Of course, of course. Nothing to do with corruption and incompetence of an authoritarian regime.

YSK that 20% of the population left under Chavez and Maduro. But those were of course all filthy counter-revolutionaries who just weren’t ready for the socialist paradise they built.

Selbstverständlich habe ich meine patriotische Pflicht getan.

It’s terrible. The other day I saw someone throw some non-recyclable waste into the recycling bin! Can you believe it? The country is really going to hell in a handbasket.

The Romans and Greeks were also influenced by the Far East. And all of these things can be true at the same time. All religions are built in the foundations of those of earlier cultures.

And the christians stole most of their lore from the Hindus and Buddhists anyway.

I vividly remember my mother griping about how expensive everything had become and asking how anybody was supposed to afford that. Some things just never change.

Unless you want to go professional or do something for profit, I’d just get some cheap old box and start mucking about. Just make sure you don’t put any important data on it and be prepared to wipe it and start from scratch a few times. After a while you’ll have a better idea of what you want to do and a clearer way forward.

Came here to say that.

Damn! I’ve never had Instagram and i haven’t opened Facebook in five years. So why aren’t I happy?

My work computer runs Windows 11, but our IT guys have turned off pretty much all the annoying bits, so it works pretty OK.

Yeah! Nuke that shit!

Just like the good old days and the coal mines.

Or Mint. I use Mint because it works with minimal hassle.

In 1995 I bought 4 MB of RAM for DM 200, which, adjusted for inflation probably works out to about €200 in today’s money. I’d say, prices have come down quite a bit, since.

Using toilets and showers. Sanitation and hygiene are among the biggest factors in the increase of life expectancy we get to enjoy. Yet we take those things completely for granted.

I don’t want to name the blog, hobby and reddit username so that blog don’t get more undeserved views.

In that case I’ll assume your review was about a massive dildo.

I mean, duh. Everybody knows what these are!

This is textbook enshittification.

Using a sleep tracker really helped me. Some days are bad but I always know better sleep days will come. I have the data to prove it. That helps me drag through the bag days. Before that, the fear of sleeplessness was always worse than the sleeplessness itself.