Okay but how do you rent "cheap" housing during these travels? Prices on Booking are uniform everywhere from Australia, through Thailand, to Europe. Airbnb has some weird accommodations in a trailer or an old boat. Long term rentals require local employment, deposits, insurances, and generally you'll be scammed thoroughly by an agent.
Depends on where you are. In Thailand and SEA generally you can just walk around and ask for short term rentals and get highly different prices offered compared to booking. In Europe it's more complicated I guess.
Dunno mate. Recently wanted to extend life of my old average laptop and need 4GB of RAM. I mean how much 4GB of RAM can cost? checks online... 55EUR, shipping in 2 weeks...
Smartphones, mobile apps, mobile networks, and WiFi stopped being your friends around 2015-2016. Now it's just a matter of how much data can be harvested from device sensors in real time until reaching a pain point which doesn't exist.
GrapheneOS is a proper Linux. The hardware isn't open, but otherwise it's quite nice and clearly designed for the end-user's benefit, in stark contrast to the more widely-adopted alternative mobile OSes.
If this makes your grandmother feel any better this happens also nowadays, in Europe, in a country with public healthcare, with sober surgeon [1]. Some surgeons are simply psychopaths and the first time you meet them is unconscious on operating table.
Every time just around the time I forget how much I hate football, these fucks come up out of nowhere with something exceptionally corrupted and remind me that they still exist.
What US is doing right now is simply hostile, creepy, and scary. There exist some USA-Israel-Russia dynamics which will be obvious from a perspective in a decade. What is clear right now is that these three somehow act together.
Way back at the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I remember there was a UN vote on whether to condemn it. The yeas and nays were how you'd generally expect from how nations are aligned, except Israel voted "nay". I remember thinking it was odd, as they should basically be an ally of the US and didn't seem involved in that specific situation.
But in retrospect, it makes sense - they're both countries with imperialist genocidal ambitions over their neighbors. The grounds to condemn Russia attacking Ukraine is the same as the grounds to condemn Israel's long term subjugation of Gaza and the West Bank - they're both a rejection of might makes right in favor of valuing individual human life of the other. And of course one pillar of US neofascism is this exact same type of othering (eg how they can so readily write off the summary executions of Pretti, Good, Taylor, et al).
Seeing how the fallout from the Epstein kompromat operation has been playing out, I suspect there are some deep ties between their intelligence operations - if not outright collaberation, at least respect that they're working the same "marks" (eg Trump and his circle being the most visible, but also all of the other enablers in the US power structure like the Senate and House).
More or less at the time when electric bicycles weighing over 20kg and moving over 30kmh started to drive on sidewalks, I started to avoid living in big cities.
Living in a city you cannot stand so much that you wear noise cancelling headphones at all times. Commuting to work that you hate and manoeuvring between zombies looking at their phones, wearing noise cancelling headphones, and occasional cars recklessly opening doors or joining the traffic without looking in the mirrors. You even forgot the original goal of saving money because the rent eats 50% of the net salary and work eats every will to live. Here it is - the fruit of your glorious education and mean by which your mortgage is paid is bicycle bell. Thanks for reminding me to stay away from this miserable mess.
it runs though on the phones of everyone who have you in contacts and in conversation history, so they are only missing one piece of puzzle in the middle
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