I'm German and in the rare instance I eat out in an actual restaurant, I still do that "rounding up" if I've been happy with the service. Cash or card is not really an important factor for that scenario. Let's say the…
Simple: NOOOOOOO! How is this even a question?
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Got a recall notice about my few-months-old 20.000mAh Anker power bank from Amazon, went through Anker's verification process and found out that the S/N of mine isn't in the range of affected devices. Dodged a bullet…
AFAIK some automakers also cut down on the number of sensors by doing stuff like reading the already implemented sensor(s) for the ABS to provide the tire pressure warning function.
When I previously donated blood at the DRK, not only did I always get a Bockwurst&Brötchen along with a selection of beverages (water, cola, coffee, tea, etc.) but also a little gift bag containing a variety of little…
That's why my go-to way of closing that editor has become Ctrl+W+Q (add more W if more than one tab is open in the editor).
Over the last few years here in Germany many, many food products have gained a little note next to the "MHD" (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum, [1]) which says something like "oft länger gut" ("often viable for longer") or…
Ah, found the reason [1]: > No more books. At one point I was selling the BOFH 'books' on Amazon, but it got to be a royal pain. Every month or so I'd get some warning about the book quality from Amazon that I'd have to…
The problem is those "games" are still praying on people with addiction issues even if they have no payout.
Still have the three BOFH Omnibus volumes in my Kindle app, bought originally from Simon, who has since discontinued their sale on Amazon for some reason, IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually…
> In France it's mandatory in a company to have a "company union", after 10 employee it's one representative (employee who has part of his paid time dedicated to employees support functions, and it grows to more and…
As someone who had cataracts and even after the corrective operations still has the significant sensitivity to glare, dark mode is not just a nice-to-have, but an absolute necessity for me. I.e. it's an accessibility…
Oh no, the horror of the cost of doing business when you can't get away with a get-rich-quick-scheme fast enough to cash out and disappear.
> if there is a button you have to push every five minutes for the plane not to explode Instantly reminded me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifa
Title: > Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air I bet they do and the FAA should rightly tell them to fuck off if they're not willing to go through the formal procedure to get their…
Rule of thumb I once heard as a German: "Compared to us the Swiss pay double but earn triple the money".
Same thing in the German supermarket I'm working at. Sending "feedback"(?) about the deliveries (e.g. about missing/broken/etc. wares) back to the chain's warehouses/depots is also done by fax through one of those huge…
> – unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the point of Containers at all, being useful…
The problem with this kind of mass-layoffs to maximize earnings is that it's a very short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth, a symptom of the cancer that is the mentality "shareholders expect infinite growth…
> to represent his life's work So it's gonna be a monument to "Over-promise and under-deliver"?
As James Stephanie Sterling likes to say: "Corporations don't want some [of your] money, they want ALL [of your] money." Also, ads are (except for very, very rare exceptions) useless wastes of time AND if I'm already…
> like COVID would last forever COVID will be forever with us from now on just like the flu has been since forever and I haven't heard of a currently realistic/feasible way to snuff it out. It will be just one of those…
> Firefox, beyond being slower, also keeps constantly displaying ads One tab with an ad opening when the browser has updated every few weeks or so is not what I would call "keeps constantly displaying ads".
A while ago I read that here in Germany you can also do the house wiring yourself, it's just that it has to be inspected and certified by a master electrician or you'll be really hosed if something happens since…
I'm German and in the rare instance I eat out in an actual restaurant, I still do that "rounding up" if I've been happy with the service. Cash or card is not really an important factor for that scenario. Let's say the…
Simple: NOOOOOOO! How is this even a question?
[flagged]
Got a recall notice about my few-months-old 20.000mAh Anker power bank from Amazon, went through Anker's verification process and found out that the S/N of mine isn't in the range of affected devices. Dodged a bullet…
AFAIK some automakers also cut down on the number of sensors by doing stuff like reading the already implemented sensor(s) for the ABS to provide the tire pressure warning function.
When I previously donated blood at the DRK, not only did I always get a Bockwurst&Brötchen along with a selection of beverages (water, cola, coffee, tea, etc.) but also a little gift bag containing a variety of little…
That's why my go-to way of closing that editor has become Ctrl+W+Q (add more W if more than one tab is open in the editor).
Over the last few years here in Germany many, many food products have gained a little note next to the "MHD" (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum, [1]) which says something like "oft länger gut" ("often viable for longer") or…
Ah, found the reason [1]: > No more books. At one point I was selling the BOFH 'books' on Amazon, but it got to be a royal pain. Every month or so I'd get some warning about the book quality from Amazon that I'd have to…
The problem is those "games" are still praying on people with addiction issues even if they have no payout.
Still have the three BOFH Omnibus volumes in my Kindle app, bought originally from Simon, who has since discontinued their sale on Amazon for some reason, IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually…
> In France it's mandatory in a company to have a "company union", after 10 employee it's one representative (employee who has part of his paid time dedicated to employees support functions, and it grows to more and…
As someone who had cataracts and even after the corrective operations still has the significant sensitivity to glare, dark mode is not just a nice-to-have, but an absolute necessity for me. I.e. it's an accessibility…
Oh no, the horror of the cost of doing business when you can't get away with a get-rich-quick-scheme fast enough to cash out and disappear.
> if there is a button you have to push every five minutes for the plane not to explode Instantly reminded me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifa
Title: > Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air I bet they do and the FAA should rightly tell them to fuck off if they're not willing to go through the formal procedure to get their…
Rule of thumb I once heard as a German: "Compared to us the Swiss pay double but earn triple the money".
Same thing in the German supermarket I'm working at. Sending "feedback"(?) about the deliveries (e.g. about missing/broken/etc. wares) back to the chain's warehouses/depots is also done by fax through one of those huge…
> – unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the point of Containers at all, being useful…
The problem with this kind of mass-layoffs to maximize earnings is that it's a very short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth, a symptom of the cancer that is the mentality "shareholders expect infinite growth…
> to represent his life's work So it's gonna be a monument to "Over-promise and under-deliver"?
As James Stephanie Sterling likes to say: "Corporations don't want some [of your] money, they want ALL [of your] money." Also, ads are (except for very, very rare exceptions) useless wastes of time AND if I'm already…
> like COVID would last forever COVID will be forever with us from now on just like the flu has been since forever and I haven't heard of a currently realistic/feasible way to snuff it out. It will be just one of those…
> Firefox, beyond being slower, also keeps constantly displaying ads One tab with an ad opening when the browser has updated every few weeks or so is not what I would call "keeps constantly displaying ads".
A while ago I read that here in Germany you can also do the house wiring yourself, it's just that it has to be inspected and certified by a master electrician or you'll be really hosed if something happens since…