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work on blessed 5G netgear router from Costa Rica remote tropical beach town because Airbnb internet gets very spotty when neighbors open TikTok, and I need to have my own dedicated LTE connection to avoid connection sharing issue due to poor bandwidth. Feels great that my FR cell service provider has 200GB international data packages for only 50€/mth while local SIMs are crazy expensive — \cc @LeCoupa best router in the world 
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download all the books that I own physically and that I ordered from Amazon from the last few years, get them from pirate websites and upload them to my kindle as a portable duplicate of my physical books so that I can read all my home library when nomading, maybe I should now sell all my physical books to keep minimal but a home library full of physical books is beautiful too #life
drink home made specialty espresso coffee w/ single origin small batch beans from local roaster and it's delicious #life
configure 27' lg ultrafine to have 6k scaled resolution to match size of interfaces between my macbook pro display and the external display #life
see one guy punching another guy in the face in the street and make the other guy bleed a lot, and going back to his car like nothing happened with his own kid screaming “dad please stop”, those very civilized things are happening more and more around me in 🇫🇷 (almost happened to me when driving my car 1 month ago in same city area).
You can def feel people getting poorer money wise and intellect wise, not cool to live in a crumbling society. Luckily as a tech nomad you can GTFO easily if things get to shit 😬 #life
apply one more anti-uv and hydrophobic coating layer on my Nomatic/Gomatic Day Bag PU zippers for more protection and prevent them from cracking under the sun - it also adds a nice glossy finish and helps restoring a brand new appearance looks cool #life
drink homemade double espresso w/ specialty coffee beans for a chill saturday morning, before going to gym #life
see my dbrand leather skin applied to my MacBook Pro top lid already peel off at the edges due to rubbing when inserting into my backpack, after researching this is totally normal for leather and not really due to dbrand quality issue more incompatibility of leather skins with rubbing. Meaning... MacBook either needs to stay on a desk 100% of the time and not be inserted in a backpack, or I need to remove the skin and switch to a Vinyl skin instead. Thus, I ordered a 100% Vinyl replacement from dbrand — too bad, I really loved the leather feel #life
see FR taxes take all of the money that's left on my main EUR bank account (5 digits) and now I'm left with not much cash money, because I underestimated tax hikes this year due to FR budget situation (exceptional taxes that are due in current year and not Year + 1 as it should be the rule — maybe should consider moving tax residency elsewhere cause this might only worsen over the years).
I calculated that I currently pay effective 59.5% tax to FR end-to-end on capital gains (from customer credit card to what's left in my pocket free of all taxes and social charges), so I keep only 40.5% #life
