tychosmoose

Sorry. That is what I meant.

Zero zombies here. I have a couple of Debian servers and one repeatedly upgraded Ubuntu on noble numbat that I’m too lazy to migrate to Debian. None have zombies.

Do you run a DE? Mine are headless.

So, the same way European travelers think about cities rather than states? New York, Miami, San Francisco, LA, etc. Some of them might get to Las Vegas, Chicago, or Seattle. Of course, I mean back when they used to come here.

Exactly. And I’m with @Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com, I think there is so much natural beauty in this country, it’s a shame to miss that.
Hoping for the days when it will be safe again for everyone.

US-ian here. Haven’t seen that quiz before. Scored 100% just now on US states and 100% on the European countries quiz. But I like geography and have traveled somewhat more than the OP map.

I feel like a lot of American travelers weirdly think more about going to Europe in terms of cities rather than countries. It’s expensive to go and they may only get one trip. So their friends tell them to go appreciate the biggest historic landmark, a church, a museum (top 3 artworks only), and a restaurant in Rome, then go to Paris and repeat, to London and repeat, maybe to Madrid or Barcelona and repeat. Adventurous ones visit Prague or Venice! Maybe spend 2 nights somewhere to really immerse themselves in the culture. Then they complain back home about how crowded and hectic Europe is and they never go back. It’s no wonder, they spent half their time in taxis, airports and discount airline flights.

There were 1300 cases of armed robbery in the US in 2024.

That number seemed way off to me. Not sure where you got it. Perhaps in some kind of analysis of a sample/subset of cases?

Robberies all involve violence or a threat of violence, so calling out armed robbery specifically seems too narrow. Someone says they have a weapon and robs you, that’s reported as a robbery. If the police catch them and they are unarmed, that’s still just robbery, not armed robbery. But it seems relevant to the point in this discussion.

Anyway, New York City alone had almost that many robberies in the month of December 2024, and had 16000 robberies for the year in 2024. Source

The number I see for the country in 2024 is ~625000 robbery cases from FBI data. Just looking at armed robbery is more like 100k cases (200k if you include strong arm). Source

Ha! Mine’s the same! My job was dumping them and said take it if you want it. A v1 TP-Link TL-SG105. I don’t think I’ve used mine in at least 10 years but I can’t bear to throw it away.

Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef’s kiss!

These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.

There’s a French First Empire joke in here somewhere.

The roads might be safer if we marked speedos like this

Makes perfect sense! The sharp corners on most rulers like this aren’t very pocket-friendly.

What’s the story with this ruler. It seems to be have markings for measuring up to 20.5cm of length, but it’s labeled from 10 to 30. Why does it not start from zero?