🫣 Can we all agree that Spotify’s Year in Review is ugly as hell this year?
At the high school near my workplace, there were soldiers with guns. A very unsettling sight 😳.
Furthermore, they’ve placed Vigipirate posters - “terrorism alert” - in all the schools. Even in preschools.
We’re living in a fucked up world 😢.
Yesterday I had to go on Facebook for a few minutes. Wow, I’m so happy I don’t use it anymore… I think it has been more than a year since I connected the last time to my Facebook account. And I surely won’t do it again anytime soon. 🙅♂️
In february I’ve decided to take a break. Stop posting here, stop checking the feed.
It wasn’t you, it was me 😝.
Now I reactivated my micro.blog account and I hope I’ll be back at posting different stuff.
So, here we are again… RE-Hello 👋
🦠 It’s weird I haven’t got Covid yet… Or maybe I’ve had it and I just didn’t have any symptoms. I don’t complain, I’m really happy about it and I hope I’ll stay this way 😄
It’s a shame Halloween is not realy celebrated here in my area. I would like to do some crazy disguises once a year 🎃
I’m tired. I feel like I’m always starting 8 things, quitting 5 and forgetting about the other 3. I hate this… I need a break. I want to drink a hot coffee in the morning, looking at the mountains and listening a river. Or the birds…
I hate the parents that don’t say anything to their kids and leave them doing anything they want.
I was in a park with my little one and a dad was with his 2 sons. 1-2 years bigger I think.
Last few days it rained a lot, but he let them walk on the slide with their wet and dirty shoes. He said nothing. I had to clean it before my little one used it.
Next, one of the boys was on top of the slide not letting my little girl go up. I had to tell him to move because his dad was just looking. What a moron 🤬.
Last drop : when they we’re leaving the other kid came to the slide when my girl was preparing to use it and started pulling her shoes. And just like before I had to tell at him to stop because his dad said nothing. 🤯
**What the fuck dude? **
With parents like this, I’m afraid of how the kids will grow up.
I’m sick and tired of parents that do not educate their kids. 🖕🖕🖕
“The French way” for vaccinating people is so fucking stupid.
Starting last Saturday they said that people between 18 and 54 years old can get a vaccine only if they have comorbidities.
Seems legit, right?
The only problem is that when going to the vaccination center you don’t have to prove it, but only say it. So a lot of people (a loooot) got the vaccine just by lying that they have a comorbidity.
Got an acquaintance who did THIS. The guy is in good shape and good health, but he didn’t want to wait… And, besides that, few months ago he was even mocking all the covid situation.
So because of this type of idiots myself and other people that we have a real disease cannot get vaccinated right away because we cannot find a spot.
Everything’s taken and the next time slot available is in July. 2 month from now…
Well, I really hope that they’ll open extra slots because I would really like to get vaccinated - it will make me stress less, that’s for sure.
A big thank you to our leaders 🇫🇷🖕
I’m so furious right now
💬 Apparently tonight the prime minister will make some announcements. I think we’ll have a weekend lockdown 😢
— LATER EDIT —
Hmmm… no big news today 😄
💭 Muzica romaneasca s-a cam dus naibii… E pacat 😶
Ieri am incercat sa arunc o privire pe YouTube la ce piese au mai iesit si… am fost cam dezamagit. Ori am imbatranit eu, ori peisajul muzical romanesc este plin de fufe si panarame (atat masculine, cat si feminine). Este pacat…
I’ve posted this in Romanian, but realized an English version would be better here on micro.blog…
So I’ve decided to leave WhatsApp behind and close my account. And I switched to Signal. I was already on Telegram, but Signal is way better from a privacy point of view…
I’ve tried convincing my friends and family. Some accepted, some didn’t. But, as I’ve said to them, we’re free to choose what we want in life.
Those who didn’t want to leave told me I was paranoid, that Facebook is not the bad guy, that they don’t care because they have nothing to hide, etc.
I know the current changes to the privacy policy weren’t really that important (we’re mostly clarifications actually) and that Facebook already has everything about me at this moment. I know this, and it’s easy to see it for yourself. Just export WhatsApp data, and you’ll see all the infos they have. But I don’t want to be their data milking cow anymore. My data is my data (and yeah, I know: if something it’s free, you’re the product).
Besides, Facebook is known for lying a lot and not just lately… this “bug” made me laugh, or if you have the time you can take a look at this timeline of some of Facebook’s privacy issues
I don’t want a future built on all the data that we freely and stupidly gave to all these companies. A future where they have all of our data, and they’ll be able to know what our next step will be. I don’t want this.
If I can take a step in a different direction I’ll do it. So this is what I’m doing now.
I don’t want my kids to be “sketched” with the help of the data I’ll leave behind. They need to be themselves. That’s why I never posted, and I’ll never be posting photos of my daughter online - her online identity must be build by herself and not by her parents.
