If your phone is powered your location can be tracked. Secured or not: your location can always be tracked.

The rest is doubtful, always assume law enforcement has access at will.

Just don’t bring it.

Nou, het zal wel. Iemand koffie met een stroopwafel?

You mean continue as it has been for the last few hundreds of years, got it.

Really, looking at world history I can’t really find a time of which I think: oh, it would’ve been nice to be Russian back then!

Being Russia(n) is just one giant cluster fuck and has been for a very long time. Or maybe not one giant, but several very big ones with small breaks of a few years in between.

So I’m happy I live in NL.

The Nazis had to use hydrogen because that other gas was hoarded as a strategic reserve by another nation.

But still Nazis. So…

Anyway big flying things are cool. Still would be.

its just that planes are faster, cheaper to build, less of a hassle to land and take off…

I seriously cannot vote for a party which slogan was/is:

Vote no. Vote SP. (In Dutch this rhymes)

Really, with that slogan it just is a lost vote. They’re against everything. Or so it seems. Like Wilders the SP does not want to rule. Because ruling in NL means making a compromise. And they can’t. They wont do it. And thats been proven during the Roemer years. They could rule… but didn’t. Couldn’t risk it. Couldn’t compromise.

Like Wilders they want to stand at the sidelines screaming and fuming about everything which is wrong in their eyes. That’s the only way how they can legitimise their existence.

It’s better to vote for real parties who are not afraid of the Fallout of ruling in NL. Those who accept the probable hit to their popularity because they think the change they can achieve is worth it.

But SP, PVV, JA21, PvdD even GL of old… they don’t really want to rule. And i should also include DENK here. I’m a bit torn about NSC and BBB because they tried to rule but when faced with the harsh reality of being in government and finding those compromises they buckled. I Guess they’re finished because what they stand for, while laudable in some ways, just isn’t realistic. There are too many farmers in NL. There is too much nitrogen. A small country cannot produce the most pigs in the EU. It’s not sustainable.

NSC is build on the promise of being right, doing the right thing. But whats right for you can be very wrong for me…

Anyway, a vote for one of those is a lost vote.

And to add: Whoever thought it a good idea to put Timmermans at the front of the left… they are out of their minds. He is not charismatic, comes over as your annoying math school teacher you hated and left national politics not because he was so well regarded. There are so many very cool politicians on the left but Timmermans is not one of them. I just can’t wrap my head around that one.

Timmermans will lose them (again) the vote. Do something more with Lahlah. Or whoever. As long as its not the failed EU climate pope, Paulus de boskabouter , Timmerfrans or whatever nickname he carries these days.

He is the face of everything which was wrong with the PvdA.

Not that guy but another: No. You? Because Microsoft is a lot of things but walled gardens is something out of Cupertino. Not Redmond.

You can call MS shitty and I would fully concur but a walled gardens it’s not.

You don’t need ad, Exchange/outlook, m365, entraid. They’re nice for most users but you can live without and use other services in their place on any MS platform.

Now, iOS… Have fun with that.

FBI? not where I live!

(Laughs maniacally in hetero.)

Never. I sold these things long ago and learned quickly back then they are just scams.

You being lucky is an edge case.

No no no no. No.

You ever played DOOM? And i dont mean the recent incarnations, i mean the original one.

No Parry. Only damage and more damage. And lots of endorfines. BFE.

I hate parrying.

It was finished and buggy… it’s now finished, fixed and expanded.

You must have meant wookies.

Eve just fucked around blowing up shit. Like everything Apple.

Wall-e tried to clean the world.

Untill I saw UP. I just broke at that first scene. It’s just such a fantastic tale about life and the journey it is.

Up, wall-e, Toy story 1-3 are Pixar prime.

I somewhat got your arguments. I just don’t feel the same about current day powertoys. They are not needed, don’t add anything useful and don’t work in a lot of setups. Current day powertoys are not what powertoys of the past where.

MS being focussed on the wrong shit to soon: well that has been true ever since the company existed. In the end looking back each and every innovation they did was needed but just years too soon and way too rough around the edges. I Guess we’ll see the same with ai. Some things will stick and be used by others but refined.

All the things you say are mandatory are a distraction at best. And hog a lot of resources.

Spotlight run: adds nothing except being a slow down. It’s not that different from the standard search/run box. It just looks nicer. Way nicer.

Fancy zones: does not work reliable on multi monitor/big monitor setup. Useless in my use case. Has been for several years.

Fie renamer: … Really? This is a power tot these days?

Screen ruler: i don’t need rulers on my desktop, i need them in my apps.

Color picker: same. I do not have any use case for it. This is standard app functionality.

Every time i installed powertoys in the last 4/5 years i shrugged, cursed at Fancy zones for not working in my setup and removing it after a few days.

That’s the same usage loop as rainmaker or most stardock tools by the way. Good ideas but fucks up to many things.

The new tabbed shell. (Or not so new anymore these days) Now that is a real powertoy. Or the lnx subsysteem.

Vista was great. It just needed double the ram which was standard back then.

There are still functions of Vista MIA in w11. It was far ahead of it’s time.

If you don’t have the time to read a book,watch a movie or play a game you should not start it.

I’m over 50, like you only have a few hours, i have a tremendous backlog of games i just have to play and a family to provide for. (mechwarrior clans is the first one which comes to mind but i have dozens)

But i came back for this event. You miss nothing. Every weapon you can “buy” does not really alter the game or changes anything. The standard liberator is still one of the very best primaries.

So…we say the same thing? The bottle or the materials get reused when there is a deposit?

1000 super credits are easily farmed just by doing missions. Do low level missions, race to the poi’s with the car, rinse repeat.

Fun? No. But you said farming so this is it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

By just playing the game for little over a week, so no farming, just playing, i’ve gathered 700 sc.

The medals are easily gathered doing level 5 and up missions and completing your personal orders. And taking part in the majors of course.

Err, the fact that you get a deposit back when returning the bottles means they’re most certainly NOT single use.

PET flasks are very easily recycled. Easier then glass. There is a whole industry built on it!

Here in NL we’ve had this system for as long as i can remember. (Im over 50)