• Domain and DNS service: 30€/year
• VPS: 128€/year
• Usenet indexer: 15$/year
• Cloud storage for backup: 350€ + 280€ one time payments for 4TB total.

In BW I’ve heard servus but not the others, are these Bavarian dialect? I am not a native speaker.

Things you should know how to say (not that it’s necessary, but because it’s nice to know):

• Hallo = Hello
• Tschüss = Bye
• Danke = Thanks
• Dankeschön = thank you very much
• Entschuldigung = excuse me

People commonly use “Ciao” for Bye, and “Sorry” for sorry.

Legal drinking age for beer and wine is 16yo.

I want to give some additional I formation:

• installation doesn’t work on Firefox, must use Chromium
• if on Linux, it may be needed to change permissions to the USB device before it works

I only go to itch.io for erotic games.

Razer Diamond back gaming mouse, shit at clicking, shit quality, over priced

Bohmann air-conditioner, broke after few hours of usage at most. Well within warranty, the reseller(Mediamarkt), and manufacturers took me for a long long ride until I eventually gave up on getting my money back…

In France and Germany you are paid monthly, by bank transfer (for most jobs). Tax are automatically accounted for, your pay slip will show the Brute/Brutto (what the employers pay) and Net/Netto (what you receive on your bank account).

In both countries, trial period must be paid. If you come 1 day to work and they don’t want you. They must pay you for the 1 day of work.

In Germany, how good things are can vary. I always had a good situation because I work in the automotive industry. For most my career my contract was “Tarifvertrag” which means it is compliant with the rules of the workers union IG-Metall, this includes the salary grid. The union is negotiating the salary increase for millions of employees on a yearly basis. You stamp in and out of work. Your work time is counted to the minute. Overtime is accumulated in a time account that you can recover as paid holiday or paid at overtime rate. Working Saturdays and Sundays is paid a special rate as well (not sure, I think it is 150% Saturday and 200% Sunday). After trial period, resignation is 10 weeks notice for both the employee and employer. They must pay you all of your overtime when you leave, and let you use all the holidays you are due.

If your profession is covered by a strong workers union, things are pretty good. Things can pretty shitty if you are independent or working for a startup or hospitality business.

My 3D printer: Prusa i3 MK3S+, completely open-source Firmware and mechanical design. I have made many customization and upgrades over the years. It started as a MK3 model, I upgraded it to MK3S and then MK3S+. Today I could upgrade it to MK3.5 or MK3.9 but I don’t see the necessity at the moment.

This helps me to upgrade and repair many things around the house that would otherwise be expensive to fix or would otherwise get thrown away.

Assuming 5.5% interest (low end of rates right now) and a 25 year amortization

Where is that ? That seems crazy high to me. I bought last year in Germany, at a “bad time” and my interest rate is 3.4% fixed for 10 years.

Be careful before uploading your config files to a public location like GitHub, you don’t want to inadvertently publish some secrets like passwords, API keys and such. A copy to an external drive should do the trick just fine as a starting point.

If you would be sailing, it would probably have the less impact on the environment. But a Diesel powered ferry ? I have no idea how it compares to air flight. The train is probably better than both ferry and plane in this case.

I’ve definitely heard a lot about arranged marriage from colleagues and friends from India.

I am from West Europe and currently living in Germany where I have met my wife on a dating app.

Additional stuff you may be interested in:

Caddy for reverse proxy (accessing your services with a nice URL instead of IP address and port numbers)

PiHole for DNS-level ad-blocking and other useful router functionality

Look for a backup solutions for your config files, maybe you can handle this at Proxmox level but I don’t have experience with that.

Do you have a good alternative to recommend? I also found that lidarr sorta sucks compared to sonarr and radarr

• what you use for your documentation

Markdown files

• how you organize it

What ?

• what information you include

The commands that worked and the stuff that didn’t work and the links to the source of information

• how you work documentation into your changes

I write as I go. I keep it as part of a git repository when relevant

The Last of Us (I and II)

BTRFS has plenty of features for data integrity, auto-correction, scrubbing, snapshots. I haven’t studied in details the differences with ZFS, I just went with BTRFS because the setup is fairly simple, it’s flexible and it does what I need.

Personally, I use BTRFS in RAID10 config. I don’t need crazy performance and my NAS is pretty low power with only 8GB of RAM (use to be 4GB on my previous setup).

It is taller than me standing up