The US is not trustworthy anymore. Your president is switching randomly from on insane idea to something equally insane. Canada doesnt want to the the 51st state. Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in the EU, which has been the biggest ally for the US and now your president was not ruling out using force to take over greenland.

Trump fans are saying "this is how he negotiates, don't mind", etc but anything coming from him os just random bullshit and nothing he says can be believed because the next day he can be 180* on the same topic.

There were no such issues between any of the US allies in the time I can remember.

We thought that whenwe help the US in Afganistan and Iraq then it will be remembered when we need help, but now Trump threw all that goodwill down the toilet when he said that the allies basically didnt do anything.

>but anything coming from him os just random bullshit and nothing he says can be believed because the next day he can be 180* on the same topic

Not to mention that threatening to go to war with an ally as a negotiating tactic is crazy regardless of how inconsistent you are about it.

What did you want to achieve with this sarcastic comment? Make us use react, because it's users are as cool as you?

Yes, I agree, codenames are stupid, they are not funny or clever.

I want a version number that I can compare to other versions, to be able to easily see which one is newer or older, to know what I can or should install.

I don't want to figure out and remember your product's clever nicknames.

wtf, this is totally insane.

Here the upgrades for meters are paid for by the grid operators. No changes to the cabinets are required, old analog meters were replaced by them for smart meters, at no extra cost to the consumer, and now they will replace them with new meters capable of metering by 15 minute interval.

This cost in germany is really only created by overregulation and insane bureaucrats creating work for them.

I first heard that in Germany there is much resistance to smart meters and I thought they were just silly people, but if it costs so much..

no people are stupid. Smart meters are paid by the grid operator like everywhere else. Friends of mine got one and it was 25€ a year for it. Yes germans are very stupid. we fight everything new because we think this country worked rly well in the 80s and thats where we want to be 1980

Digital and Smart thats for othet countries.

I got air air heatpumps for 3 rooms 1000€ a room and it slashed my heating cost to 1/3. And I have to explain that its not foor cooling but for heating and then the response is " heatpumps are like 20k plus you liar" or " heatpumps dont work in the cold" ... germans

Still many people dont switch because the read somewhere about magic costs that dont exist. Russian Gas propaganda is big here

No, i don't want AI on my phones OS. I dont want any ai search in phone settings or files or anything like this.

It would be like MS is forcing their copilot currently everywhere, it is totally useless and a nuisance.

Copilot is useful for searching emails and SharePoint. It gives access to GPT-5 with Thinking, making it broadly useful for programming tasks.

It's certainly been useful in my organization.

Gmail search has been excellent for 20 years. Outlook search is still terrible even with copilot. LLM isn’t the killer feature, a search that works is.

For one I don't have Gmail at work.

Copilot can search even in PowerPoints. Being able to search your organisation's documents is kind of a killer feature, provided they make it work reliably.

I can't think of a single reason why you would need an LLM to search through PowerPoint files. We have traditional search technology which would be excellent for that!

> can't think of a single reason why you would need an LLM to search through PowerPoint files

Kati’s Research AI is genuinely great at search. It tries to answer your question, but also directly cites resources. This can help you when you’re not sure where the answer to a question lies, and it winds up being in multiple places.

Unless your query is super simple and of low consequence, you still need to open the files. But LLM-powered search is like the one domain (apart from coding) where these fuckers work.

Google has been doing this well in their office suite for years. Discoverability has been way higher in Gsuite than office.

Prices went up in norway because the uk had even higher prices than norway. Having these interconnections is good for producers in norway and consumers in Uk, but very bad for consumers in Norway

But you don't need to configure kde to use it, you can just use the defaults for everything, nobody is forcing you to configure stuff. It is not some exotic tiling wm where you have to set up everything.

But after brexit your immigration from non eu countries increased dramatically? Now you have even more immigrants from questionable countries

Why did they vote for it?

A lot of people voted for it as a point of 'control'. The UK might be in a pretty messed up place politically right now, but it does have full control over its laws. The buck stops with someone you can reasonably drive to and shout at. The EU was a slow and constant move into more and more centralised control in Europe.

Some of these people think this means they can influence the country more for their own gain; some think it protects them from people influencing the country unduly.

Either way, its hard to argue against brexit having given the UK has more on paper long term control, and its hard to argue against brexit being costly both theoretically and in practice, and its hard to argue that the UK wouldn't currently be better off in the EU. Its hard, but people are doing it.

Its mostly a matter of identity. Do you feel European or British? Its much like any secessionist movement. This partly explains the high ethnic minority vote for Brexit, because its hard to feel European if you are not of European origin.

It is also a matter of class identity. Being a remainer is a lot posher than being a leaver.

This is so weird.

I live in EU, but I am not originally from Europe. I have a EU citizenship at this point though.

That said, I am staunchly pro EU, and would always vote for further integration. In truth, I even think that EU federalization would be a good idea.

I have no idea why immigrants of all people would have a nationalistic stance on this.

> That said, I am staunchly pro EU, and would always vote for further integration. In truth, I even think that EU federalization would be a good idea.

It is necessary. Having a common currency without a common budget has been a disaster.

> I have no idea why immigrants of all people would have a nationalistic stance on this.

How is it a nationalistic stance? You are preferring one identity over another - either way is just as nationalistic.

Immigrants from outside the EU do not like immigrants from the EU being given preference from their countries of origin, often places with strong historical links to Britain, where English is widely spoken, etc.

> Do you feel European or British?

English first, European second. Indeed, the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland likely feel the same, and it’s unclear why that union should be considered worthwhile when a larger one is not.

> its hard to feel European if you are not of European origin.

All British-born people are of European origin. That is a simple geographic fact.

My daughter was born in Britain, but her ancestry is only partly European.

Lots of people are British born who are not of European ancestry. Unless you are defining "European origin" to mean "born in Europe" in which case your claim is tautologous. The other possibility is that you are defining "British born" to mean ethnically white British which does not really need any comment.

Even if it is not what you meant, European has strong implications of European ethnicity.

I would invert your question. Why do many people consider the larger union worthwhile but the smaller (and more workable one) not worthwhile? The only areas outside London that had a majority remain vote, are those where the vote was swung by Scottish or Welsh nationalists. In general the supporters of one union oppose the other.

Northern Ireland voted remain, and even the pro union people mostly voted to stay in the EU as Brexit was a disaster for the island of Ireland.

To be clear, I think both unions are a good idea, or neither are. You can’t pick and choose though - the arguments for one are largely the arguments for the other.

Your statistics are also trivially falsifiable by simple counterexample - the town I lived and voted in during the 2016 EU membership referendum is not London, or the London area, is in England, and voted remain by 57.9% to 42.1%. The major city next door did so by an even more overwhelming margin: 61.7% to 38.3%. Not too many Welsh or Scottish nationalists in either…

So you’ll no doubt forgive me for not taking you too seriously when you spout horse shit dressed up as thoughtfulness.

By the way, I do indeed consider anyone born within the borders of the geographic boundary of Europe to be European, just like anyone born in the United States of America is American. The only arguments against such ideas are dog whistles (or let’s face it, full on soccer whistles at this point).

For some it was a protest vote. And some people are idiots.

Xenophobia.

I don't need bright lights, most people don't and we havent done anything to get them, they just come with the car for most people.

You bought a car which had them, that was a choice.

I have never bought a car with extreme bright headlights, and I never will.

My car does not have extremelty bright headlights

But the choice of headlight is probably one of the lowest factors when deciding on which car to buy, you just live with what the car manufacturers are shoving on us.

...or you choose to buy from a manufacturer who aligns more with your personal morals and opinions.