Another thought: is it required for your service to physically run in 25 locations? Couldn’t you have one (more powerful) main instance which accesses the other servers via SSH to execute whatever command is required?

If they block you from printing guns with a 3D printer, you could print a 3D printer that doesn’t have this limitation and use that instead.

It clearly says…

Supported paper formats

North American letter, tabloid, and 11-inch wide paper roll European A4, A3, and 297 mm-wide paper roll

I guess then A4 is supported as an input.

Thanks, but this seems to be rather an unofficial hack, no? If Microsoft decides to block this approach, the setup may cause trouble out of a sudden which I’d like to avoid as my relatives live quite far away.

That sounds like an interesting fallback and better than Windows 11. Do you need a new licence for that or can you just change from Windows 10 Pro to IOT LTSC?

give them a fair and informed choice.

I think to make an informed choice you need a certain understanding of what an operating system is at all and what might be differences etc. I’m talking about people who are afraid that their emails disappear from the webmailer if they buy a new laptop.

From my experience it’s important that, after booting the PC, they immediately find the 1-x icons on the desktop to open the browser etc. Within the browser they need bookmarks to find webmail, banking etc.

They won’t try to install new software, enter commands in the terminal or tweak around with the settings.

But to calm you down a bit: if they really don’t like it, they can stick with Windows. ;)

Thanks for your post.

IMHO Windows is getting harder to use with every update. Context and start menus are changing, you get annoyed by One Drive, asked to use a Microsoft account for everything, suddenly stuff like Notepad has Copilot integration, suddenly links open in Edge instead of your default browser and you’re confused that your bookmarks are gone etc. Apart from that, hacks to install Windows 11 on non-supported hardware might work fine today, but may break with every next update.

I moved my mum to Linux Mint one year ago and so far didn’t have issues or complaints. In fact she’s super happy with the Solitaire game as it does have way more play modes while not having any annoying advertisements. She’s using Firefox and LibreOffice which she already had on Windows before. It was less of a deal for her than a new Android major release on her phone.

But my mom is living much closer to me. In worst case I can fix any issue in person. Unlike these other relatives. There I need some kind of support access for troubleshooting.

Thank you very much, that GUI looks very similar to Teamviewer which they already know.

if you don’t want to use their servers, you can even host your own

I didn’t download and try it yet. Do you know if you can indeed use their servers as well without self-hosting? I went to their website and scrolled through the GitHub FAQ and at first sight I can only see the self-hosted option. They even advertise it as ‘non SaaS’.

This. It’s slightly worse than Google Translate in my experience, but definitely usable and much better from a privacy perspective.

I highly recommend FreeCAD BIM workbench.

Here you can find an amazing series with tutorials for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3wRqQUPtE16yw_c1TnRYJmz37y2ZRTLm

There’s also the channel deltahedra with great stuff!

I’m sure you could have sold 'em to some freak on craigslist for good money. 😄

No source will be ever completely free of a bias, but Wikipedia is still way more reputable than the two sources linked here.

Wikipedia has plenty of critical articles on what Israel is doing / has been doing in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes

Looking at… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Monitor … that source also doesn’t seem too objective to me TBH.

Again: I’m not saying that the original article is wrong. I just say that claims by any news outlet that a) isn’t too popular or b) that has a strong and well-documented bias in one direction must be questioned until proven right.

And MEMO, according to Wikipedia, has a long history of pro Hamas propaganda back until 2009, long before the current war even started.

Really not sure if this is a reputable news source. Never heard of this website and as others mentioned here, there seem to be no reports on this topic in the bigger general press outlets.

With reputable sources I don’t necessarily mean western media, but also e.g. Al Jazeera doesn’t seem to report on this topic. Which would be huge if true.

ABC Australia reported that children mistook unexploded bombs for toys: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/unexploded-ordinance-israel-ibombs-gaza-clearance-war-remnants/105937500

That’s still heartbreaking and horrible, but quite a different story than Israel explicitly placing ecplosives disguised as toys.

If one of you found further proofs, I’d be happy if you could share some links.

I don’t know if that"s indeed the origin, but Gnu is the German name for a wildebeest. So my assumption is that the logo does not depict a goat but a wildebeest.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus

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

IMO there are sufficient search engines to find products in online shops to check availability, compare prices etc.

I see the main selling point of Amazon in the huge assortment (you can get everything in one place without shipping fees), the user ratings (although the quality massively declined during the last years) and the fast delivery. I’m boycotting them for around one year now and everytime I need to order a strange combination of things I’m getting reminded how convenient it used to be. I don’t intend to order there again, but I definitely need much longer to buy stuff now.

I didn’t even know that Firefox allows changing PDFs, so I can’t comment on this, sorry.

I use LibreOffice to change PDF files. I’m not a heavy user, but for my needs that worked like a charm so far.

Custom roms is your best bed

Didn’t know they come with sleeping facilities. They’re so versatile nowadays! SCNR

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