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I know haven't posted in a while. I'm bummed because our bully boy died a few weeks ago, and my wife isn't ready for a new dog. She works a lot, and the house gets lonely. He died at 13 from metastatic lung cancer. Fast and aggressive. He didn't suffer. Sorry to hear about your little guy. Sometime...

Team Samsung!

iPhone...booo!



My current phone is an s23 Ultra, officially "refurbished" but actually brand new, picked up for €411.
I need a phone with a stylus...

My Android doesn't do that...
I have the language set to English and can type in German and it gives me the correct autocorrect suggestions.
Samsung S23 Ultra, Android 15, One UI 7.0.

I could rant about subscription based software but that's a different story.

The biggest problem with Trump is that he has no ideas of his own and simply follows what the last person he spoke to told him was a good idea.

British professional boxer Ricky "Hitman" Hatton, aged 46.

Word on the street is that he hanged himself.

We got him a new one in February 2023 for the ridiculous cost of 399€... against my pleading. No surprise today when told that the hinges have broken. A rubbish laptop. Oddly, he can still use it. No chance of closing the lid. "cheap can't be good" is a mantra I always have problem with, ...

Not happy today because I made it to Interlaken, one of the bestest place for mountain activities, and yet I'll probably spend most of the day stuck in the hostel because of rain. Happy because the hostel is fantastic and full of nice people. And tomorrow it is forecasted dry and warm. I plan huge ...

Thanks for the explanation!

Extremely unhappy today because I got disqualified at a bycicle race in which I invested huge emotional capital. Why disqualified? In short: because I'm not capable to ride the bicycle. In almost 50yr of cycling never rode this much distance and climbing and felt so little tired. Sad. Bitter. Not w...

Big birthday?

60? Do they send out letters for that?

75?? Surely not?

100??? Holy smokes!

I work at home and have a lot of computers running at the same time so having power cuts isn't ideal. To that end I set up a 2kW battery to keep my main workstations & server going for a couple of hours in an emergency. The battery takes about 40ms to kick in, which isn't fast enough to stop th...

My unsolicited comment: Do not get the battery (which yes, it is very oversized). Before deciding if you want the 1k eur cut off system: how likely future daytime power cuts actually are, how many you had in the last 20yr (I had zero) and how much problem did they cause? I don't know if it's just o...

"Meter cupboard" or "meter cabinet".

Prime Days start on Tuesday...

I'm sure this has been discussed before but can't find anything on here about it. One of my friends has lost both of his parents with the last 18 months and that has got me thinking about how I would deal with my parents dying, or rather if just one of them goes. Dad is 80 & mum is 79 and they c...

FYI - If you want to check out the songs an artist/band is likely to play before the concert have a look at https://www.setlist.fm/ Most artists/bands play the practically the same set list for the gigs of a particular tour. Morrissey is the same with only 1 or 2 song differences for each concert -...

Franklan wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:19 pm 40 years ago, on July 3, 1985, “Back to the Future” is released (in American cinemas).

One of my all time faves!

and was it good ? [rant] I've seen Moz live quite a few times over the years and the setlist was an utter disgrace. 18 songs, of which at least 12 I would class as more average album tracks. Considering the available back catalog, I could have chosen at least 50 other songs which a huge majority of...

Morrissey tonight at Zenith (Munich).... unless the big girl's blouse cries off again!

Will she be entitled to some kind of maintenance from the husband?

I think if her income alone won't be enough, you would be justified in asking that question.