I never realised people have issues with non-Amazon ebooks. The first thing I did was search how to put my own ebooks on my kindle and I found calibre, which is super easy to use.

Brother I live in western Europe and of the 6 supermarkets in my smallish city, 4 offer the handscanner. It’s incredibly common here, and very convenient.

Thanks for the lead, but I’m afraid I don’t know what to do with these modules. Do they only work with NixOS?

Exactly, I have a bunch of weird issues when running Linux on my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX3060. So unfortunately I w9nt be switching until the situation improves.

It’s not even about gaming either, virtually all animations are like 2fps, no matter the drivers or power management. I wasted days on this with some guys from the Lenovo Legion Linux discord server, and some with exactly the same laptop don’t have the same issue, but windows runs fine.

It’s a real shame that, maybe on the next laptop!

Thank god I only watch less popular channels and each one of them are great to hang with during streams. I’ve not seen trash youtube in a while. I only go to the my subs page anywah

Even if I trust the flying itself, I don’t trust not being detained upon entering the USA. I’m not flying there again anytime soon.

Just be sure to add only the people you want to be there. I’ve heard some people add others and it’s a bit messy

This was just two weeks ago, and it’s a relatively old device, from 2014. It’s proprietary bullhonky all over that device unfortunately, from the screen brightness to the webcam to the bloody power button.

This was the result of much research, I’m not entirely new to the space. No one got these peripherals to work on that device, unfortunately.

I don’t understand what you mean by this isn’t an issue for most people. Most people do care about a webcam not working right. Or do jou mean my device isn’t representative? That could be, but it doesn’t mean people with this device have a good Linux experience if they install it.

I wanted to give new life to an old acer laptop/tablet hybrid. I installed Linux, but the webcam and microphone just won’t work no matter what. The power button also doesn’t work.

There’s still a long way to go before any casual user would accept this.

In the Netherlands, almost all houses have a thermostat. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t have one

I installed MX Linux on an old tablet/ laptop with 2GB RAM AND 30GB storage. Works very well except for the webcam, but that’s because the hardware is made so that only windows can use it correctly.

There’s group accommodations all over Europe, we use them frequently with my family

Linux isn’t that far behind anymore in terms of gaming. Business applications are a real issue though. I use Adobe Premiere Pro, as far as I know there’s no good alternative on Linux

I just switched everything over to a European provider: cloud, email, office programs. I’m also seriously considering using Linux now

In what way does it look outdated?

So when does the heritage end? As I said, they don’t have much Irish anymore

I understand the cultural grouping that happens when large migrant communities form. What I don’t understand is why Americans portray themselves as Dutch when coming to the Netherlands. Their customs, language, culture, and nationality are different. They’re not Dutch whatsoever.

Use it to identify yourselves within the USA, that makes sense. Don’t use it to claim being part of a culture that you know nothing about.

I understand the different cultural groups, though factually it’s incorrect. The main issue is Americans coming to their respective country of descent, and portraying themselves as, for example, Dutch. They’re not Dutch whatsoever, their language, customs, culture, and nationality are different. It’s incorrect and frankly pathetic.

I believe the USA would be better off if people would just drop the grouping and start being Americans.

Speaking a heritage language or celebrating occasional holidays doesn’t justify claiming a nationality you don’t possess.

Most “hyphenated Americans” cherry-pick pleasant cultural elements while remaining disconnected from the contemporary realities of those countries. The vast majority don’t speak their ancestral languages or meaningfully participate in authentic cultural practices.

There’s a significant difference between recent immigrants maintaining strong cultural ties and 4th/5th generation Americans with minimal connection claiming the same identity. Americans also inconsistently apply this logic, often identifying with only one ancestral line while ignoring others.

When “Irish-Americans” visit Ireland, locals don’t recognize them as Irish in any meaningful sense—revealing the fundamental disconnect between claiming an identity and being accepted as authentic by actual members of that culture.

These hyphenated identities ultimately function as American cultural constructs rather than genuine connections to the nations they reference.