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China literally invented bureaucracy 3000 years ago. It’s the cornerstone of Chinese civilization.

Post-it‘s with passwords aren’t the worst in security. Physical access to the note is required to get the password. One post-it under each keyboard with a different password is better than the same password shared widely.

GitLab is a good example of excellent software. It has a proper business model and has built a great community.

Most Linux desktop applications sadly have no good business model. If you have a business model you can pay developers, designers, support, writers, etc.

Free web applications and free FLOSS have lead to people not valuing software you are right. If there is much good software and services available for free, why should I pay?

As a developer I have bought many pieces of software to make my work easier: Git Tower, Kaleidoscope, PaintCode, Dash, Reveal, Charles, Acorn, Paw, are what come to mind right now. I perceive all of these tools' value to be high.

You can use bitcoin to buy drugs and other illegal things from the safety of your home.

Canonical has NO job vacancies at all currently https://www.canonical.com/careers/all-vacancies

Is something wrong with the company?

It's not just developers and big influencer. Calling them power users is a better term. These are the people other people ask for advice.

Getting the right adapter to connect a display isn't easy. Many only support limited resolutions and frame rates.

ac’tivAid is a superb script collection for AutoHotKey.

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/09/24/activaid-is-a-useful-autoho...

https://www.heise.de/download/product/activaid-24593

Using only Darwin instead of Linux or FreeBSD was never really attractive. Contributing upstream is difficult to impossible, since Apple was never set up to take your contributions. The different Darwin distributions never really developed a direction or a unique feature set.

The only feature that sets Darwin apart from FreeBSD is launchd instead of init. The rest is mostly downsides like a weird file system. You can get dtrace on many other OSs today too.

Since you're looking for a desktop OS, you should test PC-BSD instead of pure FreeBSD.

XQuartz works just fine

The US has harsh sentences and high crime.

Because many devs are on Linux distros, that include PulseAudio by default. Support for *BSD ports is often a bit weak for software like that.

Buying a complete set of codecs from Fluendo for Linux costs 20$. That includes Windows Media, h264 and others. That's not too much I think.

http://www.oneplaydirect.com/oneplay/oneplay-codec-pack/

Comparing Vorbis to MP3 nowadays doesn't make a lot of sense. Compare it to AAC.

All media container formats can contain differently encoded data: avi, mov, mp4, ogg, mov, mkv.

> we imagine some "delivery only" roads

This is possible but unlikely. There have been numerous plans in the past to build such large infrastructure. Like large pneumatic tubes to every house for deliveries. It usually turned out to be too expensive to build.

You could have truck drivers just at the start and end points of a route. Trucking companies can have representatives at the border, who then guide it through customs. No need to sit in the vehicle for hours.

There was a story about a Tesla's radar being blocked by a moth, that smashed to its front. A fully autonomous vehicle would have had to stop and wait for someone to come by and clean the radar. Or there need to be lots of additional minor repair gadgets added to the car to clean sensors in case of dirt.

Fossil[1] is a distributed scm with a distributed bug tracker, and distributed wiki.

[1] https://www.fossil-scm.org

Also go to

Settings App -> General -> Restrictions -> Apple Music Connect (toggle to off)

Prices in the US and Canada are ridiculous if you've been to Europe.

Germany is one of the worst telecom markets in Europe, but you can get 2 GB of data, unlimited calls, unlimited texts for 12.99 € without contract.

In France you pay 19.99 € without contract for unlimited calls, unlimited SMS and MMS, and 50 GB.

The main difference is how the market is regulated. Better regulation leads to lower prices for consumer.

There isn't even one kind of Western philosophy. There are vast differences between continental european and anglo(-american) philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy

As the bible says http://www.bibleserver.com/text/ESV/Deuteronomy23%2C25

> If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. 25 If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

Stealing food is okay sometimes. There's even a word in German for it Mundraub.

Spanish are the loudest Europeans.

Where do you usually charge bluetooth headphones? On USB ports.

I loved Opera back in the 3.x to 7.x days. Vivaldi's UI and features reminds me of it.

After using it for an hour for my regular browsing, I noticed it uses a lot of CPU for some websites. I saw over 100% for pages where Safari chugs along with 25%. That's enough to get the fans spinning.

Using a self-serve scanner means you work for free for the store.