In my opinion, social media is extremely harmful to society. Fediverse has implemented some proper moderation, while those more popular platforms tend to amplify what makes this world crazy (and eventually completely destroyed).

If there’s one reason why it’s not okay that those platforms are more popular than the fediverse, it’s that at least the Fediverse has the chance to properly moderate content, while on those platforms it’s either unmoderated, or even worse, the quality content is oppressed.

Digital without a doubt.

• More convenient to travel with it
• Awesome how the e-ink looks just like paper and draws little energy
• Your entire library can take much less space
• Save the trees
• If it gets damaged, only your device will be destroyed, but your library (hopefully) remains (if you make backups)
• Instant access to basically any book (no need to wait for delivery or in-person shopping)

To me, my Kobo was one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Before buying it, I didn’t really read many books

• Bret Fischer’ Docker courses
• Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s JS courses are said to be good, I only tried his Vue course, that one is indeed good.
• Mosh Hamedani had great C# courses, but sadly he hasn’t been updating them, so by now they’re outdated. Could be still relevant for the basics.
• Asim Hussain’s JS courses
• Aaron Parecki’s The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth - I’ve found it a straight to the point explanation of the basics that should be enough for smaller projects, and also enough for you to make your further research when you need it.
• Not programming, but I would put Kody Amour’s math courses here as well.
• Nathan Stocks’ Rust courses are fine. I got them for free, if you watch out, you might find him posting coupon codes for free access to his courses. I haven’t found them especially excellent, but for free they’re actually pretty good.

Udemy.

The catch is, unfortunately 95% of the courses there are trash, and it can be a real challenge to find those 5% that are actually valuable.

Edit: on Udemy, there are almost always discounts. If you don’t see prices around €12-20, just wait a week or two.

“I’m sorry”

If it starts like that, it’s not gonna work, no matter what.

In fact, according to my experience, if you have to apologize for something, you’re already fucked. There’s no way to make it better.

SQL. There are so many SQL dialects. Only if there could be a way to standardize it…

I’ve just tried to search for ‘tank man’ and also ‘tiananmen square’ with DuckDuckGo’s image search, and both of them returned the picture we all know, that dictator Winnie the Poop doesn’t wanna see…

Basic cybersecurity skills, like

• don’t click on random links in random emails
• identify phishing/scam emails
• use a password manager & generate long enough passwords
• know how long a safe password is
• use unique passwords everywhere
• use an ad blocker
• don’t click on sketchy links
• identify sketchy links
• don’t share your personal data when it’s not necessary
• make offline & online backups
• change the admin and wifi passwords of your home router from the factory default
• have some sort of a firewall and antivirus software
• etc…

Hmm. In the country where I’m from, absolutely, that’s the case. The average level of IQ there is incredibly low, so it’s not really surprising.

Generally on the internet? Well… kinda yes. Of course, I know there are many cases thanks to social media garbage that are making people unwilling to read and use their brains to think, thus degrading their abilities to pay attention for a longer time, which would be required for reading even just a moderate length of text. Yes, I’m fully aware of that, and that’s a tragedy for today’s generation.

So why “kinda”? Apparently I tend to follow topics that actually require a certain level of intelligence, and the communities there usually have adequate reading and comprehension skills.

But yes, long story short, that’s the trend unfortunately. People just read less and less, and with that, their skills are degrading as well.

What?! That’s so cheap! Mine is 1000/50 (cable) for €60. Also Germany.

Same here.

For some reason, I trust the cleanliness of Airbnb’s more than hotels. Maybe this is baseless, maybe not.

Also, the amenities: you can never get a hotel room with a washing machine and a stove, so you either need to pack a lot of clothes or go to the laundry shop (if there’s any). And you cannot cook anything, you cannot even heat up leftover food. Hell, there aren’t even any cutleries.

Also, most of the case Airbnb wifi worked for me better than hotel wifi. Even if slow as hell, it’s still stable. But in a hotel… good luck with using the internet for anything.