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smart TVs

Instead of getting some proprietary media device glued to a display, you could just put Kodi or similar on an HTPC. Use whatever display device you want. That way, you decide what the device does.

And besides Brussels (EU government) and Brussels (national government), both prone to internal disagreements, there's also the prone-to-disagreement Brussels (provincial government).

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1862716/542-days-brussels-breaks-belgian-record-for-longest-period-without-a-government

'Tumbling into the abyss' – Brussels breaks record for longest period without government

Monday, 1 December 2025

As of today (Tuesday), the Brussels-Capital Region has been without an elected government for 542 days – breaking the world record of 541 days, held by Belgium's Federal Government led by Elio Di Rupo (PS) in 2011.

EDIT: Here we have Brussels (provincial government) being threatened by Brussels (national government) over Brussels (provincial government) going to Brussels (EU government) for funds:

https://www.courthousenews.com/a-city-without-government-how-brussels-keeps-running-despite-its-leaders/

Most damning: Brussels’ auditors have been unable to certify annual accounts since 2017, with the federal Court of Auditors in recent years going from “refusing to certify” to outright “abstaining.” It’s a sign the data is no longer reliable enough to evaluate.

The crisis turned public in Schuman Square, at the geographic heart of EU power flanked by the EU Council and the European Commission headquarters. Unable to cover a 12-million-euro cost overrun on renovations, the Mobility Minister wrote to five European institutions begging for financial help — and was publicly rebuked by Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

“It is truly a disgrace, a total humiliation, the Brussels Region begging for money to build a square,” the N-VA leader said. De Wever, the first Flemish nationalist politician to hold the office of prime minister of Belgium, has escalated pressure with unprecedented threats.

In May, he declared bluntly: “If Brussels comes asking the federal government for money, I will put it under guardianship.” He promised to “impose strict austerity conditions to put a stop to the ‘malgoverno’ in Brussels.”

I use Google's Noto Sans as my default browser sans-serif font. It does a better job having a different capital-I and lower-case-l than does Calibri:

http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Noto+Sans&second=Calibri

I once wrote code for an elderly researcher who would only review code as a hard copy. I'd bring him stacks of paper and he'd get going with his pen and highlighter. And I'll grant that the resolution is normally higher on paper than on most displays. I'm viewing this on a laptop screen that's about 200 ppi. A laser printer is probably printing at a minimum of 300 dpi, maybe 600 or 1200 dpi.

I still think that the few people reading things in print are the exception that proves the rule, though.

Times New Roman was designed for the print era, and Calibri for onscreen viewing. Onscreen viewing is a lot more common today. Based on that technical characteristic, I'd be kind of inclined to favor Calibri or at least some screen-oriented font.

That being said, screens are also higher-resolution than they were in the past, so the rationale might be less-significant than it once was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri

Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Lucas de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[4][5]

I suspect that the Office shift is probably a large factor in moving to Calibri.

That being said, there are many Times New Roman implementations, but it sounds like Calibri is owned by Microsoft, so I'd be kind of inclined to favor something open.

Brussels had just about had it with Brussels.

goes looking

Of the the last few presidents to die:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4244/ronald-reagan

Ronald Reagan is buried at his presidential library.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4311/george_h_w-bush

George H.W. Bush is buried at his presidential library.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6734/jimmy-carter

Jimmy Carter is buried at his national historical park:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4243/gerald_rudolph-ford

Gerald R. Ford is buried at his museum:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5275798-trump-says-children-could-have-two-dolls-instead-of-30-with-his-tariff-plan/

Trump says children could have ‘2 dolls instead of 30’ with his tariff plan

He added, “You know, someone said, ‘Oh, the shelves, they’re going to be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.

I don't really think that talking about Average Joe's standard of living is really Trump's strong point.

I'm not that concerned. There's a famous Reagan joke that he did during a sound test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA

monster trucks

"Monster truck"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_truck

"Road train"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

I'd also note that OP only created their account a day ago.

I wonder how much exact duplication each process has?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/ksm.html

Kernel Samepage Merging

KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y, added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.32. See mm/ksm.c for its implementation, and http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/330589/

KSM was originally developed for use with KVM (where it was known as Kernel Shared Memory), to fit more virtual machines into physical memory, by sharing the data common between them. But it can be useful to any application which generates many instances of the same data.

The KSM daemon ksmd periodically scans those areas of user memory which have been registered with it, looking for pages of identical content which can be replaced by a single write-protected page (which is automatically copied if a process later wants to update its content). The amount of pages that KSM daemon scans in a single pass and the time between the passes are configured using sysfs interface

KSM only operates on those areas of address space which an application has advised to be likely candidates for merging, by using the madvise(2) system call:

int madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE)

One imagines that one could maybe make a library interposer to induce use of that.