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Come to Germany if you want station wagons :-) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombinationskraftwagen


Heat Pump Water Heater. You can put it next to high end computer to suck its heat in :-)

https://carbonswitch.com/heat-pump-water-heater-buyers-guide...


There is an initiative that wants to have a side channel of the Spree for bathing. Close to Museumsinsel / Fischerinsel.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flussbad_Berlin

https://www.flussbad-berlin.de/


There is a huge compilation of PBM (photobiomodulation) research here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZKl5Me4XwPj4YgJCBes3...


Wow, great resource. Do you know who put it together?


It's by Vladimir Heiskanen. His blog hasn't been updated in a long time, but has articles explaining some of the principles behind red light therapy: http://valtsus.blogspot.com/


Germany's cargo airship project is now an indoor waterpark located in Brandenburg (close to Berlin)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort

(With rising energy costs, hopefully it can stay like this for a while)


Their argument is that it is less polluting because people don't have to fly to have a tropical vacation. It seems to work, they are constantly expanding.

I went last December, the place was packed. Surprisingly I'd say about 40% of the guests were foreigners. It's nice but I don't know if I'd want to stay a whole week.


One of Germany's cargo airship projects. I'm pretty sure there have been more, but none got as far as Cargolifter (for cargo. For more modest ambitions, the Zeppelin NTs out of Bodensee are still going strong, 25 years on).


Seems like Germans like to turn anything into a water attraction (e.g. Kiesgruben)...


You might be at work (away with car) while the midday sun is filling your home battery.


Sure, if you have solar, by all means get a home battery and enroll it in the same grid backup program. Makes plenty of sense.

In my case, I live on a very shaded property; no solar for me. I also live next to an electrical substation, so extended outages from storms is highly unlikely; I'm first on the fixed list every time. In my case, the home battery doesn't make sense, but the EV might still.

EVs as grid storage is an option that may be compelling in some areas and for some people. I think that's worth exploring.


I love the "Auto Tab Discard" Firefox extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...


ocsmount for WebDAV is also based on a local NFS server.

https://ocsmount.com/



That is a joke. Sweden is 4th on that list. Despite the fact that the vast majority voted for anti-NATO parties, they just refused to have a referendum or wait until the election (in 90 days) to make a decision and explicitly stated they will not consult us. (No, polls aren't elections. Don't even start.) This isn't exactly unique either. They regularly do things people don't want and can't stop. On top of that, we have powerful lobbyists and shittons of propaganda too, just like everyone else.


I didn't know it was gone.

But seeing this makes me sentimental, I spent a lot of time there in my younger (and Linux) years.

I'm a Mac user now.


What made you switch?

I started off with windows 98, was linux for most of my life but in the mean time had to use enough windows 2000, 7 and 10 to be dangerous. Got sent an M1 Mac Laptop for a contract last year, and didn't really get it. Now happily using a weird minimalist linux distro with a window manager.


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