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TL;DR: Central Europe is a real region, sitting between Western and Eastern Europe, too often forgotten and mixed up with Eastern Europe. The two have different histories, culture, societies, and naming the difference is a way of respecting this identity. I often witnessed the same confusion, and lately more than ever with the internet newfound’s love for Poland: someone calls Polish,…
TL;DR: Rediscovering that on Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, ticking “Use hardware-backed disk encryption” in the installer silently gives you a snap-based system (snap kernel and bootloader, like Ubuntu Core) instead of a normal deb-based one. On a modern laptop, this can breaks hardware enablement, in my case the webcam, with no supported way to fix it or have an equivalent feature set. I…
On AI Nothing here is AI-written. I find AI insufferable to read, and hate as a reader going through obviously, obnoxiously AI-generated posts. AI, and by that I mean agentic engineering, remains a very powerful tool and is used for grammar review (as a non-native English speaker), plus behind the scenes for web research, debugging, and for this site’s design. See non-creative AI declaration…