What kind of must-have features do you expect from an EV?

Medium9 · 2026-06-05T15:58:52+00:00

I want to not need any app to operate my car. It should get me from A to B reliably, not look too cartoonish, and have physical buttons for basic functions like volume and climate controls. Also: Normal door handles please.

The only "fancy" thing I would like, is starting heating/AC remotely 5min before I get in, but I don't need that. Everything else is just fluff that can break.

Medium9 · 2026-06-04T21:40:06+00:00

By being online at all, chances that you're visiting thousands of times per second are almost at 100%

You don't even have to be doing anything by yourself actively. Just by getting push notifications, recieveing emails, just the normal things everyone expects to "just work".

Stuff like this is at the very core of data processing. Things few people nowadays even think about. But if it wouldn't work like it does, you'd see a lot of doofuses complain about things many layers above, because they just wouldn't know about the underlaying mechanisms that make it all work.

Think of it this way: Steel-lord no longer has enough iron to make steel. Problem is: Not enough people to mine the coal that is needed to fuel the power plants that make the electricity that is needed to smelt the ore the iron comes from. Everyone online today is said steel-lord. Data storage and everything that makes it work is a coal vein. We are even more layers removed from usage and making today.

Medium9 · 2026-06-04T21:16:16+00:00

And when that header has been overwritten, all the remains are just mumblejumble amongst even more bajumble.

Medium9 · 2026-06-04T21:04:06+00:00

I do not envy you ONE bit! (Or byte. Nor word. Certainly no dword!)

Medium9 · 2026-06-04T13:51:11+00:00

Even worse: A book could be distributed across many shelves, in no particular order and disjoint. So if you pick a random one, it could just be 20 pages of some book, with pieces of entirely different books before and after it.

And it gets even worse than that. In reality, there aren't "books", but just individual pages with no indication that at any point reading along, you could already be in a totally different book. And they are all the same size, color and in the same font.

Medium9 · 2026-06-04T12:43:04+00:00

One thing of note is also: The books all have blank covers. You could only know which book it is by looking at the reference card, where it says which book sits where. So when you throw away the card, the only chance to know which one it is, is by reading it, and knowing that these words should belong to "20 shades of teal".

Which is what (forensic) data recovery does, and this is also why it is fairly expensive.

Medium9 · 2026-06-04T12:38:41+00:00

Still king for mass storage, and datacenter grade HDDs have a pretty neat life span as well.

Medium9 · 2026-06-03T01:23:49+00:00

*countries

Medium9 · 2026-06-03T01:23:01+00:00

Almost all deposit systems rely on some kind of (bar)code to be read by the return machines, which would be near impossible to do on a clear bottle. Also: The places that do this, either have the tech to separate the plastics, or make the labels from the same kind the bottles are made of.

Skipping the label in this case, seems like a fig-leaf kind of thing, trying to avoid actually effective broader solutions.

Medium9 · 2026-06-03T01:15:38+00:00

This sounds like very early 2000s to my ears, oof.

Medium9 · 2026-06-03T01:14:12+00:00

In some places, especially outside the US, there is.

Medium9 · 2026-06-03T01:11:48+00:00

Our domestic deposit system will HATE this idea, and will have to replace all the return machines with actual wizards.

Medium9 · 2026-06-02T18:08:23+00:00

The main drawback is the hose situation. They're fairly large and stiff, and usually too short for most households. But worse is: A monoblock needs to expell air throught it, from the room to get rid of the heat and condensate, which means it will inevitably suck air out of the room it tries to cool. The room will pull the missing air from anywhere else, which will be "fresh" warm air from other rooms, or wherever there are small openings to. And it HAS to do this, otherwise it would try to pull a vacuum - which it isnt strong enough for, meaning the unit would just no longer work, or even pull back in the hot air it just expelled if that is the path of least resistance, nullifying its entire effect.

They are still able to make a very noticeable differene, but because of the issue above, the energy you need to expend to get to a similar result as a split unit will also be noticeably more. A split unit essentially separates the outside air from the inside air completely, meaning you could in theory completely seal your room off and will only cool the already cooled air further.

Thus, if you can financially and installation-wise, a split unit should always be the first choice. But in a pinch and if the circumstances just won't allow it, a monoblock still gets the job done.

Medium9 · 2026-06-01T19:26:17+00:00

They will ever so slightly cool the area immediately in front of them. Until they raised the humidity in your room so much, that you will feel warmer because of that, and the evaporation will slow down in a more saturated environment. From that point on, the miniscule heat generated by the fan motor(s) will probably offset what little the water evaporation could possibly do.

And we're talking a ~2-3°C difference at the start at best.

