Well atleast you know for certain what you like :)

I would be curious to try other distros, but I’m way too happy with Linux Mint. Maybe one day :)

I’ve been using linux at work for years, but never installed a distro at home to replace my desktop before.

Switched to linux mint at home last autumn and had 0 issues and love it!

To be fair I knew my way around Debian already, but using linux with a desktop environment to replace my home setup posed some challenges that simply originate from being used to windows at home.

I went with Linux Mint because I wanted my home desktop to work with minimal fiddling and I’m still really happy!

Edit: words.

Good to hear! I’m here to root for and support you guys! :)

I know that they did - same as last year - massive state funded information campaigns online just to gain votes for themselves. Regardless of song or anything, this is a state actively using eurovision for their political goals, which is not allowed.

Sadly as I’m going to sleep I can only provide you a source that I have saved, which is in Finnish: https://yle.fi/a/74-20162154 (finnish national broadcasting company)

I hope someone chimes in with english source while I sleep.

I am so god damn happy. A well deserved win!

Eyy! hope you can announce it soon on this community as well! :)

Damn… And 100% recommend taking any group lessons still. It’s educational but also kinda fun to be in a structured lesson with other people doing the same thing.

Let us know if you do! Always interested in hearing about experiences with languagelearning (hence these weekly threads).

I guess so many people still have them still!

I didn’t know what they are before I saw this article, but I also made a joke during the show about free game disks that you used to get in cereal boxes.

Hallelujah!

Very true! And yeah same here with the minimum required amount of students, but I’m fortunate enough to live in a big city so there are always students.

Hope you get to do one at some point aswell! I assume you live in a smaller town?

Sometimes the hosts, their act and outfits are better than many of the entries themselves

Sorry, I couldn’t resist posting that

Better not check out the Latvian entry this year then!

And now the finals voting will be annoying again. It will see a big portion of pro-israel / anti-israel voting.

While nemo was cool last year it seemed like people, especially the jury, voted for “Swiss neutrality” instead of actual contestants. I know the voting is often for a country rather than the entry (like neighbours voting for neighbours), but last year I felt like contestants didn’t really enjoy a voting for entries much.

I’m really pissed that Israel is part of eurovision. Them actively conducting a genocide and on top of it all using eurovision as a tool for propaganda is disgusting.

I’m horrified at what the current israeli contestant had to go through during the terrorist attack on the festival and don’t want to downplay her experience and I’m sorry for her, but she is being used as a tool to make a country that is doing crimes against humanity look better.

Honestly this has crossed my mind several times as another reason why people don’t put the phone on their ear. You might be on to something!

I’m convinced people forgot that our huge handheld devices are supposed to still be mobile phones that you are supposed to put against your ear when you call someone.

I don’t want to clutter the matrix chat so I’ll ask here:

Any plans to also open a donation page on liberapay? Might be too early to ask but thought I’d throw it in here :)

Tech companies turned the GDPR into a daily nuisance rather than a shield for people.

Exactly. So many companies wanted to make it look like “this annoying popup is here because of EU. We want to offer you a big fat ALLOW ALL to make it simple for you… Don’t mind what it means… If you wanna know you are welcome to read this bullshit generic law text that probably has mistakes in it but you wouldn’t know because you just want to read some small text snippet here and don’t want to get into it”.

Oida

Wow this is a cool photo, nicely done!