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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A bottle of Jack Daniels costs about DKK400 on Greenland. That's about $60. It's tax free though.

People do drink less than the average in EU, but despite this, alcoholism and drug abuse are serious issues on Greenland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes it is, it's just not as crazy, but it exists everywhere.

If several houses share a private road, it will be necessary to make an agreement with all the homeowners on maintaining the road.

Similarly with privately owned apartments. If they need new windows, it's generally in everybody's interest that the entirety of homeowners agree on the colour of windows.

There are usually some sort of home owners association anywhere where homeowners own part of the common areas.

It's still possible to buy a house without one, but many new build suburban sprawl have them by default because the placement off public roads and the developers wanting to have everything look at a certain standard before the houses are sold to individuals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Yes. Linux Mint works "straight out of the box".

It comes with a preinstalled browser (Firefox), so if you only use your computer for online stuff, then you dont need to do anything at all. Just use it.

The only technical thing you might want to do is to enter the WiFi password and find the software manager to install any additional apps you need.If you can install apps on your phone, then you can also install apps on Linux Mint.

I actually found that it was a lot easier to install Mint than setting up a new Windows pc. The most difficult part was using a windows pc to download it and making a bootable USB stick. Your friend can help you with that or you can follow a guide.

I have had zero issues and I have never written a single command line. It just works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Det tror jeg sagtens du kan. Man kan vel få et cover som passer, så du kan bruge en hvilken som helst standard radio, eller finde en ny fra Mercedes.

Spørgsmålet er mere hvor mange penge du vil kaste i at kunne høre Bluetooth.

De billige bluetooth-FM dongles fungerer bedst hvis du kan finde en frekvens som ikke bruges, og også sætter volumen på både telefon og bluetooth donglen helt op, så signalet har høj amplitude. Brug i stedet radioen til at justere volumen efter det er kommet igennem luften. Det bliver aldrig helt HIFI, men det burde være på niveau med alm. radio.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Why don't they just make a proper OS without all that shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Jeg tror han mener at de laveste lønnede arbejder uden at tjene på det.

Friplads i institutioner og boligstøtte gør at det overhovedet ikke kan svare sig at drive en familie på lave lønninger. Det er kort sagt bedre at blive skilt og sige sit arbejde op hvis man tjener en lav løn. Da mine kone og jeg fik børn så var det dødens pølse for os begge at knokle fuldtid og spise havregrød for at holde skindet på næsen, mens single mødrene sad på cafe dagen lang på dagpenge eller andre ydelser. Det var så det min skat blev brugt til.

Det kan også være endnu lavere nede, at man ikke kan få kontanthjælp hvis man ejer noget. Dér har jeg en bekendt som har trukket nitten ved at arve et hus. Han er nødt til at sælge det og solde alle pengene op før han kan få noget som helst hjælp til at få en psykologisk udredning som forhåbentlig kan få ham tilbage på arbejdsmarkedet. Han kunne nok selv betale for sådan et forløb, men end ikke det magter han, så nu sidder han bare de næste 5 år og spilder sit liv, fordi der er andre mere værdigt trængende.

Jeg ved ikke om det er urimeligt, men man skal åbenbart helt ned i sølet før man kan få hjælp.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Lars Løkke er godt i gang med at feje ind under gulvtæppet.

Jeg tror ikke det lykkedes for ham. Hans udtalelser i dag er ret dumme, og ideen om at kunne holde det internt holder ikke en meter, hvis der er hold i anklagerne.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

That reminds me of an interesting podcast on a similar story.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/unraveling-bolero

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Brain? Cat!!! Brain...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

If the company buys "motivational presents" for employees.... the company is already several years or more behind the employment market. You're not unionizing hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, if you need to buy these seed in the first place, then you're probably not in an environment where they'd usually grow. It takes time. At least more than one season to get it going.

My local municipality planted local wild annual seeds all over the city two years ago. It made a nice news article, but the flowers are all gone by now because they didn't re-seed.

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