menemen

menemen , 1 month ago

Worst are the meetings of international work groups. Stressful travel, being away from the family for days, sitting in a shitty meeting room talking about the same shit you talk about online and then sitting with a bunch of people getting senseless drunk, cringing constantly. I hate those meetings.

Used to be so awesome during corona. Took 4-6 hours, comfortably sitting in my home office, now it takes 3 days costing maybe 50,000€, instead of 0€, without more results.

menemen , 1 month ago

I mean, beards are in fashion for several years now, aren’t they?

I personally started growing a beard, because my skin is easily irritated and I don’t like walking arround looking like a pizza. Luckily I also think I look better with a short, well kept full beard. Beards either take time or look like shit though in my experience.

menemen , 1 month ago

I still have my 3310, but lost the charger. So I don’t know if it is still working.

My children now use what is basically a cheap 3310 copy (also from Nokia, no internet).

menemen , 1 month ago

Lol thanks. But I am in Germany. :)

menemen , 1 month ago

Me, I have no idea what this is about.

menemen , 1 month ago

Took 12 upvotes for the answer. Thank you.

menemen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I managed to almost completly keep my children away from it for now (8 and 10). But it is a struggle. And I will soon lose that struggle. So many children at age 8 or 9 have smartphones for fs sake.

I plan to slowly introduce them to stuff like this, so they will be able to deal with it. I did so rather successfully with the other bullshit, like Roblox. They are only allowed to play it when I am in the room, and I check that they follow that rule (they do).

Feels like walking on the edge though. Still unsure when to open the TikTok thing. Too early is bad, but too late and they will somehow already he on tiktok and I just don’t know about it.

menemen , 1 month ago

I’d add the “have clear rules” concept to this and enforce the rules. Don’t be wishy washy. But communicate the rules and be prepared to explain the rules.
But also accept that theory and practice are not the same. Imo you should allow them enough, that they don’t isolated from their friends experiences. That is why I allow them to play Roblox under supervision or why I set up a Minecraft Server so that they can play online with their friend in a safe environment (but only on weekends for a fixed time period).

menemen , 1 month ago

I hope those people seek further help (just google sucide prevention). Not having a gun is not sufficient suicide prevention.

menemen , 1 month ago

For 200-250$ you can get very decent used compact cameras (like the RX 100). It won’t upload the photos immediatly, but it is still pretty much on par with most current cell phones.

menemen , 1 month ago

There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist. BUT: when a fascist psychopath gets support among important figures of the industrial and financial sector, that is when you should start to panic.

menemen , 1 month ago

I am not contradicting you, but added my thoughts to your argument. I just started this by summarizing the parts of your argument to which I wanted to add.

menemen , 2 months ago

Here in Germany all mainstream radio djs share the same folder with the same 50 songs they play all day long. I hate radio (except some information stations and some local non-commercial stations, so much bullshit, but occasionally pure gold).

menemen , 2 months ago

We don’t get that here. And if I set up listening over the internet, I got better things than radio. :) Radio is more the “I am too lazy to care” fallback option for very short trips.

But thanks. Might still give it a try.

menemen , 2 months ago

I hate tiktok. I am not from the US, but banning the app that is most popular among young people while raiding dozens of university campuses? Don’t sound like a great way to get young people trust the system…

menemen , 2 months ago

Imagine telling your insurance about your newest purchase.

menemen , 2 months ago

Gender neutral word for shitting.

menemen , 2 months ago

The US at least has some degree of control over Microsoft. How much worse is that the EU is still not developing an own OS/distro?

menemen , 2 months ago

Yeah, that was a shame. But I really think we’d need a shared OS for all administration units of the EU (from EU level down to munipiality levels). Would be much easier as the private sector could also adjust to it.

menemen , 2 months ago

I am not talking about a OS for the general public, but specifically for the administration.

And this will work much better with a unified attempt. If the EU would think taking OpenSuse for this, this would basically be the end of OpenSuses independence… I’d like it to be GNU/Linux based though.

menemen , 2 months ago

Don you maybe have a mushroom consultation in your town? Don’t know where you are from, but in Europe many countries have them and they can help you not to kill yourself.

menemen , 2 months ago

Dumb phone exist. My children got their dumb phones when they started walking to school on their own (so they can call us in case of a problem).

