Alt: "Ich, wenn jemand eine Gurke aus dem Glas nimmt, ohne die Reihenfolge zu beachten." Darunter drei Bilder von einem Mann, der sich abstützt und die Brust hält. Er scheint gestresst zu sein.

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a person looking like a combination of Lain (from Serial Experiments Lain) and Misato (from Neon Genesis Evangelion) holding an energy drink, looking drunk
"these are the perks of using free software, shinji"

Alt text: The cockroach from Kafka's book "The Metamorphosis" lying on the back on a bed with a smartphone. Beneath it says: "anybody wanna have a bit of a girl's night out I am metamorphosising"

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"I can fix him," Says Woman Who Is Worse
left: Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion labeled "my computer"
right: Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion labeled "me"

alt text: Someone looking disinterested at their fingernails. "Me pretending that i dont care about convenience so i can use free software"

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Six habits of happy people

• doom scrolling on lemmy
• feeling superior to people who use reddit
• closing the app because no new posts
• installing gnu+linux
• bootoader not found
• doom scrolling on lemmy

Alt: "Choose your own radical identity" followed by an anarchist flag with half of it being blank. Next to it are crayons in different colors, referencing different anarchist orientations using different colours to fill the space. At the bottom it says: "A DIY activity book for ages 9-12"

Cryptocurrencies are often understood to enable private payments, but most don't. Monero does, but its value still fluctuates and wastes energy (even if far less than Bitcoin) in time of the climate catastrophe.
GNU Taler is a (free software) system which enables anonymity for the buyer but not for the merchant, enabling taxability. In effect it's digital cash you can even use offline without having an internet connection at payment time. It is not a new (crypto-) currency.
The linked news article reveals an EU project which will implement GNU Taler for two European banks (located in Germany and Hungary) in the next 36 months. I assume the reason the EU supports Taler is the Digital Euro (archive.org snapshot).

Internet search request: "can racoons and cats be friends"
Answer: "A raccoon and a cat can be friends, but they can also be enemies"

4 panel comic
Panel 1: stick person says "hmmm today I will use sharp stone and long stick to hunt prey"
Panel 2: same person with an arrow pointing at them saying "clueless"
Panel 3: 20000 years later
Panel 4: "global panopticon incident"