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lol, interesting :)

My solution is to never posts/comments on reddit, after 15 years there, I stopped 2 years ago.

I guess nothing is accessible directly

I am using a simple application named “Car Scanner”, on my phone, it connects via bluetooth to the $4 OBD2 dongle, and it works in Android Auto, can display all kind of info on the multimedia screen.

I’d be completely lost with BEPO…

I used QWERTY US in 80-90, it was the only available keyboard on 8bit machine (Sinclair, Amstrad, Commodore, etc), then AZERTY in 90-00 because I had a PC, then moved to Québec so since ~2000 use QWERTY FR_CA. Because of all the switch and never learning how to type, I still type with like 2 fingers :)

no, the one you put is the “official” french canadian one, used mostly by gov, but everyday people are using the “normal” one

This is why we have not conquered the world yet :)

Do you not use BEPO ?

French Canadian keyboard is QWERTY but with all kind of symbol, like the 1 to = top row can give

with shift !"/$%?&*()_+

with altcar ±@£¢¤¬¦²³¼½¾

We also have the µ¯§¶«»°

and we can do all kind of Èîöç etc

eille wow non étant Français, AZERTY c’est cool :)

¤ is the currency symbol

I went from Ubuntu to MX Linux maybe 6 years ago, it is a fantastic distro, systemd optional, no flatpak/snap, xfce, simple, fast, always up to date for apps (.deb) and kernel.

Yes, at least seeing a 50yo guy like me. We come from the 8bit world, there was no linux!

In University. In the 90s we used commercial un*x (HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris/SunOS, SCO) and some others like SVR4, BSD, Minix. Then a guy on usenet talked about making is own kernel running on a 386. My first real full linux install was kernel 0.99 on a 486DX50, around 1993, came in multiple floppies, then to install X11 that was like 10 more floppies! Configuring things was a bit nighmarish.

I had a small one like 1024x600, it was powered by USB-C (that carries the touchscreen signal) and it was mini-HDMI. It worked first try in Windows or Linux, nothing special to do, just plug 2 cables. It had stereo speakers too, a rocker switch on the side to set volume, brightness, etc with a menu like TV.

yup, used pico with pine 30 years ago (I’m old) and switch to nano of course, I still use nano about daily (linux maintaining, config file, etc)

In Canada we have mandatory DRL (Daytime Running Lights) and often, cars use high beam with a low voltage or PWM. When people replace their standard bulbs with LED bulb, it means during the day you are flashed by high beam in your eyes, even in full summer at noon you can be completely blinded by cars coming towards you, it’s fucking annoying!

I still have my old HP Mini311 netbook, AntiX or Linux MX 32bits works well on it.

Of course, but there would not be millions/billions of people at that latitude without A/C

It is a vicious cycle, yes, but I think it changed the world. Without A/C we would not have SOCAL, Florida, Texas, etc. or India or others.

USA does this to own European?

I’m using MX Linux AHS, it is Debian based, it is always up to date, like latest firefox a few hours after it’s out, kernel 6.12.17 as of today, etc.

It has no systemd, no snap, no flatpak. It just uses the good old .deb and everything is working fine.

China just want the land anyway :-/