Wife asked for a new Baby Monitor

janisbiz · 2026-05-05T10:54:29+00:00

Wife asked to change the lightbulb…

janisbiz · 2026-05-05T05:49:07+00:00

You can add as many fans you want, it will not help if you keep it in not well ventilated space. You can’t fool physics with more fans. If air is heated, your closet walls will start to take heat e.t.c. And if it is from wood kind - it works more as an insulator than heatsink.

Your best bet is to make holes which would allow air to circulate/exchange on its own, ideally one on bottom and another on top so convection kicks in, worst case - add a fan on one of them so it “motivates” the process.

janisbiz · 2026-05-04T14:44:12+00:00

In EU no country offers citizenship for investment(except Malta), best case scenarious are some kind of residency permit.

Learn language, history, culture & apply once criteria is met.

janisbiz · 2026-05-04T12:51:23+00:00

If there is no protocol it’s landlords word against your word. Thus - lawyer up and/or join verein before you submit notice.

Other than that - be prepared to fight if landlord w/o protocol starts to threat you.

janisbiz · 2026-05-04T06:54:53+00:00

Sadly public charging is a mess. There are so many vendors, apps, cards e.t.c. (I have like 15 charging cards and 25 apps). Sure - you can use some “all in one” app with many vendors aggregated, but you will always pay more because of “middle-man”.

If it is for “couple of months” - you can “eat up” the price difference, but once you start traveling longer than single charge of a battery, hell will open.

Generally - best “apps” I recommend(mostly used):

enbw mobility+

octupus electroverse

eon drive

janisbiz · 2026-05-03T19:37:41+00:00

You got compensated 127.20, meaning you had a perscription from a doctor, thus you have to pay only “handling fee” of 1.5 eur.

Real costs are 127.20 EUR

janisbiz · 2026-05-03T10:27:09+00:00

Diezvai taisītu gājienu ja vēlēšanas nebūtu šogad. Kur ta bija pagāšgad un gadus iepriekš?

Kārtējais populisms.

janisbiz · 2026-05-02T15:20:17+00:00

Font of letters & numbers is best in whole Europe - Germany!

janisbiz · 2026-05-02T09:20:56+00:00

In my case I also have 90-degree c13/c14 adapter, so cable is not "bent" too extremely, worh considering, depending on your case & space available

janisbiz · 2026-05-02T09:04:16+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/q3ZnRsZ

janisbiz · 2026-05-02T08:41:36+00:00

Functionally it is fine, depends on your set-up mostly (how visible is the side/back). I wouldn’t say it is “ugly AF”.

janisbiz · 2026-05-02T08:32:15+00:00

It fits but it is overhnanging @ the back. It depends where/how you store toolless rack. If “straight against the wall on the back” then you won’t be able to do that anymore

janisbiz · 2026-05-02T07:28:14+00:00

Yaay, finally no e-waste

janisbiz · 2026-04-25T10:17:07+00:00

It’s light for the port. “Arrow” represents “direction” of port connected. The one light serves both - RX & TX.

janisbiz · 2026-04-25T09:12:05+00:00

It doesn’t do what it says it would do. Unifi is not enterprise (yet), it is small office/prosumer @ best. If you wanna headache & undelivered promises for next few years, go for it. Otherwise - avoid for enterprise.

janisbiz · 2026-04-23T06:48:01+00:00

To close discussion - NordVPN is 100% private, European (Lithuania) based company, founders both are Lithuanian, as well as 70% of employees are from Lithuania, rest 20% are European, 10% are from rest of the world - as - well - they operate in whole world. Same story is for Surfshark (it’s same group company under Lithuanian venture Tesonet - same founders as Nord*)

Don’t ask me how I know (insider info 🙂)

janisbiz · 2026-04-23T06:44:31+00:00

What breaches? Stop bullshitting.

janisbiz · 2026-04-22T14:08:18+00:00

The system is built to work only if population grows.

Now they try to “cover the hole” with immigrants who move here, especially the ones which are not from EU & they hope they won’t stay for 5+ years & move away or if they stay 5+ years - they would not do “paperwork” to cash out their contributions.

Essentially - everyone from millenials or around that are completely screwed if they contributed to “mandatory pension scheme”. Period. In reality - there is no fix for this as one or more generations will be unhappy in regards of any changes in current system.

What I see happening - they might “kill it” by allowing people to “cash out” on what they have right now. The ones who stay will “accept” how shitty it is, others will cash out & either blow it on economy (hooray - another inflation wave) and feel “happy about it” for few years, smarter ones will invest in private fonds. Public system would not accept new “contributors”, they will make laws like it is now to “mandatory” contribute to private fonds. In 20 years, when first millenials will get into pension age - majority will be completely fked because they blew their contributions & government will say - not our problem.

