Actual focus, where I am 100% on the problem with all my remaining grey matter? 3-4h. That doesn’t mean I am doing nothing the other time - I’m talking to people, thinking about stuff, setting stuff up and so on. But if I do more than 3, 4 h, quality suffers, I suffer, and my sleep schedule suffers.

Really? It looks quite alive to me, I would assume that pose and expression take some muscle tension to hold. But tbh, if there were wolves that big around me, I would carry a gun as well. You know, just in case, I’d rather look stupid than become the statistic anomaly.

Listen, officer, the chloroform is for medical reasons!!

Jokes aside, I think it is more that they want to attract the really good people. There already is a complete power imbalance in many science fields, and in applied fields, they will still have to compete with industry jobs.

As someone thinking of doing a PhD, I want those dirty foreigners and their ivy league diplomas out! They are stealing my jobs!

What does left and right mean for you?

Going by its historic origins, progressives on the left, reactionaries and monarchists on the right, the Nazis were absolutely reactionary and thus far-right. They were only progressive where it suited them, like having women in factories freeing up men for the military.

Speaking purely of economic policy, left would be a collectivist economy and right an individualist one. In that regard, the Nazis were not quite far-right, as they favoured government intervention and influence, again, because of war efforts. They did a few token campaigns to appease workers, but didn’t limit or abolish privately held companies (as they wanted the rich and powerful on their side for the war). And you’d only get disowned if you happened to have the wrong ancestors, not because you were explotliting your employees.

Was?! Still is, and sadly will be.

It runs just fine for me, huh. Certainly not because of lack of google services.

Maybe graphene is doing some firewall things? KDE Connect needs some ports open (to the local lan) to talk

I had some luck with a 1/4 - 3/4 coax line balun on UHF, but it was (obviously) very narrowband. I was scared to do a toroid on 70cm because the internet said it would be bad, maybe I should try again

If you have a phone with custom ROM support, pretty easy. I’ve been running LineageOS without GAPPS for like 5 years now. Most stuff just works, but to be fair, I am not using any of the cool kids apps like google pay or android auto.

Emotionally, I want to agree with you, but lynching is almost always going to hit the wrong people, too. The well connected teacher/coach/advisor who likes to prey on girls is not going to be hit, but the black guy who happens to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time, and triggers all the “we must protect our women!1!” ?

Mainly once, if you dont count prehistoric versions

It’s not a new term, it has been around for a few centuries now. People who want to revert change, go back to the perceived good old times. Fascist is overused these days, and I’d argue reactionary hits a nice descriptive middle ground between conservative (which they are not, any more) and fascist (which many of them aren’t yet). Hit them where they are, not where they move to

The correct term is reactionary.

that’s also something I won’t get over.

Not when you keep repeating that to yourself. Shit sucks, shit will suck for a while, but shit won’t suck forever. It is okay to grief and be sad about good things. But life has to go on. Do things, meet people, force yourself to do it.

It will get better, period. Right now, it feels like it won’t. But you are already reaching out here, that is working on getting better. Keep doing it, and in the meantime, head up, chest out, carry on.

Ufl sucks. No mechanical lock.

If you are on a budget (which I guess you are): Get a cheap NanoVNA or similar device. <50€ straight from China. Or get a used SWR meter / antenna analyzer from the usual places (fellow hams, internet, flea markets). It will save you so much trouble, and it is really handy to have one. If you don’t, you can still do it the old-school way of receiving a known signal and simply looking at the outcome. But for that you need a known signal (or generate one). A friend with a radio, for example. Or a broadcast station. Or some local activity.

I built a mag-loop out of tinfoil and duct tape to try out an idea once, because that was faster than getting CST Studio to accept it. It works, because of course it does, but be warned that contact resistances are a bitch.

I guess they have to compete with the financial sector and the likes? Over here, it varies wildly by field and by what you do.

Wtf, how is food more expensive over there?? It’s been a while since I was in eastern Europe, but shouldn’t basic food be way cheaper?

From a fellow German: where are you now? Worse but more expensive food, I am guessing US?