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59 million €… How many percent is that of Amazon’s profits made in Germany? This counts as a business expense for them, not as a punishment.

And the original Italian so that you don’t need to click the post open:

Buongiorno. Ho un problema: ho un notebook con Linux Ufficiozero, e ho un database access (non convertibile in un file per LibreOffice Base).Come faccio per usarlo? Devo ricostruire da zero tutto il database in LibreOffice?
Oppure mi tocca installare in qualche modo, forse con wine o un altro programma, Office su Linux?
Per me è di capitale importanza questo database perché mi serve per gestire un ente del terzo settore, praticamente devo gestire benefattori, offerte e progetti sostenuti

A machine translation of the Italian-language Mastodon post, by DeepL:

Good morning. I have a problem: I have a notebook with Linux Ufficiozero, and I have an Access database (which cannot be converted into a file for LibreOffice Base). How can I use it? Do I have to rebuild the entire database from scratch in LibreOffice? Or do I have to install Office on Linux somehow, perhaps with Wine or another programme?
This database is of paramount importance to me because I need it to manage a third sector organisation. Basically, I have to manage benefactors, donations and supported projects.

It strikes me odd that Heroic doesn’t want to be available with apt, though! It’s even advertising that it is intentionally packaged in a way that duplicates pre-existing libraries – apparently to just take some extra place from my hard drive for fun?!

Doesn’t really wake much trust in them caring about how to use a computer’s resources. Whether one wants to be afraid of two applications sharing a library file or not should be left for the user to decide… And it’s not very nice that there an increasing number of ways applications can be installed, and these clever people are supporting that development… How am I supposed to have any overlook over what’s installed on my computer? This is starting to feel like Windows :(

I don’t really believe it’s very good for computer security that applications are installed without anything in the OS keeping track of whether they need security updates or not!

I tried that some time ago, and at least at that point it needed configuration to get up and running. It was a hassle. I have family that needs a lot of my time at the moment. Between August and December I could find less than 10 days where I was able to decide by myself what I do after workdays or on weekends.

I’m not going to spend those precious minutes configuring any damn thing. Steam works out of the box. Now someone was just mentioning something called Heroic launcer. Sounds good. Wonder why Gog is not linking to it very visibly on its site if it works?

Okay, in other words: I won’t be buying any more Steam games 🐳

Got enough stuff in my library to last until GoG starts working nicely enough on Linux 🐧

I’ve been often wondering, how will we use all this car infrastructure once people advance past private cars?
What will become of that drive-in McDonald’s?

I could imagine some sort of a small-scale factory using the building?
Multi-storey parking garages could also serve as storage space, maybe? The tilted floors make many things more difficult, though.

I like this text very much!

People should concentrate more on what’s important in life :)

Not in US politics. If you have 51% of votes of whoever is The Party at the moment, you can make decisions without others impeding on them.

If one party got 51 % of votes, then that means 26,01 % of all votes is enough to decide about the all of the country’s things alone.