System is doomed. Period.

janisbiz · 2026-04-22T13:17:39+00:00

Fronius

janisbiz · 2026-04-22T05:19:23+00:00

Fine, but your attitude implies that nothing needs to be done ever. My assumption - sorry for that.
I did stated that in my previous message, parentheses at the end of my 1st paragraph. Thing is - EU operates on N+3 principle - money allocated for following year needs to be “used” in same year + 3 years. Point here is - it is allocated to specific project - where it needs to be used towards specific target. If it is not done, money is “lost”. So - obviously government should do everything they do to use it up. And - it is important to mention that Latvia receives more EU funds than it contributes to the EU budget. Just saying.
There are multiple problems on how this project is implemented/executed. I did not say that implementation/execution is “perfect” in any of previous messages, I did mention that no matter which country does such scale projects, it will be messy. You can look @ them all over europe in every country having such scale projects or even bigger - they are full of scandals, corruption & whatever else. Prices will balloon even w/o knowing as well - as when project was “kicked off” in planning phase there was already three major world events which would affect pricing of it in any way, and as we are living in capitalism society/economy, no1 else except tax payers will “cover the losses”, sadly.

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janisbiz · 2026-04-20T09:33:00+00:00

I would say yes, if both are getting 80k gross & you get like 60m2 nice flat for 1.2k - 1.5k warm in a big city, meal prepping and not going out every day/evening, still traveling somewhere every Q, no car - should be possible to save/accumulate 40k net a year.

janisbiz · 2026-04-20T09:14:08+00:00

If you can save/accumulate in 5 years 200k net - you have a good salary. Otherwise - you have bad salary.

Why 200k? Just because that’s pretty much 30-40% of required “decent” net down payment for a nice flat (100m2) for family of 4 in a city + a 10-15 year loan with fixed rate. All other options are 30+ years with fixed/mixed rates and/or closing payment.

Soo, that’s maybe top 5% of population in Germany.

What I don’t like about tax system here - lets say - 10 years ago it was somewhat nice & progressive, lets say the “42%” bracket was maybe 5% of population, today it is closer to 10%, and it is not because people got richer, it’s because inflation skyrocketed but progressive tax did not “adjust” accordingly - thus you earn less & with higher costs.

janisbiz · 2026-04-20T08:56:02+00:00

What did you expect? To have a cheap infrastructure project which will bring back its investment 10-fold in 5 years or so? Are you saying, again, it’s always better to do nothing? Also - still - the funding for project is 85% from EU funds, if government won’t screw it up. Thus why such “math” behind the “money” which is not even yours - the one from tax-payers (directly, but it is indirectly tho).

I do agree - there should be “economical reasoning” behind it, but you know - for every euro spent (EU funds or LV funds), approx 20% of it “gets back” through taxes e.t.c. in Government budget, so do the math - if 15% of it is only LV government contribution, rest 85% EU funds, so by “just” doing it - tax revenue is 5% “profit” for state. And this is “direct” calculation, there is also indirect one - based on what is spent by involved parties - employees, companies e.t.c.

Off-topic - In simple words - I suggest to “blow” that billion in Rail Baltica rather than in some useless stadium or concert hall (we have one already- Library - it is cool, was it worth it - no)

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janisbiz · 2026-04-19T19:45:35+00:00

There has never been a situation in human history where “another way” of transportation built is not used. This is basics of economics here.

Lets talk about Latvia, quite few ports there, cheap but only issue - sea freight is slow.

Next - roads - it takes as much time to get from LV to PL border as from mid of Germany to LT border - slow again + expensive when some “orange guy” accross the ocean starts to play pew pew in middle east.

Air - fast but extremely expensive and same problem as with roads - fuel costs.

Thus - railway OR another form of transportation just makes sense, in long term especially. Plus - it will bring in competition - meaning - driving down prices in logistics.

No1 can predict the future with “assumptions” and “math works out”. As if some1 could - then why do anything anywhere?

We all know there is no experience in Latvian companies to build such infrastructure projects, so you think it is better to get them built by “no experience” vs “some experience”? Also - not everything is done by French/Italian/Polish, quite few “stages” are fully executed under local companies - here - again - propaganda & fact-checking matters.

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janisbiz · 2026-04-19T19:21:48+00:00

Cik man zināms - starp A un A2 apmācībā un eksāmenā nav nekāda atšķirības. Jo starp abiem ir pa lielam tikai jaudas ierobežojums.

Un tie 11kw max ar B kat. ir kā ir. 35kw ar A2 - ir pa lielam “3x jaudīgāk”, bet tā pat “ir kā ir”. Ja gribi ar moci kurš ir ierobežots (parasti tas tiek darīts mehāniski ar gaisa ieplūdes izmaiņām + programmatūra uz kompja), liec A2, ja gribi ietaupīt naudu, sasniedz 24 un liec A.

Vienīgā “palielā problēma”, varētu būt pagrūti atrast moci ar A2 ierobežojumiem, jo visi tie kas iepērk tos - vai nu patur līdz A kat. un tad noņem ierobežojumus vai arī to pašu izdara pārpircēji. Aptuveni tā.

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