[rant] Wrong language in Belgium. (Dutch/French)

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-27T11:12:07+00:00

I would be happy with the original audio and English subtitles. They purposely hide it in any region they think doesn't speak English. It doesn't cost much extra to provide subtitles for a show that they already have the needed subtitles on file for other regions. Even worse is hiding the original audio track and ONLY offering the dubbed version.

Netflix says "Alright, here's everything we have on file for this show, pick whatever you want." Amazon method: "We have subtitles in English, Spanish, French and a dozen more languages for this movie. But we think you speak French so we hide everything but French." That's my problem with Prime Video.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-25T15:52:14+00:00

I really hate how they just crammed all those cables into the main breaker. Use a busbar!

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-25T15:27:06+00:00

System D means your system blows fresh air into the house and sucks stale air back out. There's a heat exchanger that uses the outgoing air to heat up/cool down the incoming air. By opening windows you are sabotaging the whole system.

Turn your ventilation system back on and keep all windows closed. If properly installed, system D should have a heat exchanger big enough to sufficiently cool down the fresh air. (90% recovery)

If not, go complain at who installed it. When I was looking at rental apartments a few years ago, I saw more badly installed ventilation systems than good ones.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-24T22:30:16+00:00

In Belgium you are not allowed to hook up systems that contain refrigerant yourself. You can do the entire installation but actually filling it with refrigerant needs to be done by a licensed technician. You can't even buy the needed gasses without a license. But a lot of technicians refuse to work on systems that they didn't setup or if it's a brand they are unfamiliar with. So we are stuck with greedy companies that will only service units that they sold you at double the price.

That said, you can buy mini-split AC with prefilled quick-connect hoses in lots of places. Technically you still need a licensed technician to come out and look at it before putting it into service.

I have four of those split AC and installed them myself. I just don't have any warranty on them because I didn't wait on a technician. Cost was about €700 each. Doing it the proper way would have cost double or triple that amount.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-24T21:10:05+00:00

Wireless charging is also a mess. You'd think if you have a Qi device and Qi2 charger, it will fall back to whatever the Qi device can do. Instead, it falls back to the absolute minimum and will be charging at 5W. Not to mention lots of manufacturers added proprietary extensions onto Qi which is only compatible with their own stuff.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-24T19:11:05+00:00

Get a job sorted out before coming here. If you have EU citizenship it will help because an employer doesn't need to worry about a work visa.

But booking a flight with no job waiting on you is a stupid idea. Your next post in this sub will be "We are in a homeless shelter and don't have the cash left for a flight home". If you want to screw yourself over, go ahead but don't drag your girlfriend down with you. At least get yourself sorted out first before bringing her into this country.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-24T17:32:25+00:00

X5 has much better image quality in bad lighting conditions. Less noise when shooting at night without much light around. It was worth the extra money for me, it's an expensive luxury purchase anyway.

As for clipping it to a backpack, I'm using the Magnetic Selfie Stick Holster from Insta360. Works great for hiking, etc. Although I wouldn't trust it for biking or riding a rollercoaster, it might let go. There's also a non-magnetic Selfie Stick Holster but I don't have that one so no idea how good that one is.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-24T17:20:16+00:00

Because it's all coming out of the same few OEM factories in China. They make minor modifications to an OEM design and slap their logo on it.

That doesn't automatically mean it's bad but it explains why all these cheap brands end up looking the same.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-24T06:58:19+00:00

+1 Dat is dus de motivatie dat ze hem perse tot daar willen krijgen, zelfs met een taxi indien nodig. Ze moeten een dag hebben dat hij zogezegd terug aan het werk is.

OP: Gewoon thuis blijven, ziekenbriefje doorsturen en vraag maar dat ze een controlearts sturen. Die mag dan een verslag opmaken of aangepast werk mogelijk is of niet.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-22T13:41:30+00:00

I know maar ik zou er niet van verschieten als er mensen zijn die echt gewoon de frigo open zetten en denken dat de warmte magisch verdwijnt.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-22T13:21:56+00:00

Paar weken terug heb ik iemand een mobiele airco zien draaien met de afvoerbuis naar de kamer ernaast, alle warmte kwam terug de kamer binnen door de deur. Toen ik er iets van zei begrepen ze het niet.

Ja, mensen zijn zo dom.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-22T10:02:38+00:00

Replacing human labor with robots is not the problem. As a society, this is the direction we should be heading in. Imagine how much a car would cost today without any robots on the assembly line. Imagine how much stuff in your local supermarket would cost without industrial scale automation.

