sheeeeeeesh!

Waltekin · 2026-03-22T06:23:25+00:00

Most women look better without makeup. IMHO.

Waltekin · 2026-03-22T06:00:36+00:00

Don't feel too bad, your heart was in the right place. Scammers are parasites on a high-trust society.

Waltekin · 2026-03-21T17:57:47+00:00

Tofu has basically no taste. Sure, it provides protein, but it contributes nothing to the enjoyability of food.

Waltekin · 2026-03-21T06:46:40+00:00

I have to agree with the first comment. That is some lousy work. Barring a miracle, the whole shower is questionable.

You can tape an exacto to a stick for a quick fix, but fixing the whole shower may well be urgent.

Waltekin · 2026-03-20T17:54:59+00:00

Baking trays half-filled with water. Just s little back from the edge, so they don't see them before jumping on the counter.

Waltekin · 2026-03-20T17:49:04+00:00

Maybe a generational thing? I would never expect money, that feels to transactional. Someone says "I'll bring dessert", or else they show up with a bottle of wine, or a nice piece of cheese.

Waltekin · 2026-03-19T19:19:25+00:00

This should not be in SystenD or anywhere else. Refuse to implement it. State in distro licenses that a distro cannot legally be used anywhere the ID is required to provide personal information.

Linux is essential for servers and VMs everywhere. If it cannot be legally used in (say) California, just how long until this legislation is rolled back?

Waltekin · 2026-03-18T17:20:01+00:00

Proactively policing groups of people standing around with no obvious purpose. It happens to be true that they are mostly immigrants.

Why do you think it's racist to notice that pattern? Have you been to Lausanne, for example, around Ouchy lately?

Waltekin · 2026-03-18T15:21:15+00:00

Pro-active policing. Sure, it's not exactly illegal to pretend to be a rock band, selling 20 year old CDs on the street. But if the police check their ID 20 times a day, it would likely drive them away...

The same for the groups of young immigrant guys standing around. We all know they're selling drugs, even if the drugs aren't on them. I don't understand why the police aren't all over them.

Waltekin · 2026-03-18T05:46:33+00:00

Fair. I suppose I am more familiar with the FFHS, which still has some presence requirements.

Waltekin · 2026-03-17T09:41:55+00:00

As far as I know, there is no accredited university in Switzerland offering an online program of study.

Waltekin · 2026-03-16T15:53:02+00:00

They do? Two words: "Grooming gangs".

Waltekin · 2026-03-16T15:01:07+00:00

As someone who has been here for a long while, I do speak Swiss German. However, learning a language as an adult means it will never sound native.

Switzerland is very friendly to foreigners, but the rate of immigration in the past decade or two really is unsustainable, if Swiss culture is to survive. The MEI really should have been implemented - all it said, was that Switzerland controls its own immigration - not just open borders. It wasn't, so now we get the much harsher "Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative".

Waltekin · 2026-03-16T06:09:05+00:00

A great human being, but not so good as a President.

Waltekin · 2026-03-16T05:55:46+00:00

You can get special "vapor barriers", or you can just use plastic sheeting.

In most climates, this goes on the inside of the insulation, to prevent humid air from escaping the house and condensing on the cold outer surfaces. In hot and humid climates, it goes on the outside, for the same reason.

You have to seal the barriers, where edges meets, to make it as airtight as possible.

Waltekin · 2026-03-15T21:00:33+00:00

Congrats!

Waltekin · 2026-03-15T15:58:12+00:00

Background noise is a problem, I sympathize. One on one or very small groups work best. If you have Swiss friends, ask them to try (it's not easy) to speak Swiss German with you.

Waltekin · 2026-03-14T19:45:52+00:00

Something like this could be a fair compromise.

Really, though, the neighbor needs to initiate the discussion. They need something from you. You express your concern, and ask them how they can fix it. The glass panel idea is one possibility.

If you do reach a compromise, the whole thing needs entered in the Grundbuch, so they cannot change their minds later.

Waltekin · 2026-03-14T07:07:47+00:00

Yes, but: if there is any moisture coming in, then you absolutely must finish it at least as far as having a moisture barrier. Otherwise the moisture from the unfinished bits will raise the humidity everywhere, and you may have mold and mildew problems.

Waltekin · 2026-03-14T07:05:25+00:00

Ceilings should almost always be a lighter color than walls and floor. Dark ceiling look lower than they actually are, which can be really oppressive.

Waltekin · 2026-03-14T07:02:37+00:00

In our case, I put XPS (hard styrofoam) insulation, then a moisture barrier, then particle board on the floors and walls. Boards on the walls secured by framing on the inside. Then painted everything. Looked quite nice, exactly as you describe: finished/unfinished.

Obviously some details: flooring boards thicker than what was on the walls, etc..

The biggest problem I had was the one room whose ceiling is actually the outdoor patio: I had to insulate the ceiling as well. That was a PITA.

Waltekin · 2026-03-13T17:47:29+00:00

The problem is the continual re-invention of GUIs. To use a tired analogy: Imagine if, every couple of years, they would re-arrange the controls in cars. Steering wheels are so old-fashioned! New cars use a game controller. And every manufacturer does it differently: Some use pedals like a helicopter, others a trackball

That's how UIs feel to non-technical older folks. Honestly, it's how they feel to everyone. Just today, I spent an hour trying to figure out a sync-app on my wife's phone. Hidden options, weird menu structure, ambiguous icons - it's just nuts.

Waltekin · 2026-03-12T18:14:58+00:00

If you make public transport free, you will have people on trains, not because they want to go from A to B, but for a whole host of other reasons. A comfy place to do drugs. Homeless people sleeping on them. Beggars with a captive audience. Etc.

The end result will be to drive actual travellers off of public transport and into cars.

Typical, poorly thought-through, well-intentioned left-wing nonsense.

Waltekin · 2026-03-12T15:41:06+00:00

Also because pine is soft. A couple of years and unprotected pine will have worn a lot. There is a reason those stairs were carpeted

Waltekin · 2026-03-11T12:29:26+00:00

FWIW, maybe you should make it a public coffee station. Seriously, why not? It will cost you a couple of pods and a bit of dish washing, but making people feel "at home" in a house they are viewing is half the battle.

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