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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • As one of those gamers, the answer imho is quite simple: Ignoring the awful data practices of Meta, the Quest 2/3 as a product is great. Over the years, my Q2 kept improving, with constant updates, new features and general performance improvements. I just got a Q3, and the technological jump is enormous. Add to that the absolute lack of (affordable) alternatives, and you have an easy choice: recognize that Meta has done more for the VR space than anyone else, or don’t do VR.


  • Glad you found a better solution. At home, I scan every letter I get, getting me to 99% paperless. Imagine my shock, when I doscovered that Gnome’s “Simple Scan” took sharper scans at one tenth the filesize than “HP Smart Print”… on my HP printer. No login bullshit, no “oh, we analyze your scan for content to suggest a file name”, no nothing. Just the possibility to click a button, and get a great looking pdf at a ver decent file size.




  • AFAIK coal power plants often(always? Idk) use steam to drive their turbines in order to generate electricity. I’m not arguing against nuclear, but for a very diverse mix. Warm dry summer -> solar. Rainy dark winter -> hydro & wind. If we keep burning fossils, including nuclear, until we can switch to 100% renewals, I’m okay with that. The big advantage of renewals is the comparatively low cost of phases where no electricity is produced. A solar farm doesn’t generate cost at night. Coal and nuclear plants can’t just be “switched on and off” at will, and if they don’t produce, still need a lot more attention. But for the meantime, they are necessary, until we either overbuilt so much renewables to cover for “no wind/sun/rain” situations, or get some storage solutions (batteries, hydrogen, biofuels,…) Implement on a large enough scale.




  • Ich schließe mich hier an, dass in solchen Situationen “Ausgleich” essentiell ist. Wir waren anfangs auch am Ende, bis ich mir einen Abend “frei” genommen habe. Ein ziemlicher Arschloch-move, die Ruhe und Energie die ich am Tag drauf mit einbringen konnte, haben aber auch meine Frau stark entlastet. Seitdem gönnen wir uns beide ab und zu eine Auszeit, sie muss bei ihrer nur vorher abpumpen. Und Nacht ist, wenn die Kleine schläft. Auch im Arm oder auf der Brust, mit genug Kissen kann man jede Position sichern. Mit der Zeit hat sich der Rhythmus der Kleinen geändert, und alles wurde einfacher. Im Moment geht’s wieder auf schwieriger zu.