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This reminds me of the "Worst of Chefkoch" blog [0].

Chefkoch is a German website where users share recipes. Some of them show off their unholy contraptions in gross photos which is then collected by the mentioned blog.

[0]: https://www.tumblr.com/worstofchefkoch

Looks great, there goes my Sunday afternoon.

On the topic of trustworthy review sites, especially for headphones, I thought rtings.com is the standard. Detailed data-driven reviews and supposedly crowd-funded. What do people think about rtings?

I would not recommend the Airgradient diy kit to anyone. Have been using one for a while but the CO2 sensor is really unreliable and often spits out wrong values. VERY OFTEN. Last time this issue was wildly discussed by people using it e.g. in the link below which is using Prometheus but also in the forums of airgradient. All with no solution.

https://github.com/geerlingguy/airgradient-prometheus/issues...

I mean the .NET community/org is no stranger to drama and controversal moves by some team members which gets discussed over several weeks on HN, blocks, Twitter and elsewhere. For example, I vividly remember this:

https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-...

Is there a good tool for Limux that can assess network quality as a whole? It would be nice to have something that can do a few tests all in one run and give me an idea of what is going on (besides tools like ping for latency, iperf for local bandwidth and packet loss).

The Deluge is one of the best devices I have ever owned. I used to play with individual software synthesizers for a while and also tried to connect them to DAWs but it never clicked. Playing with a synth was always really fun but not so putting it all together.

The Deluge freed me from my desktop, from endless screen time and it allows me to create. It may not be perfect and it may not be perfectly DAWless solution for many because of some missing features like mastering and compression. But for me as a hobby where I just waste time on making crappy electronic music of which 95% will never reach the ears of anyone else (besides my poor wife) it is perfect.

Of course it can also be used by more serious musicians. But for my it enables a unique way of playing with music which I have never experienced anywhere else. And it finally is a DAW which I can (almost) 100% understand.

How is this legal? This always seemed like a weird "hack" to me. Just because your payment method does not work anymore, this does not cancel your buying contract. If they wanted to, couldn't they just sue you?

Yeah yeah I know it is not actually sweating haha.

I really miss the half spherical sea salt president butter from France. When I lived there I would finish one per one to two weeks. It is tastes sooo good and I don't know why. Also really interesting how this butter sweats. No idea why.

I tried for a long time to find it in LA but no luck. Sure you can find the boxy President butter but it is not the same.

Yeah you are right using the singular in the plural case is pretty common. But I would count it more as a colloquial/regional variation.

Sure, just wanted to add a data point about food poisoning yourself with tea.

A person I know had to get tested for toxins at work regularly and at some point showed really high arsenic levels. At which point they had to figure out what poisoned him. He worked in material science but no materials he handled would have given off arsenic to his body. After some investigating, they found out that the Pu'Erh tea he consumed was the culprit. They tested the tea in a lab and after he stopped drinking it, his levels became normal. So that might not kill.you but I guess having these toxins in you body cannot be good either.

Since then I try to only buy teas which are lab-tested. When I lived in Germany I bought my teas at sunday. Tbey tell you harvest, growing conditions and many more things and they also claim to lab test the tea badges.

I haven't found anything comparable in the US yet.

https://www.sunday.de/long-jing-shi-feng-tee/

Not true. Bier has a plural (Biere) and you can count it without a unit (1 Bier, 2 Biere, etc).

> Every time there's a mass shooting [...]

If this is a valid premise, then you know you are doing something wrong as a society. Mass shootings are common place in the US (with currently 177 mass shootings this year so far). This is not normal.

Want to add Hello Chinese: http://www.hellochinese.cc/

> Yes, to the point nothing can get done anymore and e. g. having an outdated, non-digitalized healthcare system.

The system may be slow and not very digital but it is very much not outdated. As someone who has seen a friend go through a terminal illness and has researched quite a lot about cancer treatments, the care you can get in Germany is top notch. And all that for free (except for hospital bed that you have to pay sometimes if you stay longer than a set amount. Which is about 11EUR if I remember correctly). Yes things can be improved and privacy can be a hurdle but it is not quite a bleak as HN commenters make it out to be. I would take it over having everything beging top notch digital without any regards for privacy like it is in the US. (and often very poor or non-existent non-digital solutions)

I wish they would show actual photos of the thing or a video instead of renders.

