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I find the main difference is that you can't add backstitch to pixel art. 😉

I'm surprised there were any Russian officials left that we hadn't sanctioned already.

The scariest part is that the last time I was up there (admittedly some time ago), the total population of Cochrane was around 5000. Never mind the infrastructure for the lots, they're going to have to entice a new grocery store into town if even half of them get built on. And I hope they've got an agreement with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to send them some doctors. And that they've expanded the Internet bandwidth available for remote work by considerable, because there aren't very many jobs up there either. (Nor is Cochrane the first to try this. Another nearby town sold lots off really cheap a few years back. I don't think they got much out of it.)

As for why they're doing this . . . most Northern Ontario communities have been slowly but steadily losing population for the last quarter-century or more, because the towns have very little to recommend them unless junior hockey or snowmobiling is a central part of your life. (I grew up in the area, so I know.) This is a stupid publicity stunt to try to push the population up again. The one thing every municipality in the area has lots of is land.

I don’t know what to think of the whole thing with Lakan and Maomao. I might be able to figure it out if I rewatch the show but for now I’m just confused.

Well, the show seems to be indicating that Lakan is Maomao's biological father (and the dying courtesan in the Verdigris House annex is her biological mother). Whether she's just angry at him for what happened to her mother or there's something more going on hasn't surfaced yet. Lakan may be pushing Maomao at Jinshi (I suspect he knows Jinshi's real identity), or just trying to be part of his daughter's life as much as he can, given that they're not on speaking terms.

(Or—who knows?—I might be completely wrong.)

To my knowledge, no—the type of person who would be able to create such a printer usually isn't interested in making printouts. Theoretically, an impact character printer (daisy wheel) is within the range of an enthusiastic hobbyist with enough programming knowledge to write the driver. A laser printer of modest resolution should be within the reach of a skilled team. Inkjet I think requires too many specialized parts.

(I’d like to have an ARM tablet or maybe convertible laptop running desktop Linux and FreeCAD, but there’s some mutual exclusivity in there).

Run the FreeCAD on your main machine. Put a remote desktop server on it as well, and run Remmina or some other client on the tablet. Drops the requirements considerably, and should be good enough for the application you have in mind.

I don't think I've ever seen it happen at all with a professional translation, and only very rarely with amateur ones. I've seen pro translators screw up, self-censor, or get censored by management that are fearful of lawsuits, but none of those represent an agenda beyond making money. Messing up the translation deliberately is a good way for the translator to not get paid and/or not get more gigs. I won't say that it never happens, but I doubt it's more than once in ten years.

Some fans are too sensitive to perceived "agendas" and too quick to allocate blame, methinks.

(As for MTL, it isn't there yet. Maybe in another decade or two. And as you say, the management layer that's terrified of lawsuits isn't going anywhere.)

"How stupid do they think we are"? The answer is, very stupid. It's sort of an offshoot of Dunning-Kruger: overestimating their own intelligence leads them to underestimate everyone else's.

Normally the portion of the pipe on your property is your responsibility. It isn't the city's faullt if someone is too dumb to maintain their property.

Pay up, unless you're willing to declare bankruptcy to shed the debt (which I doubt would be allowed).

I ended up with a 103-key Unicomp New Model M (essentially the same layout as a 101-key, but with one Windows key and one context menu key stuffed into what would have been the small blank spaces in the bottom row between ctrl and alt—I really wanted a full-length spacebar). Linux is most often installed onto ex-Windows PCs, so it's hardly surprising that it expects the Windows keyboard layout.

(I believe the current generation of Gnome devs is big on minimalism, AKA omitting or removing features. I can understand the appeal from a code maintenance point of view, but it's never been a DE that I liked.)

You can buy keyboards with replaceable keycaps. You can also buy keycaps with Tux logos on them for at least some of those keyboards. You can decide for yourself whether your aesthetic dislike of the Windows logo is worth the rather higher price of such a keyboard.

Tax rates in general are higher there, and not all taxation scales with population (corporate tax, for instance). It also depends on how the government allocates the money it spends—Norway doesn't have the US's ridiculously inflated military budget.

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If you check the comments on Ars Technica, someone reposted an image that's supposed to have come from the lander (it's an uncorrected shot through a fisheye lens, though). Given that the link with Odysseus is apparently barely faster than an acoustic-coupler modem, I'm not expecting much more.