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Who uses left or right to determine directions in the field of Geography can't burn anyone. He should have called it west side park.

Fully agree!

As a Linux user for more than 10 years now, I can not really understand why so many people switch from Windows to CachyOS.

Yes, CachyOS is great. In general I see the advantage of Arch based distros, but only if one knows what they are doing. It's great on fresh installs, but over time users need to fix issues and make decisions and this only works if they know what they are doing.

Similar wis NixOS. Great distro, but not for low maintanance and beginners. If you just want something that runs super stable and you don't need to fix anything, go for Debian. And there are a lot of options between Debian and CachyOS.

Gefährliches Halbwissen:

Wie genau die Anlageprodukte gestaltet sind steht noch nicht fest. Theoretisch dürfen die Anbieter der Altersvorsorge 1% Gebühren verlangen. Das klingt wenig, macht im Vergleich zu einem ETF Sparplan mit ~0,2% Gebühren über einen Zeitraum von 40 Jahren mehrere zehntausend Euro aus, die an den den Anbieter und nicht an den Anleger gehen. Der einzige Grund, warum sich ein Anlageprodukt mit so hohen Gebühren überhaupt lohnen könnte, ist die staatliche Förderung. Aber hier geht dann eben auch ein großer Teil der Fördersumme an die Finanzdienstleister und nicht an den Anleger.

Wenn der Staat aber nun selbst ein halbwegs gutes Produkt mit 0,5% Gebühren und auch sonst ganz guten Konditionen anbieten, dann setzt das Mindeststandards. Die privaten Finanzdienstleister müssen ein Konkurrenzfähiges Produkt anbieten, damit die Leute die Altersversorgung bei ihnen und nich beim Staat abschließen. Das macht das abzocken von uns zukünftigen Rentner schwieriger und der Finanzbranche gefällt das wohl nicht so sehr.

Edit: Ich finde Finanztip erklärt immer ganz gut zu solchen Themen. Hier ist deren Artikel zum AV Depot: https://www.finanztip.de/newsletter/aktuell#teaser1

Do you kbow where Europe get it's uranium to power these nuclear power plants from? No? Let me tell you: We import it from countries like Kazakhstan, Niger a bit from Canada. France, one of the biggest nuclear powered countries imports it's uranium from Russia. This is exactly the same as with oil and gas. So tell me: How do nuclear power plants help us, if we have to import the fuel?

Do you know what are the resources we have in Europe: Wind, water and sun. To be fair, we have cole too, but this is one of the dirtiest ways to produce energie.

The only way out are renewable energies.

It's not that easy. E.g. Europe was on good terms with Russia. It is not like Europe decided to become an enemy of Russia, Russia attacked an European country. Of course we should question ourselves if we should have trusted Russia in the first place.

The only way out is to become more enery independent by using more renewable energies.

Same here. Guacamole is totally fine. But besides that, I can not understand how anyone likes to eat Avocados.

My mum, who is in her 60's, and never used anything other than Windows is on Linux Mint for nearly two years now and has no problem using it. I was surprised she has even explored features like virtual desktops and is using them now. She is far far away from being a tech person. And she never needed to touched a terminal while using it.

But I needed to install Mint for her. I think she would have given up at the point where the boot order had to be changed to start from the USB with the live/install media. And this is the biggest downside of Linux: You can't just buy the average consumer pc/notebook with a pre-installed Linux. It is always windows installed. That's why people keep using Windows. Not because Windows is better.

Wer hat uns verraten?

The most famous one is probably PayPal. But I assume for people who are privacy focused, that would be not the first choice.

There is Curve Pay, but I know nothing about it besides the fact that it exists.

Samsung Pay exists, but it only works on Samsung devices and therefore is not really an alternative in this case.

And then there are some regional options. Here in Germany are same banks that offer their own payment apps, most famously the Sparkassen. I heard there are also some Indian and east Asian payment apps, but I don't know much about them.

Contactless payments does not need to be Google Pay. There are alternatives.

My guess is, that they will offer a new Thinkphone model with GraphenOS to target business customers.

But of course I don't know it, just guessing.

This is the way.