I'll see your Scheveningen and raise you an angstschreeuwtje.

Oh, good one! I had never heard of it but yes, that would work.

"Nuts" is the correct expression to indicate that you are not a German spy as it is a very perplexing Americanism. Go to Germany and try using "Nüsse" as an interjection! See also: Bastogne.

It's not the natural evolution of a regional dialect coming to prominence but rather the conscious consensus of a geographically distributed social stratum.

Interestingly, the sociolinguistic literature shows that such a consensus is strongest among an aspirationally upward-mobile social group rather than the already social elite. In other words: The aspirational middle class make a big effort to speak how they think the upper class speak in hopes of joining them one day.

A mere 2x productivity improvement sounds like something you could achieve by introducing new tools that are predictable (i.e.: Not AI).

Perhaps. 2x is still 2x. And new tools still need to be vetted and learned.

It's strange that the goalpost seems to have moved from "AI is net negative to productivity" to "only 2x improvement isn't worth it"

On tiling WMs I use rxvt-unicode with no window decorations, no gaps, 1 px border, no scrollbar. Then tmux does the rest, namely tabs and splits. Automatic session saving has been a life saver on more than one occasion.

I have been successfully using the GNOME desktop environment for years on Guix System which uses Shepherd as its init. KDE is an option too.

Other, more traditional distros are out there that work fine with GNOME, etc with no problems.

I think the loudest way you can protest is to use and support distros that do not have systemd. There are lots to choose from in 2026.

There were a bunch of 90s BBS games that worked like this. All the players had so many "turns" (maybe better described as "action points") which they could use for different activities in a given game. They reset each day.

It was more of a mechanism to keep connections shorter because most BBSes only had a few phone lines, or even just one, so the number of simultaneous users was extremely limited.

There are games online that work like that today

EVE Online? I never played it myself, just know of it.

I don't think it was EVE, but i did play a little bit of that for a while. It's funny that we played these more as kids and less as adults, i feel like as an adult this kind of game is more my tempo.

While that is indeed sad, you owe it to yourself to install Firefox (Android?) with uBlock Origin. With that setup, I'm not seeing any of that junk.