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The German ID card (Personalausweis) supports certificates and communication via NFC. I really don’t understand what’s all this about?

This is about what device you use to verify this. Currently, the ausweisapp on android allows you to authenticate to your authorities. However, this can also be done with a TAN generator and a user name and password like banks do.and them you dont need to depend on a trusted mobile phone.

Yes, I since embraced pwsh for terminal stuff on Windows. For everything else I switched back to proper VMs or remote hosts.


Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts that you can dynamically link to, you should be fine. Everything else may be more difficult.

See what FFmpeg writes on this topic: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html


> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate.

You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap laptops all only offered a 1366x786 resolution.


The whole "UIs got smaller because the aspect ratio got more rectangular" thing never really made sense to me because 786 > 600. The screens got bigger in both dimensions, regardless of them getting bigger in one more than they got bigger in the other.


Pixels aren't physical space. The number of square inches remained similar.

A wider aspect ratio means that a horizontal line takes up a larger percentage of the overall screen and is more costly.


> people who've already come to grips with the app

They would, or should, be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.


> 2010 was my favorite Office UI.

Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years. I found the ribbons to be perfect for my use of Office. They usually automatically focused on the task at hand. Everything else was just a click away. Advanced stuff stayed in the menu. And, at least for me, it helped discoverability of features.


Try reading Masters of Deception first, to get in the right mood.


One of the worst things about Brexit for me in mainland Europe is that it became very difficult to obtain real, proper Haggis and Stornoway Black Pudding.


It's interesting that this is a serious movie by the director Michael 'Bully' Herbig, who is generally known for bad taste comedies, full of clichees about race and sexuality.


His explanation why he endorsed Hillary Clinton was pretty lunatic though.


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