@clacke @torsten can I steal that excuse? “they have appeared in my home somehow”

I may have a need for something like that in my near future O:-)

@clacke In the building I live we still have the 1950s rules or so, and they don't talk about pets, but explicitly forbid keeping chickens or rabbits on the balcony.

(Lately some people have been keeping a pet rabbit, but it was indoors, not on the balcony. Nobody ever complained :) )

@clacke I've just checked¹ and in 1861 Pontecorvo already had ~9k inhabitants, and since then it didn't have a big growth like other Italian communes, so maybe it was at least already around this “big” in the time of the principate.

Looks like a perfectly reasonable size for a mostly independent entity inside geographical Italy :D

What? we're not in the 12th century or whereabouts? details :D

¹ it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecor… (in Italian, but it's a graph)

@clacke for some things, I think that paying people to work inside existing distributions can also work; it is e.g. already possible to pay somebody to work on maintaining specific debian packages past the time the official support for a certain release has ended (and probably also way past the official *upstream* support has ended).

It has to be managed carefully, but I believe that Freexian / Debian LTS is a good example which could apply to other cases (and is probably completely not suitable for others).

The main advantage here would be that the results of such paid work would be available also for other people, and thus they could be less expensive for each individual customer.

@hypolite @clacke @tfb the same happens with Italian keyboards: special keys for lowercase à è é ì ò ù, with different symbols when used with shift (iirc é is shift-è).

And on the keyboard I'm using right now (which I believe comes from Finland) there is e.g. a key labeled ø ö œ which I believe works the same way, with shift and possibly alt (I don't *know*, I've always ignored the labels and used it with the us-altgr-intl map)

@phil_smith That's not an accurate description of my corner of the fediverse.

Here there is no dog on the van, but there are a couple of cats, and somebody has added a cat run near the ceiling.

Also, the heating is broken, but that's fine even in winter, because we're all knitting and sewing warm things.