Yeah, but that’s hundreds of years ago and they’re a staple food now. Unlike Jicamas, where I had to Google what that even is.

So, linguistically not really comparable

But these aren’t found in Western Europe

I know you can get it at Albert Heijn

Edit: I just learned that Aldi chocolate is sourced through Tony’s supply lines, so they should be the same level of slave-free

It isn’t American, and it doesn’t taste like shit.

The founder, Teun van der Keuken, is a Dutch guy. He started this journey with sueing himself before a Dutch judge, on account of participating in slave labour (by buying chocolate in a supermarket, knowing that it’s likely produced by slave labour)

The same worries exist here too though. The blood bank isn’t allowed to pay you for your plasma, but it’s absolutely a for-profit organisation that runs on selling your plasma to pharmaceutical companies.

I still believe it’s a good thing to donate, but sometimes it feels a little icky that there’s also a businessmodel around it

IR bottom heaters are usually not strong enough for reballing. They’re for boards that are hard to solder, because there’s a lot of copper or a heatsink for example.

The bottom heater preheats the whole board, not to soldering temperatures but enough to make soldering a lot easier.

Hmm, it seems to me most of those bubbles will happen not where you need them. Maybe if you throw in the base first and the acid later (or the other way around)

Soda and vinegar is an odd combination. Soda is a base, making water alkali. Vinegar is an acid, making water acidic. Together, they make water neutral again, with a lot of pretty bubbles.

Either one can work really well depending on the stuff you need to get rid of. But adding one to the other just weakens it.

Awesome, thanks!

The ID.4 doesn’t just have capacitive buttons, it has swipe controls on the steering wheel.

And of the most frustrating cars I have ever driven.

I have a good gaming PC in my living room. Still I find myself on the couch with my steam deck very often.

Backing up “word is” by an article that says “word is” is kinda meager though. There are many things widely believed to be true that are not, or only mildly so our in specific circumstances.

If you really believe Google is about to go out of business, you’re out of your mind

Taking out the high-pitch whine will make them much more bearable. It’s a student project, they did well. This isn’t groundbreaking Noble-prize stuff, but it doesn’t deserve all the hate it’s getting here either.

That is a typical setup for heating here in the Netherlands, I have it in my house. OP is in Germany, so probably not too different.

Edit: OP is not in Germany, but there are German stickers in the picture

There is another pump that is in inline with the heater. This pump is needed to mix the hot water from the heater with circulating water from the floor heating, to have an acceptable temperature for the floor. Water directly from the heater can be too hot for floor heating.

The red knob is a thermostat. Hot water will flow in their, coming from the gas furnace most likely. The floor heating can’t handle too hot water, so it’s mixed with the circulating water coming from the top rail. The tube going from the thermostat to the top rail probably only has a thermometer in it, to measure the temperature of the returning water. If it’s too cold, more hot water can be mixed in.

The pump you see is circulating water through the floor heating. The gas furnace will have another pump, distributing hot water through the building.

I don’t care if it was meant for it, it is the best tool I’ve found so far for what I want to do: put text over an image to create a custom gift certificate.

It works perfectly for what I want to do with it, except it doesn’t understand .webp. It seemed like it is implemented, but didn’t work. It does take .jpg.

I had issues with Libreoffice and Inkscape yesterday. Had to open it in paint.net first, and save it as jpeg.

Age is more than a number. Some people are very sharp at 80. Some are rapidly deteriorating at 60.