agressivelyPassive

I already do vote and try to convince people around me, but here in Germany, the reality is that most people are old and stubborn (average German is 44, average voter even older) and the propaganda of the last decades worked.

Some still believe in trickle down and neoliberalism, some started believing Russian propaganda and are convinced that only right extremists can rescue us.

But that's exactly the situation I've described above. You see the ship steaming onto the rocks, but ⅓ of the crew thinks, that's fine since it worked so far, ⅓ denies the rocks even exist and the last ⅓ is convinced that rocks are actually an opportunity for growth.

It's the lack of perspective. There's nothing to work or live towards.

I'm in my early thirties and grew up in the last years of the "it's getting better" time, but nowadays it's all gone.

The political system in all of the West is ossified and unable to solve any of the real problems. Society is dominated by a gerontocracy. The economy is fucked for almost all participants, except the very few at the very top.

My generation will not have better lives than our parents. And there's absolutely no hope for it to become better . In fact, it's likely getting way way worse for most of us.

I'd argue that there are different categories of Trek-feel. TOS is different from TNG and DS9, and the "new Treks" are different from those TNG/DS9.

The new Treks are all much more modern and contemporary. The production styles are completely different, the underlying topics are much closer to reality. It is a completely different category of show, that just happens to take place in the same universe.

Whether that's a good thing or not, is up to debate. But arguing that "this is not my Trek anymore" is invalid, is just wrong.

Maybe it's simply that the format changes a lot.

TNG is much different from TOS and some people don't like that style.

I can honestly say that I find Discovery extremely frantic, boring and way too contemporary, but that's just my expectation towards Trek. Others have different tastes.

Glad that he's taken advantage of.

You can go and buy sodium batteries already. They're not competitive with Lithium ion batteries in many mobile applications, but very much competitive for everything where price is more important than size or weight.

Lithium has decades of research and industrial scaling behind it, it's hard to break into that. But especially sodium is on a pretty good path to replace it in large scale storage applications.

I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can't be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they're all terrible in their own way.

I disagree with the implication and outrage about it.

It seems like ragebait, just like "gen Z doesn't want to work" crap.

Of course it is. It's a job that doesn't really exists, but gets advertised.

That's not how this works, though.

These "jobs" are just a way to acquire talent. A larger company can almost always need a few more "good workers". So if a really good candidate comes along, they'll snatch that person, if the candidate is just okayish, they tell them someone else got the job.

No.

Interoperability is only required, if you have a significant market share. Apple does not have this in the EU. iMessage specifically doesn't fall under this regulation, since hardly anyone uses it.

And since Apple plans to publish an SDK for their intelligence anyway, you can't really regulate them for being too closed.

So either that's a purely political retaliation, or their "super privacy friendly" services aren't as privacy friendly as they claim.

But that's the thing, many of their decisions make no economic sense.