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Shai-Hulud actually does some good though. Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

For PC, extra functions should be in the context menu in my opinion. For mobile, that’s a little tougher, but maybe tapping on the selected text should bring up the options? Selecting on mobile is a tough thing anyway, and any solution is probably going to be a problem for someone else.

Actually, that’s probably true for any UI design choices. There are some that are generally a good idea (like defining a reasonable navigation order for your elements or making design respond to viewport sizes to ensure that everything actually fits), but interaction options can get really muddy.

Adding on to the other comment, Nobara is maintained by Glorious Egroll, the same guy that also develops the popular Proton-GE compatibility tool which adds some extra fixes on top of Valve’s Proton.

(Proton is the compatibility tool Steam uses to make Windows games run on Linux, in case you’re unfamiliar)

Danke! – tippt Filzhut

Was heißen die Flaggen da? Ich nehme an y ist “yes” (automatisch bestätigen) wie bei anderen Paketverwaltern auch, u könnte ich noch raten ist update, aber S hab ich keine Idee.

Da hab ich absolut Verständnis für. Ich bastel gerne an Skripten rum, is auch billiger und platzsparender als eine Modelleisenbahn.

Ich weiß noch nicht ob ich froh oder geknickt bin, durch einen Bot ersetzt zu werden. Klar, spart Aufwand und funktioniert schneller als ich, aber irgendwie hatte es auch was nettes, immer wieder mal deine Posts durchzuschauen.

Naja, das ist halt der Preis des Fortschritts… verdient hast du sie sowieso.

Arse nemesis

Prepend “in” to the name of the two Sith first invented.

Glaub die Kirche findet das nicht so lustig, aber ich bin voll dafür. Und die Küken sind auch süß, ja.

Yeah, well, it’s awful and annoying and shitty and I wish it’d stop doing that. I wish it’d stop doing a lot of things, to be honest, but that’s beside the point.

I don’t use it, but my GF does. She’ll have the volume up for some video that does interest her, then be scrolling through and treat me to the audible part of that trend without even seeing the funny / cute / insightful / boring picture to accompany and potentially compensate the acoustic pollution. She’s thoroughly numbed to it, but I’m not and I hate it.

(I’ve dropped the idea of getting her to quit the app, that battle just isn’t worth fighting.)

Half the time, people seem to upload otherwise perfectly complete still pictures as reel with some dumb music over it because if you’re not constantly assaulted by the same popular song snippets over and over on every post, are you even paying attention?

Particularly pernicious are ones with some sad or bittersweet content that will have some variant of “generic slow piano with a female, breathy voice singing some words that sound sad but you couldn’t actually tell what it’s about without listening to more than the five seconds used in this looping video”.

Did George Lucas know that?

I don’t know. There is a certain tendency in western media to overrepresent the significance of swords in pre-gunpowder combat (at least when they’re not treating bows like they’re guns and catapults like artillery).

On the other hand, with well-made swords often serving as a status symbol (due to being more expensive in terms of required material, labour and skill of the craftsman) it makes sense for the Jedi to wield them as a symbol of affiliation and the reputation that accompanies that affiliation. Everyone can buy a Blaster, but a Lightsaber?

Or maybe he just wanted to emphasize the mysticism around katanas.

It doesn’t have to be either/or, I think both are plausible.

There’s plenty of one handed lightsaber usage.

The only one that I’m aware of that uses them exclusively one-handed is Dooku, and he’s a bit of a special case. Otherwise, the cases I’m aware of switch between one- and two-handed strikes, which means they’d want their offhand free.

Ashoka famously dual wields.

Hence my point: Space Wizards can do that, but that still means there’s no offhand free for a blaster.

I think it more like how some samurai considered firearms dishonorable.

Samurai did use bows and other weapons beside their sword, so it’s not that they strictly adhere to one weapon like the Jedi seem to, but yes, Obi-Wan does describe it as “uncivilised”, so that is an element as well.

Since you brought up the analogy, I’ll point out that the Samurai diminished in power and importance as firearms spread, coming to a head with the Satsuma Rebellion that ended with their whole class being disbanded. To a degree, the Jedi being shot down by the newly formed professional army at the behest of the Emperor very much mirrors… well, the Japanese Imperial Army shooting down the Samurai that opposed the reforms (except the Jedi weren’t even given the chance to oppose and rebel, which probably would have gone quite differently).

Not that I know of, but damn if I don’t want that to be a thing now.

One in-universe argument would be that you generally have more precision and striking force with two hands, as opposed to one-handing. This somewhat mirrors some of the “Longswords” that were designed to allow two-handed use, but could also be used with one. Using two weapons at once effectively isn’t quite as easy in real life as it’s made out to be in games and movies (not impossible, just harder to coordinate) but Jedi could obviously circumvent that issue by being space wizards.

