Multiple good hypotheses here. I’d like to add my own. The governments can be viewed as a modern iterations of religious cults, and there is no bigger taboo in a religious organization than questioning the basic dogma.

Try to question democracy in a democratic republic and you immediately get the weird looks, and irrational dismissal. 9 times out of 10 this self preservation instinct is good and beneficial to everyone involved, because giving a benefit of doubt to closeted authoritarians would be a mistake. That one time somebody really wants to have an honest discussion, it simply sucks.

If it does not help, try limiting the maximum number of active connections in qbittorrent.

The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.

Yet somehow the same people can be trusted to select the best among them to make the rules for everyone.

But also more open for the vendors to come up with new and creative ways to violate the protocol.

I sense huge r/antiwork vibes. I hope it will be at least as much fun.

Just make sure any power saving features are disabled. That is, if the 3000km journey to wiggle the mouse is not on your bucket list.

Every time I feel like I finally get kubernetes, somebody surprises me by talking about very specific, complex modern technologies being used to do basically the same thing we’ve been doing for decades by simple tools.

And I always experience the same urge to re-grow a tail and climb a tree.

Our backup server has a chatbot now. If that’s not throwing things at the wall, I don’t know what is.

Not destroyed, merely transformed. Human waste can be turned into fertilizer. Still no theft in sight…

We’d be better off going back to barter than trying to peacefully pry the system from their clutches.

Normal people would just start selling the beige shirts…

No need to do even that. If a simple piece of software becomes a company, it’s 99% a scam.

I use miscale 1 with gadgetbridge. Homeassistant has also autodiscivered it, but I’m hessitant to pair it with 2 different devices so no idea if it actually works.

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2024/12/14/7648345e7ed04278.mp4

Personally, I’m a big fan of leaving. When shooting, or barbed wires are imminent, just pack your family, some essentials and go have a long boring life somewhere else.

As long as you’re alive, you have options. And the majority of them are usually better than just giving up and dying, either by a civil war or under the occupation forces.

The only thing not clear is the timing. How close is the shit from the fan at any particular moment?

The goal of the hostile country is to cause chaos and conflict. It does not care if an insider or outsider does it.

The only way to win is not to play.

That’s one of the most dangerous myths about marxism and similar ideologies.

It wouldn’t work even if everybody had their best intentions in mind, and did their absolute best to contribute.

Everyone living together on a shared plot and exchanging goods & services instead of money.

Can’t imagine looking for an alcoholic shoemaker willing to exchange a pair of shoes for 10 liters of vodka.

You say negative income tax, I hear business subsidies.