That is because in countries like The Netherlands, 100 square meters will cost you about €500 000 at the moment. Warming my house on natural gas costs me €10 a day. In the grocery store, the avarage item price is now €3,-. We must have health insurance (good thing!) but if you can’t afford it, you have the option to gamble on higher “own risk”. That means paying more out of your own pocket. Gasoline is €2 a liter. We also have to reduce CO2 but don’t have enough capacity on the grid to support all the green initiatives. Meaning electricity prices go up. Immigrants fleeing from terrible conditions are very welcome here (also, good thing!), but they need to be paid for somehow. Life is expensive and spending more on military means higher taxes or worse services.

Personally I don’t have it bad at all and most people still don’t, but I can understand why some people see this as a hard pill to swallow.

US apparently also quit providing intel to Ukraine. Sorry for the Dutch link as source, best to use a browser translator on it.

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Google apple and reddit must have really pissed them off to include this in their terms.

Skikk is a clevo reseller too. Those laptops are very nice. They do however sound like a jet engine when the game starts. But I just turn the volume up higher and then I don’t hear it anymore.

I won’t go as far as to nuke all my accounts just yet but last year I made a big effort to use less of big tech companies. This is my drive to slowly continue doing that this year. I will finish my games that will not run on Linux without tinkering and then I’m quitting the hell that is Windows for good.

So far no dark mode yet

No surprise. We shifted from plastic stuff to paper stuff. So now the fish are (luckily!) having a better living space. But where do we get all the extra paper from? Yes, trees.

Mint on the Desktop, FreeBSD on the server. Amazingly stable.