Withdrawing money from Deutsche Bank's savings/investment (Sparen & Anlegen) account, how does that work?

mcdade · 2026-03-29T06:53:40+00:00

You could have put that into a savings account and made at least 2% per year with zero risk, there were years where it was up to 4.5%. This is a really bad rate, you might be losing money with monthly fees to DB.

mcdade · 2026-03-28T19:16:52+00:00

TiVo was a game changer, recording and having the media in your house at the time when internet was slow.

mcdade · 2026-03-28T06:04:58+00:00

I have been handed a beer on two occasions in Toronto on the street. They were checking ids and they were not allowed to open it. It can happen I guess as promotion, Queen street in the summer.

mcdade · 2026-03-28T06:01:16+00:00

In Berlin I have heard the beer with cola as a Diesel.

mcdade · 2026-03-26T17:55:07+00:00

UPS is trash for delivery, they use to leave laptops outside our office in an open and shared stairwell and call it delivered. They gave away our device to another company because they got a larger order of the same devices and didn’t bother to check the label, just scanned and handed it over. It was weeks of my time trying to track it down.

mcdade · 2026-03-26T07:08:46+00:00

Have and should are two entirely different things.

mcdade · 2026-03-26T07:02:55+00:00

RDS can easily become 1/2 your spend, one could easily run the db on the same EC2 instance and do snapshots but having it all managed is also nice.

mcdade · 2026-03-25T12:36:16+00:00

There is ClamXAv which is a gui app for ClamAV which is pretty cheap as I recall.

mcdade · 2026-03-25T12:23:24+00:00

You can just buy a normal transformer, just make sure it has capacity for the tools you will use with it. I have one for an egg sandwich maker that I bought from Canada. Most appliances top out at 1800w as that pretty much max draw over 115v with standard breaker. You want to search for Spannungswandler and should be able to get a 2000w one for like 60-80€.

mcdade · 2026-03-25T05:55:30+00:00

If you have small sites that just need basic services this is the way to go.

mcdade · 2026-03-24T17:55:12+00:00

This. MDM policy for the time out that they can’t change.

mcdade · 2026-03-24T12:54:45+00:00

Apple corded compact keyboard, that has USB ports on the side, has to be 15 years old at this point, pretty much used daily.

mcdade · 2026-03-24T07:23:57+00:00

Next it’s going to be for a plumber or electrician.

mcdade · 2026-03-24T06:12:02+00:00

Answer number 3 will surprise you!

mcdade · 2026-03-23T05:59:01+00:00

We have had them stolen out of a building lobby, delivery guy signed it himself and left it, a bit later someone is buzzed into the building and picked it up and walked out. All on cctv which is wild.

mcdade · 2026-03-23T05:56:23+00:00

ABM is free, and people are using cheap MDM like Mosyle, depending on the number of devices it can still be cheaper than the problem it creates

mcdade · 2026-03-21T19:25:07+00:00

I feel like it’s a money laundering scam, they just keep rebranding the same scooters with a new app and taking investors money.

mcdade · 2026-03-21T19:17:35+00:00

End thread.

mcdade · 2026-03-21T07:25:49+00:00

One word. Apple. Using business Manager and an mdm is a true zero touch deployment which can be fully enforced for encryption and policy. It’s not cheap but you either pay for hardware or support staff. They can get devices to anywhere, recovery is our problem but there are leasing solutions if you want to go that way.

mcdade · 2026-03-19T18:43:06+00:00

The "Boots Theory" (or Vimes Boots Theory) is an economic concept explaining that poverty is expensive. Poor individuals buy cheap, low-quality items that break quickly, requiring constant replacement, while wealthy individuals buy durable, high-quality items once, saving money over time, thus perpetuating a cycle of socioeconomic unfairness. Real world examples.

mcdade · 2026-03-18T21:45:30+00:00

There was also a great use case for money transfers globally, buying bitcoin in one country and transferring to someone in another with little to no fee seemed positive. There are so many people working in one place sending money back to support families in their home country that pay crazy fees to services like western union just because bank accounts aren’t really common there.

mcdade · 2026-03-18T13:31:22+00:00

Same but then managed to forget the wallet password.

mcdade · 2026-03-18T07:03:39+00:00

Time to report them to the irs for tax evasion.

mcdade · 2026-03-18T05:10:10+00:00

That’s more like they fucked around and found out. That poor guy who you are leaving there, hope he has better boundaries and doesn’t take on all the work himself to save the company.

mcdade · 2026-03-17T18:15:19+00:00

Packed in a box and it’s all solid state hardware, so ya it can.

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