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I have a kid of the same age, and ours are less strict, except for bed time, it’s 21:30 if there’s school the next day. Wake up time is whatever necessary, like others said teens need their rest. Screen time ends at 21:00 on school nights, but will get more strict if school results are getting lower. Basically we give our kids a lot of freedom, but expect them to do their school work and behave like normal human beings. We’re also strict on alcohol, drugs or other substances, which is not always the case in my part of the world.

Very much this, a lot of stuff is packed in plastic today where it doesn’t need packaging at all. Packaging is becoming an industry where there is no added value very quickly.

True, but not always. A lot of waste and pollution comes from packaging, which if I think about it seems to be an industry which tries (and succeeds) to create it’s own demand. Like this one, a new “recyclable” packaging with more plastics in it than the old bags.

I remember Java being seen as the best thing ever in the 90’s, and it was considered “cool” at that time. So cool even, that it became the programming equivalent of a hammer, every coding challenge looked like a nail for which you could use it.

Taller people have higher BMI’s, something to consider.

In the Netherlands, it’s not like the King or his family aren’t doing anything. They are somewhat like special ambassadors for the country. They also are highly connected, both to people in governments and other people in a position of power. And they do answer to the Parliament.

Does that matter if they’re all federated? Or do you propose to block instances?

Trump wasn’t president a year ago, and it was the same back then. Besides that, the communities that aren’t supposed to be political tend to get a lot of political content, for instance every time Elon farts it gets posted to the technology communities. The only option not to get confronted with this is to block lots of communities and/or users.

Pick a study which fits you curriculum wise. It doesn’t have to perfect, as long as it’s interesting enough and it’s doable for you. If you’re lucky you’ll figure it out during your study years, otherwise you’ll figure it out after you start working. In my experience, people with a somewhat fitting education tend to stumble into a job they like. Also remember a job is just that, a means to pay for your lifestyle.

Boulderdash 2, Kickstart 2, Jumpman jr, Hawkeye and Flimbo’s quest. And probably tons of others I’ve forgotten about unfortunately.

Govt subsidies? Really?

Actually, there’s lots of FOSS software which is at least just as good as proprietary. Most FOSS lacks the support of proprietary though. And I don’t mean the “call someone on the other end of the world” support, I mean manuals, tutorials and stuff like that. /Off topic

On topic: Apache, Git, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.

I totally believe this. We see it here in the Netherlands (and other EU countries) for all big tech companies, they’ll build some big energy hogging thing, and then buy up all the renewable energy certificates from the market. The general public then ofcourse needs fossil fuels for their energy demand, but that’s beside the point.

You’re thinking rational. Tesla prices skyrocketed during the covid pandemic when wallstreetbets was gaining traction. That’s probably all you need to know.

I don’t know, and reading the other comments that’s not too strange. That said, I’m incredibly dense regarding cues like this, so I would be the last one to know probably.

super-annoying Instragram French guy that just screams everywhere

Not narrowing it down are we?

These all require someone to actually pick up the phone, instead of playing an automated message.

I’ve been working with my current company for 6 years, company before this one 11 years, before that one 8 years (and before that some shorter terms). These last two times I’ve switched because I didn’t like the way the company was managed anymore (and where my job was going because of that), coworkers were great and pay was fine both times. I found it refreshing to start somewhere new both times, you get to reposition yourself because you have no history in the company and you can view the “company politics” from some distance. Based on my experience I would always advice to look for a new job when in doubt.

I hope the Democrats get their heads out of their asses

All you need to know is this.

About 60-70% 20-30% (edited, some googling returned a lot lower numbers than I remembered) of Bitcoin is estimated to be out of rotation. They reside in wallets that haven’t been accessed in at least 10 years. Most About one million of these belong to the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, the main developer of Bitcoin. He disappeared some 15 years ago, and nobody knows their real name, or even if it’s one person or more.