Huh? “Very south west”/“very north east” is not quite right. Füssen is very much in the middle of the south of Germany.

Black Forest is around 2,5-3h(max.)/5.5h by train from the Black Forest by car (trust me,I live there and have to travel to Füssen from time to time).

Berlin is another story, takes around 7.5h by car (and can be even faster by train, 6.5h is possible) from Füssen.

But it’s nowhere near impossible, or far. Especially as there are more than enough interesting destinations for a tourist in between: Munich, Nürnberg, maybe with a detour to Rothenburg.

I can understand your reservations against Neuschwanstein, I absolutely understand every tourist that wants to see it. It’s quite nice from afar and well, while it’s often fairly overcrowded it can be avoided if one chooses the right season and time. And it’s always quite a bummer for most people to not have seen it in a once in a lifetime trip.

And I have no idea how you come to the conclusion that the Middle Rhine valley (which is rather annoyingly to travel to) is closer - and while the German view on the Middle Rhine valley is quite romantic, it has lost its appeal for most oversea tourist nowadays. After having many clients who were,honestly, quite underwhelmed, I no longer recommend it for people with a short time to spend.

Anyway, OP, shoot me a message if you make it to the forest, always up for a beer.

Basically all European countries, all but five (South)- East Asian ones, the majority of African one as well as Australia and a few more.

The downside: A fair share them for less than 24h, often only for 45min. Oh the joys of working in retrieval medicine.

For example I have been to Greece multiple times…but I have never even seen even the Akropolis from the ground.

It’s actually not that easy. Parts of countries can be actually be part or not part of international agreements - Greenland for example is not part of the EU, Denmark as such is. Same goes for a lot,but not all, French oversea territories.

In terms of Greenland this is actually bad for Greenland in hindsight as the EU defence accords are more far reaching as the NATO accords which take precedence, though.

If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy of certain Member States.

And this is why KNX and Home Assistant are a good idea.

That’s a bit below the level of reliability I need,sadly - before doing that I could also go for a non ECC solution.

Mailbox.org They could go all the way and become “cool and cloud” but decided not to.

Haix While their customer service is not what it used to be they are still more than decent to a point it hurts their sales.

With my last one I am not 100% convinced: Mikrotik. While their stuff I great and cheap for what it does, I also had one really lacking support experience with them (they forgot to pack the rack ears for a switch and neither the vendor nor they could somehow get me ones. Another premium partner of them helped me for free and since then will always get my business). But in total they are still the good guys I think.

Debatting with myself and to a lesser degree what to do in terms of our homeserver situation. While the proxmox node has more than enough CPU and RAM capacity left, the NAS, an older Synology, is full to the brim, EOL and needs replacement.And sadly being a mini PC the proxmox node is unable to get the HDs connected.

So something new is needed and I would rather have my setup streamlined and combine the two.

But that is… More difficult than anticipated. I really would like something power saving with ECC ram that can take at least two PCI-e (SFP+ and a potential graphic card for AI later on). That can take 4,better 6 HDs. And at least one,better two NVMe. …that basically means self building which I am happy with, but all current builds I calculate come out somewhere south of 2000€ (including two new HDs, as two old ones need to go). And that’s sadly out of the financial possibility at the moment.

If only the fucking Ugreen (DXP6800)would support ECC. While not ideal in terms of PCI-e it would be enough to do the trick.

Don’t go to Proton or Tuta - both are impossible to get out of basically, do not support free standards and Proton is scumy in terms of their marketing.

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Just to name a few.

And then he will be a dead Hopefully. Through Vanguard and Blackrock the Saudis and Qataris are said to have substantial investments in Tesla. And especially the former are not kind people when it comes to fraud to their disadvantage.

Often reverse osmosis works better - and distillation systems require a lot of upkeep and energy costs. So there is that. And of course they only help if it’s not their transport system.

First of all: Where in your system was the sample taken? At the well? At a tank? At a faucet?

The answer to this question is important for the next steps.

Be aware that high lead content can also be an issue for plant watering and even showering.

If the sample has been taken at a endpoint (faucet) I would try to get another sample at the well directly. If you are “lucky” the acidity of the water is the reason lead is brought into your system from a section of your transport system. In that case replacing the transport layer (basically: Get new pipes) is the best approach - while it’s not cheap it is also not as expensive as filtering (or dealing with the health issues from lead, especially in the US).

If the well shows the same values you are screwed. There are basically two scenarios then: Your well installation itself is the problem - this is in theory “fixable” but expensive, but you might accidentally even poisoning your neighbours then. (The way to find out if it’s your installation is either with specialised equipment or, for some confirmation, get a sample from a neighbour who ideally life upstream from you)

If it’s not your well installation then it’s the well itself…and then you really really need a more extensive analysis: Lead in a ground water deposit is somewhat rare and often a indication something else is problematic - both because geologically lead is often next to other nasties, but also because human caused pollution with lead often goes with the real nasty stuff like arsenic,etc. And you really would want to find these. Then shit sadly becomes really expensive.

Nope,it hasn’t. If your glasses are fogging up in sync with your respiration rate or within a very short timeframe your mask is not sealing. Period. The only difference is when you have either have a valve mask, work with a face shield or similar things or in confined spaces - it’s basically impossible to fog up your glasses with a correctly positioned mask as the filter medium does work as a diffuser. If your mask does fog up suddenly despite a confirmed fit it usually is a warning sign for a breakdown of the filter medium.