I am no boat person at all but would it not make sense to have keys that only allow you to drive the boat if you are close by like in modern cars? And when you fall off, it just stops a few meters away from you. I know these small boats are probably more simple and the transponders would need to be water proof, etc. but the benefit could be huge.

Wouldn't be the lower oxygen levels in the atmosphere be a problem here?

That looks pretty nice. As far as I remember, the last time I used KDE, Kalendar would just open the Calendar view of KOrganizer.

I know it is a very unpopular opinion on HN but I don't get KDE. Sure, all applications are super feature-packed, which is mostly a good thing (Konsole, Dolphin, Okular are chef's kiss) but also has its downsides: e.g. that, last time I checked, you cannot have a simple dedicated calendar app like gnome-calendar (or macOS Calendar) but must open the outlook-heavy KOrganizer which comes with mail, contacts, etc. Not really what I want when I just quickly want to check my calendar. But this is just a small annoyance.

What really bothered me though was the UI. All these lines! Everything has an outline. Every UI element has a heavily highlighted outline. It feels super dated and cluttered. But the last time I daily-drove it, I thought "Hey I embrace the KDE life style. I am finally on the right side of the Linux Desktop according to HN and Reddit. Whenever people sh*t on Gnome, one of the big arguments is that you cannot customize it. So I just customize it, make it mine, lets go!"

Well surprisingly the other themes were almost all equally bad or caused inconsistencies. So I went further down the rabbit hole and installed Kvantum. I found a theme that I liked and happily used it for some time. Until I noticed that the theme altered the functionality of KMail. Namely, when tabbing away from KMail, it would select another Email. Super annoying when you want to keep an Email open in the background as a reference while e.g. doing something in your browser. I raised the issue with the Kvantum dev who redirected me to an issue with KDE. I don't remember all the details but it is an issue in KDE and for them it is a wontfix.

So, for me I basically had a similar experience to others here with Gnome. I try to make it work for me until I hit a wall where the maintainers tell me that my use case is not supported by the desktop. So I went back to Gnome. And you know what. I like Gnome. It works for me. It looks nice and is functional. However I don't want or need to convert other happy KDE'ers which is also not the point of my little comment. I don't want to dunk on KDE. It does a lot of cool things, but I just cannot stand the UI. Isn't it great to have choice?

And a good brand for single-hand watches: http://meistersinger.com/

You don't own the text, but you do own the manifestation of the text as a physical book. Sure the text doesn't magical stay with you after a fire burns down your house (like all other items in your house) and it isn't eternal (like all other things aren't) but as long as you don't damage the item you own, it has value: the text.

Weired argument to say that you don't own a thing because it can be damaged or fall apart. You own it even if it is damaged by the way. The paper shreds after the fire are still yours.

You can write GTK applications in Rust: https://www.gtk.org/docs/language-bindings/rust/

Total Wine and More usually carrys it although it is currently sold out: https://www.totalwine.com/accessories-more/mixers-water-soda...

Thanks for letting me know. I don't have a sd card, activated the dev plugin and enabled opengl but did not see any real improvement. I will open an issue with a screen recording on their repo now that I know it is not supposed to be this bad.

Hmm interesting, thanks for letting me know. I always wondered why people recommend OSMAnd when it performs so poorly. Will look into this.

Is panning and zooming in OSMAnd not a huge pain for anyone else? The map rendering (of downloaded maps) is extremely sluggish and absolutely useless for me to use. (Even worse than the tile-based rendering of early Maps on iPhone.)

Organic and MagicEarth work fine for me. I really wonder if it is just my setup or if everyone else suffers from this. I am on a Pixel 5 with CalyxOS using the OSMAnd+ from Fdroid (but same with normal OSMAnd from Aurora)

Unfortunately this is really not an option for (some) areas in the US. After having moved to a populous LA area from Germany I was baffled at the lack of detail in the maps. Basic things like building numbers are entirely missing. Even after adding more and more details I would never fully rely on OSM here sadly. And if it only works sometimes why even bother using it in the first place? At least this was my progression. From fully using OSM, I am back to Google.

The only good in-between solution is MagicEarth which supplements OSM maps with data from lord knows where. However although they claim to be privacy cautious they are quite opaque.

So odd, I never expected for olympic fencing to be (or have been) actually dangerous. It always looks like the blade can bend at insane angles and that it could never harm anyone. A lot of unfortunate circumstances must have come together to allow this to happen.