I heard there was a person hired specifically to keep Elon away from the critical areas so he doesn’t try to overrule a decision and destroy the company.

Chainmail

It sounds like a faulty device to me. I recommend reaching out to customer support at a minimum.

I didn’t know you could use different launchers until a few weeks ago. I’m so much happier with Lawnchair.

Yes, microG is on /e/OS by default. I believe my bank uses some of the security features from Play Services that aren’t in microG.

I’m not 100% sure that it can’t be fixed, but it’s such a minor nuisance that I don’t think it’s worth my time to investigate.

Fairphone 6

My bank app will install, but I can’t login unless I also install Google Play Services. The website works fine without.

No issues with other apps. I do prioritise installing from F-Droid whenever possible.

Fewer hours should be a good thing.

Capitalism ruined that by taking the income from the people who were working and giving it all to the already rich people.

With adequate distribution of wealth (such as universal basic income), people will rejoice when their job is replaced by automation, because then they’ll have more free time.

Most EVs have a comparable weight to ICE cars, maybe slightly higher. Modern cars have been getting much bigger and much heavier overall (thanks America), so the EV battery weight barely makes a difference in comparison.

An EV is still better overall than a combustion car, and no car is still better than an EV.

Personally, I’d like to see everyone driving their own trams everywhere. No tire particulates at all. Ignoring all possible downsides, it’s the best option out there.

He threw around his father’s illegal emerald money and got praised when some of it came back.

If you have that much money and invest randomly, you have a good chance of making more. You also didn’t hear about all the people who tried the same and failed, so there is some amount of selection/survivorship bias.

Elon Musk has proven himself to be an idiot who only makes things worse when he overrules the engineers. The engineers are the smart ones, Elon just takes the credit.

Waterfox

What about an EV? I hear second hand EVs are quite affordable now.

Clickbait headlines to a paywalled article.

“Ask people what they hate about socialism/communism and they’ll describe capitalism.”

Cat on my lap

I stayed a week to get the cheapest flights available.

Upon returning, I realised I’d made a mistake. The last week had been the happiest week of my life, and I didn’t want to leave them.

Just after returning home, my state closed all borders to incoming travelers. If I were to go back, it would be a one way trip.

I found a hire car, packed all my belongings in it, said goodbye to my family, and started the long drive to move in.

6 months later, I was trying to decide if I wanted to get married or not. I tried to compare the two options as extremes: living with them every day for the rest of my life with no breaks, or never speaking to them again. I couldn’t find the slightest issue with the former, and the latter terrified me.

I proposed. They were very surprised. After several minutes of me confirming that this was not a joke, they got excited and said yes.

Neither of us wanted a big wedding. With family scattered over 1000km, Covid restrictions provided a good excuse. We got married with just the celebrant and 2 witnesses.

My mother correctly understood the scale of the wedding when preparing the wedding cake, and made us a 2-tiered wedding muffin.

I took a bus for 3 hours to visit a friend, they drove 9 hours to visit the same friend. I thought it was unfair for them to drive back on their own so I offered to share the drive.

I still don’t know why they accepted. I also didn’t have a plan to get home from their house. I guess it didn’t matter because we’re married now.

I’m managing my ADHD symptoms for now, but the one thing I can’t do is navigate the health system.

How is anyone with ADHD supposed to get help? It’s like the system was hand made to be impossible for neurodivergent people.

Or an apple pie that is 100% apple.

I once wrote a 2 line, 10 word script that had 9 bugs in it. I’m not overly proud of that one.

Those lazy immigrants, sitting at home doing nothing, taking all our welfare and jobs.