I’ve spent half a day yesterday to set up a VM running Debian on my office’s Win PC. Since I’m tied to Windows because of my proprietary CAD, my plan is to limit my interaction to a minimum and instead do everything else in the Linux-VM. With shared drives and drag’n’drop I hope it will work out. It comes in also very handy that I started years ago to strictly choose open source software that’s available for both platforms - so no learning curve. Since MS won’t listen - we all need to laudly complain about the lack of linux support towards our software providers. And yes, maybe too naïve, it will change something in the long run.

“Erfahrung heißt gar nichts. Man kann seine Sache auch 35 Jahre lang schlecht machen.” - Kurt Tucholsky

Which DeepL translates to

“Experience means nothing. You can do a bad job for 35 years.”

Not strictly life changing, but a very valuable reminder, if you need to deal with ‘that’ kind of person.

No no, I don’t mean Lemmy. I’m talking of external links. It feels like some server replies are not as responsive once I use Firefox, while chrome-based browsers react very fast.

Thanks for the feedback. To add to the clients: Voyager has implemented a quite well working search function, but got veeery slow on Firefox recently. But it’s important to mention that (my guess) this behavior is not Voyager’s fault, but conspiracy on rather Firefox’ requests are handled with lower priority… Yep, just a personal feeling, nothing I could prove.

Unfortunetely one can just upvote once. Two absolutely fascinating episodes!

Am I the only one who’s reminded of The Three Body Problem?

Mild spoiler alert:

Unlike humans, they have evolved the special ability to ‘dehydrate’, turning themselves into a roll of canvas.

German movie ‘Der goldene Handschuh’ which tells the true story of 70’s serial killer Fritz Honka. When a friend proposed to watch it, I seriously thought it to be a sports movie (the german ‘Handschuh’ translates to glove and my association instantly was a goal keeper’s glove…). Well, I was wrong. The dense and depressing atmosphere of Honka’s childhood and life, together with the derogatory, very hard and profane language and of course depiction of sexuality and violence towards women was simply too much for me. It sucked away all positivity at that moment. I finished it later and the director hit me once more, because in the end credits real pictures of the true locations where shown, proving the film’s sets where simply identical. That ripped away the last imagination that what I’ve just seen was just a very dark fantasy and too bad to be real. Brilliant movie and actors (the main actor in his role is simply not recognizable any more from his real life appearance, just like Charlize Theron in ‘Monster’), but too hard to for me to take.

In German we use the English term ‘understatement’ in some occasions, e.g. ‘his dressing style is a clear understatement…’. My brain somehow tied the meaning to something like ‘understanding’, maybe due to the similarities of both words. For decades it was clear to me that someone dressing like that were dressed to the point and ‘making a clear statement’. Now that I’ve checked the real meaning, I’m completely puzzled when and how to use the term and what I’ve misinterpreted all the years…

‘Schietwettertee’ mit Minze, Fenchel, Anis und Kümmel!

Well … Stranger Things … I know, I know. But it gives me so good 80’s vibes, especially due to the great synthie soundtrack. Can not not mention it.

Although not an android app, I’d like to mention Firefox’ Feedbro add-on. Since Mozilla recently announced (if I’m not wrong here) to make the desktop add-ons available in the mobile version, maybe Feedbro will be part of it?

No shit, Sherlock

Of course! That just show’s that you’re very good at extracting information of other’s explanations and are able to understand the nature of things. Very valuable!

Took me a while to realize that this is actually a real life superpower, but - I can fix things. Throw it away? Meh… Repairing, upcycling? Bring it on!

By posting such nonsense, you’re effectively promoting it. Don’t do that please.

Mechanic here. Came here trying to contribute to the discussion …

Really? 5-6 hours? That’s a hefty lot, dude!

To make or keep it hot, hot water is stored in a tank. Your heating system, depending on your setup and specific settings, constantly keeps it at the desired temperature. While this temp should be set at somewhere above 60°C, to hinder Legionella pneumophilia from growing, it’s possible that the concentration of heavy metals (stemming from your heating system) might reach unwanted concentrations, due to the longer time in there. And depending on the situation (age, corrosion, etc.) of your setup, of course.

So to put it short - while the hot side won’t kill you, stay with the cold because it’s usually better for your health.

I feel your pain. I once wanted to guide my buddies away from WA and had them in a Telegram group. And you know what the comment was? ‘Boring, nothing happening here.’ That’s like complaining that nothing happens in a phone booth… everyone, except for me, went back to WA. 🤷

3dprinting for sure. Friendly, informed and fast replies. Like it there.