I would personally be annoyed by such a person and not want to associate with them. I have no issue with religious people, or even talking to them about religion, but if they’re just constantly preaching or trying to convert me, that would get on my nerves very quickly.

Looks like you can only participate with a Mastodon account, unless I’m missing something.

I’ve been playing Thief Gold. Great game that really surprised me in how well it holds up. It somewhat runs out of steam in the last third though, where I currently am. Missions like “Escape” have been a bit of a pain with their difficulty and aren’t as well designed. Still intending to finish it and get to Thief 2, supposedly the best in the series.

On Steam, I’ve been playing “Songs of Syx”. An amazing mixture of Dwarf Fortress, a city builder and even a bit of a civilization-building RTS. Really addictive game that’s complex but not overwhelming.

As far as I can tell, it’s still under the same government, minus Maduro. Trump wants them to do what he wants, but who knows if that’ll happen.

Could be, though the spec sheet is not clear what mode the 24 hours refer to. Found this blog which claims around 30 hours in voice activated mode.

But probably best to do it in a sandboxed environment that isn’t connected to the internet, just to be safe.

But it was your electrical box? Was the device turned on? Definitely a bit concerning TBH. Someone who had access to the box put it there to listen. That person would also have to access the box again later on to retrieve the device and get the audio files. The article claims a 24 hour battery life, so if it was turned on, it was put there very recently.

Looks very similar to this voice recorder.

I’d say it’s a good place to live for me. It’s safe and has a high standard of living. There are many nice cities, villages and natural areas to see but it’s also a great hub for travel to other European countries, thanks to its central location. I live in a medium-sized village near the blackforest and it’s a nice, calm place with lots of nature around.

Do come visit, I’m sure you’ll have a great time! I’d say go for Munich over Berlin, as you’ll see more of the traditional German (well, Bavarian) culture while still being a large modern city.

Germany has its problems though. Our infrastructure, while still good, is starting to crumble, our industry has trouble keeping up and our politicians are ineffective. Like in many places, the far-right is on the rise and with it anti-migration rhetoric like you’ve heard from your grandpa. For what it’s worth, I haven’t had any issues with migrants. Migration comes with challenges, sure, but it’s also something that enriches us, as well as something that Germany needs, due to our otherwise aging and shrinking population.

People on the Internet like to jump to conclusions, usually the most drastic ones. There’s certainly no way for a random person to conclude whether the guy is transphobic just from what you wrote.

Voyager doesn’t even show them

An app I developed was once used by Angela Merkel.

Any “IRL Yandere” would be a horrible person IMO. I don’t see any issues with liking such tropes in fiction, but in real life, stalking and that kind of obsessive behaviour is definitely not okay. I would just stay far away from that community.

My heart stopped at reading “GoG is getting acquired”, but that doesn’t sound so bad.

“Real” brands will usually have a proper website where you can learn about their products, whereas those Amazon pseudo-brands generally don’t, or only have a generic template. For example, something like 8bitdo or Fiio are what I’d consider proper Chinese brands.

Yup. I’ve had massive driver issues with lengthy troubleshooting on both Linux and Windows before. Even had to switch to a completely different distribution once, because it wouldn’t play nice with my GPU.

If you pretend like everything always works seamlessly with Linux, you’re bound to give people false expectations that will very likely be disappointed.

If the quality is roughly similar, I’ll prefer the open-source software but I don’t actively avoid proprietary software either. I use FOSS quite a bit, for example I use Linux as my main OS.

That’s actually a legal gray area in Germany. It’s unclear whether the browser cache legally counts as downloading. In any case, it’s not enforced. It’s only torrenting/uploading that gets people into trouble.

When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.

So what conclusion do you draw from this? If humans can’t be trusted to make any judgement, literally anything should be considered to be capable of suffering, including pebbles, rainbows and paper bags? Seems like an impractical way of living.