People who only ever think within their country and, related to that, don’t know any geography beyond their borders exist everywhere. Hell, that’s the majority of the world. You just don’t see their gaps in world knowledge in the English-speaking world, because, well, they don’t speak English. And in my opinion, as long as you don’t have any responsibility towards the world, it shouldn’t be reprehensible to be ignorant towards the world.

However, I can imagine that the average European has a higher minimum knowledge about world geography than the the average American. And I think the biggest reason for that is the worldwide reach of US mainstream media. In European countries you passively get more exposure to the rest of the world - especially US music, movies, etc., but not only that. E.g. football fans will at least hear about countries and cities all around the world. The US media on the other hand, although it is definitely widening, is still much more egocentric, again, especially because they are the mainstream.

Except that this change doesn’t lock us into age verification at all. On its own it’s harmless. There are still steps ahead before it’s actually difficult to evade. And sure, we are heading that way and it only makes sense to be prepared for the steps towards the next steps of age verification laws. It really isn’t magic to comply with these small steps, as long as they themselves don’t present a treat, be aware of the bigger picture and still do the work to prevent the actual OS-level age verification.

Wow, I didn’t know that scrcpy offered so much more than screen mirroring. Finally I can dismiss Droidcam! ٩( ๑╹ ꇴ╹)۶

Wenn die enshittification kommt, ist man entsprechend ausgeliefert.

Nein. Dann beendet man einfach das Abo und sucht einen anderen Weg.

Ein digitales Album kriegt man üblicherweise auch für weniger als eine monatlich Spotify Rate.

Ja, wenn man ausschließlich die Musik hören will, die man kaufen würde, und neue Musik entweder gar nicht oder über einen anderen Weg z.B. Radio oder Live-Musik findet, dann ist Musik-Streaming überflüssig. Wenn man rechtlich immer im Besitz der Musik sein möchte, dann ist Musik-Streaming nicht ausreichend. Wenn man hingegen darauf Wert legt, dass man an einem Ort über die Lieblingslieber hinaus eine breite Musik-Auswahl für den Zeitraum hat, dann macht Musik-Streaming Sinn. Genau so ist das mit Abos generell.

Musik-Streaming muss nicht für jeden etwas sein. Es gab aber auch nie einen Zwang. Ihr könnt einfach Musik so konsumieren wie es für euch am besten passt. Dass man aufgrund ungerechter Vergütung, Menschen auf Alternativen aufmerksam machen will, checke ich. Aber Streaming vs Kauf ist einfach eine Präferenz.

“than expected” - what? Not sure what kind of magic DW is attempting here, but the gravity of this problem of an already over-aging population has been known for a long time, taught in schools and already factored into political decisions - just not successfully.

You may want to look into Avidemux as it’s trying to be a simple video editor. But it may too basic and I’m not certain, if it will be intuitive to you.

I only used Window Movie Maker in the 2010s, maybe it used to be better before. But in my experience it was much more cumbersome. I think it was intuitive in the sense that it mostly worked like Microsoft (Office) software, but other than that it still did require some learning effort.

Very unsurprising, unless your perception of the CDU is purely Merkel. And it’s not even a problem, because the problem with AfD is not that there aren’t enough opposing options, but that the AfD carries a wide range of “right”, since the majority of them only have two major parties suitable to their opinions. Regardless how much you hate this whole range and view it as the same bullshit, it makes an impactful difference that each of them get represented individually.

I switched to Linux, because my very first confrontation to buy a Windows license myself weirded me out. It was quite casual. My exposure to Linux came from a few software development related videos. The workflows I saw looked much more efficient and fulfilling. To be honest, with a dying laptop running on Windows 8.1 I had an extra terrible experience anyway. So when I built my PC and I realized that legally purchasing a Windows license looked like browsing the black market, I decided to save my money and just try Ubuntu. I definitely had the luxury of being able to simply dive in.