I would assume your system is using systemd (I don't use Kubuntu specifically); the laptop lid is (now in 2026) controlled by the systemd infrastructure - it's a matter of setting a config option and this should fix you up. Arch as usual has the best wiki on the subject:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#ACPI_events

You're probably looking at HandleLidSwitch* options. There's still nothing wrong with the manual disable to /proc/acpi/wakeup to cover your bases (layers of the onion), I'm fighting with a "modern" laptop that only has s2idle and it's terrible compared to S3 - I'm in ACPI wakeup hell and still trying to figure out what's causing it.

It's when you subsist on Lower Class Brats songs during the night hours.

From my understanding (which could be incorrect, I mean I wasn't there), the pattern applied to the hull was done differently per ship. I imagine they applied the base pattern in a random tile-like build where things can be rotated and moved around in the design before painting.

My first thought when I saw this - "oh hey look, razzle dazzle clothes" which is my personal mental association of the famous scene in Stripes movie, with Dazzle Camouflage which I always thought was a neat idea.

In late May 2026 images appeared on social media showing Russian Ural and KAMAZ trucks painted in the classic dazzle camouflage. Supposedly the unusual paint scheme is to confuse Ukrainian drones controlled by artificial intelligence and disrupt their pattern recognition, and not to trick the human eye. Ukraine has experimented with AI for targeting as seen in Operation Spiderweb, and is conducting a deep strike campaign to disrupt Russian logistics.[72][73]

(just talking shop) I've poked at them, you'd think the old.lemmy.ca would be appealing but not for me - I rather like this Lemmy webUI overall as a design. Good font sizes, line spacing and so forth - it has a well formed comfortable feel which I can tell has an experienced eye to it (minor details matter). Conversely, when I look at, say piefed or old.lemmy I just got "ugh, those fonts! that line spacing!". The default UI is actually a well crafted piece of usability kit - the infobox is an Achilles heel.

Random: I've used the Lemmy webUI details to craft similar feeling looks to HackerNews and (old) Reddit using nothing more than uBlock filters. Nothing grandiose but the fine tuning makes them sorta feel like the Lemmy UI (but worse, holy cow is there so much hard coded HTML in these old sites - lipstick on a pig but it helps).

Honest input to your thoughts - as a registered/logged-in user, that Lemmy home page infobox is a UI/UX nightmare - it blocks my quick access to the second box below that has my subscribed communities. Upon visiting, I would immediately collapse that top box without ever looking at it; I now have a simple uBlock Origin rule that hides the top infobox on the home page for me automatically. On old.reddit, the list of subscribed things is a dropdown top left so they avoid this UI/UX problem with stacked infoboxes.

Look, I touched the bride's butt once at the reception. Never living that down am I?

GenX here, using the 80/20 rule 80% of my friend's marriages (probably higher %) have ended in divorce. Typically after kids are involved. :-/

... "OK the hard way" or "I wasn't joking" hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha[a] (9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaʁmẽj miˈɾɐ̃dɐ]), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell,"[1][2] she was known for her signature fruit hat outfits that she wore in her American films.

So for OVH I’ve got the EU side, but I’m not flagging that you could spin up in their US or Canada region by accident.

In effort not to create a large amount of work or overhead, I think the key concern is more what is considered sovereign - these large shops have core presence and edge presence. It is not uncommon that an edge use the features of the core which crosses countries; when I worked in a multinational, our Sydney DC was an edge to the Hong Kong DC core (think like a monitoring or backup system) so your data actually flowed through HKG pipes because Sydney is insanely expensive to have a DC in (size/space).

Spirit in my comment was more to that - spinning up in US by accident is a "given" to me, kinda obvious. An edge DC routing through a core DC in another country, well that's a different matter. Can be invisible to the end user.

If you’ve still got the registrar list you clicked through

ICANN has a nice page, lets you filter it by country or whatever. There are a million of them, and some of them "feel sketchy" but many seem like generic, boring registrars.

https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/accredited-registrars/list-of-accredited-registrars

I then used the DNSPerf data to dig into that layer, tl;dr 90% (guessing) are US controlled. I actually found more out there than what's on this list but it's really comprehensive of the big players in the DNS space.

https://www.dnsperf.com/

My "investigation" was all manual, dig through publicly available information and follow my nose. The DNS perf listing is actually how I even learned Bunny and Gcore existed.

Nice work! A question and a request:

ref: https://euvetted.com/compare?p=hetzner%2Covhcloud

(q) Looking at the Cloud & Hosting category, I don't see a distinction for regional datacenters; for instance OVHcloud has a US counterpart and US datacenters (and Canada) along with all their EU stuff. Just sort of asking how that worked out in your investigations... even if it's just Canada, it's not in the EU yet. :) But more realistically say... Helsinki vs. UK or something.

(r) One of the things I spent time on but I don't see reflected - Domain Registrars and DNS Hosting. I used the ICANN official list myself and just clicked a lot, and for DNS I found basically CouldNS, Bunny.net and Gcore.com as the "EU" (not sure if EU or general Europe). [1]

Bunny and Gcore are Cloudflare competitors so it's no small work to build a full set of data like you have done for others, they all offer a lot of products under one umbrella. But CloudNS isn't so it's a crossover area between different types of companies based on singular.. features offered?

[1] side comment, it might be interesting to see a mapping of domain TLDs - it's well known about who owns/controls net. com, org but I think few realize that a lot of these new TLDs are all owned by single megacorps when you dig into Wikipedia etc. Your precious .dev is owned by Google.