Fleppensteyn

It shouldn’t be needed but if you want extra privacy, you can try torsocks.

Travel, nothing tech related

Fwiw, my blog’s statistics say Linux is around 10% and I know a lot of browsers identify themselves as running on Windows when they’re not, so I wonder how it’s measured.

I didn’t downvote but probably people won’t sit through a long video when the points he’s making could be a short list. At least give a summary.

The Dutch timezone was actually UTC + 20 minutes until WW2.

More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

So make things even harder to find? A classic menu bar is not clutter!

Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with beer.

Everyone just copied everything from each other. Floppy, then Twilight CDs. Then came the internet and exploring music there was better than sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio to quickly press record. It was normal when I was young to share, not really an active choice.

Only a few years ago, I found fireflies living near me. I never knew they existed in Europe.

Government decided to level their habitat though. They’re building a wildlife rescue center, ironically.

You never tried installing Wine?

Depends on the country. I once got some people in trouble when I passed through Germany because I didn’t know internet is heavily censored/surveilled there. Haven’t had trouble anywhere else though. Do some research on your country.

The biggest threats come from the movie industry. Just use streaming sites for movies and series, torrent the other stuff.

Look into Tribler, I2P and Utopia.

The just important thing a teacher explained to us: our university’s core business is handing out diplomas. That’s where they get their financing. Everything else is just a cost. That’s probably why the level was as so low and I could redo all my failed tests until I passed. Most of my school time I spent looking out of the widow, bored.

It’s so different from other countries where they actually teach. But somehow our diplomas as worth the same.

On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.

People coming over for work/business: expats.

Unemployed people migrating to look for a better life or job: (im)migrants.

That’s how I understood it.

I’m kind of in between. I’m not an expat, but immigrant doesn’t sound right neither. I just call myself a foreigner.

It’s strange how I’ve seen this exact claim before. How many expats do you know? I know a bunch of expats and there are quite a few Asian people in the expat community.

Not at all :) But I suppose it was obvious I was a tourist

Yes, I didn’t spend a lot of time in Germany but it happened several times. I traveled by train and they claim the train stations are where people do their business

It would at least help if they stop assuming the only reason a foreigner from the free west would come through Germany is to sell weed.

They make you empty your pockets and pat you down.

They look like gangsters claiming to be police, don’t even show a badge until you ask for it, they want all your stuff, like your wallet, to search through it.

At least it takes away one reason for undercover German police to annoy foreigners with their “random” drug tests