Bonjour from the German/Belgian border!

I live right at the German border, but not in Germany. I am German. I’d shrug, since by your rules I remain German.

Right? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.

In reality, they put a big “free beer” sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.

Yeah. I don’t have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me their content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.

Hey, thanks! It’s a photo I took almost a decade ago in New Zealand. Here’s a link.

I also have a second “swipe” to the homescreen (with about as many apps), but I make a point to keep apps installed to a minimum, and everything else is not used commonly enough to justify a place on the homescreen. 95% of my app opens are probably Firefox, haha.

I kinda like it, but fuck Xiaomi for disabling gestures unless you use their launcher.

Used Kvaesitso previously.

Yes, in supported apps / protocols. Koreader, for example, should have 2-way sync for eBooks, and Mihon has 2-way sync for Manga.

+1 for kavita. It also has a nice webreader ui.

Using a docker container provides you with the exact amount of extra protection as using a VM: zilch.

Only advantage is you can use other people’s config easily.

• signed, someone happily using their own VM-based setup

Well… In my case it would be “calculate how much loss you’ve been making by growing your own veggies!”, lol.

(Container gardening and watering add up, but I am not complaining, I am not doing this to save/earn money)

I was SO confused until I checked the community.

Thought this was about literal, real-world vegatable gardens as a hobby.

Nice, that’s great to hear!

Again for Germany, it’s handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)

In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that’s become the standard for most countries.

IDK man. AfD are the ones raging against “political correctness” here. Dude decided to not be politically correct and label the Nazis Nazis.

Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well…

When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.

Happens maybe four times a year.

(Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it’s a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)

Fair. Though also, english isn’t my first language.

It might, very very slightly go down. But the way you have to think about a media is this:

Put all 342 million Americans in a single line, sorted by net worth from west to east in increasing order. Find the person standing in the middle, i.e. person 171 million. That’s the median net worth.

Now remove the top 10 richest people, i.e. behead the snake politely ask the 10 people standing easternmost to leave the line. Now to find the new median, go back to the original median person and move five to the left. That’s the new median.

Most likely, you’d have a negligible amount of change. Maybe a couple of bucks.

ALso note that for this it does not matter just HOW rich the richest persons are.

192k

Median, not medium