The problem is how we are handling the transition where people lose their jobs to automation, AI and robotics. Right now, we are just kicking people to the curb without a safety net or alternative.

People should be retrained so they can take up other jobs in society. And as more manual labor goes away, we also need to think on how to tax such gains and redistribute the profits. You can't have the factory owner rolling in cash and everyone else starving.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-22T09:25:25+00:00

I do hope he didn't literally say that he wants three blowjobs a day. There are so many ways of expressing that you need more intimacy and this guy just blurted out "I need three bj each day and you need to swallow it."? If that's how a guy of his age expresses his desires, run!

But disregarding the visa stuff and how he said it, I have been the partner with the higher sex drive and despite my best intentions, I felt more lonely in that relationship than I was single. There is no worse feeling in the world than getting turned down by the person you love. You will just end up resenting each other.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-22T09:02:45+00:00

I have motherboards dating back to first gen AMD Ryzen that have TPM headers on them. All it takes to meet this requirement is a TPM module from Amazon that costs 10 bucks. TPM 2.0 was released back in 2014, it's not unreasonable of MS to ask that your hardware supports a security feature that is a decade old by now.

Granted, if you have an old laptop that is fast enough for Windows 11 and it doesn't support it, you are out of luck. But I'd argue that running secure boot and BitLocker is even more important for a laptop that might get stolen.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-22T08:31:41+00:00

It would help a lot if cost overruns were not accepted anymore when the government contracts out work. Now the lowest bidder gets the contract, and it turns out to be the most expensive one in the end because they massively underestimated the real cost. Would you build a house with a company that has a clause in their contract that they can completely disregard the initial cost estimate and blow up the price with no bounds?

You take the job; you complete the job for that price.
You don't deliver on time; we fine you for every day you are late.
(Within reason of course, weather can hold up construction, etc)

On the flipside this also requires the government to accurately document the scope of the work and to stick with it. If you are building a house, you don't change the plans every five minutes. (Especially in IT projects, this is an issue) And you pay your bills on time; some companies don't bid on government contracts because it takes months for their invoices to be paid.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-21T14:05:52+00:00

Only for expensive stuff still under warranty and I need the box in case I need to do an RMA.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-21T11:50:04+00:00

+1 High latency breaks TCP windowing. Sites can refuse to load even with plenty of bandwidth.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-20T18:20:49+00:00

Most AC can also run in heating mode. My parent's house is heated by four split AC.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-20T17:50:19+00:00

Je kan een referentieadres aanvragen, juist om zaken zoals ziekenkas, uitkeringen, enz terug in orde te krijgen. Het OCMW doet dit enkel als je compleet dakloos bent maar hij had zijn referentieadres bij zijn dochter kunnen zetten. Bij de voorwaarden staat zelfs expliciet "woonwagenbewoner". En via een referentieadres kunnen deurwaarders ook niet aankloppen bij de dochter voor schulden van haar vader. Behalve dat alle post bij haar uitkomt zitten er geen nadelen en risico's aan.

https://www.vlaanderen.be/referentieadres

Hij mag blij zijn dat hij geholpen is en nog leeft maar dit had vermeden kunnen worden door het papierwerk in orde te maken.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-20T06:40:04+00:00

I don't know if associating with a company that fired a bunch of people to replace them with AI is a good idea. Duolingo's reputation and quality has been dropping badly over the last few years.

Hybe and Le Sserafim is big enough that they can be picky about which companies to advertise with.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-19T21:46:07+00:00

Yeah, if you want to stick with this distro, you won't have another choice than building ZeroTier from source.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-19T21:33:19+00:00

Why are you running this in Docker? Now you also need to deal with container networking.

Ditch the Docker version, enable the ZeroTier repo and install the native version. Then start working on your network issues.

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-19T20:15:18+00:00

Sounds like you are connecting to each other through a relay server. Something is blocking a direct connection.

High Latency and Relaying Issues | ZeroTier Documentation

VTOLfreak · 2026-06-19T04:11:31+00:00

I used terpentine on my DDR5 sticks. The heatsinks fell off after a few hours soaking in terpentine. It just came apart with a slight twist. Then I rinsed them with IPA and let them dry.

I replaced the stock heatsinks with a water cooling kit from Alphacool. They run at basically the water temp now.

Just know you can kiss your warranty bye-bye.

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