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Ich bin immer noch salzig, dass ich nach über 12 Jahren auf Lases zu Lassmich wechseln musste. Ich bin ein großer Verfechter von offener Soße und stehe grundsätzlich hinter meinen Prinzipien, aber gleichzeitig muss ich auch eingestehen, dass ich mich ein wenig nach den alten Zeiten auf Lases sehne. Es gibt halt leider - zumindest bis jetzt - bei Weitem nicht so viele Inhalte, wobei mir jedoch sehr gefällt, dass selbst in politischen Unterlassmichs (community/sublemmy/whatever) ein bisher sehr zivilisierter Ton herrscht und selbst (für mich) kontroverse Meinungen mit sachlichem Diskurs empfangen werden.

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That’s still totally insane. I get the appeal of compiling everything from source but it ain’t for me. Btw, Firefox is on version 115 right now. Is there any particular reason you’re going for 102, if you don’t mind me asking?

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What's the best financial decision you've ever made?

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I think, at least for non-savvy people, that buying individual stocks is not a great idea anyway. If you’re investing to have long term capital gains something like the MSCI World ETF would probably be the better choice. If you invested in that specific index fund in 2016 you’d have doubled your money by now, even during this economic downturn. Sure, you can make more money in a shorter time day trading but that shit is damn near a full time job and more risky unless you heavily diversify your portfolio (which you should do anyway).

Another poster mentioned stocks of the company he works for. My company for example distributes a good amount of their yearly profits to their employees. Meaning that once a year you can choose between a couple hundred bucks one-time payout or get a bunch of company stocks for a heavily discounted price, but they’re trade-locked for two years. At the beginning of 2020 I chose the stock option and the shares got bought right at the beginning of the covid dip. When 2022 rolled around I had essentially quintupled my initial investment in the discounted stocks. So that’s another great tip, provided you company offers similar plans.

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Bluejay!

Just chiming in as a European: These birds totally amazed me when I was in the US for the first time. We have some blue colored birds in Germany but they're pretty rare, the most common, I think, being the European blue tit. I stayed in the suburbs of the Bay Area in 2014 and I loved all those foreign (to me) looking birds sitting in the trees next to my Airbnb.

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Ich glaube das Rockabilly-Ehepaar bei mir die Straße runter kommt dem schon recht nahe. Die haben alle ihrer FÜNF (!) US-Importautos vollgekleistert mit “Fuck you Greta”, “Grüne? Nein, danke!”, diversen Anti-Impfaufklebern, Südstaatenflaggen und natürlich dem eisernen Kreuz.

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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

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Probably a gaming PC (as he mentioned Steam) without a display connected to it that’s used for game streaming using Parsec or other software like Sunshine. By the way, if you want to try that setup yourself make sure you get a dummy plug (HDMI or DisplayPort) for the GPU as Windows doesn’t really allow video capture if no display is detected.

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biking rule

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The sign says you should cross the patch of grass before the actual merge. I had a hard time understanding that sign as well because apparently that bike lane across the grass is a fucking 30cm wide gravel path I barely spotted.

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Volksverpetzer - 25 krasse Zitate, die zeigen, dass Höcke ein waschechter Faschist ist

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Genau das kann ich einfach nicht verstehen. So sollte doch jeder wissen wohin diese nationalsozialistische Ideologie geführt hat. 80 Millionen Tote, davon allein 6 Millionen Juden und hunderttausende andere Minderheiten die nicht auf dem Schlachtfeld fielen, sondern brutal und systematisch schlichtweg ermordet wurden. Und wenn man schon die nationalistische Schiene fahren möchte, dann sollte man auch nicht vergessen welches Leid die Nazis der deutschen Bevölkerung angetan haben. Zerbombte Städte, Hunger, Armut und ein letztlich 45 Jahre lang geteiltes Land. Das sind die Konsequenzen des deutschen Faschismus. Und wofür? Damit man sich einige Jahre auf die eigene Schulter klopfen und sich mal geil und mächtig fühlen kann? Nein, danke!

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Watching Updates on the terminal be like:

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Seriously. I used Manjaro for a short period about 5 or 6 years ago but ran into so many issues with it. Vanilla Arch on the other hand is very forgiving in my experience. I have a second desktop PC with Arch installed and I only update that machine once every couple of months when I actually need to use it. In my four years of doing that I never had an update break my system.

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My Cat Lucky

My cat had the same name! We gave him the name because he was a completely black cat with just a singular white hair on his chest and as a sort of play on the common superstition that black cats are a sign of bad luck. We had to put him down last year due to acute leukemia but we had a great 15 years together.