So, the #Netherlands now has selected a prime minister for its new fashy govt. The new PM is not part of any party, and headed up the intelligence agency and the anti-terrorist agency. That doesn't sound foreboding at all...
@Raffo NL is pretty efficient, but let's just say trying to get citizenship there is going to get a lot less fun there soon, especially if you aren't white.
If you're interested in trying #Linux, feel free to ask me any questions about it. I've been on it since the late 90s, so there's a decent chance I can answer your questions.
These days, most distributions are pretty easy. I personally prefer Fedora for having a nice release cadence while not doing whatever Ubuntu is doing lately, but I wouldn't recommend it for someones first just because it leaves off some proprietary things out of legal caution.
Sure, it's not hard to add, but it's an annoyance I wouldn't like to bother new users with.
The Dutch VVD being kicked out of the EU liberals for joining a coalition with the Dutch fash, and the German fash AfD being kicked out of the EU far-right for being too much even for LePen are things that slightly cheer me up.
@adnan There's a reason I said "slightly". We're not out of the woods by a long shot, but seeing some in-fighting amongst the right is not a bad thing.
Agreed, and author is a much nicer term. Content and content creator puts the agency and importance on the place that holds the content more than on the actual creator of said content.
@ainmosni
probably the only thing people call themselves that's more cynical late-stage capitalism than "content creator" is "influencer".
OTOH, probably many influencers really are not much more than content creators, because they produce nothing of value, only covert advertising and bullshit
On Saturday, I was invited by a #German friend to come over for an asparagus dinner.
For those who don't know, Germans go absolutely WILD for asparagus around this time of year.
I was a bit nervous. as I never liked asparagus, so in the 8 years of living here, I just never joined in #spargelzeit. So this would be the first time I tried them here.
Well, I've been missing out, it was super delicious, and I wonder what was wrong with all the other asparagus meals I had before.
As I went to bed last night, the moment I laid down, I started to smell toast. Of course, the first thing on my mind was wondering if I was having a stroke.
Luckily I had no other symptoms, and realised that the smell came through my open window...
Just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Z3UXLZMDo and it justified my choice of making fedi my only social media. I am kinda sad that they didn't even mention fedi as an alternative though.
I'm honestly still in shock from just how horrible the new coalition in the #Netherlands is. I mean, I knew it was going to happen for over a decade, but now that it actually happened... fuck.
I don't follow news from my home country #netherlands much, but I just saw that the coalition is going as fashy as possible. With the liberals (note for Americans, liberalism is not left wing in most of the world) being the most left wing party in the coalition.
@adnan Yes and no, I'm not a fan of how we elevate cars in our culture, but most of them are at least competently built. The cybertruck is such a disaster, that it just keeps bringing entertainment to those of us who hated the concept and the person who forced it through from the beginning.