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chat with very dumb bank AI-powered / not-so-AI-powered chatbot and have a hard time calling for a human to help cause the chatbox wants an explanation first but it does not understand me 
#life
contact bank cause they have been blocking all my outbound wires since Christmas w/o giving me information about it, just "failed for technical reasons" #life
try local Costa Rica defunct but now re-opened Selina location in beach town, under a different name with different owner, and it's empty, its cowork is moldy as fuck and everything is in disarray, very sad to see what's left of Digital Nomad infrastructure in 2026. I've seen 2 people renting rooms, but it seems to have 20x the capacity #life
buy vsa.name domain name on namecheap cause they cost $9/yr for initial buy + renewal (w/ no VAT), and plan to migrate away all my domains from Gandi.net cause same .name costs 40€/yr to renew, excluding FR VAT so w/ VAT that's almost 50€/yr, a 5x price difference.
Gandi.net was bought by a PE firm a few years ago and it is slowly destroying what once was one of the best registrar in the world, with huge price increases and no new products having been built for ages #life
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 #life
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