I'd say apply some of their specific skills instead of competing at unskilled (and low-pay) labor. Maybe draw illustrations or pictures. Computer programming. Cut videos for some Youtuber...

Not sure if this counts as "little" because it has to go into the oven for 45mins... But it's assembled in under 5 minutes and you can get rid of your old bananas that already turned brown:

Banana bread

4 Bananas, 80ml (vegetable) oil, 80g sugar, 250g flour, 2tsp baking powder, 1tsp vanilla sugar, some chocolate (drops).

Smash the bananas, mix in all the other ingredients to a smooth dough. Find some chocolate from christmas that's still laying around in the house, crush it and mix it in.

Bake it at 170°C. Takes 40-50min in a loaf pan. Don't forget to grase the pan before or use baking parchment.

Doesn't need any fancy ingredients like milk or eggs. And you can pretty much wing it. You can also experiment, put some cinnamon or oat flakes in... And don't bake it too well, I think it's best when it's still a bit gooey and moist inside.

Er ist so 1 Pimmel.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. Google says $13.493 per person in 2022. And in Germany it's a bit more than $7.000...

Also things like maternal mortality are WAY worse...

I mean the USA is bigger and maybe things don't translate exactly from a somewhat densely populated central european country to the vast emptiness of rural Wyoming. I guess an hospital is also something that is subject to economy of scale... But even most northern european countries where doctors come in with helicopters, don't exceed the ~$7.000.

It is really off for the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita

(If that is correct, you could spend half the money on healthcare and also live 3 years longer, on average...)

I think the XPS 13 is a nice device.

For reference: I think your mistake was buying a Lenovo laptop without the word "ThinkPad" in the name. There are Lenovo Thinkpad something devices. They are (usually) more likely to support Linux. And there are Lenovo comsumer devices and they're a mixed bag.

Stoicism, move somewhere else, get active, make the small world around you better and stop reading national/world news.

Get one of the books with baby name suggestions. Weed out all of the names of annoying uncles and aunts, childhood bullies etc. Let your partner do the same. Then get rid of all of the names that rhyme with something silly so they won't be bullied in school for their name. Then argue about the few remaining names and pick one or a few. Sleep a few nights, then take a long, hot/steamy shower and commit to it.

(You can doodle around in the book, circle a few names and add a few or your favorite movie characters.)

It'll die, the leaves would turn into a slushie. The trunk would keep it's appearance underwater (logs are sometimes kept under water for processing.) And your whole aquarium would turn green from algae and mold pretty quick and you can't look inside anymore.

Forget the pinephone as a daily driver. It is nice to play around with and having linux on your phone is awesome. But you can't really use it as a daily driver. You'll try it and it's going to end up in the drawer of unfinished projects. Trust me, I own a pinephone and I know other people who do.

There's nothing wrong with it. Just like 50 mild annoyances with anything you're trying to do with it and on top it's super slow, compared to any other smartphone.

As I read, the phone by Purism isn't much better and it's really expensive.

Both work quite differently. TOR routes you over several layers, obscures your IP and changes the IPs around occasionally so you can't be tracked.

With Bittorrent you want lasting connections to other peers to be able to receive and send all the data. This doesn't align with the ever changing IPs and stuff.

A VPN gives you one IP that you can have for hours.

A VPN supports UDP connections, TOR doesn't.

Connecting your Bittorrent client to the Socks-Proxy of a TOR client is a different setup than it just sending normal packets through a VPN tunnel.

TOR is slow (by design), a VPN is fast.

If your client or something leaks your IP it happens anyways, if you route it over one node or seven. All the extra energy is just wasted.

And bittorrent puts even more strain on the TOR network the way it works. Making it slower for anybody else. And (ab)using the resources volunteers provide. (And which are meant for better use-cases.)

First: It's been the boomers who invented computers, the internet etc. Second: The average millennial knows little about tech. Give them an Android phone instead of an iPhone or a PC with MacOS or Linux and they'll start looking confused at you. And tell you the way it was before was better. Try to explain to people why something is or isn't necessary or about privacy and how our personal data gets handled and used. Most people are ignorant. Many people also have other hobbies than computers.

No. lemmy.ml used to be the biggest instance with the most communities originating there. (And the instance launched by the developers.) It has been the flagship instance. But it's a thing of the past. Just have a look at the statistics. For example here or here. The biggest instance currently is lemmy.world with about 5 times the active users. And since the reddit exodus, most of the active communities have been opened on other instances.