still might lose it.

Therefore I don’t think this is an honest offer.

I am on linux since 2006. I know there are other distros…

Yes, I understand their reasoning. I still want to use KDE and thus don’t use mint. What is your point? Please stop this.

Yeah, great, you don’t like KDE. Good for you. What does it have to do with me liking KDE very much?