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Cake day: June 29th, 2024

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  • If you live paycheck to paycheck, that means that you can eat cheap food and ideally pay your bills. If something breaks, it will stay broken. If food prices go up, you’ll get hungry. If you cannot pay rent, you’ll become homeless in certain parts of the world. It gets worse if you have kids.

    The result: constant stress which will remain with you for the rest of your life, even if your situation gets better.

    If you can read Dutch, try to find the book by the Flemish journalist Tim 's-Jongers (apologies if I spelled his name wrong). He wrote a very poignant book on how it is to be poor and what it did to his mental state, even if he has a stable income at the moment. I am not sure whether that book was translated into English.






  • Here’s a somewhat cynical take: marketeers do it for the money. Period. Back when I a student myself, I met many types of students. Marketing students could roughly be classified as ‘in here for the money’ and ‘I do not know what to do otherwise’. There was no real sense of activism or any desire to make the world a better place (except for themselves that is).

    Throughout my career I met with many marketeers. They were nice to work with, but I never met anybody in marketing who was inclined to use their skills for a good cause.





  • kubok@fedia.iotoLinux GamingLaptop recommendations?
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    2 months ago

    Those are US brands, tariffs and all. As OP specifically mentions Euros, they would be better off buying a European brand.

    I have a 2022 Tuxedo model that has served me very well so far. It has Linux out of the box (a spin of Ubuntu with a customized kernel and some open source hardware tools) and the price is decent.

    Slimbook is apparently good as well, but I have no personal experience with those.


  • I have a similar problem with certain shirts in the armpit region, so here’s my €0,02:

    • Soaking said shirts in vinegar for a few hours before washing may help. It is said that that prevents black clotthes from bleaching as well, so that’s two advantages.
    • UV light seems to help. In other words: on a sunny day, hang your clothes outside to dry, inside out.
    • I have a biological detergent that specifically targets protein and fat based stains like blood, grease, et cetera. Soaking clothes in a solution with that stuff works best for me. However, I do not know whether that stuff is for sale outside the Netherlands.