Audiophiles love their oxygen-free copper cables and expensive equipment and often proclaim that MP3 is far inferior to lossless audio. (And, that a needle dragged over tiny grooves in vinyl is the best.) Many tests have been done, but almost all of them have the issue that participants either outright knew which version was which… Read More »
7 years ago, a buddy of mine left a review at a local mobile phone repair shop in Germany. He wasn’t quite happy, so he gave 3 out of 5 stars. That’s it. No angry text, no nothing. Just 3 out of 5 stars. A few days ago, 7 years after he left that rating,… Read More »
My Journey Back in the mid noughties, I’ve acquired my very first GPS receiver and discovered GeoCaching. And it was a great hobby to have. There were various elaborate Multi-Caches and even the bog-standard “Traditional” Caches often were properly sized Tupperware boxes and contained exciting gewgaws. One memory I cherish was a box buried between… Read More »
Mastodon.social once was the glorious flagship instance for Mastodon. However, nowadays, it seems to be deep in control of German censorship. I’m running my own GotoSocial instance for a while now. A few weeks ago, I found this in my admin panel: Someone on mastodon.social reported me for supposedly supporting the German right-wing party. And… Read More »
Several years ago, I had a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch for a while. I’ve turned that into a D2 Delta watch to unlock all possible features. During that time, I also switched from my beloved BlackBerry KEY2 Android phone to an iPhone. And as a former fan of Google Health, I liked the way… Read More »
In April 2023, Reddit announced that it will start asking for money to use their API for commercial purposes. This also included 3rd party apps, e.g. the famous iOS Reddit client “Apollo”. While there was hope it won’t get too pricy at first and the other changes looked manageable, that hope got crushed when Reddit’s… Read More »
I’ve started collecting knowledge for myself (and for everyone to see) in a DokuWiki back in 2008. In 2014 I found DokuWiki to start feeling dated and explored alternatives. I liked the idea of having all entries as single files and in a standard markup format (compared to DokuWiki’s own markup language), so I started… Read More »
After some years, my IKEA Markus chair developed some clicking/knocking noise whenever I swivel in it. This was very annoying for everbody in the same room. All posts and videos I found about problems with these chairs were talking about re-greasing the swiveling mechanism under the seat. However, there were a lot of people that… Read More »
Zusammengesucht aus dem Netz … benutzt als Abbinder unter Forenbeiträgen.
Schweizerdeutsch ist ein Dialekt (obwohl sich die Schweizer wünschen, es wäre eine eigenständige Sprache) bzw. ein Sammelbegriff für alle alemannischen Dialekte, die in der Schweiz gesprochen werden. Als ich gerade etwas gestöbert habe, ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Schweizer ihren Dialekt teilweise sehr engstirnig verteidigen. Es wird ständig versucht, die gesprochenen Wörter in Schriftform zu… Read More »