Because a currency without a stable backing is completely volatile. Sure the value of normal currencies fluctuate, but apart from a few hyperinflation edge cases that’s at most a few percent each month.

Small cryptocurrencies fluctuate sometimes hundreds of percent each month and even the big coins can swing ±20% every few weeks. The only somewhat stable coins are the ones directly tied to real world currencies.

Having a currency that fluctuates this heavily in value creates the exact same problems as the ever changing US tarrifs did. There simply is no wax to reliably price goods and services for more than a few days. You essentially have to barter each trade.

No SA stormtroopers, no camps, no coup plot, nothing like that

These are all things that happen after the Nazis get in power which hasn’t happened yet. If you need proof about that, take a look at the us, they already started doing all of the above and are slowly ramping things up.

At the moment they are riling the people up. They try to block every change that would help the average person (not that there are a lot of those changes being done at the moment), while simultaneously blaming everything bad at any miniority group possible. They don’t have much of an actual Programm apart from black people bad and kill all trans but managed to get one third of the votes with hollow promises and beeing backed by a few of the biggest private media groups in germany.

The Verfassungsschutz (office for the protection of the constitution) considers the afd youth organization a right wing extremist group. While the afd may not be as bad as the nsdap was in its prime, half their members would wish that to be the case, so calling them nazis is fair game.

You can run steam games without opening steam as long as they don’t use the steamworks DRM or require an additional login (Ubisoft, Bethesda). Both of these issues are created by the developers / publishers, not steam.

it’s an annoyance for the sake of trying to get us to use auto sign in

Not really, that’s more in the realm of incompetence than malice. Its basically the cheapest and fastest way to implement multiple different log in methods within one login page.

Let’s say you have Google login, Facebook login, SSO (corporate single sign-on), Email/SMS codes and good old password and username. The easiest option would be to just put a different login button for each of these and be done with it. That works as long as your users know what type they should use.

But once you have a user that doesn’t know what he should use you need a backup login that always works. Thats what the standard login button is used for nowadays. When you put in your username/Email it checks the associated login method for that account and redirects you to the correct login page. That way multiple login methods can be accessed with the same starting page.

Sure, its mildly annoying for people that use a normal passwords, but considering that the overwhelming majority of people either uses Google sign in or just stays logged in, its a very easy decision to make for the developers.

The point I’m getting at is this: When a certain percentage of the population is diagnosed with a disorder, you have to ask whether we’ve started diagnosing ordinary human existence as a disease.

Its pretty mich a known fact that autism and ADHD were a somewhat beneficial trait in our hunting and gathering era. Hypervigilance makes you really good at spotting prey or predators and unsatisfied curiosity pretty mich forces innovation over a long enough time. The side effects that make life aliving hell in modern society weren’t nearly as detrimental back then. People lived in more communal small tribes and being a bit weird didn’t mean you get cast out and left to die alone.

Over time it became less and less useful. When the industrial revolution came along and everyone was supposed to let go of their individuality to instead work 12+ hour shifts pretty much only the negatives prevailed.

So yes, we are diagnosing a normal part of human existence as a disorder because in today’s society it is one. Mind you, its not diagnosed as an illness, something with a cause and potentially a treatment, its specifically diagnosed as a disorder, something that disrupts normal physical or mental function. It doesn’t really matter which genetic marker is the reason for your specific case of serotonin deficite that leads to the inability to concentrate and keeps your brain on 120% to compensate. The symptoms and their treatment are the same either way.

Each banking app usually has a separate password you have to set and every transaction requires some form of authorisation.

You could make an argument about security concerns in regards to biometric scanners in phones, but short passwords are a universal thing for people that dont care.

These games are build with a budged so high they either have to rival overwatch in its glory days or they get scrapped and written off as a loss since they will never be profitable.

Triple A studios have arrived in the corporate world a while ago were long term profits are irrelevant if your quarterly earnings aren’t what the investors want.

Considering the amount of legacy soft- and hardware the drivers have to interact with as well as all the fixes specific Programms need, its a complete nightmare to write these drivers. Especially since they pivoted from raw processing power to a mich more software supported system.

What I can’t excuse is the abysmal amount of quality control the seem to be doing.

Yes. What’s also true is that sometimes they must be. You will disagree until you find the exception.

No, there should never be any reason to connect these versions to the internet.

If you are talking about legacy software in a corporate setting, then a vm should do the trick 99% of the time. If that legacy software needs an internet connection (which is already questionable), then you bridge only the specific port it needs to the connected interface. If that doesn’t work either, then you get a separate PC explicitly for that software and disallow pretty much all other connections.

If you are talking about private use, then the only thing keeping you on a windows version older than 10 is your unwillingness to upgrade. Its understandable, but it doesn’t change the fact that these versions have massive security holes and shouldn’t be used anymore.

If the state of the Scottish energy grid is comparable to mainland Europe, then the prices go up due to increasing cost of infrastructure.

Renewables are a lot cheaper per kWh, but require a substantialy higher up front cost in infrastructure due to their decentralized nature.

Before renewables, the electricity only ever flowed in one direction, from the power plant down to the consumers. A few centralised main powerlines could deliver most of that.

