I spent a thousand dollars replacing the cheap compressor in my fridge
So was it worth it? How long ago did you do it and what are the differences you've noticed so far?
Yeah I think you'd definitely want a battery. TBH I just threw that question about grow lamps in there to draw attention to how you can not only run low/medium power solar setups in Germany, but you can also grow a couple of weed plants for your own use.
I think Germany might actually be the only country in Europe where you can do that fully legally? I used to think growing your own weed was fully legal in Spain and Portugal, but now after speaking to some of my family who live in Spain, I think it's really just a grey area and not technically legal at all.
Anyway, I'm not actually trying to grow my own weed or anything like that, I just think it's a stupid thing to make illegal. So go Germany, we're all counting on you!
After rapidly falling behind in the global rush to artificial intelligence, Brussels has a fresh chance at an economic success story in the emerging field of quantum technology. But in a new strategy to be released Wednesday, the EU will warn that promising homegrown quantum tech risks being snatched up to make money abroad as the bloc continues to lag in turning research into “real-market opportunities,” To many, it's déjà vu. Europe is generally best in class in the research that precedes revolutionary technologies, as it was in artificial intelligence. But the U.S. and China leapfrogged the continent in building the companies to deploy mass-market applications.
My feeling is that the EU has often taken a protectionist approach to the challenges from new tech. That is, the EU will pass legislation to protect existing dominant businesses, even if that is not necessarily in the best interests of Joe Public. I'm thinking of how France banned Google from scraping news sites to show in its news summaries, and also how roadblocks were put in the way of Google maps in order to protect the business models of existing satnav companies such as Garmin and TomTom (namely selling "map packs" for download rather than distributing always-up-to-date map data online).
Those attempts to protect the old guard, the status quo, were unsuccessful, and if anything, encouraged EU companies to stick with old and out-dated business models longer than they should have. So has the EU now learnt that it is a mistake to try to hobble new technology just to protect existing institutions? Some institutions don't deserve to be saved, no matter how big they are, when technology offers better solutions, be they cheaper, more direct (fewer middlemen), and/or more powerful.
The EU has had its fair share of successful tech startups, so hopefully the EU will now be more willing to embrace the "disruptive" side of modern technology. I genuinely hope so.
That's neat. Someone told me about inverters you could just plug into a wall socket and have it feed appliances in the house here in Spain, but I just thought they were crazy.
In Germany, can you use the solar panels to directly feed the grow-lamps for a couple of healthy cannabis plants? Is that also permitted?
This shouldn't be limited to games IMO. If it said software instead of games, not only would it appeal to more potential signees, but it would have more chance of being taken seriously by the government and the press. No one really takes video games seriously.
I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?
it's evangelical christians praying for their saviour Trump. You know, morons.
Here's an example of a different bunch at it - https://www.newsweek.com/national-faith-advisory-board-prays-over-donald-trump-1976277
fraid I generated a tl;dr for this rather verbose article:
"Home directories are a mess because too many apps ignore XDG spec and dump dotfiles everywhere. The problem isn’t just legacy software—new apps do it too, often out of ignorance or laziness. Windows has similar issues with profile folders. Fixing it requires devs to actually follow standards, but many resist due to inertia or 'my way is better' thinking. Users should push back and demand proper XDG compliance to keep $HOME clean."
But once you leave Steam [...] it gets a lot worse
Heroic Games Launcher is pretty great for games from GOG and Epic. You can run games with Proton just fine.
If you'd have left it @[email protected], it would've become a mighty oak. You Westerners are weak. Who wouldn't want a mighty oak growing out their dick?
And coconut milk. We now have to call that "non-mammary coconut secretion"?
err in Europe we use bricks to build houses. A house made out of wood is not a house, it is a shed.