gusgalarnyk

joined 1 year ago
[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's worth it. I'm almost two years in Germany. Wouldn't move back for a million dollars (although at 3 I could be bought). Work on the local language, volunteer or other community involvement activities, treat it like the new home it is. We're fortunate to be able to move to a new country, try to be a part of improving it and earning your spot there. I'm even more fortunate to be white, male, straight etc - assuming you're at least some of those things, do your best to counter the anti-immigration fear mongering that comes out of the political right. It effects you now, but more importantly it's ramping up and it'll effect people less fortunate far worse.

Hope you love it and welcome to Europe.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I never finished it because the alien would teleport too much. I need to install the larger leash mod and give it another go. It's also sooo long for such a tense game. I loved everything about it and I'm upset I haven't finished it lol.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ergodox EZ has my whole hearted recommendation. Their keyboards are amazing and the only thing better for ergonomics would be a more custom curved piece.

They're a good company, I would recommend anyone checking them out.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I've read it, I read the discussion around it, idk man. One guy's thoughts on a company and it's founder isn't enough to move me off of something without better proof, better alternatives, and worse crimes than maybe having a bad long term vision.

Hopefully every company outgrows it's founder and becomes a system. We'll have to see, right now I'm satisfied and that gets me off Google and signals to others I'm willing to pay.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ya, for an alpha game with unfinished assets and lacking polish - it's stupid good. I've been out of the mobs scene for like a year or two and haven't had a shooter register for a while, so maybe I'm starved, but this thing keeps me coming back every night.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

I recommend Kagi, I've been using it for about six months now and results - especially small web results like blogs - are so much better. I also have a pretty good time image searching compared to when I was on Google.

Yes it's paid, but that to me is the price of resisting enshittification. Find a company that isn't a publicly traded for-profit world-burner and pay them for their service. Is the idea of paying for email and search an alien concept to me? Yes. But I'm either paying Google whatever €120 a year in eyeballs on ads and an increasingly worse experience, or I'm paying €80 a year and getting a markedly better experience.

Now it's up to Kagi and Proton to not turn into shitty companies while other competitors catch up and we have a thriving ecosystem again.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Kagi seems to surface great independent content and I've been loving it.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's saying what you're attributing to "a specific lack of willpower" now has scientific backing that disagrees. Your take is old school and misinformed if the current science is correct. I personally haven't done research on the subject or read many studies but Adam Ragusea, a YouTube food science journalist covers this concept in one of his vids and several podcasts surrounding food science and (in my case) the drugs coming down the pipeline to regulate body weight touch on the research as well.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Until I trust my government to not go hard right, until I can own my housing wherever I want to live in a given decade, until work goes/stays full remote and/or reduces total working hours, until I feel like I have too much money that I could lose the cost of a child and not risk being in the danger zone - until then kids aren't something I can guarantee a good life and that's not an acceptable starting place for me.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's just a weird concept in general despite being wholly believable. I don't blame you nor think you're wrong or right. Just a hilarious and sad picture, a societies main hall for political dialogue being an endless feed of algorithmically addicting content. Idk, just a boring dystopia kinda thing.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oof, if Instagram's comment section is where we're having political discussions these days that's disheartening. There's clearly a need for a town square application for these sorta things.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is such a shame. I just moved to Germany and I haven't had much time to engage in politics but it seems a fundamental misunderstanding of the solutions we need is still present here (possibly with the help of destabilizing countries like Russia or China who seem to have strong misinformation campaigns running online).

Guess I need to accelerate getting involved with my local politics as soon as possible. What social platforms do Germans use to communicate about politics? I used to post on Facebook for Americans, and obviously reddit was a good place to have small conversations, but is there any place I can directly address conservative talking points in a public forum. The fact that young people are voting far right tells me we're losing the digital battle more than anything.

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