oats

Yeah, I really think promoting Christianity by leadership living Christian values by example would work. Unfortunately for them their conservative brainrot is really far from Christianity…

I read the bible a bit in my youth. Wasn’t Christian before, wasn’t Christian after. If anything it left me wonder about the sanity of the authors…

Fortunately, I have never encountered a tip asking card terminal in northern Germany. When I tip, I do it cash anyways. Tips don’t go to the boss…

Yes, they like to .mov it .mov it

No need to, there is no fruit of the poisonous tree in German law. Police can strip search you in bright daylight on a crowded square for no reason - clearly illegal, bit what they find will be used to proscute you. The officers will be punished as well, at most with a stern talking to.

Google is not breaking the (German) law here, it actually is your responsibility as a user to not spy on people. Failure to do so means up to three years in jail, for a first offender most likely a fine. And your device that you used to break the law might get confiscated.

The later was already the case when people used radar warner apps (banned on Germany as well) and lost their smartphone for that.

No, the user breaks this law, not the manufacturer. So the loophole for google is, they don’t care about you.

I didn’t check the actual law, always a good idea to do so.

So, §201 StGB actually covers both, it is forbidden to “aufnehmen” (record) as well as “mithören” (spy on). Bonus, its forbidden to cite transcription (im Wortlaut mitteilen).

Its an old law, going back to video cameras with magnetic tape and actually tapping a phone line. So it was used quite often, including the mentioned fake surveillance cameras, that didn’t record or even view anything but seemed to the public they did.

When dashcams became a thing people would be sentenced for using them. These days you can use dashcams, but never save for more than 24h or show the recording to anyone but the police/court.

I guess the law is a relict of living next door to Stasi, but its really just a guess of mine.

Oh no, how terrible!

Not a lawyer, but as far as I got it, the storing isn’t the punishable part, the recording is.

You can’t have security cameras filming public spaces (like the road in front of your house). Even if its dummies, as people couldn’t tell the difference whether the camera actually films them or not.

Illegal in Germany. You may not record conversations, if you try to enter something like that as evidence you’ll get punished as well.

I suspect there are many countries with laws like that, and if your phone actually disables the feature when you enter them or just let’s you hang to dry…

My thought :)

Of course they won’t, how are they gonna recruit kids for their rightwing batshitism otherwise

Würde nur Datingseiten per https nutzen.

Sounds funny, but it’ll lead to people saying "look at those 4 years without a president where everything went to shit! We need strong leadership!’

I do use German key layout, as I’m used to that for decades.

And German number, currency, date, address formats, as the English are just whack

Don’t know what your mobile OS is, I set my Android to English and use HeliBoard for the keyboard app. It even remembers what app should get Swedish, German, English layout and word suggestions.

Dunno, isn’t logo older, with the while frigging language translated?

When I started computering, there where no localised systems. When they started translating, the German was often misleading, incomplete, or just didn’t fit in the button or whatever. So I stuck with English. Somewhere along the line I switched to en_UK, though.

And yeah, in this day and age I have no clue how good the translations are, because I never checked them.

I have fiber in my basement and could book gbit. Upstream is still nerfed, currently I have 250mbits down, 50 up

Edit: disregard that, just checked with my ISP and apparently I have an old plan, and could book 1 gig symmetric. For thrice the cost, though