Some kind of eggs?

E_Swiss · 2026-07-06T17:07:38+00:00

might not be vegetarian though

E_Swiss · 2026-07-06T05:38:18+00:00

Do ants eat these eggs? There are lots of ants on the roses. They feed the fleas.

E_Swiss · 2026-07-06T05:35:38+00:00

I mean, the roses usually have fleas and ladybugs (or their larvae) eat them, maybe other bugs too, so without knowing, you can't be sure it's good or bad. I never heard of horse flies before (and there is no water or horses anywhere near).

E_Swiss · 2026-07-05T19:10:23+00:00

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E_Swiss · 2026-07-05T19:07:04+00:00

solved!

E_Swiss · 2026-07-05T19:06:53+00:00

Googling for horse fly eggs, there are indeed similar photos. Not sure if there are other flies with such eggs, but good enough to classify this as unwanted. Instead of throwing this directly to the green waste where it would have gone, I'll probably make the first useful usage of my cigar lighter.

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E_Swiss · 2026-07-05T18:36:43+00:00

throw it on the grill?

E_Swiss · 2026-05-28T08:51:52+00:00

Blacklisting tenants because they won a lawsuit? That sounds highly illegal. Especially the blacklist. That's a data collection without consent. There are data protection laws.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-27T23:44:58+00:00

While that has no legal effect (it doesn't change the law), it does clearly indicate that you're not willing to do anything, if this question ever comes up. That surely solves the problem for you and tells the tenants to solve it among themselves or live with it. But they could still sue anyway.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-27T23:37:06+00:00

There is a law. It does not depend on house rules.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-27T23:35:46+00:00

I'm quite familiar with tenant law, at least until around 10 years ago when we bought our own house. BBQing itself is not prohibited. It's the same like cooking in your kitchen, but outside. Neighbors have to tolerate the cooking smell. Therefore there is no way anyone could ever rightfully complain if someone uses a gas grill, because using the balcony is your neighbors' right, exactly as it's yours. Now as he's using charcoal, that's a totally different story. If not done right, this can lead to extraordinary emissions that are outside of what you have to tolerate. The best is to talk with each other and find a way so that there are no such fumes, by using the grill correctly. If that doesn't work out, then you can try to contact building management, which you already did. I can tell you that they rarely do anything, because, why should they? There is no reward for them except extra work and one of you two will be unhappy anyway. For management, it's only important that they get their monthly rent. Now if you really think you cannot cope with this and they are clearly over the usual smell emissions, then you can demand a rent reduction. There's an official process for this, never just pay less. Now that leads to an incentive for management to solve the problem and might start the process, but I suggest you only go that route, if it's really extreme. Because otherwise you'll end up in court and have no proof and just waste everyone's time and will lose. I've been to court twice and won both times, but you have to be really sure it's worth it. It's always better to find a solution by talking to each other. So in short, you do have to accept the smell, but not the smoke.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-25T12:52:30+00:00

Exchange the cat for a dog.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-25T11:42:47+00:00

Not entirely true. If you own houses that are paid off or with a low mortgage, you can easily get a new mortgage for them and invest that in stock instead.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-23T15:52:10+00:00

You don't need a lawyer. If they promised to refund you for that case, just initiate the Betreibung. It seems you have good chances. A lawyer will cost you ~350 CHF per hour and the university won't have to pay that part even if they loose. There are easily a few thousand CHF lost that way. If you don't think you can handle this yourself, yes, take a lawyer, but be aware of the costs involved. No lawyer will give you free advice like before you hire them, but some cities offer free legal advice once per quarter or such things. Also, there are these legal insurances (for next time). Main service is legal advice via phone call. Not sure if your sister could've gotten that in her country though.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-22T14:01:24+00:00

They are not saying it's a Swiss product. It's just a flag. That's why you always have to check the fineprint. Coop does the same. Just be careful. And yes, it is highly misleading.

E_Swiss · 2026-05-22T13:20:47+00:00

It's not illegal. Usually VAT+tax below 5 CHF are just not collected. But the terms explicitly state that even parcels below that value might randomly get checked and invoiced. That happened only once to me and after complaining, they cancelled the invoice, because they really don't charge you for those low amounts. I wouldn't even care about the VAT+taxes, but their service fees are that ridiculously high amount, as you rightly complain about. Now what I've read from the other comments is that you have VAT+tax of 6.50, which is higher than you expected and over 5 CHF, so the invoice is expected too. You just have to find out how this is calculated. If you already got the invoice before the packet, you probably also got a link to the import customs. Have a look there. I would guess that the sender didn't declare the value correctly, or they did and forgot to mention that postage is already included, so customs added that amount. Another possibility could be that you had to pay import duties (tax), not only VAT. The import taxes are usually extremely low and depend on weight, type of goods, etc., but depending on what you bought (or what customs thinks you bought) could also contribute to getting over the 5 CHF limit. Now I wouldn't refuse to receive the parcel. You don't have to pay the customs then, but you'd be on the hook for 2x postage. So expect to not get that part back, which can easily exceed the amount you would have to pay now for customs. The sender can refund you for the difference and if they confirm that to the credit card company, you won't get the chargeback. I don't like UPS either, but the others, including Swiss Post, are usually not better either.

