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didn't expect myself to be in the top 1.03%, as i only joined in 2020. which is 6 years ago. holy shit. maybe pasting a huge lorem ipsum or ai-word-slop in here would put me in the glorious top 1%!

> It's the Europeans who want us to ship more weapons to Ukraine.

well, you chose the one "good" example, where weapons are actually used for defense against a different Imperialist. what about the money going towards the Palestinian Genocide? what about other wars/invasions/operations, started or backed by Democrats/Bi-Partisan support.

> California is considering a wealth tax

a one-time tax of 5% on the net worth of residents with over $1 billion, bunch of commies! some decades ago, wealth tax was a high, double-digit number.

even so, do you think a one-time 5% wealth tax is enough to be called very left-wing?

unrelated tangent, sorry. i agree with your comment, just ranting/venting about a detail.

> a very left-wing state such as California.

seeing any US state being described as "very left-wing" is interesting to me, think it just shows how different these views are depending on who you ask. i'd describe California as Centrist. sure, socially open, no issue with sexuality or heritage. but also, free markets, corpo power, $$$, generally pro-system. the Orange is disliked heavily, but after all it's not the system which is the problem, it's the Orange!

> The userbase here is considerably further left

can't agree, from my own experiences of discussing political topics on here. again, socially open, free minds, sure. but positive towards Silicon Valley, VC-funding, investments and a general lean towards Imperialism(for freedom, of course, not the bad kind). yes, overtly racist comments get downvoted until they're dead.

"further left than very left-wing" could be the description of an anarcho-communist, self-hosted mastodon instance, not a US state.

to end on a funny note, https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQAfP-2...

sorry for being pedantic, and maybe wrong. please show me y'alls POV, i'm not saying that i'm right, it's just kind of my opinion, man.

a bit ironic to recommend a "socially responsible" ETF, managed by the one and only UBS.

but you're right, i forgot that my socially responsible bank claims to have socially responsible ETFs. i just hope that they are actually socially responsible, and not "socially responsible".

lots of things claim to be socially, ecologically or otherwise responsible, but that's exactly my issue. they're claims, most of the time just [insert color]washing.

if you get caught in high-school fake-clearing your TI, you may get a failed grade for this specific exam and/or detention.

if you get caught doing an illegal activity in an authoritarian dictatorship, you face fines and/or prison time or death.

of course we can compare these situations to use them as light analogies, but i think that's about where the comparison ends. or in other words, of course you can 1:1 compare situations if you completely dismiss the potential consequences.

having the spirit to free yourself from fascism is needed, but you may get shot while trying to flee to safety or while being pinned to the ground, defenseless.

> Invest your money (e.g. world passive mutual fund, or VT ETF).

i despise stock markets, investments etc., so i just kind of have accepted that i'll probably never grow my money passively. from time to time i stumble across advice like yours, talking about ETFs, and feel a bit left out again.

money just sits in my bank account with close to 0% interest. i know that ETFs would slowly generate more money, but i also know that my money would then be invested in a ton of companies i absolutely don't want to be a part of, even when considering that my sums would be a drop in an ocean.

For people who like The Big Lebowski, there's "The Tao of the Dude"

https://dudeism.com/taoofthedude/

Sports Betting Scandals have been a thing for probably almost as long as sports exist, i don't get why you think that this was a thoughtcrime 10 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting#Famous_betting_...

wouldn't surprise me to find out that even cavemen were manipulating outcomes of stone-throwing contests to earn some more meat.

It appears you are missing any cursory ethics courses.

after reading all of these mastodon threads and gists, something really irks me.

this ptorrone guy acts in some pretty questionable ways and constantly uses his wife and kids as a shield. if someone gets harassed out of nowhere and their kids or spouses are being dragged into it, then that's truly a horrible, shitty thing to do. but to be involved in and start flame-wars, doxxing campaigns and more and then constantly having to mention that you have a newborn when people push back sounds pretty manipulative.

smacks someone on their neck, "don't hit me back, man, i got kids and a wife!"

