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by MandieD 4y ago
Depends on what you mean by “accessibility”… my 85-year-old aunt-in-law finds her iPhone 7 running iOS 15 to be far less accessible than her old iPhone 4 that probably stopped being updatable around iOS 7. All she wants to do is make phone
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by MandieD 4y ago
Ah, Tylže - a very sensible transliteration!
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by MandieD 4y ago
What’s the new name of the town recently known as Sovetsk, and more formerly known as Tilsit? Asking for a lovely elderly German who still has the latter on his passport as his birthplace…
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by MandieD 4y ago
When I stopped working as an Army IT contractor in Germany, I went months with few interviews. Heck, I got rejected from a low-paid PC repair job, likely because the interviewer gave me a quizzical look when I replied that my husband was an
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by MandieD 4y ago
The very mild “lockdowns” imposed in Germany in 2020 resulted in bicycle shortages, because all there was to was to walk, run or go biking. The bike paths were absolutely packed around me when people couldn’t do discretionary shopping or go
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by MandieD 4y ago
All for a ridiculously wasteful white elephant of a project…
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by MandieD 4y ago
What kind of mods did you make, aside from either inserting a 256 GB card, or swapping out the built-in storage? Which model?
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by MandieD 4y ago
Any sort of useful sex ed was out of the question when I was in public high school in the late 90s in not-urban Texas. We got plenty of horror stories around premarital sex, but absolutely no information about birth control or the meaning o
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by MandieD 4y ago
And now, we’re going to force a lot of women who agree that they have no business having kids, to have kids. Would it be nice if they’d had the forethought, budget and/or power in their relationships to reliably use birth control? Yes,
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by MandieD 4y ago
Debt that you can’t quite get in front of will make you a bit nihilistic - it took moving abroad to a country where the shops had limited hours and many of them didn’t take credit cards to help me reform. Oh, and dating (then marrying) a gu
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by MandieD 4y ago
I see that you have also identified the central value proposition of Concur.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Internet in a Box might be a good place to start: https://internet-in-a-box.org/
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by MandieD 4y ago
I'm a Kagi subscriber and didn't know about Orion, so thanks for this!
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by MandieD 4y ago
What a perceptive priest! Makes me kind of wish we Episcopalians had a routine around one-on-one confession - we have a rite of confession ("Reconciliation of a Penitent") in our prayer book, and any good priest would be happy to
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by MandieD 4y ago
“… no one trusts the bild anyways.” They might not say they trust it, but they sure do unironically read it all over rural Bavaria and in every little Gasthaus, even in the cities.
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by MandieD 4y ago
A smaller model (1 billion to one scale), the "Planetenweg," is on the bicycle path between Georgensgmünd and Spalt, about 30 minutes south of Nuremberg: https://www.georgensgmuend.de/de/freizeit-kultur-touris
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by MandieD 4y ago
Up to now, I have vigorously shielded my toddler from marketing - as far as he knows, the TV occasionally shows holiday church services and election results, and "his" laptop shows fairly non-violent excerpts from BBC animal docum
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by MandieD 4y ago
Shortwave ("world") radios - they're widely available used for under 50 EUR in Germany.
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by MandieD 4y ago
I highly recommend HamStudy.org[0] - free online, or a $3.99 iOS/Android app. It keeps track of which questions you keep missing and will drill you on them. I found this approach was fantastic for passing the Technician exam, and also
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by MandieD 4y ago
There are a lot of roads around Austin that are FM (some number). The “FM” means Farm-to-Market, and they literally were built from little farming towns through miles of fields into larger towns. Some of those little farming towns are now r
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by MandieD 4y ago
I will echo what all the guys have said, as the mother of a toddler: paternity leave is the best gift you can give your child, your partner, and even yourself those first few months. I don't know what I would have done had my husband
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by MandieD 4y ago
Pumping. It ended up that I had to do it if I wanted my kid to have my milk (would he have starved 100 years ago? No idea!) but it had the excellent side benefit of being able to separate output from input, and my husband was able to pop th
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by MandieD 4y ago
Following one of the links on that page, the Knitted Radio (FM transmitter!): http://www.ireneposch.net/the-knitted-radio/
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by MandieD 4y ago
Will be exciting to see in the next week[0] whether Gmail delivers my much-desired overseas absentee ballot to my Inbox, Spam, or drops it altogether, because Texas is too lazy[1] to use a properly-configured mail domain, or any form of dom
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by MandieD 4y ago
The vast majority of people outside of Unix-adjacent computing have never heard of, much less used, emacs. More broadly, most people have never used any form of REPL, including the handy PowerShell that has come out of the box with Windows
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by MandieD 4y ago
One important thing to know about the EU energy ratings: there is a newer standard since 2021, and an appliance that was “A++” in the older standard might be “G” in the new, but the old rating is still on display because it wasn’t retested
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by MandieD 4y ago
This looks similar - same features list, same standby power consumption, higher running power but not bad, no mention of Android TV, 1080p: "Philips 43PFS5507/12 43 Zoll LED Fernseher Für Kleinere Räume"[0] It so well answers
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by MandieD 4y ago
Wow, that’s worse than anything I’ve heard about around here (northern Bavaria). Power strips with switches are a sound economy move, in either situation.
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by MandieD 4y ago
More than 50 EUR per year at the prices a lot of us contracted for before the war for 2022, to make things clearer.
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by MandieD 4y ago
I am a Texan, and I think we deserve the disdain in this case - we elected those politicians who want to force the main platforms people use for all sorts of communications to allow themselves to become /pol/.

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