Comments by "Seegal Galguntijak" (@Seegalgalguntijak) on "Feli from Germany"
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You may find this surprising, but as an IT technician, being German myself, I do not use nor recommend WhatsApp to anyone, because of the large data collection and profile building by the corporation that owns Whatsapp. Also, even before that, some time in 2010 or 2011, I actually downloaded it for a short amount of time, but then the app asked me whether it was allowed to upload the contacts in my phone to their servers, and that was the moment when I deleted it again right away, because this would have been a violation of the BDSG (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), which was in place way bevore the DSGVO/GDPR. However, I'd rather use Signal or some other messenger to contact people. But if they only have Whatsapp, I will use SMS, because that's still the common denominator for all those who aren't willing to use something that's less illegal.
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Besides ALF, I remember "Knight Rider" being my favorite American TV show as a kid, and then "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (in German, it's called: "Raumschiff Enterprise: Das nächste Jahrhundert"). And of course all the 90s spin-offs of that show, which were Deep Space 9 and Voyager. But then, Star Trek was basically dead. The attempt of revival with the prequel series "Enterprise" wasn't really it, and anything that followed afterwards was just a shame for the saga. Anyhow, another sitcom that I liked as a kid was "Hör mal wer da hämmert", but I'm not sure how it was called in the original, I think it was something with home improvement or so? Not sure...but I quite liked it. Although, I didn't even have any privat TV stations until the 90s, and then at first only 2 with bad quality, and only since about 97 or so, I could receive all the private channels. So basically, I was stuck what public TV brought, which wasn't all that much. Although I remember watching the Sesame Street from the age of about 3 or 4.
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@shubinternet It's funny that, because since Facebook owns Whatsapp, they could easily advertise it more strongly to their users. On the other hand, they have a competing product in house, called Facebook Messenger, which doesn't even e2e encrypt, so of course they rather have their users on that platform, being able to also read the contents instead of only the metadata.
However, no, it doesn't depend on the community you're trying to communicate with. I can easily live without Whatsapp, although everyone around me has it, and can still communicate with people. It is absolutely not necessary to succumb to total loss of privacy towards the players of surveillance capitalism, and I make it a point not to, because I do not want surveillance capitalism turn into corporate totalitarianism, and that is an actual danger we're facing here (even without governments noticing or - if it happened - being able to do something about it).
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Wow, that is amazing, in a weird way. You grew up in Bavaria, a region that is clearly very much determined by the Roman Catholic Church, and you say that "We don't have separation of church and state in Germany", while I grew up a bit further north in Hesse, and I learned in school that in fact state and church are separate in Germany. However, after my school was finished, I started questioning this and quickly came to the same conclusion, religion is far too much integrated into our state (i.e. with "Autobahnkirchen" and the state actually taking church tax from you if you don't resign from the religion into which you were unvoluntarily christened as a baby, and so on and so forth). We should really change something about that!
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@RedRat98074 I am doing just that. In fact, since my phones are de-googled, they don't even contain Chrome (as an app, of course the Chromium WebView component is still there, but that's open source software, so it's fine). Also, I use Blokada (the version from F-Droid of course) for system-wide blocking, as well as an adblocker on my OpenWRT router, and on the computer I also use Chromium (not Chrome, which isn't needed any more) only for YouTube, and for other sites I use Firefox, Brave or even other browsers - but all of them have an ad blocking component in them. In addition to this, on my phone, there's of course also other safety software installed, i.e. AFWall+ which restricts apps from using the internet (like, most apps don't need to do that, why would a calculator have to go online? and so on). So you can believe me that I'm somewhat proficient in protecting myself from a) annoyances and b) automated privacy intrusions by surveillance capitalism.
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@hansbrix2495 Oh, there are bad Döner places in Germany, trust me on that. Sometimes when I'm not in Berlin but outside somewhere, and I'd like to eat a Döner, and then I see the local Döner place, my appetite is gone. Even in Berlin there are some that radiate a lack of cleanliness and an odor which drives away your hunger in an instant, so if you really wanted, you could get a bad Döner (it's just that a few hundred meters down the road, there's the next Döner place and it is probably better).
I haven't seen any other US fast food chains here, besides McD, BK, KFC and Subway. But we have quite a number of small, really good burger places. These are mini chains with something like 5-10 restaurants spread out over the city, and their quality is often really high and basically not comparable with the stuff you get at McD or BK.
