Fiskars pans are nice, made in Finland

Well put, thanks for sharing. I submitted many of the same arguments as you, but not as eloquently or thoroughly :)

“Europe is the American tech sector’s biggest market after the United States itself. It all depends on trust. Trust requires dialogue,” Smith said.

Trust has been destroyed from the top. Trust is easy to loose and hard to gain

For weather I can also recommend the app and website https://www.yr.no/ . Publicly funded by the Norwegian government, publicly available weather data, and good coverage for weather outside Norway.

Great initiative!

(I sadly can’t sign the petition on a account of not being German, but am looking for FLOSS initiatives in Norway)

Pilot project is a good start.

Hopefully they consult with the federal government of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Austriaan Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism on their experiences

That’s neat :) I like the concept of a collection of warm&fuzzies symbols

How are you making the stickers? It looks like each sticker is composite of multiple snippets of art?

Why not Firefox itself? It has built-in option for vertical tabs, or you can use the extension TreeStyleTabs which gives you even more options.
DRM works fine on Linux (at least it did last time I used Netflix, though that’s a while ago)

There’s also Firefox derivatives like Waterfox and LibreWolf for a slightly different direction.

Congrats on the completed project! KiCAD is so cool. Who did you use for PCB fabrication?

I haven’t tried it yet, but came across savr the other day. Looks promising

savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.

PWA, extension for FF and Chrome , optional sync via Dropbox or own storage

Paywalled, so can’t comment on the whole article.

But the excerpt does not support the headline: Share of EU GDP says nothing about internal or external trade growing or shrinking, only that the relative amount of external to internal trade move to slightly more external

Do you need the pdf to open in Firefox/browser?

If not, PDF-XChange Editor is a pretty good advanced standalone program. It comes in free and paid versions

EDIT: Never mind, just noticed this is the FOSS community. PDF-XChange Editor is not FOSS

Dune3D is a relatively new 3D CAD for Linux. https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/ I haven’t tried it, but it looks very promising.

Personally, I use FreeCAD, which is leagues better than it used to be, and improving quickly

Tan Eggs advent calender is a little nugget of joy every day. Thank you for posting these

Not sure I buy the “not critical infrastructure” argument. Even if 95% of public (and private) correspondence is digital these days, paper-mail is still used as a fallback for some institutions and whenever a physical copy must be sent for whatever reason.

Wow this is awesome on so many levels!

Could you just buy wood sticks of that size in the hardware store, or did you have cut them to width yourself? And how is the wood glue sticking to the plastic flare? (Never tried using wood glue on plastic before)

Yikes, are those required? Looks very rug-shaped, perfect for pulling things. Or not. Who knows?

Yeah it’s a normal model, but BitWarden is a bit special in that their original server-side implementation was enough of a pain to self-host on a small scale that an alternative implementation Vautlwarden was created. And Vaultwarden became very popular in self-hosted circles. And now many years later BitWarden offers a Lite server which scales down. I think it’s a good thing, just a bit unusual. I’m struggling to think of similar examples.

I’m sure Vaultwarden still funnels plenty of enterprise use of BitWarden, since Vaultwarden users still use official BitWarden client.

Forward thinking venture capital funded companies are getting rarer, hence the question on motivation. Especially the last few years many VC Foss companies have squeezed harder the other way (gitea, Terraform, docker). So all kudos to BitWarden for launching Lite.

What you say a about brand dominance, or brand protection makes a lot of sense. It’s not a good look for them that a large number of people choose to use an unofficial implementation instead of theirs. And should there ever be a catastrophic security issue with Vaultwarden, it would still reflect bad on BitWarden as that kind of nuance (like “unofficial server side implementation”) tend to get lost in reporting. Having more IT workers self-host official version probably also helps pave the way for bringing enterprise-bitwarden to companies.

Valve are a bit of a unicorn though, because they are privately owned. There’s no investors demanding ROI the next quarter, which gives them freedom to think long term.
When Microsoft launched windows8 and the Microsoft Store, Valve took that as an existential threat to their whole business model (the Steam store). Valve feared that Microsoft was trying to position itself like Apple on iOS and Google on Android, where there is only one platform store, and all apps are purchased through the platform store, and the platform store takes that sweet sweet 30% cut. So Valve pivoted to ensure the Steam store would not be obsolete, and give customers a reason to still use the Steam store. And what they achieved is awesome, for Linux, for Valve and for gamers. But it took nearly a decade, which is a level of patience few companies have.

I had the same happen on the root folder on a SATA SSD. The SSD was dying (don’t remember if there was SMART errors, but the dmesg log showed write-errors. I cloned old SSD to a new SSD and haven’t seen the problem since. That was years ago.

When there are multiple consecutive write errors, Linux will re-moumt the partition as read-only to protect the data. (There usually a statement along the lines of “on-error:remount-ro” for the partition in the /etc/fstab file)