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In my experience, charities try to get you on a recurrent donation nowadays instead of taking cash or transfers (although I am in the Netherlands, not Belgium). It’s terribly annoying because they take the “being lazy and forget about it” and weaponise it against you.

One positive on the Dutch coalition talks. We can always say that our southern neighbours take even longer…

On a more serious note, the last three coalition talks in the Netherlands took over 200 days, with one taking 299 days. Sure, not even close to over 500 days in Belgium, but how the hell does this happen?

That I agree with. The specifics of how they build are not suitable to places like Norway (or most of Europe for that matter). That does not mean one cannot look at the concepts and apply them such that it makes sense in the context though. Many buildings in for example the Netherlands (where I live) are mainly built for keeping the heat in nowadays and overheat in the summer. Especially housing stock built from the 80s through the 2000s have overheating problems with the changing climate. This is mainly due to lack of window shading and night ventilation options. And instead of seeing a move towards shading, you see a move towards airconditioning instead, which is generally not needed if you design a building properly.

I thought you were against implementing the concepts and did not expect you to interpret the suggestion literally (aka, to build Moroccan style homes in Norway).

That’s why you make it so that you can do passive cooling in summer but don’t do that in winter. There are quite a few solutions that essentially boil down to opening windows during the night while keeping people, water and insects out.

It’s often called night cooling or night flushing. See for example this company explaining it.

Ah man, those times were great. Bored? Just push the button and you’ll see something new. No scrolling, just a new website with random interesting stuff to explore.

Nowadays I just roll my Linux installation back to before the updates using the BTRFS integration with the package manager. It works great and I’m never at a point where I can’t use my computer because updates broke it. Heck, even if I bork it myself it’s no biggie.

Natuurlijk zijn ze boos. Dit gaat over wat ze kunnen verdienen. En als iemand dan roept dat het te duur is, dan staan ze in een slecht daglicht. Maar laat maar eens zien dat je niet te duur bent. Waar zitten je kosten dan en waarom is het zo duur?

Naar mijn mening zouden de netwerken de de providers gescheiden moeten zijn, net als bij het stroomnet. En dan de netwerkbedrijven vergelijkbaar structureren als de huidige netbeheerders. Dan heb je in ieder geval niet het gezeur dat de providers of hun netwerk dicht houden of dat ze gewoon niet investeren.

I use them as well. Cheap, reliable and easy to use. I only had trouble once, where I was caught in some sort of anti-spam measure and they blocked my account. An email to their support fixed the problem pretty quickly though.

One thing to look out for is to determine where you want your backups. You can’t change your account’s server location after you create your account afaik.

And it’s objectively a worse experience for it.

Same in the Netherlands. They are pretty much the default really. And while theoretically they can be used for surge pricing, they aren’t. First, that’s a great way to lose all trust your customers have in you and make them go to a different store. Second, I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.

On the plus side for you Americans and Canadians, maybe you can finally get rid of that habit of showing product prices excluding tax. There’s no compelling reason for maintaining that if updating your pricetags is a matter of seconds.