When the day comes that Brein starts sending notices to pirates, these pirates will just move to Newsgroups and VPNs.

In my country torrent sites are blocked, so I use a search plugin for qBittorrent to find Linux ISOs. I don’t quite remember which one I use or how I installed, but it was quite simple. Google is your friend.

After a certain point money becomes much less of a motivator I find. I could probably make 20-30k more in the US.

But I live in a MCOL area, family and friends are close, I work only 4 days a week, my job provides me with an electric car off my choice (with private use), I live close to countries I enjoy spending my vacations in, I have affordable healthcare, I have a very solid safety net, decent pension system, public infrastructure is fantastic, I live knowing my fellow citizens enjoy many of those same things, etc.

I’m not really going to compromise on all that other stuff. The two things I am envious off are space and access to the wilderness.

Dutch American Friendship Treaty.

In what county do meters still look like that though? I see them here in the US, but back in my metric home country they certainly don’t look like iron age torture devices anymore.

Is that the power of iMessage in the US? Peer pressure?

I personally can’t stand iPhones because their back navigation is so inconsistent across apps. In Android with gestures on, you can swipe from either side of the screen to go back nearly anywhere. On an iPhone sometimes there is a back button up top, sometimes you use the left swipe, but the right swipe still doesn’t work last I tried. I switched between the platform in the early days, but since the 5s I’ve not been back.

The only thing I’m definitely getting on my next phone is a flag ship chip. My OnePlus Nord is perfect for me except it’s not quite as quick as I want it to be (to render Gran Turismo 4 in native resolution at stable framerate).

I use it because I can use it to block ads. If a page doesn’t work, I’ll use chrome.

I actually use Chrome on Windows. I just dislike ads more than I like Chrome.

Holy hell does your phone even fit in your pocket?