It's easy: Stop buying their shit. You (not OP, generally asking) still do? Then why complain?

Guess we all know that gta6 will be nice at best but riddled with microtransactions, even for single-player. It will also be the highest AAA-price amongst some special-edition with 3 days early access and one ugly cosmetic (if they're generous). And the focus will be online. As there is the most money.

Point taken. Sadly so.

Aye. I did learn this the good old hard way.😁

True, but you could also add a switchbot to it. Ugly but simple and without electrical maintenance needed.

And we will not really wonder when we'll see how tremendously far pushed that will be...

It's not totally absurd to imagine this could happen. Which makes it totally absurd again.

That's why I try to make dumb things smart, not replace the dumb with smart. Like, make the switch smart, not the bulb.

Getting sonarr ready, can't await the new season.... Surprisingly good show.

It does not always have to be obvious to you as to what their benefit in you actually is. Doesn't mean they won't see one in you. Sometimes it's very abstract not clearly superficial. You will notice if you somehow loose that benefit. And yes, met many assholes. Almost exclusively. Hence the point. But I'm very picky with people.

Having lived here for over half a century now, and having met a ton of people and having get to know a solid portion of them better, I could safely say:

My wife and myself. The rest I would not bet a TicTac on. Homo homini lupus est. People are nice to you, even seem like "good people", but, as another comment or already said, people are contextual.

Be a tiny bit different from the mass and you'd notice why. People are nice to you as long as you provide some kind of benefit to them. Now or in the future. Even worse if you have money and they know it.

Yet, Despite me being misanthropic as hell, I still do care about my fellow species-members (everything living actually) and do voluntary work for disabled people and stuff like that. And yes, I know that most of them would probably sell me to one of Dante's circles of hell to get rid of their disability. But there are always some pearls somewhere in the ocean. It's worth finding them. Tiresome and frustrating, but worth it.

Numbers are great, but you forgot that the vast majority just don't care or even worse.

Absolutely right. These tiny "buy european"-protest are great, but won't change anything. We're too few. The EU needs to step up against these imperialist yokels. Should he get Greenland by force, nothing would happen. He could just do it and he knows.