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Guessing the weather forecast

August 28, 2017 Guessing the weather forecast2017-10-28T19:56:13+01:00 apps, weather

Weather apps: a tricky topic; most people wouldn't understand my obsession with weather apps and widgets. But I had to move the section about weather apps out of my post…

Android Apps: What I Use

February 17, 2017 Android Apps: What I Use2017-10-28T19:41:19+01:00 apps, longread, weather

No matter what I tried, this retarded Marshmallow performs "Optimizing app 1 of 1" after each reboot–a reboot that's a bit slow at that. And it's not a rooted device.…

The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later

August 10, 2016 The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later2017-01-31T16:01:38+01:00 apps, Marshmallow, weather, Wiko

It's time that I draw some conclusions with regards to my experience with Wiko Robby. Maybe someone from Wiko will read this, but I won't bother to write in French…

Low-RAM Marshmallow—One Week Later

August 2, 2016 Low-RAM Marshmallow—One Week Later2017-01-31T16:02:32+01:00 apps, Marshmallow, weather, Wiko

After one week with Wiko Robby, it's time for an updated report. Yes, living with 1 GB of RAM is perfectly acceptable once you're not a gamer. Yet, there are…

Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Revisions and updates regarding: Radio Regenbogen; Rock FM, formerly Regenbogen 2; Jazz Radio (France).” Jan 25, 21:19
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “● A Republican House member, Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, introduced a resolution (PDF) to amend the U.S. Constitution to…” Jan 24, 13:54
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “● Trump signed a new batch of executive orders on Jan. 23, including an executive order to declassify records relating…” Jan 24, 01:18
HAL on Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?: “Generally, I consider people who opt for Mint to be close to mental deficiency Mental deficiency… maybe not quite, but…” Jan 24, 00:29
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “I am currently using DeepSeek as an alternative to the others (ChatGPT, Mistral, rarely Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, and never Gemini).…” Jan 23, 20:18
Béranger on Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?: “1. Fedora is a big lie. They claim to be dot-release, not rolling release, but during a version’s life the…” Jan 23, 19:51
edel on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “Among the best summaries I have seen out there! The $500 Billion dollars investment for 4 yrs is perplexing! That…” Jan 23, 19:42
edel on Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?: “You have to recognize you use some language that, for those that do not know you, will consider it as…” Jan 23, 19:28
Béranger on One more time about Red Hat: “I couldn’t care less. And they didn’t release any beta of version 10.” Jan 22, 23:40
HAL on One more time about Red Hat: “Good. But some will tell you that Rocky is more “100% RHEL-like” than Alma, which deviates on certain points, as…” Jan 22, 23:38
Béranger on One more time about Red Hat: “Well, you enable Flathub… I did not check what AlmaLinux 10 Beta does. Maybe they do add a browser. Oh,…” Jan 22, 23:19
HAL on One more time about Red Hat: “So Cockpit is not usable… This is ridiculous! How can a company as important yesterday and today as Red Hat…” Jan 22, 23:16
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “● It was bound to happen: Attorneys general from 22 states sued Trump in two federal district courts (18 states…” Jan 22, 13:43
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “● “The EU is treating us very badly. It’s not just China. We have a huge trade deficit with Europe.…” Jan 22, 00:25
Béranger on Devrais-je boycotter Carrefour Roumanie ?: “Am tot amânat, dar până la urmă m-am hotărât să mai adaug câteva cazuri de nesimțire din partea rețelelor de…” Jan 20, 20:17
Angelito on News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic: “Sure. As for me, I found non-mainstream browsers to be an excellent tool for this kind of things, since you…” Jan 20, 13:20
Béranger on News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic: “When I give barrier-free links, they are for the public, not for me. I specifically use NJS because on some…” Jan 20, 12:36
Angelito on News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic: “You can read the site alright if you set your browser to not use javascript on www.theatlantic.com This simple trick…” Jan 20, 12:31
Béranger on Bypass Paywalls will never die: “Good to know. What I will never understand is why would anyone want to fully anonymize their YT usage. By…” Jan 19, 20:21
Weidenwiesel on Bypass Paywalls will never die: “The error “Please sign in” (among many others) is from YouTube and is only shown when the Invidious instance has…” Jan 19, 20:13
Béranger on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “Thanks for your long comment. It entered the Trash, not the moderation, most likely as a result of the combination…” Jan 19, 00:05
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1: “Since I was indeed happy with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, I also enjoyed this article by Nina Kalinina: Windows 2:…” Jan 18, 23:00
Baudelaire on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “I’ve used Linux and a form of BSD since 1995 onwards. I’ve been a President of the Linux Users’ Group…” Jan 18, 21:29
Béranger on Yes, you can be both anti-Putin and anti-Israel!: “Hamas killed 1200 Jews. In response, Israel killed 46500 Palestinians. If the Jews had applied the same measures to avenge…” Jan 18, 21:22
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “A succulent commentary by Liam Proven on how and why FreeBSD doesn’t “just work” (or it doesn’t work at all):…” Jan 17, 01:32
Béranger on The Blue That Is Green (And More): “Updated with another watch whose face is blue, but actually turquoise, or maybe really blue sometimes.” Jan 17, 00:31
