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raef

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Mildly reclusive American living in Europe.

Tends to get truculent about movies, music, the Oxford comma, and politics

  • Giving up control bit by bit

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  • You could use a different file manager. And there's a few places I would look for files : downloads, pictures, etc, or in a folder named for the app under one of those places

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  • It makes me feel a little better about myself seeing the New York Times communication department make a typo in a post

  • [China Technology] I drove the cheap Chinese cars that are illegal in the USA. Now I know why [36:49 | MAR 10 2025 | Rich Rebuilds]

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  • I wonder if that's due to the body distorting

  • Anyone else?

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  • What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.

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  • They only owned up after lying and obfuscating for years. California said they work with manufacturers when they are out of compliance, but brought their lawsuit because VW wouldn't cooperate

  • Moody’s strips US of top-notch triple-A credit rating

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  • Countries have defaulted on their debt.

  • Spain and Portugal Hit With Worst European Blackout in Years

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  • It was too weak to use. It was connected but with no bars. It was probably well outside the city where they still had power

  • Spain and Portugal Hit With Worst European Blackout in Years

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  • About a month ago, almost the whole city (northern Germany) lost power for about forty minutes. My signal was down to an unusable edge connection. I really don't know what the rules are

  • Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe

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  • That's what I meant, the device is directly next to the heat source. It's never going to be accurate. And you can tell in the way people use the two systems. In Germany, people don't think about our check the temperature of the room or what the dial is set at, just, I'm cold, turn it up. In the US, the room is set to a specific temperature and just left alone except for day/night, home/away.

    But, anyway, the comment was about how they wouldn't work for Nest, and that's true. You'd need a third party solution. It would be hard to sell these and then say, hey, by the way, you can't use it until you go out and buy something from someone else and install it

  • Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe

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  • I haven't been in many private houses in the Netherlands. I could only speak to Germany

  • Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe

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  • Yes, but they are not electronic and they don't reflect the temperature of the room like a wall thermostat does.

  • Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe

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  • TBF, over 15* in Germany I've only seen a couple of actual thermostats. The vast, vast majority use a valve on each radiator. There are electronic solutions for the radiators, but sticking a Nest on the wall is going to do nothing for someone unless the customer installs specific hardware that the Nest would have to support

    *edit : years

  • With over 900 US measles cases so far this year, things are looking bleak

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  • Vaccine nonsense got all around the world

  • Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’

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  • Is it just wishful thinking that we don't have 3+ years until the election?

  • Trump Reciprocal Tariffs Chart: See Which Countries Have the Highest Rates

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  • It looks like they just went down a list according to trade ratios

  • [QUESTION] Have you ever used beef jerky in a recipe?

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  • Chili would be good. Everything could be dried for that.

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  • I don't know. I go to news portals or aggregates or feeds for news. Do people actually just type "news" into Google? I suppose for specific events, but I could actually see it being true that news searches weren't making up much of the activity. The way it's going to be is subscription based or publicly funded for anything worthwhile

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  • I think it's problematic to require an organization to do something and then charge for it. It's one thing if they do something of their own volition and then are required to pay

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  • I think they're setting up to negotiate not paying. I don't think people should depend on Google to provide a social good at their cost