It’ll probably be a brick in a few months, when the company goes bankrupt and the servers it relies on get shut down. So even getting it for free would be too expensive.

Yep, Adobe software still phones home even when it’s cracked. But there’s supposedly a list of hosts you can block to stop this behaviour: https://a.dove.isdumb.one/list.txt

Similar experience: One guy was seeding all of the old uncensored episodes of The Three Investigators and I’m so grateful for that. It’s pretty popular here in Germany, but despite that, no one seems to share it. There are episodes on Spotify, but they are censored and some of the music has been replaced with a modern rendition.

Commander Keen 4. I still love the whole series and play those games from time to time.

After that, my dad got me Doom, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem 3D. Giving hookers money as a seven-year old in a video game was glorious, the old man has good taste.

Shake it, baby!

When I was in my 20’s, I always gave 200% at the jobs I worked at. I was young and naive and believed I would eventually be rewarded for all the hard work I put in, even on weekends and night shifts.

Then I got burnout, because I was working at a pace my body just couldn’t sustain anymore.

It changed my life drastically. I learned to value my health and free time and to prioritize that over the needs of my employer. I learned that hard work doesn’t neccessarily bring you any benefits, it mostly benefits your employer. I also learned that nobody cares when your health is fucked up - for your employer, you’re just a cog in the machine that can be replaced.

Nowadays I only work four days a week and I don’t give a shit about what happens on Fridays anymore. Server is down? Not my problem, get someone else to fix it.

Hell yeah, such an amazing show!

Take care of your damn teeth. They’re important.

I’m 34 and I already lost half of my teeth. By 40 they’ll probably all be gone. It’s definitely genetics, but also very much the lazyness in my youth that caused this.

If someone in their twenties reads this: Brush your fucking teeth, seriously. I had a phase in my life where I was living with constant pain for almost a year and almost went insane. Nobody should have to live like this.

laughs in dual Xeon v4’s

There is a curated list of “no-bullshit” mobile games, without microtransactions and all of that horrible stuff: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

My favorites so far:

• Monument Valley 1+2
• Riptide GP: Renegade
• Badland
• Galaxy on Fire 2 HD

• Shadow Man
• Turok 1 + 2
• Quake 2 (that OST kicks ass)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Descent 3
• Commander Keen 4-6
• PowerSlide
• Ubisoft POD (Planet of Death)
• Terminal Velocity
• Tron 2.0

The biggest part of my childhood was Shadow Man. It was the first game I ever played that built a big world to explore with excellent narration and a good sense of progress. It felt rewarding to finally play all the way through to the end after many months. Some of the levels and music gave me nightmares as a child, but it was worth it.

I enjoyed a lot of story-driven games since then, but this one will always have a special place in my heart. It’s so cool that NightDive remastered it recently.

It’s so funny that they act like they’ve reinvented the wheel by introducing a feature Android users had for years.

• proper adblocking with AdAway
• ability to patch official apps to remove ads and improve the usability with ReVanced
• being able to root the device and use HttpToolkit to analyze the data that flows from apps to the web
• extensive customization (I can choose my own launcher and keyboard application)
• proper file management, especially with Total Commander
• watching Dolby Vision .mkv files with mpv
• price (iPhones are all way too expensive)
• Apple’s stance against repairability

And this point is more hardware-related, but I’ve started to really love my Nothing Phone and its LED lights on the back, which produces amazing photos because the light is much softer than the small flash used by other phones. There isn’t a single Apple device with a feature like this. You could probably get a case, but it’s nice to have this integrated into the phone.

Im only just now getting into TikTok

Please don’t, for your own health’s sake. There is nothing of value on that platform.

ThinkPad X201

I still have mine, what a great machine! I once accidentally stepped on it when hastily getting out of bed and nothing happened, it just continued to work.

444438969 was a great handle. RIP.

I met a girl in art school and lost track of her for a few years. During the pandemic we found each other again. He was trans now, identified as a male and had massive anxiety and body-image related problems.

