Also, something I’d like to add (it may seem contrary to what I said before, but it stems from the same line of thinking).

Everyone changes the world, for better or worse.

It doesn’t have to be a revolution or anything, you can change the world in so many ways.

The most important thing is to be an upstanding, good person. You can change the world through community, you can help your friends out, when they are in trouble. You can help your friends through just having a good time with them. You can reflect on life with the people you love, try to offer them new perspectives. You can help random strangers. You can make inspiring art.

You can raise confident, smart children, that may change the world themselves one day, either as a parent or a caregiver or teacher.

Fundamentally, Facism is about hate and left wing ideas are about love. So we can win by just increasing empathy in the world.

For me, I believe that free software can liberate us, and also I just love to code and be a nerd. So I contribute to free software projects online, I helped my mom and a friend of mine install Linux. I helped my scouts move to Nextcloud and Jitsi.

Change is about exploring new ways to use any skills you have to make small impact, which will maybe eventually bear bigger fruit than you might have thought. And if not, then you just made your life, or maybe the life of people you love a bit better, and that’s also great.

Of course, it’s also great to go to demonstrations, join political orgs etc. I just found for me, that I don’t have that kind of energy in me, so I focus on other things. That might also change someday.

Changing the world is mostly about your attitude on life.

I feel like, that’s exactly what I said.

And that changes nothing, because we either try to change the world or give up.

And the world as it currently is is not acceptable to me, so I try to change it.

You can still be part of the change.

And also that is a gross overgeneralisation, it’s not like schools were full of revolutionaries a decade ago, and today I definitely feel like more people are ready to do something, especially since Trump took office.

Just look at the success of Mamdani or the no Kings protests.

Jacob Geller made a video about something that’s quite analogous, how we deal with the knowledge, that the world is going to end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9N7Awpk9lE

I highly recommend it, Jacob Geller is an excellent storyteller.

You can definitely change the world, have you ever heard of history? It’s full of revolutions, the french revolution, the civil rights movement, the workers rights movement / unions. How do you think, we achieved this relatively good living standard in the last 50 years?

Shure, changing the world will be hard as fuck and it could be years until you see any positive change from your behaviour, maybe your actions will only bear fruit after you died.

But the only thing we can / we have to do is try.

And attitudes like yours are exactly what fascists are counting on.

If you don’t want to do anything and just stick your head into the sand, I can’t stop you, I guess, but stop pretending you didn’t have a choice.

Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.

The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.

Postmarketos is looking pretty promising right now.

Ladybird is pretty much dead to me, firstly because the dev has some really bad right wing vibes (he said gender inclusive language is too political for his docs and retweeted a Nazi on Twitter). And secondly because the started using AI to move the code to Rust to make it more secure, which is insane if you know anything about AI or security.

My current hope is in servo, because they have much more capable maintainers and the project seems to make some good progress. Also they have daily builds on their website for every operating system, so you can already try it out easily (but don’t expect everything to work right now, they still need some time).

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Genuinely asking, why would you use FreeBSD when there already is Linux?

What did he say, do you still have your job?

Yeah, don’t get me wrong, this is an insane law. It makes no sense and it is utterly ridiculous and dystopian.

I am just saying, that it is still manageable to continue, we shouldn’t give up. We should continue to fight against this law, but we can also realistically keep distributing our software regardless of this law.

I think, the age thing only has to be implemented by the operating system, not by every piece if software. We as app developers can then choose to use an API to age restrict our apps, if we want to.

We just have to make sure our app isn’t recognized as an operating system in itself.

But they could still just request the age bracket that is stored on the system at the time of download, no?

It’s not at all impossible, it just has to be implemented.

No, you’re just wrong. The law just says, there needs to be a local API, that apps can use to ask, what of 4 age brackets the user is in. That’s basically it. There is nothing about some online server that needs to hold that data.

Damm, that’s dark. I laughed out loud at this.

Or just prosecute them criminally, like they do with the pesants

It would be great to see them supporting democratic alternatives aswell and start posting on Mastodon, but they probably don’t even know that it exists, which is a bit sad.

Yup. And also we should advocate for our rights more locally. Organize with other people, raise awareness and do direct action.

I think the most effective form of resistance is relationships and new local organisations and new structures that resist the forces of the state and of capitalism.

If you are looking for some ideas, maybey you can look here or do your own research.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s reasonable to give up in the face of it.

You should make it as hard as possible for them to track you, use private OpenSource software, advocate for it and don’t be afraid if direct action, like destroying these cameras. The more people that do it, the harder it will be for them to do something about it.

I assume you live in Germany (judging from the fact, that you use MediaMarkt).

The main thing, I would reccomend you to do is instead of searching for stuff on Amazon directly, search for it on price comparison websites. I typically like to use geizhals.de, but idealo.de is also fine.

You will probably be surprised to notice, but most things (especially more expensive things) are cheaper or at least price comparable on these websites. And the websites, that are indexed there, are typically trusted and won’t dropship or scam. But just to make sure, I typically look up new websites, I haven’t ordered from before up on trustpilot.com. But over time, you will probably build up a repotoire of places to look for specific stuff.

If I really can’t find find something suitable outside of amazon (which typically happens when I buy some general cheap stuff), I typically look it up either with an internet search to find a more niche shop or as a last resort on eBay, because a lot of the stuff from amazon third party sellers is often up on there as well and I think, they are still better than amazon.

You don’t have to go “cold turkey” from day one, but just keep it in mind every time you buy something, look if you can get it somewhere cheaper or for a comparable price and ask yourself “Is the moral cost for buying this on amazon higher than the extra monetary cost for ordering it somewhere else?”. And if your answer is sometimes no, that’s also fine, the point is to get out of the " amazon-mindset".

Just to give you an example, you mentioned an ESP-32 module (which I also happened to shop for a few weeks ago) and I ordered it from reichelt.de for 3,50€ a piece (9,45€ with shipping cost). The same module isn’t even sold on amazon, but the cheapest comparable no-name module is sold on amazon for 3,64€ (8,64€ including shipping. So I guess you would pay less than one euro extra for not ordering from there and then you can decide, if that’s worth it for you. For me it was.

Using this strategy, I haven’t ordered a single thing from amazon in 2 years, so it’s definetly possible and it isn’t significanttly more expensive (even cheaper in a lot of cases). It also get’s easier over time, as I mentioned. If you want my personal list of good websites, I like to order from, feel free to ask.

And good luck, the world without amazon is a nice one ;)