This makes me wanna play MGS again. One of the few games - maybe the only one - I finished more than once. Being from the PSX era it still holds up well. It’s honestly a masterpiece and I’m so happy that I was able to play it as a kid when it was released.

Boy do I miss the old times with forums. One specific interest that everyone shared. Nothing else. That was perfect.

What kind of idiot writes this as JaGUar? And everyone was ok with this decision?

They destroyed one of the most iconic logos!

I‘m sure both agreed that what you said was stupid when you left 😂

In comparison:

German statutory health insurance (GKV) in 2026 totals around 21% of gross salary (14.6% base + ~2.9% average Zusatzbeitrag) plus 3.6% Pflegeversicherung — combined employer and employee. For a €4,000/month salary, that’s roughly €840/month total; at the income cap of €5,812.50, the full combined cost reaches about €1,220/month. Employee and employer each cover roughly half.

I think the cheapest combination would be state owned hospitals and health centers. The state owns the land, pays the staff and buys equipment and medication in huge quantities, which may result in cheaper prices. If not, they could also start producing their own base medication.

A profit oriented health sector is not a good idea. It only gives you minimum care combined with high costs.

Victron user here. The devices they build are rock solid. They may have some tiny quirks here and there but so do other manufacturers.

If you have some engineering background they are perfect. Everything is open, you can write software extensions in node red for example. Best part is it is modular with open interfaces and it uses standard battery voltages. You can optimize everything for your usage and I’m sure you can keep it Running for decades. A Multiplus has the look and feel of hardware made in the 60-70s. But in a good way: Built to last.

Price wise they are more expensive than chinese Equipment but not a lot more expensive than other systems from well known brands. Can highly recommend

https://youtu.be/BOPViekdacQ?is=YTG_b1XED6QUS_iF

Remember the tension when you were waiting for the PlayStation logo to appear? 🥹

You can estimate the time with a rule of thumb: it’s the battery capacity divided by the charging power.

So if you have a 100kWh battery:

• 1 hour if you charge with 100kW
• 0,5 hours with 200kW
• 0,33 hours with 300kW
• 0,25 hours with 400kW

And so on.

As I said this is an estimation. There are factors playing a role that result in losses or power limitation. So in reality it would take a bit longer.

How does the average American Family manage that consumption?

German family of Four here: We use around 200liter a day. That’s roughly 50gallons. And we do wash ourselves and our clothes.

Fuck Starbucks. It’s not the first time I mention this, and I’ll keep mentioning it: When Corona hit Germany, the government reduced the VAT to prevent restaurants from going bankrupt in 2020. Starbucks gave every customer the finger and did not lower the prices, keeping the difference for themselves. I was never a regular customer but this made me blacklist them for life.

Pepperidge Farm remembers

Unfortunately it didn’t help that much. Thanks to the total incompetence of all mainstream parties in Germany, whose members usually just care about their personal income instead of Germany doing well, AFD managed finally to overtake all parties. I expect them to be in a coalition in one of the next two federal elections.

Source: Zeit

This one hits deep. One of my first more complicated projects was a driver for a device that counted a lot of values. Imagine an energy meter.

At the beginning I thought about writing code to create my own type since I was limited to uint32 as the biggest on board type. To spare some work I quickly decided to use a float type for the first time without thinking much about it (I usually use fixed point integers for everyday work)

Way into the project I thought about what happens, when the actual value is gigantic and I try to add a very small number. After thinking about it I realized that nothing happens. So my counter would stop working. I changed everything and never used a floating point number again in my life I 🤣

Imagine: You are the first human approaching the moon for a landing since 50+ years. Just a couple of seconds before touchdown the PC starts rebooting because an engineer clicked remind me later on earth and the PC registered that nobody moved the mouse or pressed a key for more than 3 nanoseconds so the user is surely AFK and has definitely nothing important going on so let’s close all open documents and reboot 🤷🏻‍♂️

Came to say this. There is a risk that they drown in the toilet because they will land head first inside of it if they expect the lid to be closed.

I am disappointed nobody mentioned that 42 is the perfect choice since it’s the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Come on, the good old times are over. I could use it immediately, the muscle memory still holds all the characters without thinking.

We now have to put in passwords with the arrow/ok buttons. On a sadistically designed keyboard that is ordered alphabetically instead of the classic QWERT… layout everybody is used to. What a time to be alive

Yes I’m looking at you Amazon!

4 8 15 16 23 42 FTFY

Was the system good or had it other false promises? Infinitely sounds very unprofessional for me.

What happens when we used all the resources on our planet to scale the NAS? Did they have the technology back than, to harvest other planets or even other star systems? So many questions…

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Hope you can raise the whole amount and Zee gets better soon 😁

Sometimes I dream about a nonprofit mega platform (like a web search with social media and a shopping platform included) that clearly communicates it‘s users that it will share all the knowledge with everybody that is interested in it for free in a privacy respecting way. Making this information basically worthless. Just to fuck with google and all the big players in the ad business.

A platform that is financed by donations and ads that have some sort of fair use pricing where small advertisers are even allowed to advertise for free (but the usage of ads is only allowed to compensate money that is missing to keep everything operational) A platform where small players can sell their stuff for free. A platform with social media, without any algorithms. Fuck it, let‘s even include a video platform and some sort of business platform just to make it complete.

As I said it must be a nonprofit. So it would basically have no intention to earn more than enough money to keep everything operational, making it the cheapest option for everybody and destroying all the mega corps out there that just can’t get squeezed enough revenue out of it’s users. This way we would be brought back to the golden ages of the internet 10-20 years ago.