It was so bad, that he stayed at home for weeks, only ordered food and basic needs online and got an instant panic attack when leaving the house.

I dragged him out to various events and spent time with him as much as possible for almost two years. It helped him get back on his feet.

As soon as he was able to handle his life without my help again and met another guy, he ghosted me.

That hurt a lot, but I would do it again. I still remember visiting him one day and he just started cutting into his arm in front of me because of his mental issues, it was really brutal. I would’ve felt like an absolute asshole if I left right then and there, even if the outcome wasn’t positive for me in the end.

I hope he’s doing well now and maybe one day realizes that he shouldn’t have treated me the way he did. I don’t want gratitude, but an apology would be nice.

Die Schotten haben am Freitag in München echt hart genervt, einige von denen hatten Mittags schon drei Achten im Turm.

Als ich Samstag morgens aus meinem Hotelzimmer kam, hatte jemand die Wand eingetreten und auf den Teppich im Foyer gekotzt. Ich glaube, das war jemand, dessen Mannschaft tags zuvor bei einem 5:1-Spiel verloren hatte… :D

Allerdings haben sie auch mit Dudelsäcken die deutsche Nationalhymne auf dem Marienplatz gespielt, das war wirklich wholesome.

Ich bin dennoch froh, dass ich die Stadt heute verlassen habe. Da waren einfach zu viele Menschen am ersten Spieltag generell und überall.

Ich habe nun acht Tage in München mit meiner koreanischen Brieffreundin verbracht und fand die Zeit großartig. Das OV-Kino ist ein super Erlebnis, im Biergarten im Englischen Garten zu chillen war wunderbar entspannt und auf Schloss Nymphenburg war ich einen ganzen Tag und hab mir eine Blase in den Fuß gelaufen, weil das Areal einfach SO RIESIG ist. :)

Ohne meine Begleiterin wäre ich wohl auch nie mit einer ölverschmierten Arbeitsjacke in die Kunsthalle gegangen, um mir dort eine Fashion-Ausstellung anzusehen. Die Blicke der Dame die den Tourguide gemacht hat, waren großartig. :D Die sollen sich mal nicht so haben, ich hab’ danach sogar Merch von Viktor&Rolf gekauft!

Es gab auch in der ganzen Woche “nur” ein rassistisches Erlebnis. Die Verkäuferin in einem Souvenirshop am Viktualienmarkt mochte wohl grundsätzlich keine Asiaten…aber hey, für Bayern ist das ein guter track record, würde ich sagen.

Da ich Freunde rund um Nürnberg habe, hab’ ich nun spontan noch vier Tage rangehängt und werde mir hier auch noch ein paar Dinge ansehen. Auf jeden Fall geht’s ins Kino und ins DB-Museum. Und dann mal sehen, was sich hier noch so entdecken lässt.

Ich habe hier so viel Spaß wie seit langem nicht mehr (oder eigentlich noch nie). In meiner Heimatstadt in MV kann ich viel weniger machen. Ich glaube, der Grund warum ich so viel zu Hause sitze und PlayStation spiele, ist halt einfach, dass meine Stadt schnarchlangweilig ist, all meine Freunde inzwischen in den Westen gezogen sind und das Highlight des Jahres die große Schlagershow in der Stadthalle ist. Mir macht es so viel Spaß, draußen zu sein, junge Menschen zu sehen und mit anderen Leuten ins Gespräch zu kommen. In einer größeren Stadt im Westen zu wohnen, würde mich denke ich sehr glücklich machen (und das ist nicht nur die rosarote Urlaubsbrille).

Nächstes Ziel: Raus aus Ostdeutschland.

P.S.: In eimem Coffeeshop wurde ich gefragt ob ich AfD gewählt habe als sie erfahren hatten, woher ich komme. Danke, liebe Mitbürger, für unseren wunderbaren Ruf in Deutschland.

Und gleichzeitig auch unser Arbeitslosengeld! Schrödinger’s Ausländer

Arbeitszeitgesetze go brrrr