Dyskolos

Aye. I did learn this the good old hard way.😁

True, but you could also add a switchbot to it. Ugly but simple and without electrical maintenance needed.

That’s why I try to make dumb things smart, not replace the dumb with smart. Like, make the switch smart, not the bulb.

Do you not?

Indeed. I was unfair of me to pick only one favourite, as there are more candidates :)

Exactly!

Oh yes, this one too of course!

I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

Thanks man, your kind words are appreciated. Yet, in the end…who cares? People are still flooding the association with donations and work-force. If i left or not didn’t change anything at all. I couldn’t even leave a nasty virus this time as any damage would’ve just been taken out of the 5%. It’d be great if everyone (or at least >50%?) would never work in such a company/assoc. But a single entity? Futile.

Also I must add, that I could’ve easily done it. First I didn’t even need to work, i just wanted to. And second, here you’re not screwed if you loose your job. So a regular US-American would’ve probably made another choice here. By force. The system sucks and it heavily rewards the dark trinity of psychological disorders. In fact, they’re often a requirement.

But thanks man, either way. Guess how many understood why i left? exactly ,-)

You’re absolutely totally right. Would I still work, I’d be ashamed if I had to say “I work at google”. Since they removed “don’t be evil” as their motto, that is.

But you also explained it…we all get brainwashed. From indoctrination to outright brainwashing. Daily, every where. And if you dare to question something, you’re suddenly alone. One sane in a herd of insane? Must be me,they can’t ALL be wrong,right?..RIGHT?

Tiny story: when I still worked, one job was at a very highly deemed top association that stood for curing cancer. Or helping people with it, or doing studies, paying studies, you name it. Sounded awesome. I was admin and had access to everything. I quit 6 months later, I couldn’t take it anymore.

-a whole floor with lawyers to legally fuck people out of their money and to fend of incoming.

-another floor full of marketing people who did nothing else than quench old (or dying of cancer) people for their inheritance.

-the cellar was full of hundreds of millions worth of inherited stuff, paintings and shit.

-the bosses drove 250k cars, flew multiple times a month to “meetings” (which meant at least 1000 each for food alone, coz it had to be fancy).

-oh right the building was just recently bought, because it was soooo fancy and in front of a large river here (in our small country it’s like US’s central park). It was an 8 figure move. Totally unneeded.

And the yearly spending for curing cancer? 5%. Still a large sum, but it was just an alibi for everything else. And it was probably THE most reputable association here. Last day I ever donated anything. I understand that overhead is needed. But it should be, by definition, kept to a minimum.i wanted to work there for the cause, not to get moneyz.

Hard to beat this. If you ever manage to finish the code that is…

Yet… The chance is never zero 😁

We have cities in germany where “5.5%” really doesn’t paint the right picture. I’ve recently been to one where most shops had signs i can’t read and more muslims than i saw in Turkey or elsewhere. Seeing or hearing (a) german was a rare exception. And this is really no exaggeration.

Of course if you take all the rural areas into the equation, where usually very few are, you might see the 5% in toto, but in the cities and especially the cores? No way.

Check out xmpp. Wouldn’t know of anything remotely as useful as tgram. If it’s just about messaging yourself, you could also continue using tgram and doing your own encryption with your own bot for sensible data.

Oooh right trackball-mice. Totally forgot they exist 😁 Ok the mice are ok. For the price. Nothing is like it was before. But their keyboards… Some months later the markings already peel off, cables break very quickly.

What? Nooo. I don’t want the stupid mouse-balls ever again. Sure i could clean it but i also HAD to. Regularly.

Besides, you’re right. Fuck subscriptions. Fuck logitech, fuck their shitty quality.

That too. But also proportional to growing complexity. More complex things to manage makes more room for mistakes in management. With maybe even the epitome being “ah fuck it”

It’s not just you (as is with all these kinds of questions). It’s an observable trend. As complexity rises, potential for errors rise.

Termux/Rsync is nice and all, but not really a comfy fire’n’forget-solution like syncthing.

And today i heard the first time of unison sync. So i have no opinion at all here, but thanks for the hint.

Problem is, i want to exclude third parties. I’d prefer a direct heavily encrypted connection directly to my server. Definitely not a cloud somewhere, especially not google & co.

Nextcloud is way too blown up and vulnerable for me. I really only need file-synching. Got servers working for the other stuff like caldav.