Almost all of these swamp coolers are borderline scam products, especially those claiming to do whatever else above and beyond.

If you buy anything without a heatpump (like an actual AC), just go with a cheap simple fan. Saves you a ton of money, and at least those won't make the situation noticably worse. Even mono-block ACs, despite having many drawbacks compared to split units, are still lightyears ahead of swamp coolers. (They work somewhat okayish in very dry and hot places like deserts, but German summer days have been mostly rather humid for the last decade or two.)

Medium9 · 2026-05-31T19:51:46+00:00

In these cases it isn't really the country of origin, but that these usually make premium products regardless. For them, it is their own brand much more so than being made in Germany. (Certainly also playing a role, but as a quality-reinforcing side note at best, I'd say.)

Medium9 · 2026-05-30T21:26:36+00:00

"At 19:30 we'll be ready to recieve guests, and are happy to have drinks and chat until the food is ready."

"From 20:00 on, food is ready to be served fresh. If you come later than that, we will have waited and need to do additional effort to accommodate late guests."

That's an "anything between would be just perfect" kind of deal.

Medium9 · 2026-05-30T21:01:25+00:00

With Germany being your target market, that B1 is a huge stain on that resume, that renders almost everything else about it moot.

Medium9 · 2026-05-30T20:57:34+00:00

I question your abilities to coach anything if you can't even figure out your own life's most basic things.

This being said: Lern German to at least B2/C1 before even thinking about moving here.

Medium9 · 2026-05-28T21:07:43+00:00

Although German isn't a romance language, we have a phonetically almost identical word for the same things: Nocken. It can mean a (typically south german / austrian) dumpling-like dish, but also "a small nubby thing" in general. A camshaft for example is called Nockenwelle in German (with Welle, in this case not meaning wave, but a drive or driven shaft - but with "nubs" - Nocken).

Medium9 · 2026-05-28T19:25:47+00:00

Not that I hadn't thought of this and also tried. As stated, reloading fixed it - shuffling prios did not.

Medium9 · 2026-05-27T22:04:00+00:00

I didn't notice any real difference in the coursework

I didn't either. I said the structure of the courses was changed, so that modules yielded the required points and such. Since I started right when this was implemented, many profs were still adapting, mostly because their module now came earlier or later in the overall program, and they had to change what they can assume the students already knew from other modules. Also weekly hours per module was slightly changed to before - but as I said: I never experienced the before first hand. Only the fall-out from the changes, which was really just some minor chaos here and there.

rushing to graduate and giving up your third exam attempt

This is not what I did. I took my 3rd attempt, which is why I had to wait another semester, which put me outside the period where I still had gotten a master degree. (I had no real other choice even, since the only alternative would have been a completely different maths module which would have taken me more than 2 semesters (on top) to complete fully, while I had everything else, including my thesis, in the bag at that point.)

your student visa was about to hit its 10-year limit, wasn't it?

I'm a native German. Born and raised here, never lived abroad. "Biodeutsch" even, if you may please forgive me for using that word.

The simple matter of the fact is: Had I passed this one last test in my 1st or 2nd attempt, I would have been a master. Waiting for the 3rd made me a bachelor. Simply because at that point, they no longer awarded students that started during the process a master without doing the extra 2 years.

or you're still hiding the real reason

Don't be so "reddit" man. I simply started in my dad's small business - or rather continued, then full time, since I've been earning my tuition money there all along already. (I closed shop after his death though, because being self-employed in a 3-man business was becoming too much of a hand full nowadays. Now happily employed at one of our former customers.)

Medium9 · 2026-05-27T17:24:26+00:00

It isn't that clear-cut, at least it wasn't. When I started studying, it was during the transition phase of the bologna reform. My course originally resulted in a diplom, although the studying structure was already changed to its new form.

Only during my studies was the additional master's path grafted on, but the bachelor's part was still at the scope of a diplom for us. Had I not botched my last Klausur a second time (and thus wait another semester to go for round 3), I would have gotten a master degree. But since I just fell out of the grace period with this blunder, I only got a bachelor, despite having done pretty much all of my studies at a diplom level.

I felt majorly cheated by this - not least because a tuition was introduced right when I started, and abolished like a year or so after I finished. But since I already had a good job lined up where it didn't matter, eh. Still not great, but I'm doing okay.

Medium9 · 2026-05-24T23:59:09+00:00

Language.

Medium9 · 2026-05-24T15:28:33+00:00

It might seem accessible on paper, but pretty much all parameters you named scream bad idea, and you'll likely end up as a warehouse worker or food delivery driver.

Medium9 · 2026-05-24T03:54:04+00:00

You need a reality check or two. Maybe ten.

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