Congratulations to everyone who took part. That’s amazing.

I totally agree with you. openSUSE Tumbleweed is IMHO the most stable rolling release distro out there.

Arch and some of its derivatives are also nice but still not as stable or polished as Tumbleweed.

So much bullshit in so little text… Again a “news” site that quotes a report from another site but doesn’t link to it (probably so most readers don’t read the real article). The CNN article says nothing about a plan to “ethnically cleanse northern Gaza” (this is typical Hamas press bullshit). Israel simply wants the civilian population remaining in the Netzarim Corridor to withdraw from the area so they are not longer in line of fire. And it is not an official plan but a plan of a group of retired Israeli military generals. Here is the link to CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/22/middleeast/netanyahu-gaza-hamas-expulsions-plan-intl/index.html

And regarding MEE (Wikipedia):

According to its critics, Middle East Eye began forming in London in 2013 as the Islamist influence of Al Jazeera began to wane; several Al Jazeera journalists subsequently joined the project. Jonathan Powell, a senior executive at Al Jazeera, was a consultant ahead of its launch and registered the website’s domain names. Bassasso, a Kuwait-born Palestinian living in London, was the sole director of Middle East Eye’s parent company, M.E.E. Limited. Bassasso was a former director for the Hamas-controlled Al-Quds TV.[1,2] David Hearst denied that Bessasso was the owner of the news site but refrained from divulging the real owner.

[1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/new-london-connection-to-islamists-1.648408

[2] https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/middle-east/qatars-other-covert-media-arm/

I am not sure if I would trust a website which does not provide any information about ownership, funding, or has a director who worked for the Hamas which is designated as a terrorist group by a lot of countries. Nobody has to agree how Israel handles the situation, but also nobody should simply believe everything that is written on the Internet. War is bad and I think most of us can’t even imagine how bad and cruel war can be. Websites like MEE play a big part in creating even more hatred and suffering in this conflict through false information.

I just use Kritas Image Split feature. But it would be nice to download a widescreen picture and just set it as a background for all monitors. We need to wait until someone will implement that feature.

On the right side there are power lines but I am not sure if the thin cables on the left are power lines. They are very thin. Maybe phone lines or telegraph cables.

Yeah. On my phone it looks also more like water than just a wet road.

… but also I presume road building techniques have come a long way in the last 100 years.

That’s what I find so fascinating about old photos. You can see how quickly technology has developed in 100 years. And the development is progressing faster and faster every year.

To me it looks a bit like a wet and worn out bitumen road after heavy rain.

Most streets built before the early 1900s in NZ were made of macadam, which was highly suitable for horse-drawn vehicles. However, with the rise of motor traffic in the 1920s, many areas had to seek more durable options for road surfacing. The most frequently used material became asphalt or bitumen, which gained widespread use starting in the 1920s.

Source: https://teara.govt.nz/en/streets-and-lighting/print