EU citizen. Interests: RPGs, board games, litrpg, alternative rock/metal, cycling, quality memes

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I love the sentiment and would love to see this working, but lets be realistic, It never will how things are now. Just a few things that comes to mind:

    • Companies and public services use social media sites for customer service.

    • Social media corporations are almost never held responsible for propaganda and any of the sick stuff they serve up on silver platter. Putting up an age warning Y/N window does nothing. They will still target 15 years or younger audiences.

    • People profit off other peoples data and corpos will fight hard not to loose a huge chunk of this money machine.

    • Social media sites only goal is to show you content and make you go through as many ads as possible. They will definetly not consider people under 15 and change their algorithms to make their product less appealing.

    • Parents are also addicted to social media, like what are the chances a kid of two chain smokers will also try cigarettes?

    • Probably a million other reasons…


  • My wifes old laptop died and I got an ancient gaming laptop from a colleague and put Linux Mint on it. It works great.

    She uses it for studying and some light gaming (Stardew Valley). It just works. She never used Linux before but had zero issues using it and she even said its just like Windows, just faster.








  • When I left my old workplace my colleagues organized a good-bye meal together. Standard office job, with regular guys. We had a great relationship and they knew I was vegetarian for 5+ years at that point and never had any issue with it.

    So they asked which restaurant I would like to go and I was stupid enough to let them choose.

    We ended up in a specialized Brazilian meat restaurant, where the servers go around with absurdly large pieces of grilled/fryed meats and would carve a piece to the guests. If you are a meat lover you can have easily 10-15 types of meats in a couple of hours.

    Those assholes had a huge grin on their faces all evening, as I could only eat the sides from the buffet and had to refuse all meals from the servers about 12 time that evening. It was a truly memorable night, we even got drunk and laughed our asses off on our way home.

    So yeah, not just kids can be assholes. We are still in contact till this day.





  • Does it give you multiple options for a route? Like fastest/using least petrol/no tolls, etc?

    I am currently using Google maps and waze most of the time and tried Organic maps for a while for a more privacy focused option, but it only gives you one option, no alternatives of similar length/time.

    Edit: nevermind, just downloaded it and it does offer alternatives. Looking good as well, will definitely test it, thank you!