Dr. Unabart

I didn’t prove shit. I don’t have to explain anything to you, motherfucker. Show your sources! … fkn reddit nonsense.

I live in Germany, it fkn sucks. Germans don’t realize the shit they’re missing while they’re too busy being embarrased and ashamed about their past. Everything is decades behind. Autobahn’s a busted piece of shit, rathaus still uses pen and paper, every restaurant sells the same exact shit: schnitzel, sausage, rump steak, pasta. There’s no variety. Every village looks the same, every city has the same exact stores. Everyone does the same shit, every day, week, year. You go to Austria in winter, Spain in summer. Like robots. The fear of change completely stalls progress here. I can drive a couple hours to Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Czech or Netherlands and it’s like I was zapped into the future. Far more sophisticated, advanced… better.

This country lacks cohesive leadership and it shows. And now some assholes want to get the fourth reich fired up (afd). Good news for them… the hard part, where you turn people into obedient drones, is already done!

If you believe that the move to FOSS office solutions will go well, you’re an idiot on top of everything else wrong with you. Just one of them .

My sources are from living here as an outsider. Seeing that Nazi shit like heilpraktikers still exist. Old habits die hard, eh? Good luck with Libre Office.

I don’t have to share shit with you. Here’s a source… my eyes. Fuck off.

In German and paywall. You can read it again for me. Or maybe fax it on over.

Seriously. While I support the change to foss solutions, this is going to go over like a fart in church for the people that were just forced off fax machines and into email a year ago. And there’s a zero percent chance that Germany will use any of those savings for a support infrastructure. The German way is to figure it out, and endure the suffering while you do with the bare minimum of support from people that barely know the shit themselves.

I have a friend who is principal at a high school here in DE and the stories she’s been telling me about the new push to get tablets into the hands of kids is straight fkn Monty Python level absurdity… from the staff!

Germany painted themselves into a corner with their refusal to modernize their tech infrastructure. The “it’s not broken, so don’t fix it” mentality has left them 20 years behind all their neighbors. But, hey, traditions over everything… amirite?

Nice try, Scamsung! I’m holding out for the Quad Fold.

Them’s the botulism shivers.

The irony of this article being paywalled is the chef’s kiss.

It’s gotten more usable over the past couple of years. Sadly, I just got done getting all my family/friend contacts to get on Signal (they’d much prefer to use WhatsApp) so Session remains a lonely place for me. I seem to use it solely as a place to stash notes for myself, even though I do this with Signal as well.

I don’t know that we’ll ever see a messenger that both appeals to everyone and has all the features we want (from privacy to visual appeal).

Big fan of the self-checkout at the grocery store. And seeing this is Germany, 9 out of 10 shoppers would rather stand in the queue. Never a lineup at the self-check!

For the remaining 15, they’ll just stick to their fax machines.

I’ve been using FeedBin after Google Reader sunset… so, a long time now. Every year I say I’ll bring it in-house, then I get billed for another year and say fuck it. It works fine. And now they have a minimalist podcast app called Airshow that lets me use my FeedBin account to synch my podcasts across devices. So, whatever… take my money. 25$ a year isn’t going to break me.

Edit: want to add that I use Netnewswire (free) to read my feeds. Integrates Feedbin and isn’t overkill on ridiculous feature that turn it into a p.o.s. subscription app.

A lot. A. Lot.

All that trouble to clown people… uses “alot”.

Kills me 🙃😘

Thank goodness for no Chat Control. Shit’s straight-up Bozo Time.

They’re bound to try again in a few months.

The live demo was fkn funny.

Everything is now paywalled and absolutely none of it is worth jumping through the extra hoops to read. That said, thanks for posting the content in here.

I think the characters in the book will forgive as that’s a work of fiction and they are not real. That’s like saying I insulted Bugs Bunny for having big teeth. We’ll get through this calamity. ✌🏻

Am sort doing this with 8gb pi5, using CasaOS, which has JF, arr stack stuff, Navidrome, etc. It’s a wholly capable setup and I’m quite pleased. Not doing a lot of onboard transcoding, and had to grow a quick neckbeard in order to get the apps to see the usb external drive array, but once I got that all smoothed out it’s been surprisingly up to task.

Edit: using an m2 hat, not SD card. 🤘🏼

Too busy faxing each other. Germany is Luddite Land, by choice.

Source: moved here 7 years ago. Germans are a weird bunch. Change is not welcome in just about any form.

Nice to see them adopt the open source apps, though. They can probably get some screaming deals on some US Robotics 56k modems on eBay Local.

🤪😘

I’ve filed for 7 years straight and never owed a cent. Oddly, got a little back, 2 years straight. Might have been the covid money, which even more laughable as I didn’t set foot, much less work, in the US for the entirety of the pandemic. Single, no property or other taxable assets and no additional sources of income outside my monthly paycheck from my Euro employers. If I, me broke that $126k threshold, then I’d have to pay something. Getting there. Let’s see if the USA doesn’t collapse on itself first*

(* I hope not.)

You won’t have to pay anything unless you’re pulling in the equivalent of >$126,500 USD in foreign income. Then you’re taxed on what you make above that. My H&R Block lady here in Germany told me all about it when I file every year. And boy howdy is fuuuuucking stupid that I’m having to file US taxes every year. I could stop, but then everything falls apart for me.

Never been to Japan, but I came from San Diego, which has, apparently, one of the best zoos in the world. And while they do take good care of the animals (I guess…) it’s a drag to see a fkn polar bear in San Diego.