Okay Okay, but while you have Disney+, you might as well watch Andor if you haven’t already. It’s star wars, but unlike the other Disney slop it relies on clever writing, good cinematography, etc instead of the n-th cameo of a character who just happened to be there or explaining a line in the movies that never needed elaboration.

To watch Andor you don’t have to like or know Star Wars (though having seen at least Episode 4 and Rogue One does help). The show isn’t about lightsabers and force, but about fighting against an authoritarian empire. It’s not necessarily heroes vs bad guys, but rather a story about rebellion an how messy it can be. It relates to so many real world events, both past and present.

So uhh, yeah, watch Andor. And if you do, know that it mostly follows a 3 episode arc structure, so if the first 2 episodes don’t grab your attention, do at least watch the 3rd.

That’s a cute fluffy dog! I hope you gave it some nice pets

What a neat dog!

I used to like it with friends. Now I cannot even play it anymore because I’m on Linux and apparently that means I cannot be trusted to play a game I sunk hundreds of hours in with friends in a private lobby. Thiefs, they’re not getting my money again

I agree, but there’s a difference between simply differing opinion and dumping a boat load of money, presumably some of it from Mullvad subscriptions, into a party that advocates for “remigration”. If the dude just had some weird opinions I wouldn’t necessarily switch, but I don’t like the idea of my money directly helping with helping the far right. Honestly, I wouldn’t even remotely care enough if one of the founders was part of a “normal” European neoliberal or conservative party, I have plenty of friends across the political spectrum. But I don’t like giving extremists my momey

Don’t worry! I get my AC on Friday, after that there can be no more memee

Thanks! It really sucks. I’d prefer if my body just had some sort of “The Sims” type of “energy” bar so I’d be able to see when I push too far. Instead I’ll just randomly feel worse a few days later. I’m slowly picking stuff up again though, mostly because I was getting frustrated with rotting away at home, and it doesn’t seem to make things worse. And I still enjoy programming (which is also my job), I just enjoy it way too much. But that’s better than not being motivated at all I guess

I’m going through a burnout, this is how it feels to relax/sleep/rest/etc. The alternative is things getting worse tho, so it’ll have to do

Personally I really struggle with it. I wanna use it because it’s not from a US company, but it’s just wrong in like 60% of whatever I ask it. Sometimes even when corrected. It’s good though, makes me stop using the clanker and actually search for myself. Sometimes I do resort to ChatGPT or accidentally invoke Gemini when searching though, and those two have a way higher hit rate

Oh interesting, I loved the avondvierdaagse. Maybe because of all the candy on the last day and the medal we got haha

Nice photo! Gear can really make a difference. I have both M43 mirrorless cameras (Olympus E-M5 mark 2 as primary) and Canon DSLRs (Canon 5D mark 2 as primary). Both of them have their moments. I really enjoy shooting with a DSLR more in many cases, but there’s a time and a place for that. Sometimes having the features and low weight of the E-M5.2 make much more sense.

Honestly I keep flipflopping between them, so I just keep them both, despite it being a bit annoying to be invested in 2 systems.

I like all the colours! The house, the trees, the sand, the sky and water. It would’ve been nice if the curved edge between sand and water would’ve been in the frame all the way, though maybe that wasn’t possible because of distractions in the shot? Either way it’s a nice picture

Yeah it’s so cool. Honestly, IR is the dream for black and white landscapes: foliage is bright white and the sky very dark. Scenes like these can sometimes look very mundane on a normal camera, and then look absolutely stunning in infrared

Oeh, I was already wondering what the bright dot in the sky was this weekend. Maybe it was the north star, but it might’ve been one of these as well then

I have to assume that it’s not just the avondvierdaagse, but more so the mentality here that kids can roam freely and play without their parents having to protect them at every moment. Something they do name in the article very briefly.

Kids here have a lot of autonomy, something that they don’t appear to have in the US for instance. I’m Dutch and when I was young I’d just roam the neighborhood with friends. I didn’t have a phone or tracker or anything, I was just somewhere relatively close to home, playing with other kids. Maybe at the playground of the school, maybe at the playground across the school, maybe cycling through the neighborhood like a menace on the public roads. We were obviously taught not to go with strangers and to be careful, this is not a mystery place without bad people, but that seemed to be enough.

Seeing images of the car-centric wastelands that are the average North American cities, reading about teens who still have to be driven everywhere anytime they wanna leave the house, I can totally imagine why kids would be happier here. We’d cycle to school ourselves before the end of primary school. I live close by a school now and there are plenty of kids who still do the same.

Not really though. I haven’t been on the big social media platforms in forever, even during my 20s I was already gone. That doesn’t withhold you from visiting parties, chilling with friends, going places, etc. The only big platform that I’m still on is WhatsApp, because it’s the main way to message people here, and that’s how you can go places. But I haven’t go Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, TikTok, and whatever the fuck people use to consume ads nowadays

Meow meow :3

Very nice! Kinda has desktop background vibes, but I mean that in the best way possible. So calming

That’s an awesome shot. Sometimes I wish I had mountains anywhere nearby, can’t have everything though…

Your example doesn’t make sense to me. Why would you modify the entire list by checking if something is in it? Also, you can totally edit the list via a pointer, that’s how you’re supposed to edit the list if you want any performance. Otherwise you’d be copying the list on every modification, which is terribly inefficient