Steely Dan. The worst part would be I won’t stop talking about the drum solo in Aja.

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The winning strategy for us who do not want to gamble but save some extra for our retirement is to stop looking at the daily values, and invest the same amount monthly to a low cost ETF, such as VUAA.

Now, the S&P 500 has been coming up about seven percent yearly if you look into it for a longer period of time. Repeating the monthly investment until you retire is a good way to get enough to retire comfortably.

Yeah, the perks of the Android ecosystem. There’s also a version for Android TV such as NVIDIA Shield. Again just works and filters out ads and sponsor segments.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

I’ve been using this one for years, which filters out ads and sponsor segments:

https://newpipe.net/

Only for Android though. If you use iOS, switch to Android and you’ll also get a really Firefox browser with ublock origin that blocks all the ads compared to that 30something% what every iOS browser does.

Rust and Cargo enters the room.

We’ve been using Linear in my latest company and it is actually quite good. No bullshit fast UI, boards, issues linking with Git, a support that can take a feature request that is often implemented in a week or two after asking it.

I run invidious at home on my proxmox server. The server is available everywhere with tailscale, so I can use it even when travelling. If Google ever blocks this, nobody at home can watch youtube anymore…

And LLM is mostly for investors, not for users. Investors see you “do AI” even if you just repackage GPT or llama, and your Series A is 20% bigger.

Upper middle class gays somewhere in Gilbert Arizona who just want to see their retirement savings to go zoink. You have your walled swimming pool and Trader Joe’s nearby.

At the same time Windows is going down the drain, so if you compare removed to that it definitely has an edge. And that 8GB Air is not that expensive either… And fanboy can tell you it can swap to SSD so fast blah blah…

But if you have the knowledge to use Linux, there are less and less reasons to go even near removed computers…

Yeah. Scary stuff. I live in central Berlin, and it’s pretty relaxed here. Did the Mauerlauf last weekend and immediately when you cross the Brandenburg border to some of these villages, they’re full of AfD advertisement. Berlin is definitely the Portland of Germany :D

Might be depending where you live. I never had issues finding all the parties and having a large network of friends without Meta apps.

I was born before computers were really a thing though, so maybe that has an effect on this. Now I don’t even realize without reading these threads that I miss something. Life is just fine without…

About 12 years for me without any Meta accounts. I talk with my mom using Signal, and have a very active group chat with friends on Signal too. A dozen of Matrix channels for nerd stuff, Akkoma and Lemmy for social feeds, the orange site and Lobsters for work, LWN and Phoronix for hobbies.

Enough for one day with these…

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tn-panel-twisted-nematic-definition,5767.html

Old thinkpads let you to save 20 euros to get a TN film panel to your company laptop. Great for bean counters, awful screens to look at. Never buy these, always get an IPS screen.

One rule of thumb is to be really sure it doesn’t have a tn film screen. IPS at least and even those were really bad up until T490 etc. X1 series has better screens, but you cannot upgrade almost anything to those.

The refurbished thinkpads you find are usually three years old after the companies who lease them buy new ones for the users.

You can do a lot of things with a three year old thinkpad…

dbg!(1) all the time…

It is very different outside Berlin too. But one of the reasons is how most of the clubs here are very queer friendly, and it is easier for people from different backgrounds to go there if they know their presence there is not leaked to their families from some photos.

I also noticed that underground parties in countries like Finland started to follow this trend. In these cases it is more to filter out cameras on dance floors which obviously makes the parties more fun when people are just not using their phones all the time.

This is what I really like about clubs in Berlin. When you get in, they put stickers to your phone’s cameras. If you take them out and try to take photos, or they see you removed the stickers when you get out, you need to delete all the photos you took in the club and you’re never again welcome to their premises. Makes also dancing there super fun because people really dance, not focus on taking a video of the DJ.