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Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Buuf cursor store.kde.org/p/1249129/ because I like a cursor that is good looking and easy to see (unlike the default camouflaged dark cursor) and it fits with Buuf icons store.kde.org/p/1305826/

I’m using a dark Kvantum theme that I customized with dark red highlights.

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Nobody ever asks about gaps on my CV. They always turn me down, list some bullshit reasons, like not enough experience and end with “and then there are some gaps on your cv so yeah”

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

I was sent to German countryside once for work and had to eat at a restaurant. The cheapest meal was already totally expensive. Some potatoes and green stuff. Not worth it.

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

VideoDownloadHelper + Fmovies?

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Not everywhere in Europe

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I thought the foundation’s shady capitalist goals were pretty well known, not sure why you’re downvoted. They are against releasing patent on the covid vaccine, for example, because their goal is for people to profit from it

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Look for QMMP, a Winamp clone.

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

It sucks when headphones run out of battery, especially on a long trip

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

For dinner 6.30 seems very late to me imo

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Sounds fancy, where are you where that’s normal? We usually eat dinner after coming back from work, and maybe coffee and snacks in the evening around 8.30.

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Aren’t you all at work/school around that time?

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Interesting idea. It sounds like a lot of extra work though

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

I’m usually starving at the end of my workday so I couldn’t imagine having to wait that long

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

I used to rely on news feeds through Firefox until they suddenly removed this feature. I switched to an RSS reader but around the same time, a lot of websites started dropping their RSS feeds. I’m out of the loop of why this happened and it’s probably one reason I feel so bored being online nowadays

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Feeds can be set up to just show part of the article so you’d still have to visit the site to read it all, which seems a better solution than losing the traffic completely. I’ve deleted many sites that just stopped their RSS at some point and I just kind of forgot about them.

Also, why can’t sponsored texts be added to RSS? It seems to me this would be hard to block by adblockers (and I’ll probably unsubscribe, but still).

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I keep hearing about Google being part of the downfall but I honestly never heard of Google Reader until long after it got closed down. How was this different than other RSS readers?

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Maybe consider using a launcher for that, like albertlauncher (Linux) or ueli (Windows).

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

I’m not really familiar with Gnome

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

And you can set a keybind to switch to previous/next item so you could do something like ctrl+, ctrl+v

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Being imprisoned in school in name of education is already miserable though

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Why, am I being too controversial? I don’t believe the only possible alternative to child labor is schooling and definitely not in the way it is done today.

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I had a look and it so happens there are 2 properties for sale within a few hundred meters from me.

€ 200,000 for a one room apartment of 46 m²

€ 560,000 for a large apartment with balcony

The nearest house costs a bit over € 1.2 million.

I got lucky with a cheap apartment ~40m² for € 662/month (which is almost as much as minimum wage here btw). Renting till I die I guess 🤷

Fleppensteijn , 9 months ago

Swiping sucks, this is vow or loss when I swipe without namely correcting everything

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Quit my job and find a place where I can live off 1000 a month

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

I’ve traveled on far less than a 1000 eur a month. With that kind of money, I can still save up.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Paypal is the worst.

I wanted to link a card to Paypal but it just kept saying I couldn’t transfer money to it. Support said they could see there was a block on it which would resolve after 72 hours. Weeks later I finally get a response: adding a card is not supported in your country. Why do they let me add a card and then lie to me?

I get some side cash in a foreign currency but have no way to get the money out without being charged a crazy fee

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

For tinnitus this helps me: audionotch.com/app/tune/

Otherwise, maybe browse with tor and download with torsocks and youtube-dl?

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

It depends on how the video is embedded and which format it is.

• You can try to open Page Info (CTRL+I) > Media tab and see if you can find the video there (Firefox).
• Sometimes you can right click and open frame in new window, which then allows you to save it (you may need to enable dom. event. contextmenu in about:config if they block right click)
• Get the VideoDownloadHelper addin (Firefox)

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Do they? Maybe it’s more unpleasant because they’re expensive

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Boredom. At least I’ll die one day. A hat may be stuck in some cupboard until it slowly decays over thousands of years.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

In Europe too. It already looked like fall in early August. It’s because of the heat.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Yes 🤦‍♂️

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Isn’t it the opposite? Nobody would give out their real name online until Facebook came along and normalized it. Google then forced your personal Gmail email account to be your account for everything as well.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

A lot of companies get large investments from investors. Investors generally have a lot of stake in real estate.

Probably the same reason why small startups get fancy offices in the city center as soon as they get their investments, but there’s no budget for salaries.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

It depends on your location whether you need a VPN. I’m good without it. If you want to pay, maybe you can pay for usenet instead.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Switch from bash to zsh and make it look nice – dev.to/…/oh-my-zsh-powerlevel10k-cool-terminal-1n…Also replace ls with exa and cat with batcat. Remember you can set aliases in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.

If you like customization, I’d recommend KDE. If you like customizing keyboard stuff, you can customize your keyboard layout here: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. Also look into espanso for text expansion.

If you have an Android phone, get KDE Connect.

If you need new software, check apt search if it’s in there.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

I don’t need office much but when I do, I hate that I can never find what I’m looking for in that stupid ribbon. I also don’t know any good MS Access alternative.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

My banking apps use hundreds of megabytes for very little functionality and one bank actually uses Facebook trackers so there could be some truth to this. The only problem is that it would be illegal.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

When in the Netherlands, I once had to apply for government benefits. They had to scrutinize all my bank transactions for a full year in the process. I’ve heard they need it for 5 years now. I started using ATMs more, saving up cash, in case I need to go through such a process again.

I do use card almost always now since it’s touchless but I’m not willing to give up cash.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

I’d be happy if there is a way to block webshops. You can block e.g. Amazon but then there will be another shop in its place.

I wasn’t so happy with Searx but I think I’ll have a look at SearXNG if blocking is an option

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Actually, yes. I uninstalled Gboard and went back to Samsung’s keyboard but it doesn’t help much

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

If they can work remote on the other days, there’s no reason they can’t work remote those 3 days. I just turned down a job offer for the same reason. Especially Google should be able to offer remote work.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Every time I’m in a plane, I get leg pain. I don’t know where people put their legs and be comfortable. Once I was up for 50 hours at least, got a bunch of beer on the plane and still couldn’t sleep.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

I disagree. There are large groups of (lower class) people who consume mostly American media, e.g. through Facebook and it does have an effect. American politics are copied in Europe.

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

It’s chilled, so choghurt

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

This Fool and Futurama have new seasons

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

Whether someone spends their personal resources to copy a medium digitally or physically doesn’t really matter to the copyright holder or author. They won’t get paid either way

Fleppensteijn , 10 months ago

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