They want ever more power and control. Money is just a tool to get that. Most billionaires are sociopaths.

Same. Spent about 65 € I think, now it’s looking like > 200 €

I think even both teddybears and soap are quite regulated markets in EU, could probably require a capital to enter the market a lot larger than you would think, to get anywhere beyond the local flea market level of sales.

Lol Volkswagen, the company that actively rigged diesel cars to pass the tests… ? Dieselgate. The German car manufacturers are hopelessly late at EV because they wanted to drain every last penny out of their ICE. The EU setback to extend ICE is after German car manufacturers lobbied… They are killing themselves in the long run, for bit more production in the short run. They saw this all coming decades ago and made wrong choices. Now they’re fucked. The Volkswagen id (EV) sales numbers are so disappointing they had to lower production and make employees stay home.

Yes, I know WhatsApp is biggest overall. But for Threema to say that the competition is WhatsApp and that’s it… Is a wrong market analysis imo. In the “privacy conscious” segment signal is the biggest. Threema’s biggest competitor in Germany is Signal, not WhatsApp.

Then it is still not true. Signal has over 11 million users in Germany, Threema has 8-10 million users.

“trick some of them accidentally” is definitely underestimating average users. In my experience 95% + of all users click consent once, all is stored forever and they’ll never see the banner again, for sure not on the same device. They don’t do adblocking, no automatic cookie deleting, in fact no browser extensions at all. The average fediverse user is a weird mix of a 1990’s internet poweruser with a today tech kid trying to make it into the future technologies on their own terms and by faaaar not an average user visiting average website on average devices with average browsers and configurations. In short: most people don’t experience this ‘problem’ like us, because they consent by default to anything you throw at them and are then in the gated tracking paradise where there’s barely any cookienagging, visiting the same handful of websites all the time anyway.

Not German but moved to Germany. The word is still a normal word, it can be used, only in certain contexts not.

To me it is very very weird.

Especially in a comboword there is 0,0 issue: Reiseführer, Bergführer, etc. The no go zone seems very subtle to me, it’s more about pronunciation and context, not the word itself. Especially the word “Führerschein” is super weird to me when used in regular conversations. I automatically hear translated “license to be the Führer”, but it just means driver’s license and nothing else and no one finds it weird.

I’m just replying so I’ll find your comments back easily in a few days

Main reason it can flourish as assistant in the first place is that Google search engine became shit

The shittiest apps come pre-installed.

That’s because they are big mechanical whirring machines. Solar panels are dead quiet and don’t throw intermittent shade and have a very low risk of causing damage in the surrounding. There’s good reasons they are forbidden for the average household to put on top of the chimney…

Bicycle road rage does exist, between road bikers and regulars, between fast electric and regulars and in general because plenty assholes do also ride bicycles if the infrastructure is good enough.

Other than that, all valid points!

It’s very young and got very popular suddenly, someone will make a nice stable UI for it at some point…

I wonder if now is a good time to download all Wikipedia and put it on a spare offline drive…

This vehicle shouldn’t be street legal for regular folk based on its shape and height, software is just a minor detail.

Bruges is a museum.