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Cake day: April 30th, 2024

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  • Many sites don’t work like that and don’t even load the content from the server before the paywall check.

    But I have a trick that work 100% of the time. Just don’t read those sites.

    I get that journalism and entertainment magazines have workers and need to be paid BUT:

    They were getting paid when I could pay a cheap physical newspaper if I want to read it and usually had those for free anyway. As you’ll get newspapers on most public places and one single newspaper would serve a whole family. In my house we didn’t really paid more than 4€ a month and got physical things that you could just keep. Now with digital distribution you own nothing and it is far more expensive. So… No. Also they get a ton of public money through institutional advertisement, so I’m already basically paying for them without getting access to their content.

    So unless they are willing to change their model I’ll just refuse to read them. I’m happier without their clickbaits anyway.


  • Stop doomscrolling.

    For what you are writing, you are just getting angry at things you read not at things you live.

    Revise which sources are you reading. If they made you unhappy, it is worth keep reading them? Most of those things won’t happen anyway or if happen you could easily avoid. I don’t feel the need to have an “smartwatch” so I just don’t have one, for instance.

    Find some sources that make you happy, and you’ll find an improvement. Some people seems to only write things with the goal of making you feel miserable.

    I’m just happy following my tech news about open source development and space exploration.