I was shortly offended, but then I checked the list of locales…and it seems our country is actually the only one with a “Right Single Quotation Mark”, my world view is shattered 🤯

But, that’s wrong…1 kilomile is 1000 miles not 1000 meters, that would be 1 kilometer…
so one mile is 1600 meters which makes one kilomile about 1’600’000 meters (rounded) so it would be 1’600’000/4.1 = 390’243 vw beetles

I try to as well…but it really reduces options. E.g. I do try to source my eBooks and audiobooks without DRM and theres a lot of stuff you can’t get that way, so the only way to actually buy them is to “buy” them on a platform (e.g. audible) and use 3rd party tools to remove the drm (which is against their ToC)

Also a lot of corporate tools are moving to cloud only, windows, office365, atlassian, adobe etc. and unfortunately, it’s not easy to get the higher ups to see the issues with that

And it’s not only services. Everything with an internet connection can be altered…e.g. HP updated their printerfirmware to not longer allow non-HP ink cartridges (and no I don’t own an HP). Bambu lab closed their api, preventing the users to use 3rd-party tools. Theoretically valve could close down your bootloader and then you’re fucked (they probably won’t, but still, the point stands)

And again

Amazon prevents you to

I do where I can, but often it is not possible to
a) find something you can actually buy, and call it your own. b) you still don’t know if the creator t turns a darth vader on you and tells you “I’m altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it further”
And the best thing: uf they brick it or move features behind a paywall (with an update after you “bought” it) and you circumvent their “security” to restore the function YOU are the criminal. Nice thing isn’t it?

Problem is by now, I don’t get that thing anymore. i get a freaking licence to use it for some time, and when you decide I don’t own that licence anymore you got my money and I have nothing

Munin (https://munin-monitoring.org/) It’s not very pretty but quite easy to setup and doesn’t eat so much resources as a Prometheus/grafana setup

Important to know: the local copy is read only…so you can’t modify existing or create new entries if you aren’t connected to the server

What…why…how?