We have this thing called “CumEx” going on in Central Europe. Some criminal bankers literally rob the states of hundreds of billions in tax money, everybody knows about it, but nobody does anything about it. That is Al Capone level of true crime, when the criminals are so powerful that the authorities just look the other way.

When people say “We cannot do that because of GDPR/insurance”. I do not know, why these two “reasons” trigger me so hard, but: you dismissed an idea within microseconds, because you ever read the GDPR or the insurance conditions? You really know all the court rulings and intricacies around those of the last decades, to know within half a second, that something is not feasible?

Really, those are just magic words which for some reason makes everybody go “yep, that must be true. We can’t do anything anymore, because of insurance or GDPR. That ist how the world works”.

not everyone has the free time to make ice cream themselves

But they have the free time to drive some extra 20 miles (supposedly) for ice cream? I mean, the whole thread exploded in shitty takes, but driving some 35ish kilometres extra for some extra ice cream is a wild take to begin with 😅

It’s different though, you swipe to get to the other characters instead of clicking the button more often. T9 was awesome in its time, but it also kind of relies on a dictionary, like the swiping on “standard” smartphone keyboards. In ThumbKey you type every single character, but it is fast, if you internalize the layout.

Has anybody ever really said that “I have nothing to hide” in the wild? I only ever read that in online discussions about how to counter that argument. Proponents of surveillance I met were either “companies need to have all the data, else they don’t survive the harsh competition” when it comes to surveillance capitalism or the say “All the crimes, protect the children” when it comes to state surveillance. They seem to be aware that they lose privacy, but they believe that it is OK for what they get.

ThumbKey made the difference for me. Completely new way to define touchscreen keyboards, but after some months now, I can type blindly on a touchscreen 👍. Caveat: in the beginning typing will be very, very slow.

Ceramic instead of Teflon is where it’s at.

Family is happy with Matrix (Synapse) and Element as clients. Have members with iOS and Android, smooth experience for all users. But, to be fair, I do have easy users: they basically just send texts, emojis and an occasional picture.

I did not like the admin side of things too much so far, but I recently migrated to a Docker setup, which seems easier to maintain.