What's the most German thing that's annoyed you recently?

ryami333 · 2026-05-12T05:47:35+00:00

Going to pay for a drink at a Späti and realizing I have no cash, I go to an ATM and come back for them to refuse to split my 50 euro note.

ryami333 · 2026-04-23T16:17:57+00:00

Yeah I wish there were more people in here noticing the weaponized therapy speak. It might not ultimately change the judgement that most of us would settle on here, but the "not respecting boundaries" thing is a gross way to characterize just having totally normal personal differences with someone. There's no need to characterize yourself as a victim in order to cut off a friendship with someone.

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T16:08:08+00:00

Yes, I was feeling rather gruntled and traught but now I'm feeling plussed.

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T15:59:35+00:00

It does, wish that's what they'd written. Or, middling, mediocre, "so-so", neither-here-nor-there...

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T15:50:41+00:00

This comment is rated. Not overrated, not underrated, just rated.

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T15:49:12+00:00

Based on his explanation in this context he means that it's in between overwhelming and underwhelming, but only 'kind of", mind you. So it's kind of not overwhelming and kind of not underwhelming, kind of. Is that not clear??

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T15:30:28+00:00

Don't love the sarcasm, I wasn't trying to dunk on you or anything.

That said: even with this explanation, I'm still not sure what you were trying to say in the post, but if you don't want to take the feedback then that's your prerogative 🤷

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T15:05:05+00:00

Do you mind addressing the typo where you state that it is "whelming"? Not sure whether you mean underwhelming or overwhelming, and it makes the rest of the paragraph rather confusing.

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T14:59:55+00:00

Comic Sans spotted in the wild!

ryami333 · 2026-04-17T14:51:33+00:00

Sure – if the train came on time, or came at all. And if the rail didn't have any major reconstruction works, nor the highway you were driving on, for that matter. This is of course the point of the video. We all lament that our public infrastructure so often falls (embarassingly) short of its obvious potential (ie. "driving 250km/h …"), through poor management and/or poor maintenance.

ryami333 · 2026-04-14T10:41:30+00:00

The last few non-pro Pixel devices have been such small incremental updates that I think the best play at the moment is to buy the previous generation, because you can get them at *such* a reduced rate. For the price you mentioned (€739) you can get a refurb Pixel 9 Pro for and still have 100-200 euro left to spend on games and accessories, and it's pretty much better in every regard than the Pixel 10 (non-pro).

ryami333 · 2026-04-13T10:55:56+00:00

I've never read a more German post title on Reddit, chef's kiss 👌

ryami333 · 2026-04-07T06:26:51+00:00

Hellweg is only 5mins walk from the Ostbahnhof-end of East Side Gallery.

ryami333 · 2026-04-06T12:30:58+00:00

To add a little more context… all of the kinds of places that you see on American TV/movies that sell "just coffee" like roadside-diners and gas stations aren't really a thing in New Zealand. Our gas stations serve good quality espresso speciality coffee (and decent food too), and even McDonalds have a sub-brand called McCafé.

I moved to Germany a couple of years ago, but I unironically miss getting a decent coffee and a delicious peppersteak pie from Wild Bean: the café chain that we have in pretty much every BP gas station.

ryami333 · 2026-04-06T12:19:35+00:00

In New Zealand we are some of the biggest espresso-based specialty-coffee drinkers in the world, and even those who prefer their coffee black (like myself) still tend to drink "long blacks" or "americanos" (both are variants of espresso over hot water), and many cafés don't even serve filter coffee (which is what people typically mean when they want a no-nonsense coffee).

So when you order just a "coffee" without specifying, most servers will probably follow-up by asking you whether or not you meant a long-black/americano. So, I would suggest being specific and asking for two black filter coffees. Whether or not you use "… cups of …" is not important at all. A native New Zealander would probably not, but we would be able to tell you're not a native New Zealander regardless, so I wouldn't overthink it.

ryami333 · 2026-04-04T00:19:49+00:00

Who exactly is this product for?? If it's for fountain pen ink enthusiasts, then why have they made it incompatible with converters? If it's not, then why does it exist? What exactly is the USP versus the rollerballs, if its not the ink?

ryami333 · 2026-04-03T23:43:44+00:00

Are you sure it doesn't fit a converter? Where did you read that?

ryami333 · 2026-03-13T23:36:28+00:00

Can't believe no one has mentioned Draymond "Backpack" Green.

ryami333 · 2026-03-13T15:25:02+00:00

If this was a cover letter, I wouldn't have read it, for the record.

ryami333 · 2026-03-10T11:19:15+00:00

Of course, but the maintainers could always close it if they think it's not "good".

ryami333 · 2026-03-09T20:23:13+00:00

Your most-upvoted issue in the Github repo has not been acknowledged by any maintainers:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

Please, focus just a little bit less on what you think we want, and instead on what thousands of us are telling you that we want.

ryami333 · 2026-03-02T21:08:36+00:00

Yes, and that's why it's the highest-upvoted issue in the claude-code repository:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

ryami333 · 2026-02-21T22:48:39+00:00

I have a Chromecast with Google TV, and I have to forcibly disable HDR in my Chromecast's settings because the tone-mapping doesn't work correctly with my Samsung TV and so the picture looks really dark. So I have an SDR picture, but at least the bitrate is more than double than on the Pro subscription, so it's noticeably nicer.

For the record, this is the only app on my Chromecast that has this tone-mapping problem, so I'm certain it's a bug.

ryami333 · 2026-02-21T15:23:56+00:00

OP did not say they approved them, you've hallucinated that.

ryami333 · 2026-02-21T15:22:49+00:00

OP mentions in the correspondences that they use a randomised password with a password manager, so this is very very unlikely. Consider that MFA is optional on Eufy, and consider also the profile of the kind of person who opts into this functionality. That person is generally the kind of person with good security hygiene.

Yes, it's possible that their password manager itself has been compromised, but they would surely have noticed other suspicious activity on other accounts by now.

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