And my impression is that they currently rather make things worse rather than better.

I just installed them via Aurora Store (FOSS alternative to Google Play). No tweaking required.

My Pixel 6A died from water damage two weeks ago. Bought a Fairphone 6, flashed /e/ and relocked the bootloader. For a slightly tech savvy person really easy to do. So far, everything works fine including 3/3 banking apps. I didn’t install any Google made apps and except for the gboard keyboard and Android Auto I don’t miss anything. Both could be easily installed, but I’ll try to stay away on purpose. I’m really happy and can recommend! :)

I imagine that power is a similar stimulant as drugs. The more you have, the more you want. And with any kind of addiction, it quickly becomes toxic. You’re wealthy, so you want to be super rich. Once you’re super rich you want to have direct power over people instead of just power through capital. One form of this may be political activities, lobbyism, propaganda, buying land, sport teams etc. Another can be sexual domination and abuse and getting away with it. It’s all a form of ‘I can do whatever I want’. I guess Trump admitted the sexual dimension several times (‘grab em by the pussy’).

More than a decade ago I still found Musk quite innovative and inspiring. Politically I think he still supported democrats back then, at least he wasn’t openly fachist. Can absolutely see how people bought a Tesla without anticipating all what happened 5 years back, not to speak of 10++.

I used Reddit for years as a reader without ever posting or commenting. When alternative front ends were ditched, I switched to Lemmy which I really like. Was never banned.

Another thought: is it required for your service to physically run in 25 locations? Couldn’t you have one (more powerful) main instance which accesses the other servers via SSH to execute whatever command is required?

I use oat ‘milk’ that only needs to go into the fridge when open. So only one at a time and wherever there is a free slot.

And to integrate me as deep as possible into all kinds of processes and infrastructure.

Some people kind of just want to be dicks.

I think it depends on how you say it. In general, I think it’s a good thing see other people’s opinion, especially if you already have a certain bias. IMHO there are very few topics that have only arguments in one direction.

How can one have a (boy)wife and sex before marriage?

Was war denn das alte Maskottchen? Das Tier im Logo hätte ich zumindest nie als ein spezifisches Geschlecht bestimmen können.

What’s wrong with Indonesians in particular?

They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US.

Concrete is a desaster from an environmental perspective and there are other ways to dampen sound between two apartment units such as clay, straw, lime, hemp etc.

German here. I learned tú (informal), usted (formal), vosotros (informal) and ustedes (formal). Teacher was from Spain.

As a German, I spent several weeks in Switzerland hiking in the mountains with a backpack and a tent. You can absolutely travel on a budget there if you’re fine with that simple lifestyle and you bring your own equipment. I don’t think my daily budget was more than 20 CHF per person a day. If you shop minimalistic (lentils, couscous, pasta etc.) I’m sure you can go even below 5 CHF.

Even if you didn’t pay them at all, a restaurant should be more expensive than cooking yourself. A restaurant still has plenty of other costs (rent, insurance, furniture, kitchen supplies etc.) and usually ingredients aren’t that much cheaper in wholesale to make up for the difference.

Some are even hard to understand for native German speakers. ich_iel has lots of jokes in so-called ‘pliers german’ which is a mix of German and word-by-word translated English terms. It’s not really understood by an average German you’d ask on the streets.

I usually don’t write it down, so I hope I remember it correctly:

Yesterday I had:

• Gnocchi with leek, soy chunks (“minced meat”) and basil
• Smashed cucumber salad with roasted sesame and black onion seeds
• A salad with pasta made from pea flour with beluga lentils (ingredients were left over)
• Lentil waffels (crispy flat bread similar to rice cake, not sure if you can buy these outside Europe) with hummous
• Muesli with lupine yoghurt and walnuts
• Chocolate

The day before I had

• Pasta made from pea flour with a bolognese out of eggplant beluga lentil and nutritional yeast
• Bake-off bread with bean puree
• Caesar salad from sugar loaf (?) with blended almonds and hazelnuts
• Two bars from caramalized peanuts (“Mr Tom”)
• Vegan gummy bears

Another day before:

• Grilled veggies (zucchini, corn, mushrooms, green peppers)
• Grilled seitan steaks
• Chick pea waffels (similar to lentil waffels) with soy cottage cheese
• Pop corn

Yet another day before:

• Rice with green flageolet beans, smoked tofu, coconut milk and roasted peanuts
• Raw veggies (carrots, green peppers, cherry tomatoes) with cashew dip
• Baguette
• Nuts mix with raisins and cranberries
• Sugar-coated peanuts (vegan alternative to M&Ms)

I’m on a vegan diet and I would say that I eat quite a big variety of food. Many vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, rice, quinoa, chick peas, pasta variations, also some meat alternatives, soy yoghurt etc. I rarely eat exactly the same meal twice, but improvise a lot.