If the bank where you've had an account for 20 years without overdraft doesn't trust you, then who will ?

I could never get over the fact that if you've never borrow money and never used a credit card, you have a shit credit score...!?! It should be a perfect credit score instead ! I borrowed money for the 1st time when I was 35 and I had only ever used debit cards before and I couldn't find anything better than a 17% rate loan. What a fucking ripoff.

Wasn't the portable Windows market already dead and buried 20 years ago ? Or was it more ? I can't even remember the name of that version of Windows !

I remember looking at ReactOS in the early 2000 when I wanted to wean off the MS tit, but I found it severely lacking and decided to just jump completely to Linux, Gentoo first and then Kubuntu; only keeping an XP in a VM. I don't know how much it's improved since then...

I too have never heard of this. Maybe it's the crap that's on the 'Left 1st page' or whatever it's called, that I disable first on any phone I own or get my hands on.

Ha, okay thanks for the info. I don't use Wayland because I haven't been able to get VNC to work with it for remote connections; and I haven't found other solutions than X11.

I've never heard of "plasma login manager". I've had SDDM on various machines for quite a while (don't remember what it was before); and I've been using KDE for well over 2 decades. I just searched for it in the kubuntu repo and couldn't find it.

No, they pay for themselves at 10x the price other countries do. That's what you get for having a rich country, in parts, but mostly this is due to shit 'health insurance' that grift their customers, and in turn get shafted by the drug companies. Vaccines (and 90% of drugs) are cheap in the rest of the world.

How are you sure that selecting B&W on your printer won't print the yellow dots anyway ?

I've been to places that have plenty of auroras (Alaska, Antarctica, Scandinavia, NZ, etc...), but either at the wrong time of year, during solar minima, or smack in the center of the auroral circle (where there's nothing to see).
Is there an email alert I can set up for my location for when they *really* happen (based on nearby webcams), not just when some vague model gives a 10% probability ?

Indeed. There are actors I cannot stand because I cannot understand a single word. Not so much in US movies, but in other languages, absolutely yes (I'm multilingual).

Yeah, I just checked and I did pay about 300€ a month (in today's money) in 1990, but that included books, the room, food and obviously the courses.

I don't know why the word 'militia' is never used in those discussions. From the text you are allowed to use a gun only as a member of a militia. That should be pretty straightforward 'cops and similar' only, no private ownership...

I read part of the header as "Chief Lucrative Officer", I don't know why. Well, amend that, I'm pretty sure I know why.

Can you move a stone ? And what's the difference between the various nations' rules ?