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Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

It’s strange how I’ve seen this exact claim before. How many expats do you know? I know a bunch of expats and there are quite a few Asian people in the expat community.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

People coming over for work/business: expats.

Unemployed people migrating to look for a better life or job: (im)migrants.

That’s how I understood it.

I’m kind of in between. I’m not an expat, but immigrant doesn’t sound right neither. I just call myself a foreigner.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

At least it takes away one reason for undercover German police to annoy foreigners with their “random” drug tests

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

They make you empty your pockets and pat you down.

They look like gangsters claiming to be police, don’t even show a badge until you ask for it, they want all your stuff, like your wallet, to search through it.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

It would at least help if they stop assuming the only reason a foreigner from the free west would come through Germany is to sell weed.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Yes, I didn’t spend a lot of time in Germany but it happened several times. I traveled by train and they claim the train stations are where people do their business

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Not at all :) But I suppose it was obvious I was a tourist

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

I never see kids playing outside. There are parks, fields, forests around where I live.

Over time I learned there are actually kids living in my apartment building but I have no clue what they do all day. It’s kind of depressing.

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

Playgrounds are fenced off and parents constantly stay within 2 steps of their helmet wearing kids here in Czech Republic. When those kids are older than toddler age, they disappear from public life.

It’s not like that in my home country where maybe they just sit around playing with their phones, but at least they’re outside with friends.

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

Yes, for some reason shrubs and plants are ripped out more and more. Lots of nice areas are now just empty patches of grass. Not sure about the homeless but it is much harder now to find a place to pee in private if you’re outside a lot

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

It happened before: computers, internet, smartphones, other machines were invented, productivity has only give up. And yet, we’re still working 8 hours per day (and earning less than before).

AI will get people fired. More people need work = lower salaries, more profit.

It would be great if we could all just work less, but they won’t let that happen.

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

I’d say site blocking is SearXNG’s main selling point. (I switched when it got recommended to me on Lemmy :-).) Blocking just a few annoyances (Amazon, Pinterest, etc) make the search results so much better and relevant.

Also, Google is plagued by censorship.

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

It’s a reoccurring internet discussion you can google. The rest of the world thinks Americans wear shoes inside, even on their beds, because that’s what we see in US movies/series, and Americans always deny they’d ever do such a thing.

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

One thing that’s different out that there is no such thing as not being able to pay for health insurance. You are required by law to be insured. This also means the government mostly covers it for you if you can’t.

You may have to pay out of pocket for the first few hundred euros when something happens, but insurance covers the rest. There’s no way a person’s life savings would disappear overnight because of a medical issue. I’d rather die than pay what I sacrificed 30+ years to save up for.

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

I may be somewhere in the middle. I see students around me traveling the world like it’s nothing, eating and drinking out all the time… Maybe they’re doing something right. I’m saving up half of my salary every month but for what? It’s never enough to own my own home and I’ll never retire anyway. Maybe having a little luxury right now instead of saving for an unknown isn’t that bad.

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

(Paywall, can’t read – but) I spend over 8 hours per day working before I have time for cooking, shopping, cleaning etc. It’s around 9pm when my life begins. Who has time to sleep early?

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

This is not piracy. We’ve always been allowed to record e.g. radio and TV for personal use.

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

The Netherlands had a tax on blank CDs to “compensate” authors, essentially legalizing piracy (until the EU changed the rules).

Fleppensteijn , 4 months ago

I do the same but I’m using the Tabstash add-on to organize the tabs

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

It sucks to go through “prove you are human” screens that seem to time out half the time. Even worse when they put RSS feeds behind this Cloudflare wall

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

There was a warez site that politely asked to click their ads to support them, which I did. This was around the year 2000, adblocking nor user tracking were really a thing.

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

Wouldn’t it show the icon of an executable file and ask if you want to open it or execute it?

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

My colleagues also like to shun me, which shouldn’t be a problem working remotely, but all the people who come to the office and have connections just got their promotions. Working hard and being good at your job are just not as important as being loud and knowing people. I just had a short holiday and I just can’t get my motivation to work anymore since I’m back.

So I’ll just keep slacking off and look for other opportunities in the meantime or maybe they’ll fire me at some point and I’ll have some time to travel or something.

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

I tried using it for a while and kept saying I’m not interested in this topic on nearly everything, but Google News just keeps being shit. Can’t even call it news mostly.

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

When I turned 18, I got a letter saying I would have gotten drafted if a war would break out while I was still under 30.

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

Not too recent, it must have been around 2003.

Fleppensteijn , 5 months ago

For me it’s like any other day. I wouldn’t mind working for the double holiday pay.

Fleppensteijn , 6 months ago

I like appimages because I can install them where I want and you can just make a symlink in the bin folder.

Fleppensteijn , 6 months ago

FYI It seems like at least the US government doesn’t want you to go there. So if Fmoviesz is down or something, you should be careful to avoid alternatives such as sflix.to, lookmovie2.to, flixtorz.to, sflix.to, movieuniverse.se, soap2dayto.day.

Fleppensteijn , 6 months ago

If there’s a delivery, they usually call so you have time to get dressed and get down (because it’s always easily in the morning). That’s normal for package delivery, at least. I’ve never ordered food though.

Fleppensteijn , 6 months ago

lossless-music.org

Fleppensteijn , 6 months ago

So you have a dirty crack, you got to get up, and waddle through the bathroom with pants on your ankles?

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

Essentials: DiskUsage, Total Commander

Music Folder Player - just a good music player that plays files in a folder instead of scraping all audio files from wherever as many players seem to do nowadays

Syncthing - to sync files with other devices

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

You can disable right click hijacking with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled in about:config, I don’t think you need an extension for that

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

I’m getting bored with my smartphone. Stuff like YouTube I never watch on my phone anyway, but imo YouTube has gotten much worse over time and I barely watch it at all now.

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

By law, apartments like mine should have one, so I guess there may be one somewhere. If there would actually be a fire, I wouldn’t know where to look though

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

Showrss.info, the news, some comics from Reddit and a few YouTube channels and some blogs.

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

As far as I know, European banks never give you the option for balance inquiry. ATMs in e.g. Asia may give the option but it won’t work with a European bank card.

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

Not with my ING account

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

Browsers will grow with cache and settings etc.

I’m more curious about mobile apps in general. I had to install Microsoft Authenticator to log in to my work account and it costs 165 MB. It sucks because disk space is so limited

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

Nah, I had my own authenticator (Aegis) until MS decided you can only use theirs

Fleppensteijn , 7 months ago

It started nagging I need to switch to Microsoft’s authenticator but it was skippable for a while until it wasn’t 🤷‍♂️. They apparently use their own method that other authenticators can’t imitate.

Fleppensteijn , 8 months ago

You probably have to boot to Windows first and let it finish the disk checking. Then make sure fast boot is turned off

Fleppensteijn , 8 months ago

That’s what Tribler is for

Fleppensteijn , 8 months ago

Often it’s not that great, but I believe it just needs more users to solve this

Fleppensteijn , 8 months ago

browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent - stop tabs from opening in weird places

media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture - stop those annoying pip videos

Nuke Anything - useful for getting rid of elements that are in the way

Multi-Account Containers

Decentraleyes

Fleppensteijn , 8 months ago

So if I have games that don’t run, installing Steam should help?

Fleppensteijn , 8 months ago

Maybe wait?

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