Final note: Facebook is not the only bad guy here… they’re just one of them. The internet is ruled by GAFAM and they have the power. We gave it to them…
😳 You don’t understand Romanian? No problem: I’ve also written an english article on the same subject…
M-am saturat sa tot explic de ce am plecat de pe WhatsApp si de ce am trecut pe Signal.
Mereu aceleasi intrebari si aceleasi pareri de la cei ce iau la misto aceasta decizie si imi zic ca sunt paranoic: ca modificarile facute nu implica Europa, ca nimic nu se schimba de fapt, ca Facebook nu este baiatul rau, ca ei nu au nimic de ascuns, etc…
Nu imi pasa sincer. Decizia imi apartine si mi-o asum.
De ce?
Nu mai vreau sa fiu un produs. De ce sa aiba Facebook toate aceste informatii cand ei nu dau doi bani pe tot ce inseamna privacy? De ce sa stie ei tot? Nu, nu am secrete, dar - in acelasi timp - nu vreau ca viitorul sa fie un sir de evenimente provocate de tot ceea ce data mining-ul a recuperat de la noi. Nu vreau ca ai mei copii sa fie legati de mine si sa se poata analiza “trecutul” lor prin prisma tuturor datelor obtinute prin utilizarea produselor lor.
Daca pot face macar un mic pas inapoi, eu il voi face.
Stiu ca Facebook are deja toate informatiile de pana acum, dar macar voi impiedica preluarea informatiilor ce ma privesc de acum inainte. De ce sa aiba ei contactele mele pentru a putea afla traseul de la persoana X la persoana Y prin intermediul meu? De ce sa imi stie preocuparile bazandu-se pe grupurilor pe care sunt sau pe care le creez?
La Facebook am renuntat de mult timp, iar acum WhatsApp este doar etapa numarul #2. Urmeaza Instagram, doar ca acolo activitatea mea este extrem de redusa (practic inexistenta).
As renunta si la Google, dar partea asta este ceva mai dificila pentru moment… Insa sper sa fac si asta pe viitor.
In fine…
💭 The best food in the world is not the one served at a 5 star restaurant. The best food in the world is the imaginary one prepared by your child. The joy in his/her eyes when you’re saying how good it is… Priceless 😍🥰😇
💭 We’ve become robots. I miss the days when we didn’t have smartphones, Facebook, Instagram, … The days when we really talked one to another 😞
💭 I hate receiving bad news. Today I got something close to a bad news regarding my dad. I really hope in the next few days it will “erase itself” and not become a real terrible bad news…
💭 Joyner Lucas was the artist of the year for me. That’s what Spotify says. And it’s true. This year I’ve listen his album on repeat for a long period of time.
💭 Working from home is nice and everything, but I’m starting to have more and more back pain… I really have to start walking more (at least 3 days a week).
💭 Went out this morning and it’s cold, so cold. Winter is coming… I like winter, but I hate it that when it snows 🌨 I no longer have the courage to drive my car 😰. Had a small “car control issue” when I first drove on the snow (like 15 years ago) and since then I’ve never driven again when there’s snow outside… I have to get over this stupid fear, but I don’t really know how (for now at least) 🤷♂️.
Lockdown until mi-december. Well, at least starting Saturday morning we can go out for up to 3 hours and 20km around our place 🎉
I am totally disgusted by the way Apple manages the AirPods Pro firmware updates and the changes they make to the way their product works.
The latest update completely broke my ANC (active noise reduction) 😡.
When I bought my AirPods Pro I chose them specifically for the ANC feature and for the way it worked. When I had ANC activated, I was completely disconnected from the outside world. I didn’t hear anything else. I could almost hear my heartbeat. That’s what I wanted, complete silence.
When I was walking on the street, when I was in the bus, when I was cleaning my home, … always.
And now? Since the latest AirPods Pro firmware update, everything is broken…
ANC on or disabled is almost the same 🤬. I don’t get it…
When I’m using the vacuum cleaner I can hear EVERYTHING. It’s true, ANC is still working, but completely different and the noise reduction is way weaker. I have to have the music at ~75% to stop hearing the vacuum cleaner. What’s the point of ANC then? I hate this…
I’ve contacted support, they changed the AirPods with another pair (I thought my AirPods Pro is broken), but it didn’t helped. The problem was not hardware, but software apparently… And I found other people complaining about it on reddit 😢.
I hate this. I bought a product that had some features and those features disappeared after a firmware update… Not cool Apple, not cool…
I miss those long summer days. At least back then we could go out for a walk after the workday was over.
Now at 5pm it’s dark already and, besides, outside is pretty cold.
So we stay inside.
Thank you covid 🦠
Thank you lockdown 🔒
Thank you 2020 🤦🏻♂️
So glad I’ve found a solution that will allow me to quickly share different thoughts.
👋 hi, I’m podiboq 😎