Goosebumps moment only you mentioning it.

Taxes.

Fuck Oracle.

Can confirm. Example: Was on a work trip in Tibilisi, Georgia last year, and 5G coverage everywhere, fiber everywhere, even the smoothie bar next to our site had wireless and usb chargers embedded in their countertops. Free (albeit somewhat clogged) wifi throughout the city. Younger, or far more flexible demographics and mental flexibility and willingness to use technology. No letterbox to be seen as nearly every communication is digital. Getting a SIM takes 5 minutes with digital verification in the shop, even for a German (looking at you, Postident!).

Article does not cover the why question, only partly how it came to that situation: A government stuck in the past. I’d like to add that laying cable/fiber costs money, so the providers like to milk that invest as long as possible. So while we have ftc here, there’s still multiple dslams on that curb distributing the net though copper to the homes. Some even still set up with adsl line cards (15 mbps instead of 250), although newly built. Some efforts are being made to provide fth, but these are hard to distribute in 1950 era buildings. These costs are mainly not recoverable by rent, need a heavy planning effort and all tenants in that building would be bound to one provider for one or two years, which most of mine do strictly not want. Not only the government is stuck in the past here. When I asked my provider if I could have fiber and dsl as fallback and for testing those few who understood the question just laughed.

Ty for the driver recommendation. Kid destroyed their pair almost instantly. Still dunno how.

Yes, the pads were totally worth importing from Japan through Austria to Germany, and only a bit over $12 then!

TY for the recommendation!

Yup, got not so much hair left now :-). Added some Xaxi pads for them, really worth the hassle getting.

Koss PortaPro headset. Always wanted one as a kid, saw them again and bought them.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cobra_chicken

Don’t mess with us…

Well the Greens already invited Merz to discuss this topic before the elections and Merz and his CSU cronies denied, and now took the Green’s votes for granted w/o even talking to them. So, Merz probably should first learn some basic manners before going into politics.

edit: removed a “probably”

Nice nick ;-)

People here, at least for the last 50+ years, used to have a quite comfortable, safe lifestyle, with various state institutions taking care of shit. If anything (and may it only be a small thing) is taken away from them, or goes wrong, or cannot be sustained anymore, they start to complain that everything is breaking down.

In short: Entitlement and a tendency to nag and take everything for granted, plus inflexibility and unwillingness to change/think out of the box.

Personal humble opinion of a German.

I wouldn’t totally subscribe to that, having worked with Chinese allowed to travel. There’s acceptance to the rules active incountry, but very much subversive energy and sarcasm/cynicism abroad, and willingness to break the rules. If one manages to get them to open up a bit. I’ve worked with tech folks only, though.

You might assume that was just a trigger, first thing that came to their mind, as they said.

Ty. Didn’t want to add “I’m using Debian, btw.”. Debian ticks all my boxes for ease of install, usage, updates, software availabiliy and - most important - stability.

Still quietly asking myself why tf that is important. I need an OS to do a task, and I need it to be as easily configurable and as unobtrusive as possible. If I was into nursing an OS I’d have stayed with Windows.

This is porn! Now I need a dot matrix printer for posters.

Was thinking same, packs from unsold leasing returns. But probably not so.