I’m reading this while sitting in a rather new electric Renault Zoë where the windows in the back are manual!

With those other good options the building owners are often against. They fear damage to building from roots or plants attaching directly to the facade, although there are many plants where that’s not an issue

The french have always been very chauvinist about their language. They do not like English, as they view french as an equally great world language. It was likely somehow obligated to have an English version, and subsequently a somewhat conscious choice by some employees or board of directors to not keep it stocked as well as the French version.

Also, it is over tourism. There are so many tourists people are sick of them. It’s not a french but a human thing. I’ve seen “touris raus” in Berlin too… The downside of raising housing prices etc are by a significant part of population valued more than the economic advantage of more local consumption (and I get that).

It’s not so black and white. Yes asshole behaviour. But also: the sidewalk is very narrow, there are many shops, people living in the neighborhood are likely to not have any garden or tiny balconies etc. The (other) real culprit is the street designer / city planner. You can see on the other side of the street that despite it being a very narrow, multimodal busy place… they did NOT sacrifice all (free?) streetside parking in favour of more “living space” for pedestrians. Likely recorded during heat wave, with unlivably overheated Appartments and not enough trees/parks in the area…

Wish I had the balls to scratch a little penis in the paintwork with my keys.

What I really do is make a picture (with visible license plate and added points for having a person in wheelchair with a sad face next to it) and send it to the city…

Does it matter who’s driving? It’s your car tank. Registered to your name. If you give the keys to someone else, you’re still responsible… unless you report it stolen. Is that really not a thing in Poland???

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When I see a drunk driver not able to hold a lane I feel threatened and I remember that literally forever… It must be down to mediacoverage, ads etc, because also while driving on the roads you see fucking dangerous shit all the time

500 € is the cheaper side of decent new bikes… Inflation is a bitch. Still, you can’t even buy only the tires of many cars for that price. It’s dirt cheap to cycle.

Bigger expectations = bigger disappointment

For me GTA peaked with the originals in 1997-1999 and had a nice little comeback in 2013. Hyperreality is not what I need in games…

99% of packaging that mentions "high protein!! have way less protein than various unprocessed nuts…

It shouldn’t be allowed to be pirated, it should just become open source/society’s property by default in that case. You don’t want to sell your digital only item or maintain it’s platform anymore? Fine, now everyone can have it.

Lidarr works okay-ish with soularr

I can’t give you a specific economists answer, but a general geopolitical one.

US $ is very valuable because USA rules the seas and the skies, with military and trade. Because USA is a massive economic powerhouse, industrially and specifically military industry. It’s also valuable because it is considered a very stable country and currency.

Trump undermines it ALL. An unused threatening jet and bomber carrying fleet just drifting in the Persian gulf able to strike anywhere was worth much more than a failed attempt to overthrow Iran government… A steadily increasing state debt is fine while economy and trade grows and if the debt is taken to increase a country’s infrastructure, Trump undermines it with tariffs and “investments” in his ballroom etc.

Bond buyers don’t necessarily expect to be paid back. The bond is a tradeable item on its own.

Bitcoin is shit in many ways, but no single orange madman can steer its value like he can the USD. There is imo basically a pretty strong correlation by now between *coin and gold/silver. Both are considered “always valuable”, especially in times of geopolitical and economic unpredictability. Bitcoin rises because many people consider it a safe haven. Wether that’s really so doesn’t matter as long as many people believe it. The same goes for gold or USD: it boils down to collective perception of the item. Trump has been pretty bad news the last 8 months for the USD in that regard. The less people trust in USA as a stable strong country and USD as a stable strong currency, the higher the price of public debt becomes: would you want to loan your capital to Trump and his policies? I wouldn’t. High ups in large international financial market players think increasingly similarly.

MSI cubi fanless with KDE Neon autologin to Plasma Bigscreen with Vacuumtube, steam big screen mode, jellyfin… Remote controller is a Rii F8 mini which has a few programmable IR buttons for the old dumb TV.

The future is now…

Ich sehe gar nichts mehr, meine Frau hat die Papierkarte auf dem Beifahrersitz aufgeschlagen, um nach einem Fluchtweg zu suchen

Aber es ist ne Kreisverkehr mit 3 Streife, du bist während das Manövre in der Mitte des Lochs eingesaugt, jetzt sind die abgeholte Pommes schon kalt, die Kinder schreien ohne Ende und du bist nicht sicher was passiert falls du da gefangen bist bis du keine Benzin mehr hast

It should have never been allowed for Facebook to take over WhatsApp and Instagram or Google taking over YouTube… It’s the opposite of what capitalism should be according to people who defend it: allowing such mega monopolies destroys the few benefits the free market has to offer. It stunts innovation and encourages enshittification and anti consumer vendor lock-in behaviour

Yes, immich sends all my pictures to the homeserver AND I can immediately see all my partners pictures pop up on my phone. Immich is very cool for that.

I too dislike that immich “scrambles” my pictures. I had it quite well organised over multiple decades (folders per year & location), but how well immich works seems worth losing this idea of organisational control over the collection. The immich duplicate detection for example is superb (it isn’t on nextcloud). It for example detects very easily that a 400kb sent or received picture is actually the same as a 4Mb much higher resolution original picture with a completely different filename and different metadata.

I still have my pictures collection organised old school from before immich on various back-up media and the hardest part to me now is deciding to keep that or convert it all to the “immich style” directory… Since it’s now very difficult to add new pictures to it without loads and loads of duplicates.

I did find the setting in immich which will somewhat still organise it in folders per month now, but it’s not the same, since a month often isn’t a logical grouping directory, for example if you go on holiday last week of December+ first week of January: pictures will still be spread across various folders.

My main downside on immich currently is that we can’t easily “share” metadata over a few different users (locations added later, recognised faces etc) although we share many faces/locations in pictures… It’s a hard choice wether I still want to make the few users all use the same account after all because of that (which will have other downsides like no personal private folder)