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by pm3003 9mo ago
Agree. Cologne/NRW is the worst. Anything going to or through Neumünster also used to be an almost-guaranteed nightmare, but I've heard it's better now. That said, last time I was there DB was on strike and I lost hours.
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by pm3003 9mo ago
I used to complain about the French SNCF, then I discovered DB and stopped complaining. I've been a Bahncard 1. Klasse holder for a few years. Last time I took the train in Germany I was 30h late and had to spend a sunday between Colog
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by pm3003 9mo ago
Almost had this somewhere in Northern Germany in early december. The train stopped at "Kuhdorf", as the author says, at 10:30pm. The driver told us he couldn't continue because "the track was wet" (in Northern Germa
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by pm3003 9mo ago
The Munich S-Bahn is usually a delight compared to the Paris suburbian RER.
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by pm3003 9mo ago
I've seen this in the same region, possibly on this exact line last year. I was going from Paris to Copenhagen, managed to have only 5 hours of delay. The return journey took 30 hours more and I could only get one hotel night reimburse
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by pm3003 9mo ago
- Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard, very entertaining. - Lolita, it's mostly what you've read about it. - a few short stories by Heinrich von Kleist.
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by pm3003 10mo ago
sudo pacman -Syu. -> Secure boot config broken, OS won't boot (Manjaro this summer with some Intel firmware update). No HDMI sound on nvidia for some distros until recently. Getting the Wifi to work ootb on Mint is not always easy..
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by pm3003 1y ago
Le Monde Diplomatique is a far-left (but rather intellectual) newspaper, completely separate from Le Monde.
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by pm3003 1y ago
Pierre Fabre (big pharma) associated with the Dassault family used to have a big share in Valmonde, the owner of Valeurs Actuelles, and Olivier Dassault was for a time the lead editorialist (lead op-ed writer). Valeurs Actuelles used to be
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by pm3003 1y ago
"Italian" (and Egyptian) water buffaloes are not really bigger than regular cows. They are said to have come to the Middle East then to Italy through gifts from the Arabs or by Crusaders I believe.
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by pm3003 1y ago
Matrix comes to mind (Synapse server and whichever client you choose). It has good encryption and can be federated. Downside is that it gets heavy for old devices when you're in a lot of encrypted group chats. XMPP is very efficient an
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by pm3003 1y ago
a browser and a long-running podcast.
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by pm3003 1y ago
I feel like there should be an easy and common file transfer protocol, like a more straightforward bittorrent,FTP,MTP to exchange with these devices.
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by pm3003 1y ago
That's great! I've been looking for something for a while. Great features from my point of view: - email newsletters, especially with offline mails (no remote images) since theya can go easily through workplace gateyways for tho
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by pm3003 1y ago
I just spent 10 minutes in the Grimm dictionary checking if there was ever a case where wegen would be followed by accusative.... Interestingly, they tend to say wegen comes from "von wegen" with the meaning of "by ways of&qu
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by pm3003 1y ago
To me Ghibli often seems closer to the medieval / early modern narrative of the knight's adventure, which is a variant of the classical Western arc (initial stable situation, incident, helping figure, self-doscovery, resolution),
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by pm3003 1y ago
https://icarly.fandom.com/wiki/Seddie
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by pm3003 1y ago
Armies had a lot of more or less professional infantrymen, be they in the retinue of a lord or knight (and they could be peasants even if a peasant would generally have no reason to go to war, and the lords would have few motivations/l
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by pm3003 1y ago
There are some examples in the American War of Independence (or maybe War of 1812), where militias would lie down to reload and break the discipline of the overall force. Another practical aspect is sound / smoke. Letting the force fir
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by pm3003 1y ago
At some point they offered a free Cygnet if you bought one of their other models.
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by pm3003 1y ago
The first gear that Bell made was clearly a copy of Eurocopter's, though they claimed otherwise, and because of this they couldn't / didn't want to move on with certification and production. A lot of this can be consider
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by pm3003 2y ago
I read in Friedrich Hund's Wikipedia biography that while he was in Jena in after WWII in East Germany, the head of the Thuringen state government awarded him in 1949.... a voucher for a pair of shoes (a copy of the letter is on Wikip
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by pm3003 2y ago
Living among Muslim and Catholic people in a time of simultaneous Lent and Ramadan, I first read "How the Fast Days are getting longer" and thought "How true, how true".
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by pm3003 2y ago
As a young man I travelled a lot (US only twice, Canada once) in democracies and authoritarian regimes and quickly took the habit of always having some sort of paper on me (passport, copy of the visa and passport, city/tax registration
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by pm3003 2y ago
So she probably was alright with the law (short stay) but not with the system if I understand correctly. Still, wouldn't her detention be arbitrary and thus fall foul of habeas corpus principles which I have no doubt are in the US law?
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by pm3003 2y ago
Consulates can sometimes provide emergency lawyer services. Assuming you're from a first-world country.
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by pm3003 2y ago
They just glue them together I guess.
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by pm3003 2y ago
SIP providers. I used Ippi before 2015, but then EU regulations made it illegal to bill more for EU calls than for domestic calls, so I had almost no more use for it.
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by pm3003 2y ago
SIP providers, such as Ippi.
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by pm3003 2y ago
The reasoning is that, with sufficient security, on premise (more or less) cloud technology is not much different in terms of sovereinty from sourcing your hardware from China.

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