(And believe me, we tried really hard - as part of a customer contract we tested all major mask manufacturers available in the EU, with a sample size in the 4 digit range, including UV fluid and thermal imaging tests)

I am fully aware that the equivalent of N95 is often seen as comparable to FFP2, but this is not actually quite correct. The FFP2 has a slightly worse filtration rate and a slightly higher resistance both for inspiration and expiration. Anyway, I intentionally wrote FFP3 as this is the recommended FFP class for Measles while within the NIOSH legislation only a N95 is recommended.

The European union never had any intention to be limited to land borders within Europe and explicitly understand themselve as a economic and trade, ethical values and international cooperation based union - which by the way does include far tighter equal defence rules than the NATO accords. This is especially important as Europe is not a well defined geographical area and its borders are somewhat fluid.

Remember that before Erdogan Türkiye was considered as a possible member, Cyprus is a member, Georgia was on its way to a membership before the current government took a tour to Moscow, etc. The longest single country-to country land border the EU has is the French-Brazil border.

And Canada has as much of a border to a EU country(but not the EU as Greenland is not part of it) as e.g. Türkiye has it’s European parts. So after all…this is not an issue at all.

Besides Denmark there is also France - and incidentally this border is also the closest sea border the French have to any other country: Saint Pierre et Miquelon. But the collectivité d’outre-mer that they are formally not part of the EU but only EU associated. But France could easily change a single law to make them part of the EU. So if that is a criteria that is nothing that can’t be overcome.

Beside that we would fucking love to have Canada in the EU. I have yet to find a single EU citizen who has a problem with that idea.

Mostly yes,but it is possible to have some beardstyles if you know very much what you are doing (and have a large head).

But the actual area of contact and to a certain degrees the areas around it need to be shaved properly,yes.

Every vaccination has a (although very slim) chance to cause an adverse reaction. Around 5% of all people vaccinated have a minor skin reaction (which is physiological and not an anaphylaxis. 1% report joint pain.

But,more severely, 1-4 people out of a million develop a life-threatening anaphylaxis, 3 out 100.000 a serious blood clothing disorder. Very rarely(as in: Less than 1 in 1 Million), but with a slightly higher incidence of you are an adult pancreatitis and deafness is reported.

As medicine is always a game of chances we try not to risk things,even if they are rare.

Healthcare professional here - but not your HPC and you cannot confirm that I am who I am so double check what I write:

• Get your titers checked and get revaccinationes asap. If you are not vaccinated or are a non-responder talk to your healthcare provider. Isolate until then.

• Mask up and keep your hands away from mouth, eyes and nose. You will need a properly fitting FFP3/NP95 mask here - measles are far meaner in terms of infectiousness than COVID. Tight fitting means: You have no leaks at the side - if your glasses fog up, if you can feel air going in or out next to your face,etc. it is not working. The usual “duckbill” masks with straps around the ears very very rarely fit properly.

• Wash your hands and desinfect them properly.

• Stay the fuck away from babies. Really. Please.

That was once very common in Europe and is currently gaining traction again. Big companies did provide accommodation for their staff - from dorms style accommodation for bachelor’s to full houses. E.g. there are huge urban wards in western Germany (coal mining, steel production), Ludwigshafen (BASF), Berlin and Munich (Siemens) but also smaller towns (e.g. Singen - Maggi/Nestlé) which were build this way. Initially meant as a way to accommodate the huge amount of workers drawn from more rural areas it became a huge competitive advantage after the war as housing was scarce - and the company which was able to provide such had a better chance to recruit the required staff (which,due to the huge losses in some generations were scarce).

It fell out of favour in the 70/80ies but especially municipal corporations continued to provide it sometimes and some industries,mainly healthcare, continued to do so. (e.g. most hospitals in central Europe have a “nurses home” - a cheap apartment block next to the hospital that is often rented out to junior nurses and doctors)

Nowadays, due to the massively increasing prices to rent and own the whole idea gains traction again for other branches as well - e.g. Mercedes Benz and BMW are planning to invest heavily in these things, so does BASF. E.g. one of my clients (ambulance service) does provides (very high quality) fully furnished temporary flats both for travelling paramedics but also for new hires so they can settle down in peace.

I am a CEO of a small company and while my staff works 100% remote (exclusive of direct appointments at the offices of our customers - which we try to avoid) I do offer paying for a real estate agent upon hiring staff if they need a new flat for working Home-Office full time. (E.g. due to having small kids at home and wanting a separate office) It does cost me around 3000€ - which is a small amount compared to the overall hiring costs - a new staff member costs me around 30.000€ after adding recruitment costs, induction, initial training courses, hard& software,etc. If I manage to retain 1 out of 10 staff members due to that it’s worth it.

• Proton is not an Email app but mainly an email provider that locks you into its own app.

• Proton does not provide e2e encrypted email outside its own environment (so any mail within proton will be encrypted but not outside - and it’s far harder to do the later due to point one)

• Proton is heavily run by US citizens living in the US - and therefore to some extend fall under the homeland security act and similar laws, including pressure by the current administration.

• Proton claims to be based on Swiss privacy laws. One should be aware that Swiss data protection laws are amongst the weakest in Europe, that service providers can (and mostly are) forced to monitor cross border traffic and that Swiss intelligence services have a long history of unlawful overreach and extremely close cooperation with US services. To what extend Proton is affected by this is unclear, unlike other Swiss based service providers they refuse to comment on this(and they would be allowed to comment, don’t get me wrong)

Just to be aware. I know there are a lot of fans of proton on Lemmy,but there are far better services available nowadays. If the Swiss privacy law does not bother you Infomaniak is an option, alternativly mailbox.org is an option within the GDPR sphere. (Can be bad or good depending on your own situation)

Neither of them is an app, nevertheless,but they work with any major app,e.g. thunderbird.

Yeah,one of the few drawbacks they have. Most people can live with it, but it’s indeed one of the things they should be providing by now but don’t