US would probably have a large impact as well, of course because lots of internet-users are from the US, but also because the US likes to astroturf as well.

tiny example: https://web.archive.org/web/20160406094911/http://www.reddit..., Most addicted city (over 100k visits total) Eglin Air Force Base, FL

let's not lose ourselves in cold-war propaganda too much and act like russians and chinese are the only ones astroturfing online.

if you buy plain, unsweetend Yogurt, then yes. can even buy some probiotic Yogurt to help digestion etc.

sweetened Yogurt with fruit or chocolate or caramel or whatever on the other hand is basically a dessert and not particularly healthy.

> sometimes I just sit down and look at my phone and food turns up.

i mean it's your experience so it must work, maybe it also differs between countries - absolutely no chance that i could order take-out food and get it delivered to me for less money than buying the groceries myself and cooking it at home :O

(at the start of the pandemic it was almost doable because deliveries were way cheaper and everyone started doing it, but nowadays delivery has become pretty expensive. kind of like airbnb, start out cheap and over the years add a couple of bullshit fees).

i had diamond and cobalt in mind, i'm sure that this doesn't apply to every type of mine. but you can't deny that this isn't a current, imperialist strategy. soft colonialism.

my younger brother called me once, which was unusual, so i immediately answered. he was crying, which was new to me as well, and told me that our mom's laptop he had been using to game on was hacked, and that he was now being extorted live in a discord call.

asked him to shutdown the laptop immediately and add me to the call, to which he replied, "they sent me our postal code and told me if i told anyone or turned the laptop off, they're going to send someone to hurt me."

that's when i realized why he was panicking so much, to me who was 10 years older that was an obvious scare-tactic, he was a young, naive teenager so he was legitimately scared for his life.

was able to calm him down, he added me to the call, and turned the laptop off. i was surprised that the hackers in question were 3-4 french teenagers, incredibly rude and aggressive. they didn't care that they weren't able to ruffle my feathers, they just constantly asked for bitcoins, said they'd hurt our mom etc.

when i refused and just didn't engage they started posting our mom's tax returns and other files from her laptop, that's when i realized that they did indeed exfiltrate data.

immediately packed my bags and took the next train to meet mom and brother. we spent the afternoon rotating e-banking passwords etc.

while doing this, the hackers did try to login to her paypal and they actually got into my netflix account.

turned the wifi off at home to boot the laptop back up, wanted to try to retrace their steps. i did find out what kind of stealer they used and was able to sleaze my way into a secret discord server they used to organize, but it was temporary and they had already left. so i just wiped the laptop and reinstalled windows.

apparently these guys had promised my brother to optimize his PC so that Fortnite would run better, he let them connect via AnyConnect or TeamViewer, don't exactly remember. they did some legit debloating stuff etc., but also let a stealer run in the background. apparently these guys had spent some weeks in the discord server my brother was in to establish trust.

to this day i haven't felt as much rage again. seeing my young brother in such a distressed state, realizing that all of my mom's data, childhood pictures etc. were stolen made me angry to a point i've never felt, i legitimately wanted to find out who these guys were and hurt them as much as i could. of course we all calmed down again and realized there's nothing we could do other than rotate PWs and observe logins.

police said there's nothing they could do (didn't expect it anyways, but worth a try), discord ignored me when i reported the hacker's accounts. typing this out again makes me angry again, interestingly enough. it's been two years, almost forgot that this ever happened.

it could help that our country is pretty small, rich, and has about the same population size as New York City :)

but i do agree, Swiss Post is great. live-tracking while they're delivering, nice app which shows you all info etc.

why go to the trouble of building and maintaining mines in your expensive western country if you can just take all the minerals from african mines, while also getting the profits of these mines. no worries about salaries, no one cares when workers die by the dozens, ...

oh, oops, thanks for correcting me in that case! turns out i know even less about that stuff than i thought...

