Fleppensteyn

In the last week, I came across 2 videos that started with an ad. Both were embedded YouTube videos. They must have found a way to circumvent adblocking.

It’s loud and annoying and I don’t have the patience for this. I just didn’t watch those videos.

Many people my age have terrible boomer parents who just had kids because “that’s just what you do”. They didn’t even consider you could just not make babies.

Maybe we just think more for ourselves than the older generation.

You’re out of touch. Employers don’t want overqualified people. They are the ones that decide for you that you can’t possibly be motivated for such a job. You’ll only leave when you find something better they think, which is definitely true when you claim to just “bridge the gap”.

Happened to me as well, freezing up the whole system, especially with many/large files. None of the suggestions I found online actually worked. Happened on USB drives as well.

Then my whole HD gave up completely. Replaced it and all problems are gone. USB drives as well: turns out Linux at least tries to read it so you can attempt to save some data, while Windows just says it’s unreadable.

I tried it on a new Lenovo (AMD). The cursor size changed its size from normal to microscopic, depending on the application you hover over. Went back to X, no issues there.

Still can’t run Wayland on my system (Nvidia) at all.

Incidentally I just installed a new laptop that came with windows yesterday and damn, windows 11 sucks.

First you have to find a workaround to install without a MS account, then the default Bing search tells you to install Opera when you search for Firefox, I can’t find any settings (everything is a regedit hack now) and then I found a debloat script that claims it disabled Recall. So yeah it can be disabled (for now).

“Less than 5 books” includes 0 books? Otherwise those stats are hard to believe.

Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.

I got a tour of the place where they proudly show these cats in the most horrible conditions. Also, it doesn’t even taste good.

I remember always switching to another channel when ads came up, but later that became impossible because they all started ads at the same time. So it seems to be on purpose to prevent people from switching channels. This was in the Netherlands, though I haven’t listened to radio anymore since Napster came out.

It’s normal to get such weird brainfarts, like the call of the void or imagining murder or other bad things, just like when a song suddenly gets stuck in your head. A healthy person thinks “wtf brain?” but when you start to think “that’s a great idea I want to act on”, maybe that’s not completely normal.

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hand over to the teacher

Weird. One teacher, so this is elementary school?

We only have to buy our own stuff starting middle school and it’s only pens and paper and such. And a backpack but mine lasted all 4 years.

spend an average of $701 per child

What are you Americans buying for school?

Some notebooks, agenda, pens, pencil, ruler… It’s not all that expensive

Small and windy. I would guess the higher temperatures are measured more inland.

“Just say you did it or we’ll kill you” after years of torture so there doesn’t have to be a trial. Great work convincing us you got the right guys.

Czechs are kind of known for being cold and distant. It’s a lonely place to live. I just went on a holiday and people could be so friendly and chatty in some other countries, at least reassuring me that it’s not me who’s the problem.

Brits and Germans are definitely friendlier and more sociable than Czechs (or Dutch) but the real chatty ones are down South, around the Mediterranean.

My yearly dental works always cost a fortune, but my teeth are great now, since:

• I got an electric brush and floss sticks;
• I now drink coffee without sugar (you’ll get used to it pretty quickly);
• I almost completely stopped drinking sugary drinks (mostly bubbly water now, boycotting evil companies and being poor help).

I worked in Lisbon for a while. Salary after tax was 700 EUR and a (very tiny shared) room was provided but I couldn’t afford my own place. Now I’m in Prague and although I live very, very small, at least rent is “only” half of after-tax salary.

So more of a crisis in one place than another, but it would’ve been nice if something more than just a one-bedroom apartment would still be achieveable.

A Dutch joke?

(keurig = neat, decent, proper)