I generally enjoyed my time in both Konstanz and München, but not quite enough. It was quick and easy to find fun people. Great active social life.
München has horrendous housing shortage and traffic and is a bit too large for my taste. The alps are reasonably close but it is still quite a drive. The Konstanz region has the lake but is otherwise quite densely developed. It takes a bit to get away. Also, for Konstanz, Zürich is close enough to make Konstanz kind of pointless.
Germany has significantly heavier and more heavy handed bureaucracy than I want. Everyday life, all the small stuff, also costs more of my time there than in some other countries. This is an issue for me. I want the little necessities of my days to be as few, quick, small and frictionless as possible.
I visit these regions regularly, just don't have a good enough reason to move back there.
I’ve been very much enjoying FSNotes [0] as a replacement for Notational Velocity (and nvALT) which are both abandonware at this point. FSNotes is a native app, is FLOSS and is actively maintained. It lacks some of the advanced features of Obsidian (like Graph View) but it has the essentials (hyperlinks and tag sidebar).
I switched from nVALT to FSNotes, and then to Obsidian. FSNotes was too buggy for me. In particular, I'd go to search for something and somehow after a few characters I was randomly typing in to some saved note. Obsidian has been excellent. I suggest dragging the "magnifying glass" icon to it's own "tab" so it's always visible (something I'm used to with nvALT / FSNotes).
I am still using nvALT and the application works despite the fact that it wasn't updated in years.
Funny personal fact is that I started to use nvALT after seeing it mentioned in a bad fiction book, one of those that you read because you get stuck somewhere and it's the only book available.
> The insurer must earn enough income from investing the deposits to cover losses and operating expenses for the model to be economically viable
The above is a quote from the Wikipedia article. I suspect that with interest rates at an all time low, the environment is not exactly ripe for this kind of insurance model.
Not questioning this dang, but would be useful to add something about trollish usernames in the guidelines, and perhaps clarify what qualifies as trollish.
That belongs to a category of subrules or heuristics which are too numerous to list. If we tried to make the guidelines comprehensive that way, they would just get so long (or worse, so bureaucratic) that people wouldn't read them.
There's a limit to how much information one can get across that way, so we err on the side of explaining the spirit of the site and leave the 'case law' to specific moderation comments. One of these years I want to compile those into an extended FAQ or something, which could provide a home for the kind of documentation you're talking about.
Impressive how you’re able to find these quickly and quash. Follows the model of cleaning up graffiti quickly, which causes incidents to reduce over time.
"Begging the question"[0] is a logical fallacy where you provide an answer to a question that depends on first assuming the answer is correct. i.e. a circular argument.
> It’s nice to have the option to be completely decentralised (…)
I think "nice" downplays the importance of the possibility of self-custody. Despite the majority of people perhaps not opting to control their own keys, the mere possibility has interesting game theoretical implications that will keep neobanks like Coinbase in check.
[1]: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...