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I love that you're doing this for free; I've done similar things in the past and learned that at some point you may be doing people a disservice by keeping old systems and broken implementations alive for free. I'd call it vendor lock in by generosity. Or, tongue in cheek: had the business owner paid for support for those Sonos boxes, he probably wouldn't have them anymore.

This is an interesting one and I’m going entirely off anecdotal evidence here: yes, you will be seeing David Hasselhoff posters and the like quite often throughout Germany. Me personally, I have yet to meet a single person who unironically likes his music or is a „fan“ (whatever that may mean to you) - and this holds true for the generation of my parents as well.

My working theory is that there’s some kind of reverse self-fulfilling prophecy at play here: It’s been imposed on Germans that “we love Hasselhoff” over and over again and at some point we just went with it, albeit it’s mostly and irony thing now.

Then again, I might be totally off and not realize that I’m looking at it from within a bubble of people not actually liking him.

This comment is the very definition of FUD and leans on to myths that have been debunked over and over again the last few weeks/months.

Plain and simple: No!

Except when there is public interest, say politicians committing crimes, etc.

> Windows has gotten a lot better [...]

Remember when we used to say the same thing about Linux? Funny how times change.

Apologies. I haven't been using Ubuntu in a while and did not know you had to modify stuff under /usr there. (Eww!)

You should be using /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf for that.

In my understanding you can just (read-only) bind-mount the necessary libraries into the sandbox, ship your own, or do a combination of the former two.

Wow, that page crashes Chromium (Linux, 38.0.2125.111) every time I open it.

Well Python 2 "protects" you from silly things like that and throws a syntax error.

  In [4]: class АnotherClass():
     ...:     pass
    File "<ipython-input-4-ad6e67ea5e19>", line 1
      class АnotherClass():
            ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax