KokusnussRitter

As someone who still hasn't painted all of the 10 sisters I got for christmas 3 years ago, I feel 6 figures a month is very respectable.

Der Planet hat doch ne Delle. Können wir den noch umtauschen?

Neat :D

I don't think you need to get yourself banned. Tell them you will make the switch, and when you'll make it. You don't need to explain yourself any further or make excuses.

Enkel Trick umdeuten, sich aneignen. Ich bin stolz auf dich Hans-Jürgen.

I can't put into words how much I appreciate a link that does not lead to YT.

With tech it's about convenience imo. I am privacy-concious, trying to avoid services like google, but a game's EULA? scrolls to the bottom Accepted. Do Russians mine bitcoins on my machine? Is Unity surveilling me? Who knows.

Then of course these brands put a lot of effort into strengthening consumer loyalty. Make their stores a nice place to be, offer plans especially to minors, so they get used to their products and eco-systems early on. For example Google's ChromeOS laptops in schools. They are cheap and... well... are cheap.

But overall, I think consumers do not realize what they are buying because many buy impulsively, or simply don't know or care about the impact of their purchases. And to some degree, who can blame them? Who has the energy to sort through anything in the grocery store and determine which products are produced through slavery, animal cruelty, stealing the local population's water, aren't sourced locally etc. Because at that point, there's probably nothing left.

The moment you try to min max the economy will fall apart. Replicate new PC parts? Cool, but now intel/AMD/Nvidia will go bankrupt, no more development. So I guess you could min-max the economical revolution. Capitalism doesn't appear to make sense in a world with near endless access to anything.

Personally I'd get heaps of food and water

I hate that by now, I have found a way for capitalist to bill you anyways.

Yep... the *-locale-en still was around for firefox and thunderbird. Thanks :)

Kinda surprised I haven't seen it here: Die Känguru-Chroniken by Marc-Uwe Kling. It's about a Kleinkünstler (argh!) living together with a communist kangaroo. They get up to all kind of nonsense whilst the book satirical looks at german culture and politics. It's quite popular. The sentences are often pretty short and straight to the point as are the chapters, so you can pace it quite well. If you like the style of the books and would like to practice your listening comprehension, I can also recommend the audio book, read by the author himself. His voice-acting takes it to a whole new level.

I also got me one of those degoogled Fairphones

That's cool. I had no idea fairphones could be degoogled. What OS is it using? Lineage/Graphene or something else entirely?

I think hybrid is the way to go. You won't connect with your peers online the way you do irl, and I it's healthy to leave home from time to time. I also work better in a dedicated office space versus at home.

But as a student in an IT related field: God do I hate the uni pcs. They. would. not. run. unity. once. because of some obscure bug with my user profile and I had to waste my lecturers and my time switching users, trying to install the right version every single lesson. For two semesters I could not parttake. On my own PC at home I could have fixed that within minutes because admin rights and decent internet. Heck, I even asked the IT department if I could have admin rights which they denied, quite understadably. Sorry this turned a bit into a rant.

But cutting commute time and getting up shortly before lecture sure is nice :3