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by Merem 5y ago
Please re-read what I wrote. The sentence in question: "And, as explained, in German the discussed greetings are actually taken rather literally."
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by Merem 5y ago
Not sure why you downvote me for explaining why the language used by an old woman is not indicative of how things are today (or have been for a while even). (Though, in her case, in kmarc's example, the usage of the longform makes sens
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by Merem 5y ago
Yes and no. It does come from the longform well-wishing but it has been a separate greeting for a decently long time which is reflected by the fact that "guten Morgen" became "Guten Morgen" in the spelling reform 25 year
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by Merem 5y ago
"After all, how could I genuinely wish a random German stranger a "Guten Morgen"..." By being a nice person, just like how one would hold open a door for someone else? Though, that aside, when you say "Guten Morgen&
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by Merem 5y ago
It can't learn my interests if I don't see any new videos though. As I wrote, it's just the same over and over and over again. Usually one would mix in something completely different...which it doesn't do. That applies t
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by Merem 5y ago
Is it? I took a look at it after someone mentioned some days ago that it's available on the web, no account required. Searching for videos is pretty terrible, so I did want to create an account for more possibilities but that wasn&#x27
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by Merem 5y ago
Don't have a mobile phone, so I guess I would count towards those numbers. A shop branch I used to buy at had 3-D Secure for years but after asking nicely, they disabled that authentification for me. However, ever since they merged wit
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by Merem 5y ago
Data from a lot of users? I mean, they inspect all audio/video communications in real-time[1] and save all your messages, pictures etc. It also helps a lot that basically no one cares about privacy anymore, so further growth seems secu
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by Merem 5y ago
"Right now it looks like Russian logic is that every free person in the world is a potential threat to Russia. Because threat is anything that you don't control." Don't you mean "American logic"? If not, have y
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by Merem 6y ago
Never heard of "Zigeuner" being considered a racial slur. I've usually heard it/hear it when it comes to certain people (actually, two varieties even - one tied to the "Zirkus" and the other one being a group o
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by Merem 6y ago
That's not how it works though. The International Telecommunication Union's definition is relevant here. For instance, in 2010, it was: "[...]downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s...".[1] There was
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by Merem 6y ago
"[...]a lot of parts in highly developed countries like [...] Germany don't have access to a broadband internet connection." Huh? Where do you get that from? "A lot of parts", even? I've lived in one of the mos
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by Merem 6y ago
My local Amazon website customer service was also pretty good every time I had a need for it. On the other hand, the English customer support of Amazon.jp is just straight up terrible. Wanted to send back a damaged product which I had bough
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by Merem 6y ago
I have done so for a pretty long time and no, such behavior is not common for non-dickish people. If anything, people in the countryside tend to be a lot more relaxed and the situation forinti describes sounds like some old grandma who thin
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by Merem 6y ago
Steam Workshop is also part of Valve's "walled garden" strategy. Say that you bought a game off GOG and looking for some specific mods. If they aren't on Nexus, Moddb or some other website but only on Steam Workshop (whe
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by Merem 6y ago
Do you know Clonk? Minecraft is basically that, just in 3D and with some added things like a procedurally-generated world and stuff like hunger. But crafting, "blocks", extracting materials, mobs, multiplayer, creating new items,
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by Merem 6y ago
I tend to agree with him (well, for me 95-2004 is the golden era) for the reason that it's mostly "been there, done that" nowadays. In addition, you have a lot of bad business practices such as microtransactions, lootboxes, t
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by Merem 6y ago
Looking at the picture in the article, how many 13-year-olds have wrinkles on their forehead? Certainly not many at all. So in this case, it's even really easy to see that she is not that age.
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The Computer Chronicles (1983 – 2002)(archive.org)
61 points by Merem 6y ago|27 comments
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by Merem 6y ago
That section is pretty pointless, considering it's supposed to be the GDR (see flag). You would have to do research on what movie actually belongs there and which do not.
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by Merem 6y ago
Justin.tv offered pro accounts for preferred data transfers, as it would lag just watching a stream at 360p at best (not that they had quality options back in the day). I know I paid for it, just so that I could watch illegal cough Simpso
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by Merem 6y ago
Disabling third-party cookies hasn't really been that useful in a long time though. "When third-party cookies are allowed, 101 domains can reconstruct over 50% of a user's history and 161 could recover over 40%. Even when the
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by Merem 6y ago
Some people just have too much time on their hands. And it doesn't help that media is spreading this, as it generates clicks which in turn generates money. As such, total non-issues will be made an issue. The thing is, it's not ev
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by Merem 6y ago
Absolutely. Where I live, the city administration sent a survey to people, asking what projects to tackle, where to save money/increase income etc etc. One of the options in the "saving money" category was going open source.
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by Merem 6y ago
Being in a country that was the last holdout for Firefox (majority usage) before it was also taken over by Chrome, I know that several others as well as I have issues with Mozilla. Personally, I've always used Firefox, without exceptio
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by Merem 6y ago
Why "now"? I used to read the PC Games a decently long time ago and it was always "Sie". Same with the PC Action and Computer Bild Spiele. No clue about the Gamestar but those were basically the relevant PC gaming magazi
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by Merem 6y ago
"Sie" and first name was used at a smallish company (~50 employees) I worked at previously. It's just a combination of respect and familiarity. Additionally, several women really liked being called by their first name as it &
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by Merem 6y ago
Most definitely. Being relatively young, I don't think it's any different. In a work environment it's always "Sie", until one is offered "du". First name/family name depends on how companies/indi
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by Merem 6y ago
That's pretty neat, I didn't know that. I have done it with some other stuff on the main website but never messed around with the chat before abandoning it for just using my IRC client to connect to it (has some advantages too lik
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by Merem 6y ago
Huh? They are growing, not surving. It was the same thing back in the day. When we migrated from Ustream.tv to Justin.tv in 2010, gaming became their largest section and continued to grow ever since. So it made sense to spin it off, as the

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