I’ve just been to Romania… Kosovo & Albania are next on my Balkan adventure list ;)

Ohhhhh, so point 5 is why I am still single :')

:3

Ahh got it thx

Someone who gives up without even googling will def have that problem. But I for myself see the intervals in which my machine breaks increase a lot (and it’s not only because of more experience) and especially immutables could decrease the risk to break Linux to a point where it is close to zero (with the nice side effect that it is easier to maintain for both the pc admin and the distro manufacturer).

Also: My experience (and that may differ a lot from the normie perspective) is that as soon as you are able to check forums for help with software at least the beginner friendly/popular distros are less painful to fix when your Windows pc got screwed. And the overall tone in Linux forums has softened a lot compared to when I first briefly tried a distro in 2016 (I returned in 2020 during the pandemic because I had the time and proton had been announced).

Atm if you use Linux you either are computer-literate yourself or have someone in your circle (even if it is an online friend) who is and who can help and if we ever got to the point where a random normie suddenly has Linux on their machine I’d assume someone at the computer store will be able to fix it

As far as I know a lot of Windows users are unhappy with Windows itself but can’t/won’t make the switch for various reasons. I don’t mean them, they are usually very nice.

I mean those people who judge you for not using Windows because “Linux is crap because of drivers and updates” (as if those were uncomplicated/unproblematic on Windows) and then blame every tiny inconvenience on Linux. One dude I used to play games with topped it when they blamed my Linux distro for him experiencing lags claiming Linux was “messing with the game server” (before that they used to say “switch back to Windows” every time I encountered lags or similar).

I REALLY want to see normies “manually correct” their machines after bragging with Windows supremacy for so long

I REALLY wanna see normies “manually correct” their Win 11 machines after bragging about M$ supremacy for so long.

OK, for real for one sec the likelihood of this being your average chinese company who just translated this into English and has no idea of what “white power” means is 99% so my sharp reaction is meant to point out my opposition towards white supremacists and not towards the product / brand / seller.

They could still be Orbán, Fico, Kickl or Höcke sockets

They could still be Orbán, Fico, Kickl or Höcke sockets

They could still be Orbán, Fico, Kickl or Höcke sockets

Yep this is on me, I should have provided more context

Yeah it even ships with a cool flag:

it’s red and there is a funny looking black x with hooks on the end in a white circle in the middle of the flag

Hahaha, no

I love how you changed the panels so the Nazi is an incel

If one was to be unreasonable: Where do Titoists go? (Asking for a yugoslav friend, hehe)

I fully agree. It’s good to see they are addressing the issue and as you say the effects are long time.

These are actually interesting numbers. I do not doubt them and -0.99 pop growth per 1000 is “not great not terrible”. Upon searching I stumbled upon a world bank statistic claiming that China has had a -0.1 growth rate in 2023 but I assume they are calculating per 100 and just rounded -0.99 / 1000 to -0.1 / 100.

Now there are some developed countries that did worse than China (ahem Germany, Poland, Japan - I leave Russia and Ukraine out of this since both are actively decimating their population) but there are also a lot of developed countries who did better: Australia with 2.4, Czechia with 1.8, Spain with 1.2, …

Two numbers I also want to mention are the US with 0.5 and the EU as a whole with 0.2. So China is not far away from the West although both are still growing whilst China is still shrinking but the trend is your friend. It would interest me if migration has already been included (I’d say yes) because that usually benefits the growth rate of the US and EU (and is something both are actively fucking up as we speak thanks to conservative ultranationalists).

If you want to look through the numbers yourself: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?name_desc=false

In case I messed up the numbers or anything else lemme know - it’s 5:30 am CET and I am extremely tired but the numbers sparked my interest. ^^

China has high costs for raising a child… Apparently only 2nd to Samsung™ Korea.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252843.shtml

https://daoinsights.com/news/china-has-worlds-second-highest-cost-of-raising-children/