I have but they weren’t orthodox

They turned religion into bookkeeping lol

What a bunch of weirdos

dreaming of smaller roads and walkable cities.

Grass is always greener, maybe.

It’s a bit like us going: “i love how people in the US live close to a central park, above a coffee shop, in a big appartment, with a bunch of friends, on a bartenders wage”.

The romanticized vision of EU comes from disneyland-esque tourist destinations (which are lovely!), and romcoms, I think. You’re dreaming about a good holiday :). Day-to-day life, ofcourse, differs. (1)

You can ping yourself

It’s like I may have the longing for both America and Europe.

Montréal :)

The manual copy is a bit annoying, but in the end it’s maybe 10 minutes of work. Start the transfer in the evening, it’s finished in the morning.

US is a very big place with different cultures. I’ve only visited Boston, but have heard it’s not the same as Florida.

I always have this inner conflict of not knowing where I truly belong and what’s better for me/where I will be truly happy and feel more “home”.

I think you’ve spend a lot of time thinking about this, which I do too, sometimes too much :) Perhaps it’s possible to visit the US for a holiday, and find out if your expectations match experience?

I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.

I have 5 copies of all my files on 5 devices, synced using syncthing with staggered file versioning. 2 of those are with friends and family who let me put a thin client at their place.

To protect against me misconfiguring syncthing, or some bug deleting all copies, every 3 months I manually make a copy and put it on a hard drive into a fire resistant safe.

The downside is that it can take a long time to form these alliances. Belgium’s record is almost 2 years (out of a 5 year election cycle).

The government is the alliance that together gets >50% of the votes. That alliance falling through is the same as government (legislative and executive) disbanding.

Usually this means (1) hand over to a care taker government to have status quo continue (2) no more changes to law.

Then a few rounds of trying to find a new >50% alliance. After that, if necessary, new elections.

The reason it works differently in the US is because first-past-the-post voting always results in a 2 party dominance system. US alliances benefit from being formed before election, join blue team or red team. Here it’s after elections, with a lot of different combinations possible.

Classic Dave

Not really

Video games are an exception though, right?

I don’t use those, no

The benefit of OSS, to me, is that it’s not a black box. You see where your data goes, you get it to interact with the rest of your setup the way you want it (automation, backups, notifications, etc).

Closed source software, pirated or not, puts unnecessary limits on what I can do with my devices and my data.

Perhaps you’re in a not so lovely social bubble?

Everybody privately shit-talks everybody

That’s not the case 😕

Why the downvotes? People dislike Paris that much?

Hype