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Re: Linux/Office, Office 365 runs fine on any old web-browser, the OS doesn't really matter. If you really want a local copy of Office, then the modern OSS office suites are all pretty good and you just need to find one that fits your workflow. Worst case you can always run a custom virtual machine ...

If you feel adventurous that spec will run Linux nicely although there are sometimes issues with the dual-graphics configuration and switching between intel and nvidia drivers. If you are still too dependent on Windows, then you can probably install Windows 11 even though you don't meet the full HW ...

Sociology degrees, please take one.

Franklan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2026 12:10 pm OK, this thread is about Bremen, and I do not want to steal the show, but...

Hey don't forget its also about being bored, so these little interventions with funny bits about other places are very much appreciated. Do feel free to share ideas that will get me out of Bremen

Hey All, So I'm back and I'm bored again, but I'm struggling to find something beginning with I, so I'm going to do another H this time a silly one that is perhaps personal to me. This is probably my favorite street name in all the world. Dinge.png Find it on google maps here... The grammar is not g...

Another flying update this week because I'm going on vacation today, and won't be back until the end of the month. H is for ... Well I dunno, nothing usefull, but I'm going to go with "Haus Schütting". Schütting is the home of the Chamber of Commerce, and a truly lovely building on the mar...

Odd one today, but the 555 timer is 55 years old. This marvel of a chip was the first chip I ever owned all of my very own. My dad was doing a digital design course with the open university, I was 10 years old and following along. (It was all new so the explanations in the textbooks and TV programs ...

This weekend, we are going back to Böttcherstraße, but this time to a specific building in the street. Böttcherstraße4.jpg The Glockenspiel House is a house in the street with 30 bells of Meissen porcelain which chime 3 times per day. Haus-des-Glockenspiels_(Glocken_1934).jpg As the bells ring, wood...

OK It's F this week I guess then. Today I want to talk to you about the drop tower (Fallturm). Fallturm Bremen is a drop tower at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen in Bremen. It was built between 1988 and 1990, and includes a 122-metre-high drop tube...

OK Another weekend another letter. Today we get E for "Elefant". Der Elefant is an anti-colonial monument near the railway station and the big arena in the town center. Orginally built in the 1930's as a memorial in favour of the colonial movement, it was rededicated as an anti-colonial mo...

Christianity and religion in general don't mean a lot to me, but one can't ignore the significance of Bremen and Bremen cathedral. Known to all here as Der Dom. So today D is for Dom. Bremen was vital to the spread of Christianity, acting as the primary hub for missionary work across Northern Europe...

Today's entry was tricky, I couldn't really find a "C" without using translations, but the places found were all interesting under their German names too. In the end I decided that in Bremen, C is for coffee. (The English spelling was used when they first started importing it). Bremen is o...

And I'm still bored, so I'm going to do a second "B" Botanika is an indoor botanical garden with science center, in the Rhododendron-Park (Which will be my entry for 'R' probably). It contains over 80 different exhibits about plants and animals, various terrariums as well as a reef aquari...

A common name for a barrelmaker is a cooper, and so a Böttcher is a cooper, the content I stole to base my description on, translated as barrelmaker in one place and cooper in another when I stuck it into deepl to get the meaning :-). There are lots of names for people who make barrels in both engli...

And I was today years old when I found out that the big gold relief at the entrance to Böttcherstraße (First picture in my post) is called Der Lichtbringer, and is meant to depict the victory of Hitler over dark forces. The relief was intended to rescue Roselius's reputation with the Nazi party, the...

OK It's raining here in Bremen so I'm going to do this weekend's entry today instead of going out. Today B is for "Böttcherstraße" Böttcherstraße (Cooper's Street in english) is named for the barrel makers that worked between the market square and the river-port making barrels to store eve...

I can try, but I'm pretty bad at doing that kind of thing. Still, here you go, A is for Am Wall Am Wall.png Right in the middle of town, the area around the old town walls is an oasis of calm. The park is lovely all year round, although my favourite time is in the spring when the first displays of f...

Well I had a lovely weekend, didn't do any gardening, didn't get out my bike, but I did manage to go into town, look for a new coat and decide that I can get my old one fixed instead. Bought a ticket for the Bürgerpark-Tombola and won a pair of Bremen socks. Had coffee in a cafe in the town. All in ...

So we have a whole section to ourselves here in Bremen, and no-one is posting in it.

I'm bored and I thought perhaps someone else from Bremen might have some suggestions for fun things for an unfit middle-aged single man to do at the weekend.