Unless we’re talking about German ICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express

Except the provision in question was copy pasted from an old law where it existed for decades without any change.

I find the tendency on Lemmy to see a conspiracy in every law concerning.

Criticise the law for what it does (there is enough here for it) and be wary of potential abuse. But sometimes warm water is just warm water.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677

1. The government is obliged to grant your request to leave the country unless there actually is a war.
2. There is no penalty if you leave the country without government approval.

You could use owncast as a twitch alternative: https://owncast.online/

Some Matrix clients such as comment also support screen sharing (for a more discord like experience). But I haven’t used it myself, so I can’t speak to its quality or reliability: https://commet.chat/

While the law requires men to request the permit, the [army] spokesperson clarified, it also obliges the military career center to issue it, if "no specific military service is expected during the period in question.”

"Since military service under current law is based exclusively on voluntary participation, such permissions must generally be granted,” the official added. (…)

When asked, the ministry spokesperson pointed out that "the regulation was already in place during the Cold War and had no practical relevance; in particular, there are no penalties for violating it.”

Yes it is

The Critical Drinker is a notorious right wing grift YouTuber and podcaster.

Here is a video about him that explains more: https://youtu.be/2lgmvraCq1g

That’s only mostly true and more importantly not what this is about. Yes Gnome and Mutter don’t support server side decorations. But Electron on Linux uses GTK to construct the application window. And GTK offers client side system styled window decorations. Meaning that electron applications aleady supported decorations that look and feel like server side decorations even if they are not.

Electron already had some support for client-side decorations, provided by a class called ClientFrameViewLinux which uses GTK to paint convincing native window frames. These look very similar to the ones GNOME used to supply on X11, but they are produced entirely in-framework.

No, the problem is with custom styled window decorations. Developers who wanted to do CSDs couldn’t without major downsides. And that was also true on KDE Plasma, as evidenced by this screenshot from the article you evidently didn’t read

See how the window for VS Code doesn’t throw a shadow compared to Dolphin? That’s because electron didn’t support CSDs properly. And now that it does the window looks like this:

That’s what we are talking about.

For new users the local feed is the recommendation algorithm. If you are on a instance that caters to your interests you will discover stuff that interests you there automatically. If you’re not, then you might conclude, that Lemmy has nothing for you and bounce off the platform entirely. This is especially true if you are looking for non-English content.

The paradoxical situation with federation and instances is that those least likely to understand it are among the more likely to profit from it if they did.

The left won. They just performed worse than expected, forcing them to work with centrists to form a government

Hardware

A mac mini is probably overkill for what you want to do. We are talking standard blu-ray after all, meaning your videos are going to be limited to 720p. Most hardware will have no problem dealing with that. The cheapest solution that’s fit for purpose is a refurbished thin client. They aren’t powerful or anything, but you don’t need powerful. You need quiet (passively cooled) and low on energy consumption.

Thin clients can be had on eBay for less than 30 Franks.

Software

• Kodi: originally known as the XBox Media Center (XBMC), a TV friendly menu to pick the movie or TV show you want to watch
• LibreElec: A Linux distro, that preconfigures and auto starts Kodi, not the best choice if you plan to use anything besides Kodi
• Jellyfin: A media server. If you got multiple TVs you might want to look into this one. It essentially let’s you operate your own Netflix, complete with a web frontend and apps for phones and TVs, integrates with Kodi

That’s what hardware keys are for. Even the cheap lines of fido USB keys (ca $20) can safe passkeys. And your phone can too.

It does, but not all clients do.

Two clients that support the call module are Element and Commet

There is a gamedev conference that accompanies Gamescom in Germany every year.

https://dev.gamescom.global/

It has lived in the GDCs shadow up until know, but game (the organisation that organises the whole thing) should understand this as a chance

It’s a term from city planing. Essentialy places that are not your place of work or someone’s home.

Here is a more in depth explainer by NotJustBikes: https://youtu.be/VvdQ381K5xg

If you are willing to selfhost, you should look into audiobookshelf. Abs is a streaming server for audiobooks. It for example allows multiple people to use the same library and have their individual listening progress saved. And you can actually stream your books and don’t have to download them if you don’t want to.

In short: it’s a much nicer listening experience than audible ever was, especially if you shared your account with someone else.

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

And you can use https://audible-tools.kamsker.at/ to free your existing audible library from the clutches of Amazon

I’ve been running Sailfish for two months now on a secondary device.

There are native clients for both Signal and HomeAssistant. I don’t use HA myself, so I can’t comment on how well Quartermaster works, but I haven’t run into any (major) issues with Whisperfish.

As for general impressions: SailfishOS feels like the best mobile OS … of the year 2013. There are a lot of aspects where it was ahead of the other systems back then. For example with the gesture based navigation. But the other systems have caught up in that regard. And then there are the aspects where Sailfish was perfectly average back then. For example how you grant rights to apps (all requested at once, on first launch) or how the emoji keyboard works (like a different language). Design decisions like that aren’t deal breakers by any means, you can learn to live with them and work around them if necessary, but they give the OS a slightly dated feel.

That’s why Ultramarine exists. It’s just Fedora with RPM-Fusion (the non-free repo) preconfigured and the Nvidia drivers preinstalled.

https://ultramarine-linux.org/

No it’s not. Matrix isn’t part of the Fediverse. It doesn’t use ActivityPub and there is no interop with any other Fediverse service.

That doesn’t make Matrix bad, it just makes it it’s own thing.