Assembling it with a tiny allen wrench takes a while. Oh, and some parts are literally paper, but somehow still functional.

That’s about right.

I’ve had a handful of past students have this conversation with me. I’m in “whatever floats your boat” crowd, so I basically ask what they’d like to be called and if they have any preferred pronouns. Then, I remind them I have enough trouble learning names on the first pass, but we’ll work it out after I screw up a few times (it’s just me being old brained, not malicious).

Then I make sure to say their name a few times as we wrap up to start learning whatever it is, and move into other topics. I’m not their therapist, so I’ll just be as normal as possible in the face of change. No worries, you do you and I’ll forget any old names/faces soon enough anyway once I stop using them.

This has all the “you can’t quit, you’re fired!” Feeling that comes with any six year old throwing a tantrum on the playground. Once again, MAGA is led by a child.

I just pulled out a spare laptop to try some new distros to help advise someone about their options. I installed a few and gauged how easy/simple it would be for each one in regards to their needs.

It wasn’t distro hopping in that I wasn’t really using them beyond testing, but it was checking out options, settings, and tools. In the end, they’ll have to decide on what works best for them.

Brilliant.

I’d put it up there with the CPU emulator done in LaTeX.

A pair of simple latching straps from IKEA. They cost €5 and we use them constantly:

• hauling furniture
• tying up garbage bags for carrying bundles
• holding packages together for transit
• strapping blankets up for trips

They’re incredibly important to being able to easily haul/carry things around.

Flameshot is a great screen grab tool. Been using it for years.

I can feel the emotion through those arrows.

deleted by creator

Both German companies. The Meile units are likely made in Germany while the Bosch ones in the US are made in the US.

Widely used for delivery services. The local Wolt gig delivery people are mostly on fat tired electric bikes. With Wolt, you have to bring your own bike, so apparently it’s what people are investing in to do the work. The only real problem is speed and distracted riding (they’re usually on the phone while rolling around).

It mentions public transit options too. Hopefully that’ll include trams and/or metro services for very long distance connections.

Really‽ That sounds bannanas!

I moved from the US to the EU for many reasons. One of them is that the EU actually put rules in place to protect people here. Food, cars, products, health care, medicine… The list goes on.

My family is healthier, happier, and safer due to EU regulations. I’ll keep filling out paperwork and dealing with premium costs because our lives and health are worth it.

Yeah, though I’m also in Berlin so many were fully or partially rebuilt after the various wars. They’re old and new now. Still gorgeous. I love me a tall stone building!

Jokes on you: the city I moved away from in the US added a parking garage to the historic register. If you weren’t so focused on waiting in a line of cars for the drive thru, you could be enjoying 10 stories of historically crumbling concrete!

On my errands I was subjected to walking past atone churches from the pre 1800’s, going through a park, and going through a market hall from 1900. It was horrible. I didn’t even get to wait at any traffic lights for a Micro Vacation during my travels. Sad. Just sad.

You also left out finding parking and then walking through spectacularly scenic parking lots to and from each destination’s front door. With bigger malls/box stores you’d walk further than I did going around the block just having to cross the parking lot.

I won’t lie, you had me at the first half.

Yesterday I headed out from the apartment for errands. I walked a total of about 8 blocks. I completed:

• A haircut
• Shopping for some house items
• Post office for mailing a letter and stamps
• Stopped to listen to some live music in a market hall
• Talked with a local community group about tech stuff
• Visited a library
• Hit up the bank ATM
• Snagged a couple bags of groceries

Total time: about 115 minutes

I LOVE living in a walkable neighborhood. Fuck car-only life. If you want it, fine, but don’t demand that we all live in your apocalyptic transportation hellscape.

Look up the German ChanceKarte. It’s a job seeker visa with a preference for STEM fields. You’d get a year to look for work while living in Germany.