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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • 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++.












  • 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.