My solution is to have two boxes: one for things i might actually use (USB-C, HDMI, standard power cables), and one for things i’ll never use (micro USB power bricks). Keep both obviously

Rookie move. You need to keep the things and the cables together. My box of cables is purely for things i don’t own anymore, which is clearly the more sane solution

Yeah i don’t think it’s worth learning french for almost any reason, lots more people speak spanish

I’m in France and my cousin married an American.

Cost of living is high and the language is bullshit, but the standards of living are some of the best in the world. Very old established democracy and rule of law, workers rights, social security, and whatever the complete opposite of political apathy is. Culture is rich with a disproportionate level of global relevance for the country’s size. The location is ideal in the middle of europe, with a good variety of landscapes and climate.

Internet is cheap and fast, but i don’t know anything about the state of tech jobs.

I don’t know much about the tax system either but my assumption is you might save money just on the healthcare alone.

Overall i wouldn’t recommend, you’d be better off in a country with a language closer to english, such as most countries north of France. They’ll have better english proficiency and you’ll learn the language easier.

I was gonna say Tesla but he actually bought that company, and it doesn’t do as well anymore

I don’t think this is real. Not because it’s a crazy scenario, but because the aliens would definitely make a better simulation.

Frankly all i wanna do is escape this reality, so

It’s like a graveyard of companies that Microsoft has acquired over the years. Sharing files is one brand name (Sharepoint if i recall), making video calls is another name, planned events is another - every function has a brand name to it, which made me feel like these were the last remaining trace of long-absorbed companies.

But that’s just my recollection, i haven’t touched Teams since Covid

True, but this design philosophy is currently omnipresent in electric vehicles. I guess i shouldn’t say never, maybe someday they’ll make an electric Lada and i’d buy that in an instant

Imagine being in a burning car and needing the manual to open the doors. And then you can’t find it so you start googling “Tesla model S manual”, find a PDF, then start scrolling through it trying to find out how do you open the doors.

Here’s an idea, how about just make it so the handles mechanically open the damn doors? This is why i’ll never own an electric car, they’re full of bullshit like this where things are done electronically for absolutely no reason. I hate this fucking design phylosophy where everything has to be more complicated, less reliable and less functional.

I had to switch Mastodon instances because of leftist infighting.

There are no Taco Bells in my country but if this aired i’d take a flight to go burn one down.

Yeah. Israel gets to colonize Gaza, Putin gets Ukraine, and he doesn’t have to go to war with the USA because there’s a known russian asset as president.

I agree that Trump will end a couple of wars by making sure that the bad guys win them. Just surrender human rights and dignity, let white supremacist dictators take over, let a couple genocides happen, war prevented, great success.

Oh, and meanwhile poor people and LGBT are persecuted in America. Doesn’t matter, war prevented.

The stereotypical image of a Trump voter is an overconfident bully, but let this be proof that you can also vote Trump out of complete cowardice. I, recluse nerd, cannot comprehend being so pusillanimous that you put a dictator in power just because you’re scared.

The owner of my laundromat claims that it’s cheaper to do your laundry there than at home. At first i thought “of course a laundromat owner would say that”, but then he argued that his machines are more efficient than the ones we buy and that they are collectively heated.

I still think he’s fulll of shit because he only argued about energy costs, not including his rent taxes or profit; but it did get me thinking that it would be cheaper and more efficient to wash our clothes collectively.

Back then, this would have been a bold combination of emerging technologies.

I hear you, but unfortunately your username ends in .ml

I think we overrate the ability of the government to change the living conditions in a country. The government is only one factor among others, such as technology, geography, ecnomics, history, climate, and the accumulation of small choices made over decades.

Yeah, but everyone else around him does have clear goals and plans that they do want to accomplish. And they’re prepared this time, whereas they were kinda caught by surprise in 2016.

I’d come to that party.

What do you mean “again”? Name one period of history where people didn’t spit on the floor, leave trash around or inconvenience other people.

If he wants a world where everything is clean and everyone behaves, that’s not regression, that’s progress, he’d be making it a reality for the first time. The fact that he thinks people used to behave better in the past is quintessential conservative nostalgia goggles.

I don’t know, but Linux’s reputation is that it can probably be modded out.