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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Iceland here, we don't use DST at all. GMT / UTC all year round, it's nice.

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few years about adopting it though, but a lot of people don't really see the point, me included.

During this time of year, October / November, the days start to get really short, so the sun doesn't rise until 8 or 9, and it sets around 16 to 18.

Having some sort of DST here wouldn't make much sense IMO since it would only be 3 months or so. Then there's the debate of do you want to use DST and have the sun rise sooner, but set sooner or vice versa with no DST.

Personally I like that the sun is still somewhat there when I leave work, since even with DST the sun would just barely be starting to rise when I would be commuting to work in the morning.

(Tangent: I don't get why a lot of global schedules for some events list the start times of a live stream for a ton of different timezones, but never also include just GMT / UTC)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No hurry? The woman in the cabin that spotted the bear was just a wooden door or a glass window away from the animal.

Also, Greenland doesn't want them back, they even shoot the bears on sight if they are too close to human settlements. They do however have a quota and each bear that is killed in Iceland contributes to this quota.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

laughs in Icelandic 16°C no mosquitos summer

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (13 children)

According to their total dataset size excluding duplicates, over 900 TB

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I used Manjaro for about a year around 2019 and it was awful.

I liked its selling point on being based on Arch and having access to AUR, but the official repositories would only have stuff that is vetted to work on the current release of Manjaro (at least that's what I had heard about Manjaro at the time)

The amount of times a package update shit the floor is too many to count.

Before that I was using Ubuntu and for the most part it was fine.

The first distro I used was Mint since the desktop environments, Cinnamon, resembled Windows XP.