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Cake day: October 8th, 2025

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  • Steamrolling schools is from the Microsoft Playbook. They started this with their abysmal products 2 decades ago. I happen to know this because I worked in school IT for 10 years. Giving away your software to the underpaid education system presented two major advantages: bind the young ones to your environment while showing state officials how much your business is “interested in education”. And make lot’s of money by fooling every decision maker in the process. It’s a dirty play and I saw some very nasty deals, very close to corruption. Apple does this as well, handing out tablets left and right. And now we will get a package with ChatGPT, fantastic.





  • Once you do this long enough, you can write a book or two about getting started… Here are my personal favorites:

    • Cannabis is a weed. It will grow everywhere, if you let it. (Most important part. New growers often overdo it, slowly killing their plant with love. Just let it do it’s thing and wait)
    • Make sure you understand the basics about substrate, light, heat and cycles of growth. Get a cheap LED growlight. Don’t bother with soil/coco, start with hydroponics (it’s very easy for beginners).
    • Don’t invest too much money in your first grow. It will come over time.

    And, of course, make sure you don’t do anything illegal…or do it, I’m not your father.






  • AEG LR7fl841ex (dschörman), old one was a Bauknecht from ~2005.

    It has some nice features, is very eco friendly and super quiet for the price range. It’s a middle-class machine with only 42l/cycle, the lowest I could find in store. Plus 10 year warranty on the motor.

    I think at least in Germany you can’t go wrong with any of the white goods sold by the 4 or 5 big firms, they all produce in the same factories (at least Bosch and Siemsn do). And a washer is a washer, it was already over-engineered 10 years ago. The most important part for me was the energy efficiency and water consumption.





  • I just had a discussion with a relative about that, he changed to oat milk 1 year ago. Now he can’t stand the smell of milk in his coffee, he says it tastes like licking a barn. I was really surprised, but it totally makes sense (hehe…).

    Makes me wonder how long it takes for an aquired taste (milk, mostly by breastfeeding) to be changed. We grow up with this stuff and you have to make a conscious decision to switch away from a childhood memory (sounds weird, but it’s there).