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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • China has risen way less in terms of GDP per capita, even using power purchasing parity estimates. Japan is at 52k $, China only at 23k (Wikipedia).

    I cannot ultimately judge this but the common wisdom about the Chinese social contract seems to be that the citizens get comparatively high economic security for comparatively low civil liberties. And while China’s pro-poor growth has certainly been more than impressive historically, I am not sure that the comparatively still low incomes especially in the inner parts of China are sufficient to maintain this social contract if growth does really slow down significantly.

    Edit: I agree in general though that the state of Japan is probably not be as bad as it is made out to be in the article.



  • I don’t know much about the console and such magic which probably makes me not exactly predestined for an Arch-based distro with the AUR where I feel like you can break more than in some more common ones like Mint. Despite that, I have been on Manjaro for years now, still learned only the very basics, but have not found a more stable distro that works so well out-of-the-box with some of the newer hardware I have (or had, it’s hardly new anymore). Also, I did in fact find the repos combined with careful use of the AUR to be satisfying.

    I did distro-hop a lot especially in the beginning of my Linux adventure and was on Mint for a couple of years as well. And that’s what I generally recommend to the other non-tech-savvy folks around me as well: Just try a bunch of the top distros on Distrowatch for a couple of weeks. They all have their advantages and disadvantages but eventually you’ll figure out what it really is that you want from a distro and which ones work properly with your hardware – and you’ll learn about some fixes for common issues which helps the learning about Linux in general.

    There are probably folks who know much more than me who can tell you if Manjaro is objectively better than its bad reputation but from my personal experience as a fellow Linux noob: I found it very stable, decently accessible and the KDE spin with its many themes absolutely beautiful.





  • Eine Performance wie diese ruft im Radsport mit seiner langen Geschichte der Leistungsmanipulation immer Skepsis hervor. Und Vingegaard wird sich damit nun verstärkt auseinandersetzen müssen. Schon am Sonntag (16.07.23) nach der 15. Etappe war der Däne gefragt worden, ob er Verständnis dafür habe, dass man seine und auch die Leistung seines Rivalen kritisch beäuge, weil sie sämtliche Geschwindigkeitsrekorde an den Anstiegen brächen. “Ich verstehe die Skepsis”, hatte Vingegaard erklärt. Er begrüße sie sogar, damit der Radsport nicht wieder so werde wie früher. “Aber ich kann für mich nur sagen: Ich nehme nichts.”

    Kann ein Radsport-Fan mich erleuchten, wie die Doping-Situation im Moment ist? Kann man davon ausgehen, dass alle führenden Fahrer auch illegal nachhelfen, oder sind die Kontrollen mittlerweile wirklich effektiv?