JustEnoughDucks

There are very different rules. Like worlds different.

Comparing just Belgium and the Netherlands right next to each other. The Netherlands is quite doable if you find a job. Some automatic work visas and then residence based on that depending on origin country

In Belgium literally no company in the country outside of IMEC and Deloitte will go through the extremely long visa sponsorship program (only digitalized in 2022 IIRC). It is pretty much only possible if you have family or a partner that already lives there. Even people studying there for 3-8 years have a few months to find a job or they are kicked out (in a bad job market compared to other countries also).

The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.

No need to steal people’s water to do it.

Yes, but 90% of ISP supplied modems around the world are modem + router + WiFi access point with a unified firmware.

You also can’t take the antennas off of those and they are required in order to receive internet.

Yes you can use your own router (I have a Unifi cloud gateway ultra myself and one access point in the middle of the house), but that doesn’t mean that disabling the WiFi on the ISP web-software bullshit actually disables the WiFi and doesn’t just hide the SSID and make it un-connectable and still use it for this kind of thing and identifying nearby devices.

It also doesn’t mean that all the routers themselves like my Unifi aren’t using the access points to do the exact same thing (or will in the future). The only way you can actually control that is with openwrt or similar.

Do you think every country has its own router hardware manufacturer and commodity chip manufacturer? 😂

The 2 giants that make 95% of consumer routers around the world and the few companies that design the chips for them are both in heavy surveillance states.

That is just the normally enshittifcation process. Many enshittified companies started as genuinely innovative or decent companies. I mean, they went into ads quite early on and tacking, but other than that…

They definitely haven’t unenshittified.

VPNs are to protect you against your ISP, that is about it. I guess sailing the high seas also since fingerprinting doesn’t apply as much. Also getting around authoritarian government blocks.

It is a small piece of the puzzle.

Yeah but I would honestly think that a revolution of the people is worth some plagiarism if that is what tipped everything over the edge.

They need about 30-50% more space that Lithium Ion, yes. Of course, people love to compare this even though lithium ion isn’t used anyway for the same application because it only lasts for 500 charge cycles where first gen sodium already lasted for 3000.

But in a country where data centers the size of major cities are being put everywhere, space is literally a non-issue.

But that is comparing them to lithium ion and LiPo. They have a ton of advantages over lithium ion.

They are really competing against lithium iron phosphate which are EV and grid storage batteries. There, the very first gen still has like 20% less density than them but 2nd gen batteries are looking at exactly thr same density as lithium iron phospate. Now they are both fire-safe (sodium even better) and the difference is essentially cost (big sodium win), temperature performance (big sodium win, and discharge rate (LiFePO win over first gen) because they both have very high battery life.

The only reason sodium ion wasn’t picking up (and I mean the only) is because lithium prices crashed and 90% of the companies developing it were startups, so of course the venture capitalist parasites rug pulled the funding because they are so incredibly short sighted that they can’t stand not having immediate maximum profit (even though lithium prices will go back up eventually at a much, much, much faster rate than sodium and is significantly more harmful to mine)

There are so many people who are good at their jobs and have imposter syndrome. If anyone should have it, it is probably this person.

Roblox has A LOT of pedophiles and child predators/abusers that groom kids. Like a lot, one of the worst on the internet. It has been brought to the company’s attention thousands of times and they outright say they don’t care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pK1OGOENw

Not only that, roblox doubled down on supporting pedophiles and actively bans “vigilantes” that try to unmask them or report them to authorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PTomkX1gU

Isn’t this how us kids in the 1990’s and 2000s grew up? (Minus the phone because we didn’t have them, or just a flip phone)

Calling it draconian to not be able to stay up all night on the internet sounds kind of like an iPad kid as a teenager lol

Just a reminder you can get iiyama 4k computer monitors up to 43" for under 600€ that do not even try to connect to the internet. People who get the series have reported that while they aren’t ultra high end, they last for a very very long time.

ProLite series.

Belgium here.

Doctor is 5€ or so, but your general doctor can’t do almost anything but prescribe things or refer you, which is enough for most general sicknesses.

Then you have to go to the hospital for a scan or follow up, usually within the same week, or you can go to the emergency room for something like a break and they will see you immediately (of course, like in the US, you will often have to wait an hour or 3 depending on the time of day). Then for all the tests and everything it is usually <100€, for me I have never had more than 50€ but I haven’t had a break where I had to get immediate care.

Specialists take a long time to see otherwise, often months, but from what I hear from friends in the US, the wait time is usually longer there.

My mother in law got me essentially the bible of DIY gardens for the Flemish region. I learned that there are differences just in tool styles an hour drive away from eachother already.

I could read that for a years and still learn things!

That is only the very first level. Afterwards it switches to gates.

Sadly the apple watch sensor + algorithm is the singular best PPG optical heart rate tracker on the market.

Not enough to put myself in danger of the Israeli Pegasus sending me one text to inject spyware but still…

And an electronics guy’s smart home if there is no wireless at all and all KNX and Ethernet wired lol.

Thank kindle unlimited exclusivity bullshit for that…

KiCAD for 10 years now. Leaps and bounds better than then!

Steam 15 years or so

VLC since windows XP

Firefox since then also

Arduino for quick things for 12 years about

Discord since 2016 (and now looking to change)

Wait wait wait, but trump (and magats) said everyone at the US 2020 insurrection that the only people there were Fed agent provocateurs and paid Antifa™™ actors.

Well and then Trump pardoned them but that was just forgotten about and definitely unrelated.