Ludwig van Beethoven

This year’s general election, after all the votes counted, has a

• Sainte-Laguë index of 48.36, and a
• Gallagher index of 23.75.

This makes the (dis)proportionality worse than HUNGARY’s (my home) FPTP component (SLI = 36.96) – a component of the mixed system which allows our ruling party to get 2/3 supermajorities each time, every time, with sometimes less than 50% of the votes, and which ultimately transformed our country to an “electoral autocracy”

You guys need electoral reform desperately. And do it before someone cheats with the current rules deliberately.

(PS: I calculated the electoral indices using the python package voting)

nah, you can have 16+8+4+2+1 = 31 on one hand, and 1024+512+256+128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1=2047 on two hands.

IT bubonic plague

Hungary presents: grep --kis--és-nagybetűk-figyelmen-kívül-hagyása

Yeah that is a resounding no. PS: I am not exaggerating. That is the first translation that came into mind

You might have just made me search for a distro to hop to. I looked at OpenSUSE but then realised that software availability might just be a pain in the fourth point of contact. Why god why me

I’m in the same boat, and KDE is quite buggy for me under Nobara, but I’m too lazy to maintain a rolling distro and I haven’t found anything yet that I like more.

Fellow Nobara user and man of culture, I see