Fedora Atomic and RHEL used to ship with rpm-ostree, new versions are now using bootc. the base philosophy is still to ship the OS as an image, but bootc goes more into layering like docker-images, so that you can deploy changes a bit more easily/dynamically.

they're different technologies with bootc being the new kid. bootc means "bootable containers". rpm-ostree has not much to do with containers and is more like managing your OS with git-logic.

forget about "imagemode", that's the marketing-term RedHat uses for bootc.

i imagine bazzite will migrate to bootc sooner or later, but of course that requires a new way to build and ship it.

> rpm-ostree is a PITA

yup...at first i thought, "at work i have to manage rpm-ostree servers, so why not use the same tech at home?", well, because the tech is freaking buggy, annoying and deprecated already (imagemode/bootc).

Bazzite also had strange issues with the XBOX controllers i use, those issues went away with CachyOS. in the end it doesn't matter that much, on both i use(d) KDE Plasma. GF also uses the PC with her own useraccount to play her games. overall very satisfied, can't complain.

don't lynch me, decided to go for the pretty standard instead of Sway or Hyprland, as i feared that this would bring more issues with gaming. maybe that's an irrational fear, who knows.

yeah! like some kind of virtual box you can drop your files into...

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

> the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC

even this has gone away for me, exited first with Bazzite and am now on CachyOS. Still got a debloated Windows11 on a different SSD for when friends want to play games with kernel-level anticheat or other bs.

feels good to be free of Microsoft. work on a Mac, game on Linux, phones run Android.

i think it's the by now internet-meme worthy difference between walls in the US compared to most of Europe. i've never lived somewhere which didn't have thick brick or concrete walls. 30cm was a bit high, more like 20cm.

i've seen tons of americans making holes in their walls by punching or falling into them. could never relate myself, i'd have a broken hand or concussion :D

my phone is not very powerful, maybe that's a factor.

One of the new ones. Or I guess old ones? I mean I bought it new from Core Devices / RePebble, but it's the OG model. Pebble 2 Duo.

Ah I see, your model gives more details in a simple way. The one I bought is veeery barebones[0], I basically have to stop what I'm doing and look at the watch for a couple of seconds to figure out approximately what time it is...

> I just can't justify "yet another watch"

Same, there's a watch I find absolutely beautiful[1] since years, but it costs around 3.5k, could never justify spending that much for a watch.

The other two watches you posted are interesting, fun to meet another person who likes cheap and/but quirky watches. Took longer than I'd like to admit to understand how the SHENGKE works :D

Since getting my RePebble a couple weeks ago I haven't worn another watch.

[0]https://svalbard.watch/pages/Svalbard_Singly_AA29.html

[1]https://www.longines.com/de-ch/p/watch-longines-master-colle...

> a "Svalbard" single hand automatic

nice, so i'm not the only one with a single hand Svalbard watch :D one day i thought "i wonder if there's a watch with one hand and 24h", pretty soon landed on the Svalbard website and ordered one. i must say that i rarely wear it as it's pretty hard to get an accurate time reading from it, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of a watch.

but i did get lots of comments when wearing it...

perfect, thanks :) amusing to play a bootlegged version of a free game...

even a small country like Switzerland uses its highways to land fighterjets[0], wouldn't be weird to me if the US with their humongous highways uses them for the same reason. difference is that the swiss have to remove the middle crash barriers before landing, so less spontaneous.

[0]https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-air-force-lands-fighter-p...

also probably depends on the building you live in.

not trying to start a flame-war, but i can imagine that you get quite some range in the US, if you live in one of those cardboard-inner-walls houses.

in the 30cm thick solid wall apartment i live in my pebble looses connection the next room over, i almost need line-of-sight for it to work. working at my desk, get up, walk 5 meters to the bathroom, watch looses connection.

maybe my smartphone has a weak bluetooth receiver, compared to other models, who knows...