benjymo

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by benjymo 3mo ago
VW is bringing back physical buttons in their newer models, e.g. ID.3 Neo and Polo. Skoda never did away with them. It's also part of the safety rating of Euro NCAP, and AFAIK China mandated physical buttons for important functions as
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by benjymo 3mo ago
They did away with a lot of physical buttons in the past. Now they are in the process of bringing them back. There are some models still sold with the old design while all new models have physical again. Also some of their brands had physic
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by benjymo 8mo ago
Some ISPs have bad peering with Cloudflare (e.g. Deutsche Telekom). Not Cloudflares fault but it makes it a bad choice if your customers are in Germany. And Cloudflare is an american company.
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by benjymo 8mo ago
They unilaterally cut supply through NS1 though and before the invasion deliberately kept gas storage in Germany empty. It's not all of europe but maybe this is what the the other person is referring to.
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by benjymo 8mo ago
> No one has even proposed that they have maybe even possibly have perhaps thought of an idea to address transport and agriculture related emissions. That's weird. In europe trains, trucks, light trucks busses and cars are bascially
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by benjymo 8mo ago
Is this really a lot of people that use resistive heating? Also at least it saves electricity during summer when you don't want to dump even more heat into the room. As a side, from my experience LEDs last significantly longer than inc
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by benjymo 8mo ago
Do you have any sources for this? I'm also living in Germany and heating is in no way considered a "luxury" nor have many people started burning wood. I don't even think many people would have the possibility to burn woo
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by benjymo 8mo ago
Batteries are relatively cheap and ideal for shifting solar power generation from noon into the evening.
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by benjymo 8mo ago
Don't forget wind. For example in germany, wind is 31.4% of production, solar is 16.8%. For the EU it's 18.1% for wind and 11% for solar. Wind is often producing more during the morning/night where solar falls short.
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by benjymo 8mo ago
There's a recent case of Wacker. They tried to build their own windpark in Germany but this got shot down by residents. Now they are moving to a chinese industrial area that is connected to windparks and battery storage providing cheap
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by benjymo 1y ago
You can check the label here https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/... . It's the electricity usage when running the TV. There is e.g. quite a difference between LED and OLED. TVs is also quit
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by benjymo 1y ago
When I last bought a car 5 years ago, the used car marked for EVs was very small and EVs were very expensive. Since then, they became much cheaper, there are a lot of new models and a lot of used cars on the market. I'm not planning to
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by benjymo 1y ago
The video for the first use-case is kinda funny. Instead of telling them to come back in a few minutes, just raise your hand and point at the timer.
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by benjymo 1y ago
Getting rid of these biasis is mostly what DEI is.
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by benjymo 2y ago
The government just announced an increase in pension of 3.74%. I think they'll do ok.
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by benjymo 2y ago
I think they went for the F-35 to carry US nuclear weapons. At the time, I read that planes need extensive certifications for this including giving US access to critical components. Obviously no european arms manufacturer should give these
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by benjymo 2y ago
If rates go negative this isn't relevant. You can get dynamic contracts based on the day ahead price in Germany. You pay a negative price for the electricity there. You still have to pay a transmission fee and taxes, so the actual end
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by benjymo 2y ago
That really sounds awful, especially if you don't speak the language. If they only go by phone number I'd guess this could have happened with any phone. Companies regularily reuse phone numbers.
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by benjymo 2y ago
He knowingly rallied his supporters to harass the victims and their families. That's a bit more than "someone ranting on the internet".
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by benjymo 2y ago
Looking at a few spots around me, it seems it includes some hotspots in public buildings and museums and so on. So on the map it shows e.g. 30 hotspots in a museum, which seems OK as you probably need that many for coverage indoors with the
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by benjymo 2y ago
It also should be connected to the national rail network so long distance trains go there directly. It greatly reduces time to switch trains when you're not directly from the nearest city. Vienna did this with their airport.
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by benjymo 3y ago
It's surprisingly readable if I zoom into the images. On 100% it's too small for me, but a modern computer or smartphone screen is probably not the use case.
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by benjymo 3y ago
That's a bit simplistic. Rent is 100% gone, but the interest payments of the mortage is also gone. Plus additional cost to buy is about 10% in Germany and you have oppertunity costs on the down payment.
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by benjymo 3y ago
Prices depend a bit on the region but here it's around 0,26 €/0,28 $.
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by benjymo 3y ago
I like the gestures on the magic mouse, especially the left/right scrolling. I use a Logitech MX Master at home and scrolling side to side never works well for me. For ergonomics, both are seem to be fine for the way I hold my mouse.
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by benjymo 3y ago
I wasn't able to npm install something because Cloudflare decided the IP I was currently assigned has to solve a captcha before downloading node packages.
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by benjymo 4y ago
Only US specific I think. In the EU, everyone uses WhatsApp, Facebook messenger or some other App depending on the country.
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by benjymo 4y ago
I'm doing the same for the 5 user limit on GitLab currently. But the pricing is just too steep for me to justify setting up, e.g. an extra user for some automated tasks.
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by benjymo 4y ago
AFAIK iOs Apps have to work without additional permissions, otherwise they get rejected.
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by benjymo 4y ago
Maybe the UK only agreed to protect Finland as part of a greater plan to join NATO. In any case joining NATO would allow them to trigger Article 5. This is a much better deterrent than some vague "would likely bring in many other NATO

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