i’m really into cars, and want to own (maybe modify) an MR2 1st gen.

problem is: the german government is trying its best to make owning a car impossible or unattractive.

nowadays you have to pay 1.90€ a litre of gas and rent a parking space (the ones that used to be free get converted to charging stations for BEVs or are only for people who live near it)

getting a license has been increasing in cost for a while now, and we’re at the point where it’s up to 5000€ (i have one already, but it’s increasing the barrier of entry)

modifying the cars is also basically illegal, i won’t get into it here though. the comment is long enough.

additionally, the only political party that’s worth voting (in my opinion) is increasingly making cars the national enemy and is trying to introduce a speed limit on the autobahn.

so the frequent occurence is basically incompetent politicians fucking over the consumer, giving right-wingers even more fuel.

fully agree, both have flaws and advantages. but both are better than phillips.

until someone tries to use a phillips bit on a pozidriv screw.

pozidriv is better, but at that point, just use torx.

the sizes are definetley hard to figure out, but the “if it wiggles, it’s too small” rule applies to torx as well.

phillips doesn’t scale any better. i’m actually glad whenever i see torx on small devices instead.

pozidriv is pretty cool, but annoying to use since people confuse it with phillips all the time so you end up with a lot of stripped screws.

torx is the way to go. their sizing is odd, but it transfers torque well and is wear-resistant.

they really are trying to fuck themselves over, aren’t they?

i’m gonna switch as soon as game devs realize linux needs anticheat support.

and i know a lot of people who don’t care what operating system they run as long as they can use their web browser on it.

recently reinstalled win10 pro, located in europe using a local account.

haven’t seen any yet.

you and my dad both. he’s been using it forever

ex-GX user here. i do not miss chrome.

*Gewölbe

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i played a match and i don’t get it, that game is just boring.

how do people actually play this?

i have colleagues who gush over how they want everyone else to play it.

it’s just so… stale

yup, sadly many of the bands/artists i listen to don’t really offer their music as physicals, but there’s also no way i’m gonna spend 20 bucks on an album just to listen to like 3 of the songs ever.

i have a weird way of listening to music.

my dad has a huge collection of CDs he started in the 80s. and he’s not gonna stop buying every single CD that his favourite bands release.

he rips them onto his ipod and his phone. great way to efficiently own music and get some pretty cool artwork.

so from what i can tell, no one (that i know of) buys CDs to play them out of a playback device, just to own your library.

some bands, and their fans. you can make a cassette look pretty dope.

and i’ve heard prisoners often only have access to cassettes.

there’s still two left over in our household. while one is really heavy but manageable, the other one hasn’t been moved in years. probably for the best.

i’ve since made a more professional e-mail, but everything remotely to do with personal stuff uses the adress i made when i was 10.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

not an exact fit, but i think about that sentence often