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Need to get off the grid fast. Is a gas or diesel generator my best option?
  • That depends on how many sun hours or/and wind you've got at your place, how much panels you can install and of course how much light you're using. I don't have the knowledge to do the math on that.

    Is there a free market to buy (sustainable) electricity from at your place? Or are you forced to buy from the local/regional provider?

  • Grüner Radweg verschlingt Millionen: Kosten für gefärbten Altstadtring bekanntgegeben
  • Prinzipiell stimme ich Dir zu. Mein Beispiel bezog sich auf eine Ausnahme, bei der mich der Aufwand und die Kosten tatsächlich etwas ärgern, weil es an manch anderer Stelle meiner Stadt einen wesentlich größeren Effekt für die Sicherheit hätte und hier fast überflüssig ist.

  • How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
  • The article is not about single persons who might be trolls or whatever to qualify as a "bad guy". But about megacorporations like Meta. The best way to deal with them is-in my opinion-to not cooperate and defederate them as soon as they start to enter.

  • Grüner Radweg verschlingt Millionen: Kosten für gefärbten Altstadtring bekanntgegeben
  • Wie sinnvoll die Einfärbung an dieser Stelle ist, kann ich nicht beurteilen. In meiner Stadt gibt es auch einen Abschnitt (baulich von Straße und Fußweg getrennt, benutzungspflichtig) an dem eine gute Beschilderung wahrscheinlich ausgereicht hätte um die paar Fußgänger_innen abzuschrecken, die da hin und wieder langlatschen. Ist auch breit genug um sich aus dem Weg zu gehen. Auf den Kreuzungen hingegen finde ich die Farbe sehr hilfreich.

    Leider nicht überraschend, daß der CSU Typ gleich die grüne Ökodiktatur ausruft. Die Kommentare hab ich mir eh gespart.

  • How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
  • We should not try to include as many people as we can at all cost. We should be honest and ensure people join the Fediverse because they share some of the values behind it.

    Exactly my thoughts on this topic.

  • Fixed my washing machine today!

    Today i'm actually proud of myself. I'm good with wood, textiles, gardening, trees etc. But metal, machines, electronics don't come natural to me at all. I learned to take care of bicycles or chainsaws because I had to but those scary household machines never. Until today. The machine stopped midway, full of water and clothes. Panic ensued. I already saw myself forced to buy a new one. After mere 20 years!

    But mommy raised not quitter, so i took the stuff out, drained the water (without flooding the bathroom!) and had a look at that debris catcher thing and the lye pump. Both a bit dirty but easily cleaned and the pump's screw still moved. After looking into the waste tube I put everything together again and run an empty cleaning cycle. At first everything seemed fine but coming back from a short nap the machine was full of water again. So rinse and repeat it is.

    This time i watched a few videos on how to dismantel the machine to get to the inner tubes. I had a hard time finding something since i've apparently got a rare top loader model. Luckily i watched one vid with a guy looking at the lye pump with a flash light instead of just feeling for coins or buttons with my fingers. So back down on the belly it was.

    Lo and Behold! There was the culprit! A bloody rubber band had wrapped itself around the screw. Not nice. At all.

    Being the good hoarder i am, it wasn't difficult to find some long hooks (spare bike spokes) to fish it out. Doing it was though. But with a good amount of patience and some luck (and an astonishing lack of cursing) i managed to untwine it and ease it out, without leaving anything stuck around the screw. (Funny thing is I don't use any white rubber bands, ain't got a clue where it came from.)

    All in all it took me "only" two hours. But I fixed my first washing machine!

    I hope you enjoyed my little Saga of "The Washing Machine and The Rubber Band" and I wish you at least the same amount of success for your own projects. Be they voluntary or not.

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    Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Ali Azmat - Garaj Baras

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    solarpunkstation.com Animism and Solarpunk

    Photo by zhang kaiyv on Pexels.com by Craig Stevenson Have you ever had that funny feeling where you have the shape of an idea in your head? A notion, or maybe the thread of an idea. Not yet fully …

    Animism and Solarpunk

    "Animism is about Relationships." ... "It becomes a lot harder to mistreat the environment and damage it when you see it for what it really is: a web of relationships you are part of. "

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    Hallo alle! Ich bin neu hier!
  • Hi, Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache. Beim Erlernen anderer Sprachen hat mir die Immersion am meisten geholfen. Neben Podcasts auch Serien/Filme, Lesen oder Spiele. Man kann das auch im Hintergrund laufen lassen und so ein Gefühl für die Sprache bekommen.

    Viel Erfolg!

  • Anyone finished TRANSLATION STATE by Ann Leckie?
  • Ah, i was a bit unprecise (still a bit early). The use of pronouns is actually the same as in english, but the nouns are gendered and for people (like pupil, driver, teacher) the male form is mostly used by default. e.g. the default for doctor is Arzt (m) as in "i go to the Arzt", even if it is a woman who'd correctly be called Ärztin. And the translater chose the female forms as the standard.

    A language without gendered pronouns sounds great! How do nouns like rock or table and nouns for people work?

    Btw i've read a fascinating article about the Great Andamanese languages yesterday. They name their kids before birth, therefore all names are gender neutral.

  • Anyone finished TRANSLATION STATE by Ann Leckie?
  • So far i've read only the first and second one and loved them. The german translator chose to use female pronouns as default, making it a very interesting reading experience besides the story and the great worldbuilding. (in german everything is grammatically gendered and the default is usually male) I just had a look at bookwyrm. A story about the Presger envoys looks highly interesting!