You are definitely not alone, my friend.

Born in Portugal, but due to some traumatic events and childhood traumas, I don’t like living there. And just don’t fit in with their personality and lifestyle.

I live in the UK for 10 years now and honestly I like it here, and feel much better here than my home country.

Try having some local friends and reflect how you can integrate more. It doesn’t need to be a a big change. Just small changes.

Funny enough, there is a Portuguese singer that sings: “… I am well where I am not …”

I guess it’s the case for me, you and many people.

It’s fine! Totally fine! Because they have Copilot.

Badumm tss

I’ll see myself out…

Your rant is valid, but it’s not just Google, it’s every single tech company is doing the same, one way or another.

Apple also has the Find My, which is quite useful, even though I know it tracks my location.

Even if you leave your phone at home, there are cameras everywhere and they can know exactly where you are or your last known location.

Data is gold and it’s being collected by every website, app, company, etc.

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 for the PlayStation.

I wanted a PlayStation so much but simply didn’t have the money. I was saving for it.

But bought the game so I could go to my friend’s house and play it on his PlayStation.

If you read my very first comment on this, I didn’t even talked about deterrence.

I mentioned the consequences that if someone (attacked or attacker) uses a nuclear weapon.

The actual nasty effects, like radiation.

I don’t care about deterrence at this point. I care about people. People that will die if this is carried out.

Sure if someone says “I have nuclear weapons so you will obey me.”, of course others will also have nuclear weapons so they don’t get bullied.

But my point is way past that.

But I am asking to the people doing the attacking, but also asking to anyone who has and is capable of launching a nuclear weapon.

I’m not judging or disregarding who has nukes as form of deterrence, but the “technical” consequences of a nuke.

We learnt about Hiroshima and Chernobyl (although Chernobyl was a nuclear accident and not a launch).

I mean the consequences of actually using the nukes…

I understand having nukes as a deterrent, but think about the consequences of an actual launch, in either side.

We know who always pay the death price, and they are not the ones in power.

I don’t get why I’m being downvoted when pointing out the bad consequences of a nuclear strike, in fact, I don’t care. My point still stands.

Ok, I get it.

And what about the consequences?

Have they thought about that?

Am I missing something here?

How nuclear weapons can be a safe path, or a matter of survival?

Do these so called “leaders” have in mind the catastrophic effects of launching nuclear missiles?

All they want to have nuclear weapons so they can bully their neighbours or enemies, until someone launches a nuclear attack and then everyone retaliates.

But they have any idea about the after effects? Isn’t Chernobyl a hard lesson for these people?

Seriously, the world is being run by selfish lunatics with too much power in their hands.

I would never guess that a winning lottery ticket would come as ram sticks, but here we are.

What you mean sharing data? Like a database? Or files?

I use Hetzner, from Germany. They are good and relatively affordable. But they have increased the prices recently.

You also have Scaleway, from France, also good.

It depends what you want to achieve.

Portugal used to have a distro called Caixa Mágica (Magic Box), that was mainly used for kids in school, usually in dual boot with Windows. This used to be the way kids would have access to the Linux ecosystem for the first time.

Also some government branches also used it as alternative to Windows, I believe.

But since Caixa Mágica was a government venture, they made it proprietary, so it’s not widely available to download.

Also, I have no idea if this distro still receives any updates and improvements.

Some bit of history, certainly.

And then you take a bath in wine or beer, while you consume it.

Ah! The dream. 😅

My M1 MacBook Air is still alive and kicking (although I dislike being an American brand - bought it before the whole American mess).

But if I was in the market looking for a laptop, definitely would be a Tuxedo.

Now that’s a truly plot twist.

Tuxedo laptops seem like they have a solid build.

Nice design and I think they are based in Germany.

They even provide their own OS which is based on Ubuntu.

I’m test driving Deezer as Spotify alternative.

Looks really promising. You can even import your Spotify playlists and music to Deezer.

I’m sure there are projects being planned but I’m not aware of anything in specific.

This whole EU migration is still quite recent so people and Companies are using existing European tech, and then later might come up with their own projects.

I’m also onboard doing this and I’ve been doing what I can.

I use Proton mail with custom domain, and Proton pass and basically all Proton apps.

Got a 2nd hand phone where I flashed sailfish OS.

I have my own private cloud using Hetzner VPS and backed up everything from iCloud into my own cloud.

I’m also a software developer and will start soon working on some projects, but still need to come up with a plan.

For now I’m just migrating everything to existing European alternatives.

Any ideas for future projects just share here.

“Sir, what about Greenland?”

“Who?!”