Not if it’s on someone else’s expense.

Not that, but I just feel weird to do anything but non-stop work during work time, so I’ll drink less water to not have to use a toilet during the 6 hours till break/end (just a part-time job).
Once I was told to wait for something without being officially put on waiting time, and I just felt weird standing there doing nothing, because officially I was supposed to be working.
When I was told that I am too slow (based on statistics for the day) and once that I did something wrong I took that quite personally. And fearing a negative point basically flooded my mind, meaning I couldn’t quite concentrate, meaning I was more prone to further mistakes, which just made me fear more… positive feedback loop of fear.

I don’t know, I’ve been there for over a year. I just kind of have a dog-like “pleasing the owner” mentality. As such, getting an email saying I got a positive point feels pretty good.

I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country

Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

Can’t recall them, but there are some words in which I keep typing double letters even though they aren’t supposed to be there.

Yes, of course. That always assumes a lack of good choice (i.e. no choice also being a bad option).

In various technical contexts

You probably do this all the time without thinking much about it. For example, updating mains-powered devices without UPS. There’s a chance the power goes out and something gets screwed up.

Or in a VM

Problem is, some of this software may likely be made to specifically not run in a VM, since it is supposed to keep track of everything the student is doing during exams.

I just realized I sound way too paranoid but it’s an interesting question

Nope. Not paranoid enough. If school/work requires such software, that goes onto a separate device only for those purposes, which will then be considered untrustworthy environment like any public computer.

Although perhaps in a sense it is paranoid compared to what others do. Recently I’ve had to get something printed without having own printer. I’ve found out people have no problem logging into their Google or Microsoft account on public PCs.
I brought the PDF on a CD.
There’s a certain small chance that something malicious could be written to a USB, and I don’t know about all the possible vulnerabilities. If mounted, perhaps the automatic media thumbnail generator could be exploited. That is probably paranoid, worrying about random software installed on your own computer is certainly not.

How are you doing it?

I only tried X11 forwarding over SSH. It was slow and ate up a Gigabit.

I told it to do so for fun. The only thing it can’t do is generate code it seems (or actually do tech support), as it just crashed when I did so.

I don’t know what part here is “support”.

And I thought otter was referring to the specie of their fursona.

Oh well.

“I donated money to them so I am going to use it.”

Although not much, just 20 EUR. Not sure how much the bundled Windows license costs, but surely Microsoft has other ways to earn from spyware.

I am not alone!

At first I installed Arch because I got an Arch sticker, and if I put it on my laptop that felt like the only appropriate solution.

Arch. After every update I check what broke. And then discover things I forgot to check.

I am still not sure if it’s already safe to upgrade VirtualBox and iio-sensor-proxy, but I am too lazy to just downgrade them yet again.

So I just…

IgnorePkg   = iio-sensor-proxy # Issues in Wayland after suspend
IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso # Segfault in 7.2.x, reverted to 7.1.8 - see sys-management-log.txt entry 2025-08-29

If you’re curious about the log entries:

2025-07-06:
        downgraded iio-sensor-proxy to 3.6-1 as 3.7 caused issues after suspending
        added iio-sensor-proxy to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf

2025-08-29:
        downgraded virtualbox packages to 7.1.8 as 7.2.x was broken (segfault)
        installed linux-lts-headers as the downgraded virtualbox suddenly wanted that
        removed and reinstalled related packages a couple of times (virtualbox-host-modules-lts, virtualbox-host-modules-arch, virtualbox-host-dkms), as well as switching between linux-lts and linux. Hopefully that didn't create any brand new funny business.
        I want to die
        added IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso to /etc/pacman.conf

I recommend writing some documentation about your system. My Manjaro install became a total unknown mess after a while. I know I had to create some symlinks at some point to fix something, something something custom “XDG_CONFIG_HOME” dir with separate theme to un-break Cisco Packet Tracer on dark theme, edited startup script for Packet Tracer.
On one Ubuntu VM I edited a bunch of config files that I didn’t remember so it was just don’t touch it while it works.

But hey, I feel better after knowing that during high school our internet was down for weeks because something broke on main proxy server and nobody had documentation for the 2 decades old backup server, including the password, so it just ended up running in a “don’t touch it” mode, except that it also limited download speed on unknown PCs (based on MAC) to something like 32Kbps, which after 20 years meant nearly any PC so the solution was to copy MACs from basically ewaste.

Anyway… write documentation for what you do.

I am guessing Jeblo is also an explicit way to say exploded in Polish.

Related to the Polish mines that were found at IKEA

According to the reports, soldiers failed to unload part of the train carrying over 1,000 tons of explosives in total, and the anti-tank mines continued to circulate around the country before they went missing.

Officials apparently became aware of the problem when the weapons were found sitting in the IKEA warehouse, at which point someone called the military to ask “when they would collect their mines.”

Well, you may be surprised then to find it’s being funded by NLnet, which apparently gets its money from the EU.

How would I know that?

Hard water should wash soap off easily

That is what I am saying. Soap yes. shower gel and shampoo no.

And? We have an adjustable one, it cost €6 at Lidl.

Depends on water though. I find it impossible to fully wash off shampoo or shower gel with hard water, but bar soap will wash off easily and fully.
I don’t know what’s really going on there though.