This would make the second picture possible (just without the fur on the human part) - a centaur also has a duplication of parts of the spine.

Wer dem linken Lager zugeordnet wird und ueber Gentrifizierung schreibt wird abgehoert, bekommt das Haus durchsucht, und hat dann jahrelang Gerichtsprozesse. Oeffentlich "Auslaender raus" zu schreien ist da ne ganz andere Hausnummer. Es fuer rechte so zu uebertreiben wie es bei den linken passiert waere jetzt auch nicht wuenschenswert - aber das sollte schon Grund genug fuer Ermittlungsbehoerden sein mal nachzuschauen in welchem Umfeld die Personen sonst so unterwegs sind.

I nowadays typically have three outcomes to similare situations:

• I find my own question without solution from a while ago
• I find my own comment or blog entry describing how to fix it
• I find a friends comment or blog entry on how to fix it

Actually I can’t think of anything that raspberry pi does that can’t be done better by a less expensive alternative.

That has been true even before the price increase - what still makes me use pis now and then is that just so many people are familiar with them, the standardized form factor with lots of extension modules, and the software support - pretty much any software targeting that kind of use has been tested on pi variants.

I'd nowadays go for using compute modules, though - they're smaller, and you can get them with flash, eliminating the SD card problem many pis had. You can get carrier boards for the compute modules in the classic pi form factor, so you can have the best of both worlds.

Some of the drugs are not manufactured in the US. There has been an EU wide ban for selling drugs used in executions to the US without making sure they're not used for executions. Which also is the reason why medical organizations were very unhappy few years ago when states lied to them in an attempt to get those drugs - as they risk getting cut off for legitimate medical use.

Reason for the EU ban is simple: We consider executions a human rights violation over here.

That sounds more like a compositor problem - typically a client should not have control over where windows are placed, and that X11 allowed that got heavily abused with negative impact on UI. Wayland fortunately fixed that, so it is now up to the compositor where to place windows. Those can send hints, but the compositor is free to ignore them.

In your situation your compositor should remember where to stick the windows.

As a company it is pretty annoying. I have an outgoing payment for what we ordered - getting a commercial invoice for random gifts worth 5 EUR doesn't help me much.

Few weeks ago had a lenghty discussion with one vendor which ended with him asking if I shut up if he gives me everything I need to make my own invoices with his signature and company stamp.

Problem is that it not really is "just a store". By using the google store you get access to the google play APIs, which are upgraded separately from the device OS - which is sensible from a security perspective, but they also were created by google specifically for regaining control over what goes on on Android devices.

A lot of applications are needlessly tied to play APIs - either because that way is a bit easier, or just because google is good at marketing them, and the developer didn't think twice about it. Some relatively basic APIs are part of google play - for example maps, which needlessly is tied to google maps. Unlike Android itself the play APIs are not opensource.

Yandex tried about a decade ago to re-implement the play APIs to keep such applications working without the play store, by utilizing other services providing the same functionality, and tried to get other companies to join them. I've visited the Yandex office in Saint Petersburg a few times to discuss that back then (just checked, most of that seems to have been 2014 - that year Yandex was sponsoring my Russian visa). The effort failed for various reasons, unfortunately - the big one being that doing this required reverse engineering API changes on every play update google was pushing to stay compatible. There's the microG project around now, but it seems to be less ambitious than what Yandex was trying to do back then.

My point is, as long as at least the API for play services isn't maintained in a way that allows full open source reimplementations - or better, google releases parts as open source where we can plug different backends in - "use a different store" is not really a possible solution for many.

Problem nowadays is that changing partition tables is so rare that parted changes their commands between uses, and I never remember if fdisk nowadays has all the GPT related issues that made me try parted in the first place ironed out. Plus I can't remeber the new GPT commands and partition IDs.

I still mostly just read the help text every time because nothing else is installed - but from the speed I might be a bit faster with a well designed GUI nowadays if it is about modifying GPT disks. MBR disks I still can do with fdisk in my sleep.

I am actually curious how to read internal Russian news.

Internet?

I don't expect it will make much of a difference. It will make it easier for some of the ones who managed to stick with it until that point to stay in academia - the article also mentions the high rate of dropouts early on. What you want to get to the talent is to reduce those dropouts.

One part of that should be free education - and in case of university education, free housing and a small unconditional stipend to make sure money is not an issue.

No, living in Finland.