Schlemmy @ Schlemmy @lemmy.ml

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Thanks. I agree with your conclusion. I probably have spent too much time in privacy communities. In the end you'll have to trust someone.

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi's revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.

ING Turkey ≠ ING Netherlands ≠ ING anywhere else

Billiard balls and playing cards. Belgium is world leader in both.

Edit: forgot to add pigeons. Belgian competition pigeons are the most expensive in the world.

Edit 2: Belfries. Clock-O-Matic is a Belgian company and world leader in the automation of Belfries. It's not that hard because most Belfries are located in Belgium and France, if not all of them.

Edit 3: It never ends. Roller coaster wheels. Let that sink in. No their country produces more roller coaster wheels nor is as good as we arr at it.

I've set up some tunnels. Works nice but then the voices came. 'Why would you trust a company like Cloudflare with all your data?' 'Why rely on this one company for all your services?'

Nearly a year into my selfhosting journey and I'm more confused than ever.

Sneakily adds an alfabethical sort option to that request.

Your tv is a monitor. Treat it as such.

I was there, in the days of rotten.com

Considering the state of the phones back then my 1+ 3t was amazing. No bloat, dirt cheap. A real flagship killer, as they positioned it.

These days I only require a phone to have fast charge like OnePlus or Oppo delivers it. 15 minutes charge for a full day of use. That's awesome. I can never go back to iOS because I'm so used to my custom keyboard and the gestures I use for quick acces to apps and other stuff.

I also loved my windows phone. The seamless continuation moving from phone to laptop was something that only now is sort of coming back. The phone just needed apps but the os and the design was really fun.

I buy them second hand and clean them up.

We have the long steel ones from IKEA. Solid. Never had any problems with them.

You can skip the windows account part and just install with a local account, don't you?

The tax that I'm talking about is calculated on the value that has been attributed by the cadastre. You pay it when you own the property without having a building or any other land use on site.

Then, when there is a building on the plot that isn't being used as intended you get taxed on that. The rate is increased by 100% every year with a maximum of 4 increases resulting in a maximal tax of 500% of the base tax.

This is besides from the standard property tax that makes up an average of 50% of municipalities incomes. There are municipalities in Belgium they get up to 90% of their working funds out of those taxes.

What do you mean? Where did it not catch on? In Belgium (Flanders) you pay taxes on unused property, whether it is a building or a vacant plot.

Element X is fast Indeed.

There are more cool organisations that use Element.

• US navy
• US space force
• French government
• German defence force

It's more a Skype alternative at the moment though.

Because we (the EU citizens) need some internet and software sovereignty. It's a valid desire. Most of the governments run on software owned by companies that can be under control of foreign nations.

A certain level of independence is good for any nation, group, society.

Besides from that EU law provides us with some guarantees regarding privacy. If a company doesn't respect our privacy, we have the means to defend ourselves.

Yeah, no. You can choose to say no. A privacy banner has to give you a single click option to decline the use of your personal data and if you don't get that option, they're not complying to GDPR.

I systematically file complaints against unlawful privacy banners and with every popup that gets corrected I made the world a more privacy friendly place. It ain't much but it's an honest job.

I'm an early gen y'er. I'm fairly positive but that's easy when you live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. I have gen z children and their future is bright. We're not rich but when they turn 18 (my daughter is 17) they have opportunities that I never had. It will be harder to gather wealth but they will be able to faal back on a steady base at home. My children can choose to go to university when they finish high school or take a sabbatical and travel the world. I don't have the money to fund that but they are well educated enough to find the means of living wherever they go. If they want to have a meaningful life, then there are plenty of opportunities. If they just want a simple life with a job that provides a steady income, then that is fine.

As I said, I live in one of the wealthiest countries of the world and in the safe harbour of the EU. I don't know anything about your situation.

The f-Droid link if you want it to be a bit more privacy friendly.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.binauralbeats/