Dyskolos

Why? What’s wrong with that? A normal job and a normal transaction. Married though, I dont do this 😁

What is wrong with genuine affection? The least of us are that lucky. Sex you can have with everyone and get it everywhere. You can even buy it, if you want. But love and affection is a rare commodity you can’t enforce or buy or…

What? I thought it was mostly christian women?

The trend is having a fourth car, so there’s your goal :-)

Hehe, yeah exactly that. What I observed in the last 40yrs is that the more people earn, the more they spend. Mostly just to show off how not-poor they are to people they don’t really care about. Got a raise of 1000,-? And 1005,- were pushed to “life-style”. Never really got it. If you have what you need, why more?

If I would raise an empty cup in the streets, people would probably throw cash in it :-)

I mean, enjoy life as much as possible, but you don’t need to do that in a poser-car, poser-house or by buying fancy poser-clothes (which still are made with slave-labour). I do spend a lot in my hobbies, i admit that. But I’m not going nuts here and it’s my passion…

To be fair, growing up nowadays and drowning in stupid social media that 24/7 tells you how poor you are, no matter how rich you actually are, probably leaves a mark.

I was lucky to be born at the right time, self-employed directly outta school in the booming IT-market. That and no desire to live large. I’m a simple and horribly cheap ass. So no big secret, just luck and a passion for my hobby at the right time. It was also work, but…different.

Even a “dream job” is just a job that you hate the least. It might even bring some joy here and there, but in the end you’re still on a leash. I tried working, never for long. Then I gave up on that and retired. Like 25yrs ago or so.

But what’s the problem with exactly this answer to this stupid “what is your dream job?”? It’s an honest and good answer. Except maybe in a job-interview 😁

There is a reason. Just none that would care for you or your suffering…

He might’ve had a vision and happened to get rich with it, I doubt any heir/successor will remain a private company. Hope yes, realistic optimism? Nah.

They have the strongest, uncontestable monopoly right now. The immeasurable profits a public listing would rake in, would have to stand against a vision of being in total control, alone, forever. I don’t know many people who wouldn’t take the quick and immensely road of gold over the long-run tight grip over the industry.

But maybe I’m wrong. I hope I am. It’s steam alone that made linux-gaming an actual thing.

Confirming your bias surely helps. Better than agitating you with stupid facts or disgust you with nasty truths.

Upgraded my homelab with 256GB right before the prices went nuts. Lucky me.

But before I bought the best GPU at the time for absolute peak-price, adamant it would rise further and never going back.

So…universe equalized for me. For now.

The love for steam will ultimately bites us in the arse in the future. Wenn gaben signs off and some not like minded fellow takes over and they IPO. Then the hobby called gaming will go south with light speed.

I dread this day, despite me boycotting steam so hard when it went live for that (and other) reason(s). I only caved in with L4D2 and hence put like a quarter mil into a virtual library that can vanish any day. Hopefully I’m already dead then 😁

Nonsense! It feels like yesterday, lemme check the facts and teach you…ah fuck. Now I hate you 😢

can’t block anything essential. “iphones” are the ad in itself :)

Hehe, yeah maybe even like that. I would not even lift an eyebrow if that came out. I’d guess a lot of people actually follow those advices…look at eToro (if they’re still alive).

One of my broker gives me AI-advice on trading. And yeah, that is reaaaaaaly a bad idea 😂

Chat, you forgot chat. But yes, that’s about. Nothing AI could do for me, even if I really really really wanted it to.

I guess they don’t even know themselves but are forced to market the shit. And usually people will just gulp down what gets pushed into their throat, digitally.

If that would spare me a human interaction then that’d be considered a plus! At least.

You’re the expert here, why would I dare to argue.

Yeah sure, should’ve guessed it doesn’t…

There were many “new” banks. Free and easy. But no offices. Places are extremely expensive, people are too. That shit trickles down. And yup, total bullshit but that’s what it is here (germany). A handful majors that have offices all around, but those cost. Even with income they still charge you. Even though you deposit a ton of cash THEY will gamble with, they still charge you for that :-) One even charges me for every transaction separetely. Like 5 fucking cent i think. On top of the basic charge. Very sucky for an account with a large volume of transactions.

The worst with those “modern” banks on the other hand is not only the app-shit, but also they only accept you with video-ident. Some video-conferencing-bullshit where like 512831 “legitimate interest”-partners have your very details and video at hand. Costs them just some bucks, all other identifications are more expensive and hence ignored.

Last bank-account I needed to switch phones with the app, and they locked me out. “Due to security-reasons”. I needed a FULL verification process again. My response “I don’t do video-chat, period” was ignored. I was effectively kicked because “security” kept them accepting phone A in my hand granting access to phone B in my other hand. Over the same wifi, at the same location, by the same fingerprint. Withdrew all my money, overdrafted to max just to piss them off and canceled my account. You probably guess how fast they could suddenly be with REAL customer-support :-)

Long story short: Most people just don’t care. They do the video-ident, always use credit- or debit-cards, and never ever stepped foot into a bank-office. And those that care about offices, usually don’t care about the cost. I’m just a horrible cheap-ass :-)