That is because in countries like The Netherlands, 100 square meters will cost you about €500 000 at the moment. Warming my house on natural gas costs me €10 a day. In the grocery store, the avarage item price is now €3,-. We must have health insurance (good thing!) but if you can’t afford it, you have the option to gamble on higher “own risk”. That means paying more out of your own pocket. Gasoline is €2 a liter. We also have to reduce CO2 but don’t have enough capacity on the grid to support all the green initiatives. Meaning electricity prices go up. Immigrants fleeing from terrible conditions are very welcome here (also, good thing!), but they need to be paid for somehow. Life is expensive and spending more on military means higher taxes or worse services.

Personally I don’t have it bad at all and most people still don’t, but I can understand why some people see this as a hard pill to swallow.

Only because I’m not aware of other decentralised Signal alternatives. That’s on me.

And there goes another good company…

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Nice! Never heard of that one, I’ll look that up!

I would have rather seen Element but hey, it’s a step in the right direction.

US apparently also quit providing intel to Ukraine. Sorry for the Dutch link as source, best to use a browser translator on it.

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Google apple and reddit must have really pissed them off to include this in their terms.

Skikk is a clevo reseller too. Those laptops are very nice. They do however sound like a jet engine when the game starts. But I just turn the volume up higher and then I don’t hear it anymore.

I won’t go as far as to nuke all my accounts just yet but last year I made a big effort to use less of big tech companies. This is my drive to slowly continue doing that this year. I will finish my games that will not run on Linux without tinkering and then I’m quitting the hell that is Windows for good.

There is a feature called single hand mode on most keyboards. Makes it something like this. I do however agree that small phones are nice.

Remember there are lots of Ford Chevrolet Dodge and Tesla cars driving around here. Maybe in 10 years not so many anymore. Result: more profit to EU car brands and less profit to USA car brands. Eventually the EU gets out of this stronger.

We are no longer people just cash cows now.

No surprise. We shifted from plastic stuff to paper stuff. So now the fish are (luckily!) having a better living space. But where do we get all the extra paper from? Yes, trees.

Kind of like the red room they tell you about on Youtube

The EU is going to be furious about this

Makes me feel we are two faced. On the one hand, we are inventing laws to protect privacy of eu citizens. And then stuff like this happens. On the other hand: Just fucked up that the people who use the platform for what is was intended for are now in jeopardy for people who want to look at underage kids, get their SO killed, look at kill cams or buy drugs.

I went through “Bedrijfshulpverlening” (Dutch, if you want to run it through translate just in case I mess up the correct translation). I guess it’s business first responder or something.

When we were attending the fire training part and we were teached about fires, someone asked “what if there is a car fire”. They said: “starting petrol car fires can be extinguished with a portable extinguisher if you are lucky. But electric car fires, leave them alone. They seal the cars in special water-filled containers and leave them alone for two weeks. There are reports that even after the two weeks, when the car was retrieved from the water, the fire started again on it’s own. Firefighters really hate electric vehicles”.

I’m not from the US and so it’s officially not my business. But from what I’ve seen around the webs is that he has gathered a loyal following all around the US. Seems he has enough loyals on his side to stay in the race. But I don’t know a lot about the political system in the US. Excuse me if I’m wrong here.

Super R-Type. I was about 5 I guess.