monsieur_jean

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the type of drives and your needs.

  If the drive is big enough to be used as storage/back, get it out and in its own USB enclosure.

  If the drive is either too small or you have too may already then :

  • SSD : smash it to pieces with a hammer
  • HDD : if you're sure it's not an hybrid (in which case the SSD process applies) then you can just fill it with garbage or use whatever "erasing" software out there. I would go for an open-source one.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you like the Snap store and snap packages being pushed on you silently when you try to install packages through APT? :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quatre-vingts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The other way around. We started with base 20 everywhere then simplified some of it.

  During medieval times it used to be :
  10 Dix (10)
  20 Vingt (20)
  30 Vingt et dix (20+10)
  40 Deux-vingt (2x20)
  50 Deux-vingt et dix (2x20+10)
  60 Trois-vingt (3x20)
  70 Trois-vingt et dix (3x20+10)
  80 Quatre-vingt (4x20)
  90 Quatre-vingt et dix (4x20+10)

  Then they switched to base 10... But only up to 70 for some reasons in France. Belgium and Switzerland (and some parts of France) have gone all the way to 100 by using Septante (70), Octante or Huitante (80) and Nonante (90).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quatre-vingts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's base 20.

  80 in French is 4 x 20. A long time ago, 60 was "trois-vingt", 3 x 20. We still have a hospital in Paris called "Hopital des Quinze-Vingts", 15 x 20 because it used to have 300 beds.