Béranger on I wish I weren’t born in Europe: “Another GDPR-related idiocy: EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws (January 8, 2025): A top…” Jan 15, 14:58
Béranger on DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips): “Updated the global method of changing the DNS servers for all connections with a simpler one.” Jan 14, 03:44
Béranger on The suicide of the car industry: “Mat Watson from carwow: I expose how new cars are too FAT!” Jan 13, 16:44
Béranger on The suicide of the car industry: “Oh, I forgot: Why cars are getting UGLIER.” Jan 11, 19:46
Béranger on The suicide of the car industry: “Bart’s Car Stories: Are Cars Getting LESS Reliable? Yes, they are. In part because of regulatory bullshit, but also because…” Jan 8, 19:14
Béranger on Trump vs. Dems vs. Israel: not taking sides, just quoting: “It’s gonna be fun: After a reporter asked if he could “assure the world” that he would not use military…” Jan 8, 19:07
Béranger on Bypass Paywalls will never die: “One punctual example of why “piracy” is needed, even when it’s not true piracy, but merely the use of a…” Jan 8, 18:37
zugu on DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips): “I also believe using a pi-hole or a similar method of all-in ad blocking, such as setting up AdGuard on…” Jan 8, 11:31
Béranger on Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate…: “Interesant e faptul că Horia Marchean era cam legionar prin 2012 când scria la Buciumul, dar în ultimii ani este…” Jan 6, 10:21
Sensible kek on Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate…: “Dorin Lazăr are un nou podcast, ăsta e politic și e făcut împreună cu un fost legionar acum superprogresist: TikTok,…” Jan 6, 03:35
HAL on AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples): “AppImages are indeed the worst possible choice! Well, yes. So a distro like Nitrux that “supports and encourages the use…” Jan 5, 17:56
Béranger on Now I really developed a fear of flying!: “CNN: The survivors of recent crashes were sitting at the back of the plane. What does that tell us about…” Jan 4, 15:22
Béranger on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “Oh, my, I forgot about Unity!” Jan 3, 22:10
HAL on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “GNOME is the only desktop that diverges from the visual paradigm that can be found in KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE…” Jan 3, 22:03
Béranger on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “A nightmarish Slashdot thread: Is 2025 the Year of the Linux Desktop? (Betteridge’s law of headlines: ”Any headline that ends…” Jan 2, 19:01
Béranger on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “Nobody is using Krusader these days, so I can’t tell.” Jan 1, 22:31
HAL on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “But what you describe is the “normal” and logical way ! By the way, how is Krusader behaving ?” Jan 1, 22:30
Béranger on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “● Yes, if you consider a file copying with the overwriting of a preexisting file from a journaling or a…” Dec 31, 15:18
Gregor Fefor on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “Just a short comment on This obviously assumes that when replacing (aka overwriting) a file, the preexisting file is first…” Dec 31, 14:23
Béranger on It’s time I said something against Ukraine (another long read): “Euronews, on Dec. 28: Ukraine risks losing the battle for Russia’s Kursk region. What do you mean, “risks”?! The Kursk…” Dec 30, 14:13
Béranger on Țara tâmpiților (care suntem): “Pentru cine-l mai credea pe Cristian Ghinea cu mintea pe acasă: a se citi acest interviu. Am comentat pe FB:…” Dec 29, 17:37
Béranger on Economie și finanțe: Un contabil bun poate fi pe alocuri și prost: “Am avut o reacție pe FB la vizionarea emisiunii iThink de la Antena 3: Ce mă ucid acești hipsteri care…” Dec 29, 17:33
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Completare: La câți gurnaliști și câte jurnalizde spun «tentativă la omor» în loc de «tentativă de omor», mă gândesc că…” Dec 28, 03:26
svin on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “And the only feedback they got was from KDE devs. Meant to say GNOME devs. I should also say that…” Dec 27, 16:04
svin on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded): “It is an interesting article. I also have my own dissatisfactions with the way the Linux desktop operates. However, I…” Dec 27, 15:39
Béranger on Yes, you can be both anti-Putin and anti-Israel!: “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians (barrier-free): At exactly 1 p.m. on Oct. 7,…” Dec 27, 11:15
HAL on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “😅 Vous êtes trop modeste.” Dec 25, 21:13
Béranger on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: ““Nous”, vos lecteurs… en nombre de un ?” Dec 25, 20:46
HAL on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “Comprendre “We” soit : – dans le sens du français “On” – dans le sens “Nous”, vos lecteurs Les deux…” Dec 25, 20:35
Béranger on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: ““We” being pluralis majestatis? 😀 But indeed, going with Wayland for an enterprise distribution is pure madness! How can one…” Dec 25, 20:09
HAL on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “Going with Wayland for an enterprise distribution is madness! On Fedora, it’s understandable, but RHEL… 🤨 In the context of…” Dec 25, 20:02
HAL on What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO: “About your EDIT. I suppose it was meant to underline your grouchy and never, or rarely, happy and satisfied spirit.…” Dec 25, 16:05
Béranger on Este Cîcîrostanul o cîcîrocrație, sau o cîcîrotatură?: “Călin Georgescu și Florin Zamfirescu. 👿👿👿 TREBUIE VIZIONAT ȘI ASCULTAT! Așa ceva nu am mai pomenit de când mă știu!…” Dec 24, 13:04
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Overhauling of the Radio Ton and Schwarzwaldradio streams.” Dec 22, 18:34