N26 requires you to have their app installed to confirm the web logins.

Except there is a big housing shortage, so tenants will have to accept those higher rents.

Why have two separate Ubuntu based Linux distros installed? You can just install KDE inside Linux Mint.

This is an interesting feature. I wonder how the reduced power consumption/performance compares to the PS4.

This is how you kill general purpose computing.

I left the US in 2016 and moved to Germany.

If you have a university degree and work in an in demand field, such as IT, it is relatively easy to get a job and visa for Germany.

The hard part now is affordable housing in the big cities is almost non-existent, especially for someone moving here with no work or rental history in Germany.

The cost of living is less than in the US, so depending on your job/salary, affording the expensive housing may be less of an issue.

Overall the quality of life is much higher and the relationship to work and your life is way more balanced than in the US.

I can’t imagine going back to the US now.

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No mention of unaffordable rents massively increasing the cost of living.

But he’s also promised to cut billions from Germany’s welfare bill and has warned voters that what he portrays as their comfortable lifestyles are going to have to change in order to meet the challenges ahead. “With a four-day week and work-life balance, we will not be able to maintain the prosperity of this country,” he said at a party meeting in May.

Translation: continue to fuck the working class while Merz and the rich take more for themselves.

AAA games have been boring and bland for quite some time. I got a Steam Deck and mainly play indie games and older titles. I couldn’t care less about GTA 6 or new consoles. There’s such a huge catalog of games on Steam to play.

Are you moving to Europe or trying to find a job in Europe while living in the US?

I think moving to Europe is really the only option unless the EU company has a US entity.

Capitalism is causing massive wealth inequality.

I would expect a repair score to be about how easy it is to repair, can the battery be easily changed, is it glued down, etc.

Why is the energy usage so big and the repairability score so small?

These should be switched. Energy usage of the smartphone is less relevant, as it is a mobile device, so it is already designed to be energy efficient.

Android phones have objectively more spyware than Apple phones.

This is actually common in Germany. After you pay for your groceries at the checkout, there are bins for paper/cardboard and other packaging. Many people will unpack their food before taking it home.

I don’t do it because I want to read what is on the packaging, but I have definitely see some unpack a frozen pizza out of the box and just take it in the plastic wrapping.

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/keine-ruecknahme-des-cannabisgesetzes-cang-legalisierung-fortsetzen-schwarzmarkt-stoppen

CEO will come out and say employees are more productive when forced to work 5 days a week. When asked to see the data, they will say trust me, I’ve seen the internal studies from a Big Tech company. Same exact playbook as work from home.

Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?

The exciting shift in Europe is there is now a big push to move off of US tech solutions and to develop EU sovereign software. If it goes the route of open source and interoperability, this could be really exciting compared to US solutions which are locked down and full of spyware. This would create new job opportunities in Europe with a focus on open source.