Using a Blaster in the second hand would therefore sacrifice melee capabilities, where it seems their command of the force gives them a significant edge over most opponents.

Of course, the ranged capabilities might offset that, but I assume that, up to the Clone Wars, Jedi didn’t often deal with a large number of ranged combatants. Where their reputation wasn’t enough to deterr attacks, their premonition and weapon capable of deflecting shots will have dealt with most attackers, and if they’re ambushed in close quarters the sword would be more useful too.

My reasoning here is that both protections and weapons usually evolve in response to evolutions in the other. If Jedi often enough faced fire so heavy that deflection alone wasn’t enough and some kind of armor would have increased their chances of survival, I would assume they’d wear some (as you see it in the Clone Wars cartoons and the Old Republic games). Equally, if situations where a ranged weapon would have been desirable were a common occurrence, I would assume that the Jedi would eventually have adopted them.

Some degree of reluctance may be explained by religious adherence to their sacred weapon, such that they stuck with it even when the situations they faced evolved during the Clone Wars. Additionally, adopting new doctrines can take time even among less dogmatically rigid organisations.

As someone else replied, a survivor of the Jedi Purge did end up incorporating the Blaster into his arsenal. Without the Order’s dogmatic constraints or a lifetime’s worth of “This is what I’ve always been using”, the barriers of acceptance are much lower. Compounding this, the new threat environment features professional, highly trained soldiers that – memes notwithstanding – are genuinely dangerous marksmen. Under the circumstances, expanding your arsenal beyond the traditional is the pragmatic choice of “uncivilised” survival over dogmatically pure death.

Or just stop your enemy’s heart with your mind.

I have no source for this, but I believe there are some who can do that. It’s just that focusing your force to reach deep into a living creature’s body isn’t quite so trivial to do in the middle of combat.

Or use your super-fast running abilities to jab a fork in your enemy’s eye or something.

At that point, what’s the advantage of the fork over the lightsaber? But I’d assume improvised weapons are a part of their arsenal too, it’s just not as flashy as the bright lightsabers.

Also, to make sure there are no linguistic roots left over on your system that it might grow from again, add --no-preserve-root.

Interessante Geschichtsfakten:

Der Spruch von “Brot und Spiele” stammt aus einem Gedicht des römischen Satirikers Juvenal. Das Gedicht befasst sich damit, wie selbstzerstörerisch es sei, die Götter um Dinge zu bitten, die man sich nicht auch selbst verschaffen kann.

In der betreffenden Passage geht es speziell um den Wunsch nach politischer Macht. Das illustriert er am Beispiel des Präfekten Sejanus, der dem Kaiser Tiberius als rechte Hand diente. Da Tiberius eigentlich gar keine Lust zum regieren hatte, durfte Sejanus so ziemlich machen was er will.

Trotzdem hat ihm das nicht gereicht und er hat einen Coup geplant, was aber etwas in die Hose ging. Tiberius hat ihn, alle seine Anhänger, Sympathisanten und überhaupt jede Menge Leute hinrichten lassen – alles ohne Prozess oder Beweise, sein Wort hat gereicht.

Hier lässt Juvenal die Bemerkung fallen, dass das Volk wie immer sein Fähnchen nach dem Wind hängte und Tiberius dafür gefeiert hätte, dass er alle Statuen von Sejanus einschmelzen und zu Nachttöpfen verarbeiten ließ. Hätte Sejanus stattdessen Glück gehabt, hätten sie ihn noch zur gleichen Stunde zum Kaiser ausgerufen. Sie hätten alle ihre Aufsicht fahren lassen, und wo sie früher (durch Wahlen) Befehlsgewalt, Ehren, Legionen und alles andere gewährten, interessiere sie mittlerweile nur noch Nahrung und Unterhaltung.

Kurzum: Der Spruch ist eigentlich ein Witz darüber, dass das Volk seine politische Macht abgegeben hat.

BAföG kenn ich auch eine Situation second-hand. Ihre Mutter mit Schulden gestorben, Vater nie gekannt, um irgendwelche Ecken wohl auch nichts gutes über ihn gehört.

Erste BaFöG-Stelle war zufrieden mit einer Sterbeurkunde und einer eidesstattlichen Erklärung und hat ihr dann elternunabhängiges BAföG gegeben. Dann musste sie irgendwann zu einer anderen Stelle, die dann den Vater ausfindig machten und von ihm finanzielle Angaben wollten, um zu Prüfen ob er nicht eigentlich verpflichtet wäre, ihr Unterhalt zu zahlen.

Und dann haben sie wohl erstmal gewartet, ob uns bis der reagiert. Hat er wohl nicht, aber das Amt ist ja geduldig…

Das Ergebnis war das gleiche: Monate gewartet bis dann mal Geld kam, und ohne ihre Schwester hätte das auch böse geendet.