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That is funny because Germany did in fact use the process ("waste") heat from steel mills for district heating on a large scale. The steel was then used by the automotive industry, among other things. We're talking 50+ years ago.
I know, right. And the other manufacturers are the same, razors/grooming tools that just have a USB C plug are rare to nonexistent. My assumption is that it's down to some regulation regarding waterproofing somewhere. Though of course USB C plugs can be waterproof.
You can also get jiaozi and tempura shrimp at the Oktoberfest, that doesn't make them traditional Alpine food.
Directly at the German-Polish border, you'll enter Eastern Europe, then when you arrive in the mentioned cities, you're suddenly back in Central Europe.
I mean I get that impression even before crossing the border to Poland. It's just very rural and not exactly wealthy on either side of the border.
What'd be nice for compound words particularly in German is a way to enter them separately and have them merge either automatically or as an option above the keyboard.
Eg enter Bürger Dienste and have it autocorrect to Bürgerdienste. Or even Führung Kraft and turn it into Führungskraft (inserting an s).
Officially allowed in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and UK, from what I can tell. Interesting though, I'd have assumed it's permitted nowhere in the EU.
Probably because the Spanish track isn't delivered in surround...
Thanks, I read through a few pages and found it a more interesting read than the original link.
E.g. here he's complaining to the undersecretary of state:
https://archive.org/details/dispatchesoffiel10welluoft/page/...
Here (and a few lines on the page before) is a long letter with his advice on how to reconstitute the (allied) government of Spain:
https://archive.org/details/dispatchesoffiel10welluoft/page/...
Interesting. If Motorola gets away with that, loopholes can be closed.
The increased update timelines by Google, Samsung and others roughly coincided with EU legislation coming into effect that mandates 5 years of updates after end of sales. We'll see.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/From-June-20-EU-gives-smartphon...
WAPO's entire nominated work is about Epstein Files
No, it's not. But it is about Trump: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-4
Endtroducing.... (1996)
Second Toughest in the Infants (1996)
In Sides (1996)
Homework (1997)
To name a few. The 90s were great for electronic music.
Yeah it's ridiculous.
Boomers legislating away a method of transportation they have no use for, combined with a few people using it with little regard or civility, and rental operators so focused on competition that they're unwilling to enforce the rules.
But really, mostly it's the first of the three factors. Thank god they're avid adoptors of ebikes, making those safe for now.
Well, a lot of people got killed this way, too.
The YKK zipper on my North Face hard shell broke. Got it replaced under warranty. Half a year later, it broke again. Anecdotes, sure, but I'm now buying cheap jackets instead.
The data doesn't prove either point. For all we know, a very low number of cattle are being grazed on those 29%. Or a lot of them. We don't know.
From what I understood ethanol and methanol form an azeotrope
I don't think so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotrope_tables
What a coincidence, I just got an email announcing that Breville intend to orphan my Joule sous vide stick: the existing app will stop working, the new app is only available the US and Canada and in parts of Europe.
Live in another country? You're s.o.l., it wasn't officially sold there. You need a new account as well, hope you like the TOS.
All of this for a device whose core functionality -- setting a target temperature, getting the current temperature and checking for error states -- is both trivial and has no inherent need for internet connectivity.
I suppose I should be grateful they're still supporting a device that's like 10 years old. Caveat emptor (I got it as a gift).
https://community.chefsteps.com/discussion/78615/joule-sous-...
I had to guess arcane adb permission commands to stop a 2025 Samsung tablet from nagging the user about creating a Samsung account. It just kept showing up multiple times a day. But nice enough hardware with the promise of long updates at a reasonable price.
Charge full overnight, top up at 300-350 KW once a day for 45 minutes. 600 kWh lfp battery weighing 4.5t. This seemed to work out fine for a guy on YouTube documenting his experiences. SoC wasn't a big deal in itself, flexibility in (overnight) stops more so, but still less than I expected.
Helped an aqaintance set up a new computer with pre installed Windows 11 a while ago. As in Windows was already on there. How hard could it be?
Just getting past the mandatory online account ID took us half an hour, and only worked because she was diligent in writing down her password for Skype 10 years ago which somehow (I realize why but it's insane) now is her Microsoft account and involved in logging in to Windows. Then we stared at a non-interactive initial update screen for another half an hour before it offered the option to postpone updates. I assume if you ship your new computer somewhere without Internet, you simply cannot use it?! And of course all the dumb dark patterns, as if designed by a scumbag pick-up artist.
Then I had to deal with Windows file sharing to copy stuff from the old PC which was exactly as intuitive as it was in LAN parties around 2000 (used mostly the same UI, as well); but at least unlike the new quick share features worked eventually.
Don't get me started on how we got her old printer to work. It's still a miracle to me and involved multiple reinstalls of multiple drivers and finally digging through to a Windows 2000 era dialog listing various printer interfaces and manually selecting the right one that at some point popped up. I was all but convinced she'd need to buy a new one.
Thank you
Maybe consider a sports club that's in walking -- or cycling -- distance. But I guess that's also insane.
Unless you're going surfing, 3 kids and their sporting equipment fit in a small hatchback, with room to spare.
Is there a cheap and convenient way to have a front/back camera on your bike, yet? Or a bike helmet with inconspicous front+rear camera? I'm aware of the Garmin Varia line, but it's quite expensive and I don't care about the radar.
I love the line drawings. They immediately seem more real than current games. Just the land use aspect alone (buildings vs farmed land). Modern sims never get that right, either, with coal power plants the same size as a high school. And so many other things out of proportion.
Children tend to move around.
Louis Vuitton didn't make 18% of all handbags in 2024.
We've produced 6-8 billion tons of plastic/plastic waste and its bulk density is much lower than water
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-plastics-productio...
Tonie boxes are extremely widespread in Germany, and while the media are similarly priced, there's a huge used market and public libraries have them as well. Nothing is tied to a specific account or box, so there are no restrictions on resale or lending. Almost shocking in this day and age.
If you've never been on a train that stops at the right station, maybe the problem isn't with DB.