change.org doesn’t like my mail address for some reason, and they tried trick me into subscribing to their newsletter :/

It’s more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.

Ist das echt? Ich finde den Original-Post nicht mehr

Good for you I guess but good luck with commercial software development when your whole toolchain is Windows only. Same for video games, and Proton only works properly if you have a new GPU which supports all the Vulkan features.

I can print at my workplace, and there is a library 5 minutes walking distance from my apartment. These huge commercial printing machines are so much better than anything you can buy for your home, and I don’t have to maintain them. I’m very grateful I don’t have to own a printer.

From the article:

When you have enough storage that you never have to delete anything, you can keep an infinite record of your life. Packages, receipts, itineraries of past trips, messages from loved ones, photos, appointments, documents — you can just label them, archive them, and search for them later.

I don’t want Google to have that information for free, to analyze/monetize/sell to 3rd parties. That’s one of the reasons why I quit GMail. It was difficult too because I was registered to literally 100s of websites with that address.

In my experience it goes well with eggs too!

For me, porn is not really worth it because I get addicted easily. Some people might be able to use it in a healthy way but Idk.

What you want is a “public display”.

Taekwondo. Cooking. Creative projects. I’ve also done therapy on and off, 1-on-1 conversational therapy as well as Psychodrama in a group therapy setting. Therapy is nice but I wouldn’t say it is the thing that helped the most.

What’s cool about the Fediverse, as long as the censors miss one instance that federates with the blocked ones, the content is still accessible. Slightly OT, but some Mastodon instances are blocked as well, e.g. I could not access mastodon.gamedev.place without VPN when I was in China two months ago.

Usually not. I was in the same situation and had to register a company in the EU. That way I pay my own taxes, insurance and pension contributions. If you do that, make sure to calculate the extra cost for insurance/taxes and raise your rates accordingly.

Das ist mit dem Netzwerkeffekt ist ein guter Punkt. Ich bin ja auch auf Insta obwohl ich die Plattform nicht gut finde, weil sonst manche sozialen Kontakte leiden würden. Und über WhatsApp brauchen wir erst gar nicht reden …

Wer als Kind Captain Planet gesehen hat ist heute - zumindest auf dem Papier - erwachsen!

Ist es nicht eher ein Spannungsfeld zwischen Freiheit, Sicherheit, und Bequemlichkeit? Aktuell kann jeder noch verwenden, was er will, aber viele Leute entscheiden sich z.B. für Instagram, weil es super bequem ist seine Freunde zu finden und es professionell moderiert wird.