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Oh, but here you're wrong! There are actually Germans who do pronounce the d at the end of a word like Brand as a d and not as a t. It's even a voiceless d. But since this is a northern German thing, I've only started noticing it myself since I've been living in Berlin, because before that, I was more in the south, and there it was common. I'd say, using a soft t instead of a hard d at the end of a word is a southern dialect thing. (And yes, I'm aware that I've used "soft" and "hard" here exactly opposit as it's commonly used, that is because I think t, k and p sound soft, while d, g and b have a harder popping sound in their pronunciation, so to me, the way soft and hard is commonly assigned to these consonants is just wrong).
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@Calphool222 Wow, you are really not used to that then! But hey, the hardest bread stuff you get in Spain, Italy, Croatia, France and other mediterranean countries is basically the croissant stuff (from my experience), which is again totally mushy on the inside and only the crust is hard. Plus, it's whiter as a Scandinavian in Winter, so it isn't really nutritious dough. In good German breads, the crust isn't as hard as on a croissant, but the inner part is much more chewy, heavier in density and therefore really gives you the feeling you've eaten something (which doesn't really happen with white bread, with a crispy crust or without). And no, I'm not referring to Pumpernickel, there are basically 50 thousand different shades, depending on what kind of flour has been used and which grains have been embedded. Some bread doughs even have something like sunflower seeds, linseed and shredded carrots in them, which is really tasty, and they are often based on rye flour sourdough or something like that - these are all things you don't know the first bit about! But they are really, really good. If you have bad teeth, you can for example cut off the crust and still have an inner part that a) keeps its shape, and b) gives you the feeling that you have actually eaten something.
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Darf ich einmal etwas konstruktive Kritik an Deinen Videos - oder zumindest an diesem - anbringen? Ich habe während des Anschauens die Lautstärke während Ihr beiden gesprochen habt, auf 75-80% hochgestellt, und immer wenn dann Musik kam, wurde ich davon fast erschlagen, und musste auf 1-5% runterdrehen, um dann, wenn wieder gesprochen wurde, schnell auf ~80% zu gehen, damit ich was verstehe. Leider machen das viele Youtuber (und - noch schlimmer - selbst Hollywood-Filme!), ist das irgendwie eine Mode oder so? Dass einem die Musik einen virtuellen Baseballschläger über die Rübe zieht, und die Sprache als so unwichtig(?) betrachtet wird, dass sie flüsterleise ist? OK, ich übertreibe etwas, aber das ist mein Kritikpunkt: Bitte schau doch mal, ob Du nicht beides auf ein gutes Niveau ausnivellieren kannst (Audio normalization), so dass der Unterschied da nicht mehr so gravierend (oder idealerweise überhaupt nicht mehr existent) ist. Danke!
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We don't have Acura in Germany, we only have Honda. I don't even think we have Infiniti here, but we definitely have Nissan. We do have Lexus though, in addition to Toyota. Škoda and SEAT are basically Volkswagens, so they are very similar. Opel hasn't been available in the US (and never will be), because it's been a GM brand until a few years ago, therefore they had a few models, but under other GM brand names (i.e. the Saturn Astra, which is basically an Opel Astra). I must also correct you about your notion that BMW isn't seen as a luxury brand in Germany. While that may be true for Munich, or possibly even a large-ish part of Bavaria, it's definitely considered a luxury brand for most of the rest of Germany (plus, the people driving BMWs are known to be the biggest jerks). OK, that was all that came to my mind. Probably all of it has been written before, so I don't even know why I bother commenting ;)
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Wow, Feli, das ist ja mal eine riiiieeeesseeeen Bildungslücke die Du da hast in Bezug auf Waldmeister! Nagut, bist ja auch ein Stadtkind... Ich bin auf dem Lande aufgewachsen in einem kleinen Dorf, und in meiner Kindheit sind wir um Anfang/Mitte April herum raus in den Wald gegangen und haben Waldmeister gesammelt! Das hieß auch "Maikraut". Wurde dann zusammen gebündelt, ein paar Tage getrocknet, und dann konnte man damit für die Erwachsenen Maibowle machen, und für die Kinder Waldmeister-Limonade, indem man es in klare Limo wie Sprite o.ä. reingehängt hat (wobei Sprite sich dazu nicht so gut eignet, weil es zu süß ist, aber es gibt ja genügend andere Zitronenlimonaden die so ähnlich sind und weniger süß). Irgendwann ging dann aber so ein "Gefahren-Hype" um, und dann wurde das unterbunden. Ich weiß nicht mehr, weswegen, ob es wegen Fuchsbandwürmern war, oder vielleicht sogar wegen Tschernobyl oder ähnliches, jedenfalls war das um die Zeit rum, ich war noch einige Jahre vom 10. Geburtstag weg....werde mich aber mal erkundigen, warum das auf einmal nicht mehr "ein Ding" war, denn eigentlich fand ich die Limo immer total lecker als kleines Kind...