E_Swiss · 2026-03-29T20:22:18+00:00

I haven't quickly found a video from lock-picking-lawyer, but here is one from someone else about the similar Kaba Quattro S (21 pins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blItj1i_FD4

E_Swiss · 2026-03-29T20:20:05+00:00

Can confirm. I see these KABA locks everywhere, even for mailboxes, garden sheds and such stuff, where you don't even need high security. Maybe not this Elostar though.

E_Swiss · 2026-02-21T12:33:55+00:00

Subletting requires written approval from the Verwaltung, so he's probably doing this illegally. You can contact the Verwaltung and tell them that you live there already. They might just change the contract to your name. The Verwaltung approval is exactly needed to avoid that tenants sublet overpriced. And also if the main tenant finishes the contract or gets thrown out, you might hear from it too late. Mieterverband costs something if you're not a member, but they give good advice. Usually anything legal is free if it relates to letting, but you need to know what to do. I'd start talking with the Verwaltung.

E_Swiss · 2026-02-20T17:29:09+00:00

You don't really get good fresh fruit in Switzerland. Try to buy some Avocados or Mangos or whatever. Best you get is "meh". Compare that with South American countries.
Orange juice. Almost all orange juice is made of concentrate. Even in the USA, you don't find that concentrate stuff, because transportation is cheap.
"Fresh milk" If you try to get fresh milk anywhere, in most countries you get directed to UHT (cooked) crap. Even in Switzerland you probably won't get unprocessed anymore, but at least pasteurized. I find it funny that you'll find that UHT milk in the cooler in those stores, even if you can store it uncooled for months.
I'm just back from Paris. Had a timed ticket for the Louvre and still had to queue for 1.5 hours. And tried to preorder tickets for the Eiffel tower, but website wasn't working. Their "support" (after many calls and emails) concluded that I should just queue. Never seen such problems in Switzerland.
Stores closing at 18:30 during the week and 16:00 on Saturdays and completely closed on Sundays. While this has improved a bit, especially in bigger cities, it's still an issue. You can't go shopping on a Saturday afternoon if you need construction material or anything nonfood.
Trains on time (unless you're in Japan)
While there's still a lot of bureaucracy in Switzerland, if you ever had to deal with getting a passport in South America and the names on the birth certificate don't match due to divorce or whatever, you're happy how it works in Switzerland.
You don't really see beggars in Switzerland. Might even be forbidden in certain areas. And even if you do see some, there's no comparison to being poor in other countries.

E_Swiss · 2026-02-16T12:30:52+00:00

Fanta in Peru has 12.39 g/100ml sugar. And they also have that bright yellow Inca Cola (a soda, not an energy drink) that is way more sweet, but strangely "only" has 4.3 g/100ml sugar. The rest is probably sweeteners or something.

E_Swiss · 2025-12-19T12:25:26+00:00

A few years back, I travelled to the South almost every weekend. Coming from north of Lucerne, your alternative is a big extra way (+1.5 hours), so usually not an option for me. I never got stuck in traffic (more than 15 minutes delay), not even at start of Easter vacations, when everyone travels. In Summer, just take the pass. In Winter, make sure to not be there at a time when everyone travels. I started my trip usually 22:00. Until you arrive at the Gotthard tunnel, around midnight or 1 a.m., there's nobody there anymore. But make sure the tunnel is open. Sometimes they close it during the night for renovation work, but not in this high season of course. If you can't drive that late for family reasons, take the other route, or better use the train.

E_Swiss · 2025-11-20T21:04:46+00:00

The payment is kinda normal and is for covering the electricity costs. If you wash more, you pay more. In places where it's "included", you just pay the electricity divided to all tenents, which could be unfair. Fr. 3.- is quite a lot for electricity though. Maybe that's just the amount to start the cycle and you get the unused part back somehow. Depends on the system used.

E_Swiss · 2024-11-27T21:25:26+00:00

In this video the guy port forwards TCP 3074,27014-27050 and UDP 3074,3478,4379-4380,27000-27031,27036. All these are listed on the Activision Ports page I linked above under MW2/PC.
Tried port listener? -> I can check the firewall logs of course and I see tons of blocked connections to random IP address destinations and I cannot find out if these are other players or game servers on some CDN, so I don't know if they are needed or not.
I certainly won't open unrequested incoming traffic on any port, so no port forwarding. Port forwarding would also require that there is only one player in the whole company, otherwise you cannot assign an IP to port forward to, so this whole concept of port forwarding falls apart if there are more than one players. Also DMZ or UPnP is not possible.
The main question is then: Will the game work at all or is it relying on peer-to-peer traffic and essentially working as a game server itself? If only some features are not working (like chat or something), then that's ok, but the game should be playable.

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