Ich sehe das ähnlich wie du. Ich bin nach 5,5 Jahren immer noch bei meiner ersten Arbeitsstelle. Hätte ich wie viele andere seitdem mehrmals den Arbeitgeber gewechselt könnte ich vermutlich inzwischen deutlich mehr verdienen. Jede zweite Woche schreibt mich irgendein Recruiter auf LinkedIn an. Aber irgendwie ist es mir den Stress nicht wert. Meine Arbeit ist relativ stressfrei, Kollegen sind freundlich, ich schufte mich nicht zu Tode, kann von Zuhause arbeiten und muss fast nie Überstunden machen. Ich verdiene genug um ganz gut zu leben und auch etwas zu sparen. Die Karriereleiter kann mir erstmal gestohlen bleiben.

I read books for personal enjoyment, basically never for learning or self-improvement or anything like that. I only ever read one book at a time and mostly in the evening before going to sleep.

I'm in my early thirties. My reading speed varies quite a lot based on the book and my mood, but I've definitely noticed that I've become "worse" at reading in recent years. Too many digital distractions I guess. That said, if I do manage to read for 2 hours before going to sleep, I sleep so much better than if I watch a movie or doomscroll on Lemmy or whatever.

I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, sometimes historical novels. I think this year I've finished 4 books so far, and dropped one quarter-way through. There were definitely years where I've managed way more.

Just tried this out, it seems you're right. TIL. Always thought it would be the local equivalent of defederation.

There are a couple active English-speaking communities there, like /c/[email protected], but you're right that most content on the instance is in German. It's more that their userbase is also pretty active on other, English-speaking instances and I'm pretty sure that by blocking the instance, you won't see any of those posts and comments either.

Feddit.org is bilingual and has a lot of users participating on English-language communities. So maybe better to block the individual communities if you don't want to decrease the userbase you can interact with.

As a lowly programmer at a small software developer, getting to read some documents with "NATO SECRET" stamped on them. (The content itself was pretty boring and mundane though, not that I'll say what it was...)

Just looked this up. It looks like the new generation just shows up as an MTP device instead of an external drive. That doesn't stop sideloading books onto the device, it works as before.

However, they've seemingly stopped allowing the "download and transfer" option for Amazon-bought books, which was an easy way to get them into Calibre and remove their DRM. So that's something to keep in mind for sure if you want to buy ebooks from Amazon.

As someone who has sideloaded a ton of books onto their kindle, why?

Sure you can become honorary Europeans along with the Australians. You'll be expected to send a Eurovision candidate though!

From a Non-American perspective: Europe will hopefully become less dependent on the US and finally build a proper unified army. We might get more skilled migrants from the US, who will bolster our economy.

Interesting that they'll do another model for the US, they've completely scrapped the Niro EV in Europe in favor of the EV3.

Yes, I was also around for the Bush presidency, and I'm pretty sure. Bush had some pretty shit policies but was also very much an establishment republican who was not going to fundamentally change the system. He didn't have a rabid cult of personality surrounding him. There was no Project 2025-type plan to turn America into a theocracy. Bush never "joked" about becoming a dictator, becoming president for life or putting his political opponents into jail. He didn't threaten his NATO allies with letting Russia invade them.

I could go on, but the point is: America didn't just elect another conservative who will try to roll back LGBT rights, it elected a Mussolini-style Fascist. Thinking "Oh we'll just vote him out in 4 years" is... optimistic.

IDK. Compared to Trump, Bush seems downright reasonable in hindsight. He was at least willing to work within a democratic framework. This will be a new level of political extremism in America and downplaying it won't help.

I had stick insects for a while. Very easy to care for. They multiply rapidly, so the main challenge is keeping their population under control. In the beginning I had males and females, but the males died out at some point. Not an issue for their reproduction though, as the females can basically just clone themselves into an egg.

Die Union wird sich etwas zurückhalten müssen wenn sie eine funktionale Groko-Regierung wollen. Das hat sich ja gerade jetzt gezeigt. Ich glaube es gibt viele kompromissbereite Politiker in der CDU, aber populistische Polterer wie Merz sind in der Tat ein Problem. Hoffe der wird zumindest nach dem Wahlkampf einen gemäßigteren Ton anschlagen.

Früher oder später musste es wohl kommen, aber hatte gehofft dass die Ampel zumindest noch bei den nächsten paar Versuchen die Chatkontrolle durchs EU-Parlament zu drücken die Sperrminorität aufrechterhalten könnte.

Uff, zwar gerechtfertigt aber gerade jetzt habe ich so gar keine Lust auf Wahlkampf mit anschließender CDU-Regierung...

No rumble is a deal breaker for a $60 controller. I think I'll stick with 8bitdo and maybe wait for a new Valve controller.

I wouldn't say giving Harris a 50.4 percent chance of winning is predicting her to win. That's effectively a coin toss.

Guild Wars 2. I'm not really into grinding for hours or optimizing my characters, so I appreciate that the game can be played quite casually. That's also true of ESO, but that one feels basically like a single player game to me, while GW2 feels much more social with a lot of player cooperation just arising naturally through its design. Also love the zone design, having a lot of exploration and things like jumping puzzles. Story is pretty decent as well.