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@hansbrix2495 I actually know of no Greek fast food place, so I wouldn't even know what bread Gyros is put into. I know that Arabs use much thinner bread for their Shawarma (a bit like the Dürüm roll at the Turkish Döner place), but they have the better Fallafel instead. As for Gyros, I only know it from real restaurants (the stuff that isn't open any more right now due to the pandemic), and there it is served on a plate. It is also spiced very much different than any Döner - or even Shawarma - meat, so for me those two aren't really comparable, or the comparison ends at a rough similarity of the texture of the meat, but then again, not even that really...
Anyways, if you come to Berlin, I'll show you the best Yabrak Döner there is in the whole city! :-)
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Okay, das war alles, was ich niemals übers Oktoberfest wissen wollte! ;-)
Nein, ehrlich, für mich als Nichtbayern klingt das wie ein absoluter Horror, und ich glaube, ich würde niemals freiwillig dort hingehen wollen. Okay, außer vielleicht wenn Du dabei wärst ;) aber grundsätzlich ist das einzige, was bisher daran attraktiv klang, die Käsespätzle, und die gibts bestimmt auch anderswo.
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Oh, here, my car is a total beater! I mean, everything works on it, but it looks just nasty. I never clean it on the outside (just because I don't see the sense in it), and it does have accident damage on the right rear side where the rear door is dented in and then bondo was smeared onto it, and they even put some primer on it, but never painted it over with the original color. This was done by the previous owner. I just had the wheel arch protected from rust (with Rostschutz in yet another color) so that it wouldn't get worse, but other than that, I don't have any problem with just leaving it like that. Otherwise, it's all pretty scratched and dinged up. But I love it, because it's my car and it's the car I can afford (owning a car in the USA is much cheaper than here in Germany, as you may know). Dem TÜV muss ich dann immer sagen: "Außen pfui, innen hui", und wenn er sich es dann genau angeschaut hat, sieht er, dass es doch völlig in Ordnung ist, nur halt nicht so aussieht ;-)
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@volldillo I can understand that and partially, I'm doing similar things. However, for me it is important that they don't associate i.e. this account with my real identity. As for ads, I just leave them off, no use in checking this. Also, there are other data collectors i.e. Amazon which are to also be vigilant about (for example what you order, just use it to order stuff for other people as well, but also basically any website that uses AWS servers for their service). It's all really complex, and I'm not even sure it's possible to not have these despicable surveillance corporations generate a personality profile of you, based upon which they would be easily able to manipulate you, i.e. your choice of voting (or whether to vote or not), as Cambridge Analytica did. So these corporations are inherently undemocratic, and that's a huge problem we have (as a global society - well, maybe except countries like China where there never was any democracy in the first place).
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@FelifromGermany Wow, jetzt fühle ich mich geehrt, eine Antwort zu bekommen, und dann ist es eine Rechtfertigung ;-) - Nagut, alles OK. Meine Kritik war nicht als Angriff gemeint, ich konnte es ja auch abspielen, aber hab halt Lautsprecher am Laptop hängen, und da war mir persönlich die Musik etwas zu laut. Geht mir aber wie gesagt öfters so, von daher kannst Du das auch als hint nehmen, dass das Problem vielleicht eher meins ist, als eines der Mehrheit ;) - wie auch immer, keep doing the cool, interesting and often cute videos that you do and I'll be looking forward to watch them in the future. All is good, and have a nice sunday in Ohio! Grüße aus Berlin!