No internet, only 4 harmless games and I can control which numbers are allowed to call them and which numbers they are allowed to call.

menemen , 2 months ago

13 years. :)

If he’d just say “It is over, no more books.” people would just move on. But him constantly stating that he’ll publish “next year” for 10 years years or so now is really annoying.

menemen , 2 months ago

It is pretty comparable tbh. It is also the same for Elders scroll fans. Before Skyrim and before A Dance with Dragons both published constantly and both started publishing on the mid 90s, both published 5 times, both started publishing side project stuff.

Elders Scroll fans have it somewhat better though, not depending on a single person, who also isn’t the youngest.

I am also an Elder Scroll fan since Arena btw, so I am quite f…d.

menemen , 2 months ago

True to a degee, but too many international journalists still depend on that plattform. Makes it hard to ditch it completly, until finally one of the alternatives really pick up.

menemen , 2 months ago

Let’s hope. But they have to change the way that likes are shown. It always feels lonely over there.

menemen , 2 months ago

I am nit a big Matrix fan, so maybe my knowledge about the films (I saw 1 and 2, both only once) might be too limited. But I completely fail to understand the symbology.

menemen , 2 months ago

The Character Switch was originally supposed to be a man in the real world and a woman when plugged in to the matrix.

This would have been a clear symbol.

menemen , 2 months ago

Yeah, but aren’t his hands crazy large?

menemen , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’d tip the developers, but not the shareholders or execs who treat the developers like slaves…

menemen , 2 months ago

While I have nothing against a “maximum wage”, the wealth tax is much more important.

menemen , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The power is sadly not “fake”, but very real.

Anyone working in e.g. public infrastructure will be very much able to assure you, how much power money brings and it gets worse with rising levels of political structures.

menemen , 2 months ago

What about Adolf Borts H.?

menemen , 2 months ago

Probably the odd restroom and some storage rooms?

menemen , 2 months ago

“How intensive gun usage solved my commute problems!”

menemen , 2 months ago

Wouldn’t that basically just be the same as “deleting the wifi password from the TV”?

menemen , 2 months ago

Didn’t say we used to be better. We’ve always been a shitshow.

menemen , 2 months ago

Hey, I have a profile picture now. :)

menemen , 2 months ago

Impressive!

menemen , 2 months ago

Thank you.

menemen , 2 months ago

Depends on whatever psychological profile google has created for you I guess. Currently mine is mostly about exotic guns, because I found that fascinating for a while. I don’t own any guns and I am not a supporter of lax gun laws. But google does google things.

menemen , 2 months ago

I am not a native english speaker. But according to the dictionary lax meand loose or casual. Is it uncommon?

menemen , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I don’t really like it, but it can defintly be used as a dumb assistant. E.g. if you want to write an email or a small script to analyze some data, you can tell it what you need, specify the details, take the results, correct them and then use the results. You still have to do much of the work, but if you do it correctly you’ll save time. BUT: It’ll save all of that. Don’t do this with sensitive data and don’t do this for work without official permission of the employer.

menemen , 2 months ago

Yes, I know. I used a notebook with a 950 before and it worked perfectly fine. But with this new one I get too many error messages for now under Linux, many games and other stuff that worked pefectly fine on Linux on my old 2016 model Notebook, didn’t work at all and the only thing I could find out is that this are some driver problems. I decided to wait a while and try again. No time for a neverending odysee of tinkering nowadays. I will try Kubuntu next month, hoping the newer Kernel will take care of my problems and if it works probably move to Linux Mint 23 later on.

menemen , 2 months ago

We still use Win 10 at work. I prefer any Debian based Distro, but the differences between 10 and 11…

menemen , 2 months ago

Neither?

menemen , 2 months ago

Having 50 sex. partners in 4 years really doesn’t sound healthy.

menemen , 2 months ago

Everyone is different, but is defintly a health risk, both physically and mentally (not only for women, also for men).