Comment to find this back later! I’m over 40 and just accepted my hands being fucked up as part of life.

It was my sabbatical, and be really smug when you say it, like I’m better than you.

Yeah in the Netherlands nobody would even try to park in a buslane or bicycle path, because you’d either get a fine or you will be towed and that we’ll probably cost you 350 euros or more.

Can you even call yourself a Linux user if you didn’t fuck up GRUB a few times? 😀

I’m pretty old an have been working in IT for almost 20 years now. Back in the day in would be more like this “hey welcome to the team, here’s your PC”. Someone would point to a desktop with Windows (XP) on it. If your company was “good” at IT you would have roaming profiles, so you could use any desktop with your own profile. If you would get a laptop (usually if you did IT consultancy that would be the case) it would be some locked down version of Windows where you would not even have admin rights.

In one of my first jobs a colleague (developer) couldn’t do his job because his pc was so slow and locked down. One day he came into the office with a CD-ROM that had Ubuntu on it. He just wiped the desktop and installed it. As a young office worker I was shocked! You can do that???

I used MS-DOS as a kid and installed Windows 98 when I was 12. Started to use Linux in my 20s.

Granted I am old.

I don’t know how this works in the US, but where I live after a year subscription (let’s say for your internet provider or something). They can only renew per month. So if the year subscription is over you can cancel any service every month and they can’t hit you with any fees.

Back in the day if you’d forgot to cancel your plan you’d be stuck with them for another year. It sucked!

I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I’d just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.

Also don’t promise stuff you just can’t deliver on. Like how a Tesla would be full self driving in 2014 but next year, or that amazing truck that would be the end game for every company moving stuff, or the new roadster from 2017

Yes and even if he would be smart, I know really smart people that would probably suck at running the economy. Having 0 experience doing something makes you a n00b by default.

The weirdest thing is that people expected a buch of real-estate guys to somehow be good at international diplomacy.

I don’t expect my butcher to also be good at cutting my hair!

Thanks, it’s kind of weird how much change this made in a few months. It also really changed my relationship with my parents and made it less superficial. Can highly recommend to dig in your own past a bit and see what you pushed way down, and actually deal with it.

Not literally, but way too much, and I didn’t even realize how often I grabbed my phone without even thinking about it.

This is still not really clear, but a lot of experts think they have it (this is what I hear on podcasts that invite those experts). But even if there is no kill switch, they still need American hardware and software upgrades and maintenance. So America can always decide just not to support it anymore.

Exactly this is why I get all my news from Facebook and X - my uncle

I recently got a small basked a little larger than my phone. I put my phone in it when I get home from work. It’s a good example for my kids and it helps me to actually be present with my kids instead of being on my phone half of the time.

I really hate services that use 2FA but the app runs on your phone. Like the android app for ms teams still wants me to enter a 2FA code that I recieve on the same phone! This adds zero extra security, the teams app should just directly ask for my fingerprint if that is even necessary.

Also it’s not manly to share your life with a friend apparently.

I’m 40+ and a couple of months ago started therapy. I didn’t even knew I needed therapy, went with my wife for couple therapy and it quickly turned into personal therapy.

What I learned after some tests is that I fall into the top 4% of men who are emotional closed off. This is pretty extreme, but maybe the worst part is, I never even knew. This is the stereotype we teach boys, men don’t have emotions, they don’t talk about emotions, etc.

I think most old European cities have stores and people living above the store. Houses are way to expensive to not use them, and lots of small stores don’t need 2 stories.

I also think this is a cultural difference. The comic book obsession seems more like an american thing. In the Netherlands and Belgium there is also a big comic book appreciation, but it’s much less about heroism and more humorous.