With the increase in renewables that suddenly isn’t true anymore. Smal villages often are net positive, we’ve reached a point where even the medium voltage grid of entire regions is net positiv and the energy has to be transported somewhere else, sometimes even outside the country.

All this requires substantially more powerlines (or at least thicker ones, so still new cables). But more importantly, devices to measure the current load of the grid at all times and modernized equipment that can remotely be operated to respond to variing load.

Not to say that we should stop building renewables. All this infrastructure will be needed eventually eather way, but at least in the short term, investments will be needed regardless.

Most people that know what Kelvin is also know that is the same scale as Celsius, but that doesn’t mean its equally is convenient in everyday use.

The single best thing about the Celsius scale (and pretty mich the only thing that makes it better than Fahrenheit except of familiarity) is that 0°C is placed at the most impactful Temperature point for normal people.

Because its arguably worse than smoking cigarettes overall.

The health effects aren’t researched enough for a proper comparison between the two, but at least short term studies, while being inconclusive, show that vaping is just as damaging as smoking. The glycerine based liquid can damage your lungs more than smoking would. And while cigarettes have a lot more different carcinogens, what matters more is the amount.

In addition to that, vapes taste a lot better than cigarettes, which removes the first hurdle that smoking usually has. And this isn’t only relevant when talking about children, its the exact same thing for adults. Most smokers I know startet smoking more when they switched to vapes.

Then there is the whole issue with one time vapes and batteries in landfills

Asking an existing userbase for any kind of change will pretty much always result in a no.

If the project requires minimal resources and doesn’t have a major downside, then implementing your own version before asking is fine.

They didn’t serve a bunch of ex alcoholics a full bottle of whisky, all they did is make you scroll twice on your mouse wheel.

Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless

This is wrong and that’s the main issue. Most people don’t hate it, they are mostly indifferent and some may even think its a good thing. Most won’t notice any difference.

They actively thank Google for keeping their entire location data (maps timeline), why should it be any different with microslop keeping their files “safe”

It deosnt matter if trump dies, the Republican party has pretty mich made up their mind that there won’t be an election in the future.

They don’t care about public opinion anymore judging by everything they did in 2025 and all the rich oligarchs in america are either part of their club or are pressured to comply.

And with the epstine files pretty much out now the higher ranking Republicans are too scared to five up their power with the possibility of them getting prosecuted afterwards.

Even without Trump, the only way to get rid of the fascists will be to forcefully remove them which will end in a civil war.

If you want privacy, then the Tor browser wins, after that is mullvad, then a lot of Firefox forks, then firefox itself, then vanadium, then ungoogled chromium and maybe after that is brave.

Its somewhat decent I’m terms of security features in comparison to all the Firefox derivates, bit that’s simply cause its based on chromium.

Its only real feature is the ease of use which makes it a viable alternativ for non tech savy people that aren’t comfortable with the additional settup that the Firefox forks take to be on the same level.

I have less issues with it after switching to Linux and using solar than I had on windows with the official app.

My PC is 6 years old and was high end back than, so its still mostly up to date, but a lot of the time the Logitech app simply refused to work. I had to manually downgrade it multiple times and it even caused two BSODs for me. My headset had issues with its connection and the soundfilter just sounded awful.

Nah that’s just a lie. There was no major increase in lifespan, sure, but that’s mostly due to the fact that we are pretty close to the normal biological limit after we stopped early child deaths for the most part.

But in terms of living standards, a lot changed. In the time from 1980 to 2000 the internet emerged, information and entertainment slowly became available on demand for most people. Electronic devices became affordable even for “lower class” families. Smartphones slowly became a normal to own. Slowly increasing globalization gave pretty much everyone the chance to see a bigger part of the world than ever before. At the same time a lot of the most problematic illnesses got eradicated. Polio is gone and there are vaccines for stuff like hepatitis. Insulin slowly became available for everyone (apart from the corporate hellhole that’s the USA). With the increase in global trade you could by fruits that your grandparents barely knew about.

That’s not to say that everything was good. If you were part of a surpressed group back then, your life definetly wasn’t easy, but even then there was slow progress towards acceptance. While climate change was already an ever present topic, most prognoses were still optimistic until the early 2000s. The biggest climate issue was the ozone hole that got mostly fixed by now. Even if you lived in the 3rd world and still suffered a lot more than others, you could still slowly see amenities that europe took as granted come into your country.

You kinda got the wrong point of the comment. This wasn’t about the meaning of life or coming to terms with the fact that your life will not matter in the grand scale of things.

Its about having no hope that things will ever get better for you. Most generations over the last few hundred years either saw a great increase in living standards for everyone or had technological breakthroughs during their live-time that promised a better life for them.

Even if the current situation was bad for them the future didn’t look completely black. There was always that small voice in the back that said “Maybe in the future it will be better”.

Nowadays? I dread every technological breakthrough and every election cause it brings us one step closer from endstage capitalism back to feudalism ruled by a few cleptomanic psychopaths. The general populace is purposefully kept as close to their breacking point as possible to stop them from rising up and seemingly every single nation is drifting towards fascism while trying their absolut hardest to implement a full scale surveillance system.

The only reasonable way to cope with that is being completely apathetic to your surroundings, which makes it even harder to find enough joy in life to get trough the daily boring grind for survival.