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• That is probably an option in about 5 years, if at all.

  on Pistorius: F-35 deal does not make Germany more dependent on US in c/europe@feddit.org · 4d ago

• WDYM? Germany will operate a hybrid fleet, with the majority of the fighter jets being Eurofighters, and the F-35s being used for nuclear sharing. At least that is my understanding. 3. is a hybrid fleet option

  on Pistorius: F-35 deal does not make Germany more dependent on US in c/europe@feddit.org · 4d ago

• He’s right in my opinion.

  The issue is that under the nuclear sharing agreement, Germany has to provide the bomber jets.

  As part of nuclear sharing, the participating countries carry out consultations and make common decisions on nuclear-weapons policy, training, and deployment, and maintain technical equipment (notably nuclear-capable aircraft) that is required for the delivery of nuclear weapons.

  To be nuclear-capable, an aircraft needs to be certified by the US in this case since they provide the nuclear weapons. In the past, this was done for the Tornado; that one however is being phased out due to age.

  So the options are:

  1. get out of the nuclear sharing agreement. I don’t think that’s currently a feasible option for Germany.
  2. Certify a European aircraft. There’s no guarantee that a verification will be successful, but what will be guaranteed is that all design documents are to be provided to the certification body. I don’t think Europe is currently willing to reveal all their know-how in that domain to the US. Apart from that, I’m not aware of a current generation bomber jet, only fighters, but I don’t really care about that topic so maybe one exists.
  3. Buy a certified US aircraft

  So yeah he’s correct in that this doesn’t increase dependence on the US, the dependence stems from the nuclear sharing agreement itself, not this purchase.

  on Pistorius: F-35 deal does not make Germany more dependent on US in c/europe@feddit.org · 5d ago

• I think so too actually if you’re looking to learn the basics.

  Arch has very little actual “distribution” in its system (mostly pacman and mkinitcpio) and the former is a glorified tar with a database, and while it can run scripts, you’re expected to configure and set up everyone yourself using the upstream tools, and these usually come vanilla

  I daily drove it for 15 years before I switched so it’s not like Arch is insured for that. But if you want to learn the basics of modern Linux it’s a good choice

  on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• And they too will be let believing they’re part of the in-group until they’re no longer useful

  on Germany’s Merz cancels phone call with Trump after social media post celebrating AfD win – as it happened in c/europe@feddit.org · 10 Sep 2026

• Spahn has been meeting with Trump and his allies (Grenell, Thiel) for years. It was Merz’ own party sanitizing that administration. Now they’re noticing they’re not actually part of the in-group. Get fucked

  on Germany’s Merz cancels phone call with Trump after social media post celebrating AfD win – as it happened in c/europe@feddit.org · 10 Sep 2026

• there’s always denial

  on stoic in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 Sep 2026

• I hate the “digital” framing. Blu-Rays are digital media, there hasn’t been a medium carrying analog information that I know of since the laserdisc (yes, even audio CDs are digital)

  What Sony wants is download-only titles, probably with some dumb online license check, but the latter could be had with physical discs as well, though it’d probably be an even worse look.

  on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Technically, the question was even easier (yes/no), but I agree with the sentiment

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026

• Well, but the question wasn’t “what is a hash used for”, but rather “what is a hash”

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026

• Keep in mind this is a statement by a manufacturer who’s trying to get his customers to sign long term contracts at current prices, so it’s in their interest to have people believe that the shortage continues.

  Doesn’t mean it’s not possible, bit it should be read in that context

  on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Fun fact: this is actually a still image

  on It's The Rule. in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• The hope wasn’t that the game would dominate the existing FGC, but that the IP would have such a massive pull that it would expand the FGC so much (and in the longer term, make the players be l branch into other games in the genre).

  I don’t know what Riot expected, the genre is niche and from what I’ve heard, the game wasn’t very accessible in the first place, basically trading old hard stuff against new one (not that me being on Linux could have tried it myself), so yeah. My league friends didn’t even try it

  And say what you want about SNK and their Saudi money, there’s a lot of valid criticism, but CotW is probably the best-supported and fairest game currently out.

  Fuck the Saudis and Ronaldo though

  on 2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026 in c/games@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I’d try it out, decide I still don’t like the concept and go back to plasma.

  I don’t get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn’t that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can’t ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?

  I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn’t use it.

  on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• These protections work at different layers and hence, you use both.

  First off, you can’t really encrypt the first boot loader by design, your UEFI needs something it can read and run. You need to protect this first boot stage somehow, and this is what Secure Boot is for; it verifies the signature of the payload it starts to protect it against tampering.

  on The security co-processor in many CPUs is insecure in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
• 1. The spec allows changing keys by the user as far as I know
  2. I’m unaware of a proposal of a better concept that stops attacks at this layer
  on The security co-processor in many CPUs is insecure in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• My distribution’s licensing fees also went up that percentage recently, so it’s understandable

  on Microsoft reportedly raises Windows OEM license fees by 7% to 10% in c/technology@piefed.social · 11 Aug 2026