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The left won. They just performed worse than expected, forcing them to work with centrists to form a government

Hardware

A mac mini is probably overkill for what you want to do. We are talking standard blu-ray after all, meaning your videos are going to be limited to 720p. Most hardware will have no problem dealing with that. The cheapest solution that's fit for purpose is a refurbished thin client. They aren't powerful or anything, but you don't need powerful. You need quiet (passively cooled) and low on energy consumption.

Thin clients can be had on eBay for less than 30 Franks.

Software

• Kodi: originally known as the XBox Media Center (XBMC), a TV friendly menu to pick the movie or TV show you want to watch
• LibreElec: A Linux distro, that preconfigures and auto starts Kodi, not the best choice if you plan to use anything besides Kodi
• Jellyfin: A media server. If you got multiple TVs you might want to look into this one. It essentially let's you operate your own Netflix, complete with a web frontend and apps for phones and TVs, integrates with Kodi

That's what hardware keys are for. Even the cheap lines of fido USB keys (ca $20) can safe passkeys. And your phone can too.

It does, but not all clients do.

Two clients that support the call module are Element and Commet

There is a gamedev conference that accompanies Gamescom in Germany every year.

https://dev.gamescom.global/

It has lived in the GDCs shadow up until know, but game (the organisation that organises the whole thing) should understand this as a chance

It's a term from city planing. Essentialy places that are not your place of work or someone's home.

Here is a more in depth explainer by NotJustBikes: https://youtu.be/VvdQ381K5xg

If you are willing to selfhost, you should look into audiobookshelf. Abs is a streaming server for audiobooks. It for example allows multiple people to use the same library and have their individual listening progress saved. And you can actually stream your books and don't have to download them if you don't want to.

In short: it's a much nicer listening experience than audible ever was, especially if you shared your account with someone else.

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

And you can use https://audible-tools.kamsker.at/ to free your existing audible library from the clutches of Amazon

I've been running Sailfish for two months now on a secondary device.

There are native clients for both Signal and HomeAssistant. I don't use HA myself, so I can't comment on how well Quartermaster works, but I haven't run into any (major) issues with Whisperfish.

As for general impressions: SailfishOS feels like the best mobile OS ... of the year 2013. There are a lot of aspects where it was ahead of the other systems back then. For example with the gesture based navigation. But the other systems have caught up in that regard. And then there are the aspects where Sailfish was perfectly average back then. For example how you grant rights to apps (all requested at once, on first launch) or how the emoji keyboard works (like a different language). Design decisions like that aren't deal breakers by any means, you can learn to live with them and work around them if necessary, but they give the OS a slightly dated feel.

That's why Ultramarine exists. It's just Fedora with RPM-Fusion (the non-free repo) preconfigured and the Nvidia drivers preinstalled.

https://ultramarine-linux.org/

No it's not. Matrix isn't part of the Fediverse. It doesn't use ActivityPub and there is no interop with any other Fediverse service.

That doesn't make Matrix bad, it just makes it it's own thing.

But only in the Roman version. In the original Greek version she was just a monster. That's also the only way the other gorgons make sense (because they are explicitly Medusa's sisters and have the same power set, except they are immortal on top).

Then a couple of centuries later comes the Roman author Ovid and adds a retelling of the story to his works. And just like Hollywood does today with their remakes he decides to add a tragic backstory to his new version.

And now a couple more centuries later a lot of people believe that's the "real" version.

It sort of depends on how your team uses Slack.

The closest thing you're going to get is Mattermost. Mattermost is not European, but it's open source and self hostable. There are multiple managed hosters out there who will sell you an instance for as little as €30 per month.

Homepage: https://mattermost.com/

Example of a manged hoster: https://www.wnm-systems.de/server/mattermost-server/ (This one's based in Germany, but I'm sure you can figure the website out)

Another alternative is Rocketchat. Same deal as before, but hosting starts at €20.

Homepage: https://www.rocket.chat/

Example of a manged hoster: https://qutic.com/de/loesungen/rocket-chat-hosting/ (also German. I swear, I'm not doing this on purpose, these where just the first ones my search turned up)

The solution you should probably pick is Matrix with Cinny. It's a federated service, so you have to pick a server. Also, adding a second device to your account is a bit more complicated, but nothing you or your group can't figure out (you have to compare emojis between the devices for the keys to sync). Lastly, there is no (voice or video) calling. It's on the roadmap and other matrix clients (such as element or commet) have it, but cinny doesn't.

Homepage of the client: https://cinny.in/