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by bkor 20d ago
iDeal/Wero is nicer I think. It just reuses your bank basically. And no need to trust Paypal. I've seen way too many bad stories about that company. Either dispute handling wise or how they handle customer data. With iDeal/We
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by bkor 20d ago
It's basically the better version of iDeal, used heavily in Netherlands. They're slowly changing the iDeal name to Wero. Apparently it's mostly that, change of name coupled with a bigger scope.
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by bkor 5mo ago
As said by someone else, the temperature of the oceans rose significantly more after the low sulphur regulation went into effect. See https://www.imo.org/en/mediacentre/hottopics/pages/sulphur-2... for t
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by bkor 9mo ago
It gives "D is not a function". This on Firefox 146. Various extensions including Ublock Origin but that doesn't seem to cause it. Also doesn't work in a private window.
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by bkor 9mo ago
> Productive and innovative businesses with really solid fundamentals (balance sheets) that were acquired and dismantled by PE. You have way too much (unneeded) limiting qualifications. In Netherlands PE have bought loads of companies, t
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by bkor 1y ago
> Update 1: Apparently, GNOME bureaucracy is holding up the processing the application of a new maintainer for over a month now. Could you explain this? You link to a closed bugreport where a new maintainer stepped up. A previously exp
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by bkor 1y ago
> So, I find that it's highly unlikely that the ISP is officially required to support a user supplied modem, although I haven't consulted the EU laws on this. Ziggo (called UPC in other EU countries) uses DOCSIS. The instructio
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by bkor 1y ago
> The EU can accomplish it with diplomacy. Agree. It'll likely happen that way. Still, dislike the initial incorrect assertion.
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by bkor 1y ago
> The EU has agreed upon programs in order to bring in, through an immigration policy, high skilled persons from non-member states. Where in this is the option that the EU provides an option to immigrate because the EU owns something? I&
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by bkor 1y ago
> Not only that, but being owned by the EU gives the ability for MITRE employees to have the option to immigrate to the EU to protect against any retaliation. According to which rule would "owning by the EU" result in an option
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by bkor 1y ago
> for those who do not want to watch a video like me. Thanks! It made me read his other articles. I liked this one more: https://www.thestockpot.net/videos/3dprinteddownpipe . A 3D printed downpipe. Because that&#x27
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by bkor 1y ago
AliExpress highly encourages leaving a review. They also encourage taking pictures. As a result, loads of random pictures in reviews. You can do an additional remarks later, but I often don't bother. It's drowned out anyway. What
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by bkor 1y ago
> Obviously YMMV, but I bought some Amazon MTB pedals rated 4.7 starts @ 9k ratings. Every site is different, no? Amazon isn't AliExpress. Though lately Amazon if flooded with marked-up AliExpress stuff. I'm not fond of Amazon,
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by bkor 1y ago
> For cycling there are now a group of trusted companies that many people purchase from - WinSpace, Magene, iGPSport, that stand behind their products. Do you follow Trace Velo on YouTube? Any others you recommend (aside from China Cycli
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by bkor 1y ago
> if I go to France, I don't expect government announcements to be provided in English In Netherlands they'll translate things in various languages. If you get stopped by the police and they need to communicate they'll get
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by bkor 1y ago
I noticed I made an error when remembering the memory type I saw a while ago. I meant the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMM_(memory_module) That's a way to have the memory close, but still being able t
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by bkor 1y ago
> Socketed RAM CUDIMM is changeable and fast. > The user being able to swap parts easily is _neat_ but it's just not an required feature Mostly because people seem to have forgotten that it was possible. Often laptops are slow to
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by bkor 1y ago
> My ThinkPad X1 extreme is still chugging along but gets hot Not clear to me if you mean always or that it changed. Do suggest to check the thermal paste, plus clear out dust in fans and heatsink fins.
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by bkor 1y ago
It was merged Feb 14 2025. It'll be in GNOME 48 and Fedora 42. It's likely already in the Fedora beta branch.
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by bkor 2y ago
> Because what is implicit in saying that solar (or wind) is cheaper than nuclear per W produced is that it is a viable alternative to nuclear. I do not see that implication. Solar and wind is significantly cheaper than nuclear. That doe
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by bkor 2y ago
> European grids have been connected for decades, way before new renewables were a thing. Agreed, but not in the amount of capacity that they're aiming for now due to increased (expected) volatility. See e.g. https://ener
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by bkor 2y ago
> "then it is" what? economically viable? He still needs 100% backup from other sources, so you have to factor that cost in. Nope, you do not need to factor that in. If I put solar panels on my house, I check if it's worth
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by bkor 2y ago
> But in sunnier, warmer parts of the world Though solar panels prefer if it isn't too hot. Still, any such inefficiencies are easily outweighed by their low cost. In Netherlands it is common to install practice (and advised) more W
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by bkor 2y ago
> but it doesn’t scale up or down quickly. The newer ones can. Though that's partly my dislike. There's always yet another new technological solution for the various drawbacks. Which often are unproven (e.g. SMRs) and that ofte
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by bkor 2y ago
> Well as long as you have vast amount of storage capacity + overprovision Why would that need to be? The full needs need to be taken into account. But that's a TCO calculation, not something to add to the solar cost. Nuclear energy
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by bkor 2y ago
> Which it really isn't unless we're neglecting to count in the need for long-term backup power. But that's not what the topic, no? It was about economically viable. It wasn't about fully relying on them. If someone c
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by bkor 2y ago
Have you also considered putting the solar panels straight up? This when using bifacial solar panels. Might help with getting the snow off. People started using them as fences, though you need the space/land for that. Also, the various
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by bkor 2y ago
> Every once in a while, the browser detects I'm typing "±±±±±±+..." Interesting bug! Not exactly following on what triggers the bug. Do you have a ± key on your keyboard (some international one)? Or does it occur after e.
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by bkor 2y ago
For those interested in uv (instead of pip), uv massively sped up the release process for Home Assistant. The time needed to make a release went down from ~2.5 hours to ~20 minutes. See https://developers.home-assistant.io/b
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by bkor 2y ago
That's being done in Rotterdam for ages. Cars with cameras on top which determine which cars have a parking violation. I think they check illegally parked cars plus cars which didn't pay. It's anything but new technology.

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