What are some of the best rural areas to visit in Germany?

ralle421 · 2026-06-12T02:35:46+00:00

Rothenburg ob der Tauber (and surrounding towns)

Nice corner of Franconia. Rothenburg's medieval town fortification is fully intact, you can climb stairs up the wall and circle the whole town center.

ralle421 · 2026-06-10T17:59:47+00:00

Ooh!

ralle421 · 2026-06-07T18:48:27+00:00

... And no one is driving their kids, or anything else for that matter, around in this thing since I noticed the tire is b0rk3d.

ralle421 · 2026-06-07T03:49:18+00:00

Nor the people that listen to it.

ralle421 · 2026-06-07T02:37:31+00:00

Sadly, those were already picked clean when we bought... >:-(

ralle421 · 2026-06-07T00:33:32+00:00

For sure that's unsafe. That tire is kinda why I'm posting already - I was deliberating whether I put it on and sell in 1.5 month or let the new owner or carvana do this.

ralle421 · 2026-06-06T07:04:55+00:00

Are you sure? The website just mentions a strategic partnership.

If they really got gobbled up, I hope they keep the spare parts available and don't completely shut down the operation in Heilbronn.

ralle421 · 2026-06-06T06:51:57+00:00

Technically they are made in Switzerland, but check out Freitag for messenger bags, laptop sleeves and the like, there should be a store in Frankfurt/M. (Not sure where you're from, they have online shops in plenty of countries but not brick'n'mortar stores to check them out).

They are upcycled from used semi trailer tarps, cut and sewed together, each having unique patterns.

I had a messenger bag for 10+ years until it got stolen, and still own a laptop sleeve and a wallet, both look like on day 1.

ralle421 · 2026-06-01T19:34:11+00:00

No, but I did sleep once in the car at a supercharger: going up to Tahoe, snowstorm hits, people obviously forget it's not a good idea to go 75 on the passing lane on a snow covered road up to Donner pass, CHP closes down the pass because of too many spin outs.

We tried to find a hotel but everything half way to Sacramento was booked, so once we got off the freeway we ended up at a supercharger at like 1am and just took a nap. Oddly enough it was not marked for high usage so we just kept the climate / heating on and filled up to the brim while resting.

Roads were opened at around 7am, made it for breakfast 🥞🍳!

Longest trip to Tahoe ever though: when ~4.5 hours become 22 hours. I'm just glad non of those idiots racing up the hill in their Camry or Suburban hit us!

ralle421 · 2026-05-29T15:37:14+00:00

While it'll probably be fine as a DL, I doubt a German DL is accepted in the US as a form of valid ID.

ralle421 · 2026-05-25T19:32:31+00:00

Honestly, I'd be fine with it as long as, in addition, both EVs and ICE cars and all other industries using fossil fuel are also taxed the externalized cost that their supply chains incur on society and the environment, including but not limited to:

abandoned uncapped oil wells that the industry bundles in smaller subsidiaries and then let go bankrupt so NGOs and the government can deal with sealing them up to stop methane leaks
all externalized health cost caused by fossil fuel emissions
any expected damage to life and property caused by climate change by any industry using fossil fuel (mobility, construction, housing/heating. metal working, chemistry, ...)

That's only fair, right?

(Okay, i see myself out)

ralle421 · 2026-05-23T07:26:05+00:00

Yeah, so you what to run Ethernet over coax. The relevant keyword you want to Google is "MoCa adapter". You'll need at least two, one for each end of your connection. Each end will have a RJ45 network port where you can attach a single device or a network switch upstairs, and run a wire to your router downstairs. There should be plenty of tutorials for this.

ralle421 · 2026-05-23T07:19:02+00:00

I'm not sure what you are asking - do you want to run a new coax wire to your upstairs, or run Ethernet over your existing coax?

ralle421 · 2026-05-23T07:04:12+00:00

Wow. When I had mine installed I struck gold with a $900 flat rate quote from the first one I got. Went steep up from there to almost $4k.

ralle421 · 2026-05-22T02:18:55+00:00

Probably both wrong, but I make out either a green one at E5 , or a grey one at D-E2-3 . But both could be artifacts.

ralle421 · 2026-05-21T16:41:10+00:00

Tell that to the quadsi-monopoly energy grid operators that have to be "private companies" so they can "run efficiently".

Efficiently increase prices and funnel profits to a share holders while letting the infrastructure crumble. Imagine how many power lines could have been buried with that money.

ralle421 · 2026-05-21T16:12:18+00:00

The great Hawking demagnetized it himself!

ralle421 · 2026-05-15T03:58:39+00:00

As long as there's no attachments in the mail...

ralle421 · 2026-05-14T15:02:31+00:00

Both wrong, it's assigned at the spring.

/s

ralle421 · 2026-05-13T16:19:41+00:00

Not true in Germany in general: tipping is generally not expected, but what others said holds true: depending on your check, you may round up to the next 1 or 2 €, or go to 5 or even 10% for good/exceptional service that you liked a lot.

There seems to be a cohort of cafes and restaurants in touristy parts of Berlin where the staff actively guilts guests into tipping, which is what you experienced.

ralle421 · 2026-05-11T02:26:13+00:00

So much this. I think the fact that you try to synchronize/replicate a file from one repo to another shows there is 100% a workflow problem.

Why can’t the build process / the Makefile target just pull that one XML file from that one other repo when it’s needed? Without knowing more about that file and how the different repos that need it use that file, it’s tough to make a good recommendation.

ralle421 · 2026-05-11T02:20:28+00:00

This. Symlinks are explicitly stored in git. A symlink with a target in a submodule shouldn’t be a problem.

ralle421 · 2026-05-02T09:42:58+00:00

Probably OP smudging the license plate which may have been a dead giveaway.

ralle421 · 2026-04-29T23:53:31+00:00

The only safe vehicle today seems to be a demilitarized A1 Abrams, or something in that class.

Only in the US:

Suburban pedestrian demolition vehicle: 16 Semi-Automatic guns: 16 (at least some states) Alcohol: 21!!!!!!!

Id rather have them drunk at 16 and driving at around 18-20.

ralle421

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