Exacly, these popups are completely unnecessary and just a form of malicious compliance by the website creators.

They use xmpp as their messaging system I think. Xmpp is open source, but I am not sure about the licence used.

I use Syncthing-fork (fdroid). It lets you set you granular per folder settings like only sync on home WiFi.

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

^^ Good comparison with other IMs.

Hitting a round birthday gets harder every time it happens in my opinion. On the other hand I didn't mind hitting 42 too much. After all, it's the answer to life, the universe and everything. That should be something to look forward to at 40!

I'd heard the sandwich story before, but had no clew about some of the others!

Read up on Xmpp or matrix as good alternatives.

Audiobookbay is a great place to find audiobooks. Sharing is caring.

Best keyboard ever, will also last forever.

I use capslock as superkey.

I would recommend to get a Fujitsu esprimo small form factor pc or a lenovo sff with an i5 6500 cpu. They sell used for less that 100 euros. Get a half size gpu (gtx 1650 or 1050 ti or amd rx 6400). And you will have a perfect pc for gaining in 1080p in your living room on the cheap. Those pcs are a good compromise for speed and size, any smaller and they will get way too hot. Also these are well build office PCs, that will run very quiet.

I would recommend pop_os as a distro. Its made for gaining and I use it as my daily driver.

You could use that machine as your home server. It would open up a lot of possibilities. Sync your phone contacts and calendars, backup all your systems, store/stream media, host your own clousldserver, your own Internet messenger server for family and friends (snikket for example). Host a Minecraft server for the little ones or whatever comes to mind.

Das Gericht wird in solchen Fällen regelmäßig Eventualvorsatz annehmen. Wer mit einem 3,5 t Tonnen schweren Gefàhrt einen Menschen umfährt, der nimmt dessen Tod billigend in Kauf. Die Konstruktion des Eventualvorsatzes kommt häufig zum Einsatz, denn sonst würden nur geständige Täter verurteilt werden können.

Aus der Absicht des versuchten Mordes kommt man hier evtl. nur raus, weil der Täter Schrittgeschw. gefahren ist und noch abgebremst hat. Ansonsten liegt der Mordversuch hier Unstrittig vor, mein Jurastudium liegt schon einige Dekaden zurück, aber mit dem auto auf jemanden losjagen ist eigentlich der Beispielsfall des versuchten Mordes.