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Post-Christmas depression

December 27, 2025 Post-Christmas depression2025-12-27T14:41:03+01:00 2 Comments bric-a-brac

There's nothing too serious, just my joie de vivre. The usual occasions to celebrate, such as the Christmas, the New Year's Eve, my birthday, and the Easter, ceased being festive…

Béranger on Post-Christmas depression: “Nice world. Nice people. It’s nice being trapped in your life.” Dec 27, 13:11
Jeo on Post-Christmas depression: “Now add to this the unavoidable necessity, after a lifetime of honest work, of being forced, under threat of extreme…” Dec 27, 11:37
Tim Turner on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “They are so fantastic. I’m 82 and when I found them on YouTube I couldn’t get enough. I look every…” Dec 27, 07:14
Béranger on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “If, despite Mozilla’s repos being installed, Firefox is pulled from MX’s repos, read this update.” Dec 27, 04:04
HAL on The most retarded AI failure is LanguageTool, not the chatbots: “Oh, I didn’t know that! Good to know.” Dec 25, 23:26
Béranger on Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez): “¡Muchas gracias!” Dec 24, 14:24
edel on Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez): “More than worrisome, but what worries far far more is the algorithm infused censorship, the one that turning on a…” Dec 24, 14:21
Béranger on Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!: “More AI shit from China: MiniMax AI is a Chinese company founded in December 2021 in Shanghai by former employees…” Dec 23, 01:55
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Add Windows Store to Windows 11 24H2 LTSC: LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore. Because option 2 (“wsreset -i” in Powershell as Administrator) didn’t do…” Dec 22, 23:05
HAL on Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more: “they might have forgotten about Kubuntu (he’s expecting Kubuntu 26.04 to be an LTS release, too) Hmm, maybe, yes, but…” Dec 22, 20:01
Béranger on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “When I mentioned FSearch as a must-have (the Linux equivalent to Everything), I forgot to add a visual grep tool…” Dec 22, 05:32
Béranger on Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall: “I also explored another Debian XFCE derivative with a hint of MX: Synex (DistroWatch, download the XFCE edition). In its…” Dec 22, 05:20
Béranger on RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie: “Administrația Președintelui Nicușor Dan a publicat o sinteză: Sinteza observațiilor transmise de magistrați și alți actori din sistemul judiciar privind…” Dec 21, 17:01
Béranger on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “I added two small updates: one to say that most MX tools actually depend on Qt6 and another one about…” Dec 19, 23:42
Béranger on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “BSD is not “communist”; Linux is, because of the GPL. The BSD license and the MIT license are “free as…” Dec 19, 20:31
Béranger on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “Good point! Now, the retards from the German magazine LinuxWelt have included on the supplementary DVD of their Sonderheft XXL…” Dec 19, 20:14
HAL on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “For GRUB issues, I won’t use MX Live or any other distribution. This has happened to me before, particularly with…” Dec 19, 19:59
Béranger on namesake vs. homonym vs. eponym vs. Romance languages: “Pearls before Swine on “truculent”:” Dec 19, 14:57
edel on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “Your knowledge in all short of Operating Systems far surpasses mine, by a few miles! I understand Microsoft is just…” Dec 19, 12:10
Béranger on SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian: “BTW, I can live with XFCE. Here’s Fedora 35 XFCE in November 2021: ● On my old Acer (installed) [screenshot]…” Dec 19, 00:55
Béranger on Christian Godard (1932–2024): “Édika (Édouard Karali), 17 décembre 1940 – †16 décembre 2025. Il en restait un…” Dec 18, 21:13
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “One more proof that local AI sucks. Red Hat has been trying to promote its AI-powered tools lately. Fedora Magazine…” Dec 16, 18:04
Béranger on Comic Strip Browser in your browser!: “Added Andy Capp, by Reg Smythe, at number 21, after Ziggy. (Foxtrot and Foxtrot Classics are now at 22 and…” Dec 15, 23:33
Béranger on Șase scurte note despre AI: “GPT-5.1 is much, much worse than GPT-5, to the point I feel I should give up using it entirely. I…” Dec 15, 18:47
edel on The EU and Romania compete in dissing China: “And you are not alone, there is a huge large silent minority we feel the same but with the large…” Dec 15, 10:18
edel on Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake: “I agree with you here… but a few points you’d missed: 1) It is not Rutte, it is the entire…” Dec 15, 09:14
Béranger on Comic Strip Browser in your browser!: “Added 21. Foxtrot, and 22. Foxtrot Classics, by Bill Amend. Important information: – Foxtrot: Daily between 1988-04-11 and 2006-12-31. Weekly…” Dec 15, 03:42
Béranger on RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie: “Citite într-o app de agregator de știri și online: ❶ Băse: „Predoiu și-a asigurat veșnicia în guvern. Izolarea justiției e…” Dec 15, 01:49