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@FelifromGermany RSS Feed für AntennaPod reicht mir, vielen Dank. Ich nutze praktisch keine porprietären Dienste, und schon gar nicht auf dem Handy, da ist alles "entgooglet" (und Apple-Kunde war ich eh noch nie, auch wenn ich heute gerne so einen alten "Würfel-Mac" aus meiner Kindheit hätte, aber die sind ja inzwischen gefragte Sammlerstücke, und haben zugleich keinen praktischen Anwendungszweck mehr - huch, jetzt bin ich doch wieder an der Tangente abgerutscht, egal). Aber der RSS Link steht ja auf Eurer Website, und damit seid Ihr dann auch auffindbar. Noch ein Tipp auf der technischen Ebene: Die erste Episode ist nur 55 Minuten lang, aber trotzdem 126MB groß. Wahrscheinlich in .mp3 encoded, wenn Ihr dafür .opus nehmt, kommt Ihr locker auf die Hälfte für dieselbe Spielzeit und Qualität. Selbst .ogg wäre noch sparsamer, als MP3. Ist vielleicht irgendwann mal wichtig, wenn ihr viele Abonnenten und Episoden habt und für die übertragenen Daten von Euerm Server zahlen müsst ;-)
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@publicvoidmain That's a point you can have, but then for you, being a software engineer is just a job, you could just as well do gardening for a living (or anything else). I've grown up with computers, and I like understanding them while I use them. It's a much more intrinsic approach than yours (not saying one is better or worse than the other), and I generally never appreciate it if the computer tries to take some thinking away from me, autocorrect is a prominent example for that, I always turn it off completely. Also, with understanding comes control over the machine, and that's another intrinsic thing I like to have. Which of course makes it hard to use modern online services that have the loss of control by the user built into themselves in a hard-wired fashion. I could also never use a stock ROM on my phone, because it neither allows me to gain root privileges, nor allows it for the whole spyware to be removed, so I would never store any personal data on it. I like my sovereignty, and I don't like it being taken away by machines that were designed by technocrats.
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@publicvoidmain The trust - that's the difference: I am not laid out to trust any corporation, this just isn't possible for me. So therefore I'd rather trust a programmer whose personal reputation is on the line for maliciously inserting unwanted code into their software (and nobody doesn't make any mistakes, so that's something which gets fixed much sooner in an open source project than in any commercial product where the manufacturer first has to calculate the cost of the fix and then to decide whether it's worth it). Hence I really don't use much commercial software at all. It's always better when it's a "project" rather than a "product", in my opinion. Because makers of projects usually don't have hidden agendas, and if they do, they're usually quickly discovered. With makers of products, you always have their main agenda which is profit, but with new business models, you often aren't the main customer, but sometimes also part of production. As for Apple, I did watch a bit of Louis Rossmann, so I know that they don't want my money, because they don't treat their customers right.
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Ich finde schon, dass das Oktoberfest eine in meinen Augen unangemessene Glorifizierung maßlosen Alkoholkonsums darstellt. OK, ich bin halt nicht damit aufgewachsen (bei uns gabs in den Dörfern im Sommer Kirmes, aber die waren immer nur ein Wochenende, oder zwei wenn man zum Nachbardorf gegangen ist), aber so im Nachhinein aus der Perspektive der Entscheidung, keinen Alkohol mehr trinken zu wollen, finde ich diese Feierlichkeiten von der Energie die dort herrscht eigentlich nur ziemlich räudig. Ja, das ist das passende Wort dafür... OK, wenn man Spaß dran hat, soll man's halt machen, ich werde mich weiter herzlich gerne davon fern halten ;)
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Doch, Pickups mit Zwillingsreifen kannst Du in Deutschland auch zulassen - sind dann halt 7-einhalb-Tonner, die bei 85km/h oder so abgeriegelt sind, und eben als LKWs zugelassen sind. Braucht man natürlich dann auch einen LKW-Schein für, und viel Zuladung (wie in den USA) oder "towing capacity" haben sie auch nicht, weil so ein fettes Teil halt alleine schon mal 5 Tonnen wiegen kann, und dazu passen die Fahrzeugklassen, die wir hier haben, einfach nicht. Obwohl, man könnte einen F550 hier wohl auch als Zugmaschine für Sattelauflieger zulassen, ist ja ungefähr dieselbe Gewichts- und Größenklasse. Macht aber keiner, denn für unsere engen Sträßchen und Orte sind diese Dinger einfach maximal unpraktisch. Aber jeder große LKW und Sattelauflieger etc. hat hier bei uns auch Zwillingsreifen, nur sieht man die nicht, weil die halt nicht vorstehen, sondern hinter dem normalen Reifen, den man von außen sieht, ist halt noch ein zweiter Reifen versteckt ;-)
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