Exactly - it's done in public, and not centrally. Any citizen can go and check how it's done in their own Geminde.

As a Swiss citizen I strongly disagree. Most people capable of reading and basic maths (addition!) can understand the counting of our paper ballots. My kids understand how this works since they are like 5.

Any citizen can go and check how votes are counted in their Geminde. Any citizen can check what is reported in the federal tally. I did several times. It's not rocket science.

> basic maths (addition!)

Technically you don't even need that, you just need to be able to count, i.e. find the successor to a given number.

The rules for deciding the winners in proportional parliamentary elections are quite a bit more complex than that...

True.

Custom widgets aren’t particularly hard to do in iced, but I wish some of those common cases would be committed back / made available.

Except the above virtualised lists, another case I hit was layered images (sprites for example). Not very hard to write my own, sure, but it’d be nice to have that out of the box as in eg. egui

Not contesting your claim, but would you mind sharing what major hardware vendor you mean?

I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponsor is system76 - and as awesome as they are they aren’t a major vendor yet :)

Has System76 started designing, or more correctly outsourcing more expensive custom motherboard designs, like Lenovo and Dell or are they still selling slightly customized white-label laptops?

I have an all in one heat pump right now in my house (in Europe). Not made by Samsung.

Why is this news? Is it because it can heat water to 85 degrees Celsius? Is it because it’s Samsung?

Integration of the air cooling and water heating. For example, I have a air conditioner pumping heat out of my house right next to a box that's putting heat into the water coming into my house.

Ah it does ac on top, neat. Thanks!

Probably because it combines so many functions into the one unit?

Except using the cold output from the heat pump to serve as ac (which of arguably neat) it’s a normal heat pump

This is extremely valuable insight for me, a non-Indian manager.

Thanks a lot!

Glad it was of help :)

Probably an unpopular opinion, but it’s been a couple of jobs that I write “just python” to generate k8s manifests, and it works really, really well.

There’s packages. You can write functions. You can write tests trivially (the output is basically a giant map that you just write out as yaml)…

I’m applying this to other areas too with great success, for example our snowflake IaC is “just python” that generates SQL. It’s great.

This is bullshit, Emmentaler has holes here as well.

Source: am Swiss, live in Emmental

Okay, okay, Wikipedia was wrong about the regulation on the holes, then ;-). Go edit it!

I was very skeptical of the claim that gaming on linux is good now, but fully switched over last weekend.

All of the games I play on a regular basis just worked out of the box with no fiddling at all (nVidia graphics card, X11, pop_OS - but I'm pretty sure any modern distribution would work just as well). Fresh OS install (nvidia drivers just worked), install the steam flatpack, click "download", click "play". That's it.

This includes "modern" games such as Borderlands 4 and e.g. Helldivers 2.

Running steam itself as a flatpak may cost you between 10-15% in overhead if what I've read is true. Installing from repo on fedora/debian/etc should work in most cases just fine.

Oh really? Wow! I'll switch over tonight and give it a shot. Thanks!

The "nvidia driver" thing may go away, too. See Nvidias contributions to Nova.

Huawei is very present at EuroRust and seem to look for a lot of people to hire.

I guess it makes sense, I was curious why they would want people to work on e.g. Servo since Firefox is already available on Android... now I know :) Their team there made a pretty good impression for the record, they were knowledgeable and pitched their projects quite well (several of them quite interesting).