I see more people in my profession (programming) doing the four-day work week, but we’re still in an extreme minority. Outside of this field, it’s even worse. The liberal and conservative parties are actively pushing against it. Almost every day there’s an article where some rich CEO whines about young people being lazy. Added to that: Our aging population and a general lack of workers paired with aggressive anti-immigration politics - they also don’t help this cause.

So yeah, more people are doing it (especially in IT), which makes me hopeful. But I still don’t see it getting rolled out in a big fashion anytime soon, unfortunately. Especially because salary levels in Germany are already very low and not everyone can afford the loss of pay switching to a four-day work week.

I just know I’ll never go back. The amount of energy I gained by just having a day more to myself per week is extraordinary.

Yes, but it’s actually an “It’s Thursday!” feeling.

The four day work week is amazing.

The nightmare PS2 dirty disc screen

To be fair, PS2’s are so damn rock-solid new generations can experience this for many years to come. They just gotta get one.

There’s a curated list of no-bullshit mobile games which are real fun, without any microtransactions: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

Mobile Gaming can be fun. :)

Bring back Asbestos!

Nice Rick&Morty copypasta you got there.

It doesn’t have to be a flagship. Just make sure the phone has a decent amount of RAM. There are even modern phones that come with Android Go and 2GB of RAM that are not futureproof and absolute crap.

I tend to look for phones that are supported by LineageOS so I know there will be community updates.

BearMcCreary used a Hurdy Gurdy to make the music for the TV show “Black Sails”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utLXgOnIwdo

Might give you an idea how hard this instrument is to master.

vogons.org - we’re all stuck in the 90’s, tinkering with old computers.

Got a massive raise, switched to the four-day work week because I can afford it now, went to the cinema almost every week and watched a shit-ton of great movies. I even attended a marathon with all Harry Potter movies back to back and slept in the cinema.

No regrets.

I love "Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos". I even run its official fansite.

To this day, I have never finished the game because it's hard. I mostly play it like a sandbox space pirate simulator. :D

Oh I got called that, too. Similar problems. Being a teenager was rough.

Debian for the server, Fedora for the desktop. 💪

I just got an email today that they're raising the price to 13€ here in Germany starting December. I think I'll pass and go the pirate way again. That aggressive behaviour against adblockers while also raising the prices feels like a scummy move.

Loved this show. Started to go downhill when they introduced those nazi aliens though. And without John Rhys-Davis it wasn't the same anymore…

MacOS came from NeXTstep and OpenStep, it has nothing to do with Gnome.

Exporting a Google Doc to HTML creates the worst structure I've seen in a long time. They can't even export lists correctly.

It feels like they built this in the IE6 days and never touched it again.

My employer wanted to use it to manage privacy policies, site notices and other legal documents of our clients. Greeeeat fun when it's time to embed this stuff on a client's website.

Either it looks like shit or I spend 1-2 hours to fix the formatting manually…

They will fall, the enshittification has already begun with the integration of influencer-related groups.

Tried Gnome on Fedora, it's just a blatant copy of macOS. I really don't get the concept behind it. You can probably somehow work comfortably with multiple programs and monitors, but I couldn't figure out how.

It's just annoying that there's not a real program bar and the dock vanishes all the time so you have to go to the upper left corner to bring it back and then go to the bottom to actually use it again…and why is there no desktop? Who needs empty space with a background image and nothing else? That's even worse than macOS.

KDE isn't perfect either, setting up the menu bars for the first time was tedious, because I wanted the names and icons of the programs I have open on the current screen, ungrouped. Default is just icons, because a good-looking dock is better than a functional one, I guess…

There's no way to duplicate menu bars and use them on another monitor, I had to make them three times for three monitors. But at least I had the option and now I love it.