Why would that matter? I’m 40, it’s not like I’ve got raging hormones and change opinions every month or so.

Actually, I would like to know what being a woman would be like. I suspect the opposite sex would also like to know what it would be like to be a man.

It’s just human curiosity I guess.

Why is sucking better than blowing?

Ummm… not a girl, but I suspect it’s easier to suck things out of it than blow into it…

Well, it’s under a permissive license, so there is little he can do legally, except maybe sue them for not mentioning the original project, which I’m sure they will add and that will be that eventually.

That’s an Arch user computer science major.

Oh, and moved here? There aren’t many as far as I know. Why would there be, if I was gonna leave, why go somewhere where it’s more or less the same. Shitty economy, shitty politics… if I was gonna trade up, might as well trade up for something a lot better. So my guess is, they went to western countries mostly.

But it’s still ongoing… the Russians didn’t flee.

What war? As far as I know, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is still ongoing (I don’t watch the news much).

Well, let’s start with the political issues. Almost every politician here claims that they’ve never taken a cent from the state, when in fact, they have bluntly stolen, and in some cases, they don’t even hide it. This goes regardless of left and right wingers, they’re all the same, just different flavors of the same thing. What’s worse, they have the courts in their pockets, so their cases never even make it to trial… or if they do, they’re given a slap on the wrist, nothing more. Corruption rules here. You don’t ask “when can I schedule an MRI scan” because you’ll probably be dead by the time your number comes up, you ask “how much do you want to schedule my MRI in the next week”.

Next, we analyze the people. There were truly intelligent people here, people that you could make interesting conversations with for hour Unfortunatelly, one of two things happened to them. They either died or moved abroad. Basically the only ones left now are the party cock suckers, cuz they get to be on roll to get a state job (you practically can’t get fired from state employment here, you’d have to burn down the office building or something like that to get fired). As you probably presume, these people are not very bright and mostly care about the basic animal needs: eat, sleep, get fucked once in a while, have kids, raise the kids, make small talk with your neighbours, etc. While there is nothing wrong with being like that (many people are), the problem is, there can never be enough critical mass to actually start doing something about the oligarh politicians and try and overthrow them. Plus an oposition is not really an oposition if you’re basically the same as the other guy, just with a somewhat different mind set (I say it’s dark gray, you say it’s blackish). So, it’s a perpetual problem that has no solution.

Basically, most of the other problems just boil down to bad leadership and 30+ years of it. Not everyone on the Balkans has those problems. Take Slovenia for example, it’s doing great 👍. But, while the rest of us down south were under the Ottoman empire for 5 centuries, Slovenia was under Austro-Hungary. It’s just not the same… we were blinded during the renesans, Slovenia had front row seats. I’m not saying nothing is our own fault, it most definitely is, but I’m just trying to give a little perspective of why things turned out so different for Slovenia and (mostly) Croatia.

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Oh, I could go in details, but I don’t currently have time, so I’ll be short: politics, corruption, air polution, environment polution, inflation, salaries, prices, comodities… there’s a lot more. Feel free to ask about any of these in particular, I’ll answer a bit later in the evening 😉.

I bet the term originated from when Yugoslavia broke up.

🤣🤣🤣

None, but I’m not like the majority here 🤣. They’re the most common household leg wear item around here.

I wear baggy pants, always have, always will.

What’s the one thing you would want your average global citizen to know about the balkans?

Don’t trust anyone fom here, you’re bound to get screwed at one point or another.

Is there somewhere else you eventually want to live?

Yes, preferably somewhere colder, like Canada, Sweden, Norway. Not Russia, cuz the mentality and the people are basically the same as here.

When people say they want to Balkanize _ does that bother you?

I have no idea what that means, it’s the first time I’ve heard that term, could you explain what it means?

Who would win in a fight, a hot dog or a taco?

IDK, we don’t have tacos here, we have gyros.

When your kid tells you he’s VERY HUNGRY and you do this wonderful meal, and he takes 2 bites and says he’s full 🤬. At that moment, those 2ms after he says that, you really hate that little fucker’s guts.

The real problem is catering to manufacturers demanding to have their own bespoke driver pack, often including some stupid branded management application, when it’s just the same as the other dozen manufacturers packaging of the same product. Then you end up with bloated “driver packs” and a system tray of a half dozen vendors screaming for you to pay attention to them and know that they are somehow contributing to your experience.

This is exactly why I use driverpacks in Windows (3rd party, like SDI). If the drivers are not in the pack, I download them from the manufacturer and if they’re packed with an app, I just extract the whole thing and point Windows (through manual driver update) to search for the drivers in that location. It will install only what it needs to work, nothing else.

they still sold their devices, but the users that were oblivious suffered

Or they did know, but the copy was a lot cheaper than the real thing. Hell, I’ve done it. If it does the same thing, why buy the more expensive thingie. I get IP rights and all that, but seriously, in the end, you just have to deal with these things. Unless you’re Intel, you should expect your device/chip to end up being copied. China doesn’t enforce western world IP laws, so it’s a “free for all” kind of a thing there. If you plan on doing this (making your own device/chip), your device/chip better be niche enough so it’s not viable to actually copy the design. Otherwise, copies will pop up left and right.

Yeah, I know, that’s why the kernel with the drivers is not more than 150MB. Otherwise, you’d have the Windows situation where driverpacks compressed with 7z (LZMA2, solid archive, 273 word dictionary size and 2GB decompression memory, which requires about 128GB of RAM to compress) take about 30GB.

You have to pack the driver from each manufacturer because of signatures, even though they might even be the same with other drivers in the pack… but, REV differs and oh well, the driver installer doesn’t recognize that driver as a valid one for that device.

Damn… now that’s a wholesome moment 🥹.