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Fixed the thumbnails for M Radio.” Dec 15, 00:38
Béranger on RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie: “Judecătoarea Raluca Moroșanu: „Dacă nu se schimbă ceva acum, nu se va mai schimba niciodată”.” Dec 14, 20:23
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “The retards at Microsoft couldn’t be bothered to provide File Explorer with SVG preview capabilities, so I had to Install…” Dec 14, 13:57
Béranger on RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie: “Reiau de pe FB: Radu Naum: Proști contra deștepți (titlul inițial: „Deștepți contra proști”) Deja afacerile continuă ca de obicei.…” Dec 13, 01:21
Béranger on ChatGPT și CCR: Deci așa, cam în vreo 15 ani…: “Muiștii de la CCR au publicat și textul complet al Deciziei nr. 676/2025 prin care au respins posibilitatea ca bolnavii…” Dec 12, 23:00
Béranger on One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria: “The AI bubble will burst one day. Even the Chinese know it: La Chine mise sur l’explosion de la bulle…” Dec 10, 21:47
edel on One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria: “No preparing a revolution (yet), but privacy should be a top feature, whether an individual, a professional or a company…” Dec 10, 21:40
Béranger on Cum să ieși din pușcărie înainte de termen în România: e simplu!: “Mafia politico-securistică controlează DNA (dosarelor sensibile nu li se dă urmare, procurorii cinstiți pleacă), CSM (Lia Savonea), Curtea de Apel…” Dec 10, 12:37
Béranger on Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar: “Cu privire la inițiativa lui Nicușor Dan de a întoarce în Parlament „legea care modifică OUG 31/2002 privind combaterea extremismului”,…” Dec 7, 17:07
Reverie72 on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Well, I bought some game at Google Play before 2020 but after I changed my device in 2023 I did…” Dec 7, 13:57
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added Radio Roks (Chișinău) at the end (11 streams).” Dec 6, 19:43
laur on Ascultați Radio Moldova online!: “Ceva ce o să-ți placă: Radio Roks.” Dec 6, 19:15
Béranger on Șase scurte note despre AI: “Qwen Chat on mushrooms: Clarifying M3GAN’s Production.” Dec 6, 03:35
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Now, the question is, when am I going to try UpDownTool to downgrade from Win11 IoT 24H2 to Win10 LTSC…” Dec 5, 19:05
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “🥳” Dec 5, 01:28
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “UPDATE: I found a way to disable Windows Defender in Win11!” Dec 5, 01:17
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “My crappy usb drive will give up on me before my OS hopping tendencies, I’m sure. Oh well.” Dec 5, 00:49
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “That sounds painful! May the experience give you much joy, brother. It’s still windows though, so there’s a ceiling to…” Dec 5, 00:47
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Win10 IoT LTSC is installed on the HP 1-liter PC. I wanted to have a Win11 experience, to learn new…” Dec 5, 00:42
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “May I know what made you move away from Win 10 IoT ltsc? I’m still drawn towards that even though…” Dec 5, 00:41
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Yeah I saw schneegan’s xml generator page mentioning it as their inspiration.” Dec 5, 00:30
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Oh, I should try what Rudy Mens says here!” Dec 5, 00:15
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “This is irrelevant now. I don’t want to debloat a standard Win11 ISO. I used an IoT ISO, so there…” Dec 5, 00:12
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I used it with 25H2 iso. And yes it was a bit complicated for me as well but this Pureinfotech…” Dec 5, 00:08
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “It’s complicated and I never do unattended/OEM installations. Also, you might have installed an older version of Win11. OK, it…” Dec 5, 00:00
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “If someone really wants to disable windows defender, I found the best way to do it was using schneegans’s unattended…” Dec 4, 23:55
Béranger on Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea: “Adineauri, „Mircea Badea chiar el” și-a exprimat profunda adeziune și nețărmurita apreciere (deci „a aprobat pozitiv”) proaspăta inițiativă a lui…” Dec 4, 23:25
Lucian on Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea: “Nda, chiar misto videoclipul. Merci ca ai postat, ca eu nu ma mai uit la nimic stiri sau emisiuni (din…” Dec 4, 22:40
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “A huge collection of crap, most of them being both in copyright infringement and outdated (e.g. AHD3 and AHD4 but…” Dec 4, 18:52
ConEst on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I’ve found some pretty good ones here.” Dec 4, 18:35
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I disliked GoldenDict ~15 years ago, and I stopped caring about it. It’s mostly used with pirated dictionary databases that…” Dec 3, 23:28
ConEst on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I’ve been using GoldenDict for a while now and it’s been serving me quite well. Can manage my dictionary collection…” Dec 3, 22:10