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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • If memory serves me well, Yugos were made in former Yugoslavia and were known for being extremely cheap and dangerous for everyone in and around them. Am I correct?

    But this makes me scratch my head.

    American manufacturers exist in Europe today and regardless of not being a fan the cars sell, regardless the constant attempts to introduce pure US models, like the F series.

    Ford may be the most widespread manufacturer but I’ve seen a few Dodge, Chevrolet (but GM officially pulled from the market after a 3 years run, stating it wasn’t willing to remain in a market where a minimum 25% of market share wasn’t attainable; competition sucks, apparently!), JEEP and Chrysler.

    What is stopping these brands to import back the technology being used here, on their european models, back to the home country? It’s already owned here!

    I remember reading an article on a joint project between GM and FIAT to develop a new and shared platform. After X number of years and a gross amount of money invested, GM drops the project, FIAT finishes it and starts building an entire new generation of cars, still being built today.

    Why put time, money and effort into a project to just drop it? Having a shared platform, capable of being used to assemble vehicles on both sides of the ocean makes sense.











  • Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.

    To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).

    Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?

    I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I’m not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?


  • At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

    Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

    7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it’s not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

    Off the top of my head I can think of:

    • Black&White
    • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
    • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
    • Pharaoh
    • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS “clone” exists)
    • Evolva
    • Syndicate

    I could go on forever…