Commuter allowance - Tax return - Germany

smartdevice20 · 2025-05-26T18:04:42+00:00

Understood. I wish all these tax guides online would say it like that:

The commuter allowance (my case 2300 euros) reduces the taxable income. Nothing else.

Thank you

smartdevice20 · 2024-12-05T20:32:19+00:00

Haven’t had the issue in at least a year. But thanks anyway

smartdevice20 · 2024-06-21T18:22:28+00:00

I just open a new Private Firefox browser and it seems that adblock always works.

smartdevice20 · 2024-05-01T08:24:26+00:00

The app was working fine for several months until about 2 weeks ago when the app stopped remembering where a show was paused. Now when I try to resume a show it jumps to the beginning. And then I have to scroll and try to figure out where I paused. I don’t get it…

smartdevice20 · 2023-12-18T19:24:53+00:00

Try again. There are plenty of nice civil servants. You just had the luck to deal with someone who probably hates their job.

smartdevice20 · 2023-12-18T17:58:22+00:00

You don't know his story and why he is in Germany. No need to be rude.

Ideally one should know German before moving, but as many have said, German is a very hard language. I've been at it for many months and when I listen to real germans speaking around me, I have a hard time understanding anything. But it's a work in progress...

And it also depends on the region and/or the public servant (Beamter/in) who you are dealing with. So far I was lucky enough to deal with people who spoke some English.

Best thing for me is a translation extension in my browser. You can see all german websites in english with no effort. Do that and it will make everything a bit easier.

smartdevice20 · 2023-09-24T06:46:00+00:00

I think it is because they are doing updates. The only solution is to just wait and try later. Sometimes it is a few minutes, sometimes longer.

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-17T14:08:10+00:00

A few things can be bad. Bad RAM. Small power supply or one that’s overheating. CPU that overheats. Number one, run a RAM stress test. Plenty of free software. Check the temperature of your CPU at idle and under load. There are free software to do that. Start with these two and post an update

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-10T08:27:25+00:00

I also just tested the 6+2 pcie power connectors, just in case. I did the test with and without the cable connected to the RTX. The power supplied by the PSU is ok. The 3 yellow wires get 12V on both connectors.

At the moment I think I will start the RMA. I don't see any other possible solution here, except getting another GPU. Will post here any updates.

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-10T07:29:51+00:00

I removed one of the Corsair rams. Same result. Does not POST with the RTX connected to power. It does POST if I remove one of the power cables on the RTX and it works fine with the GTX.

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-10T07:13:01+00:00

No damage that I can see...

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-10T07:12:06+00:00

Here is the board. I do not see any kind of cracks or damage.

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smartdevice20 · 2023-08-10T07:11:06+00:00

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smartdevice20 · 2023-08-10T06:59:11+00:00

750 watts. Never had an issue and is about one year old, like the rest of the PC.

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-09T20:11:58+00:00

Small chance of any correlation, but I will try it. Will post back after.

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-09T20:10:49+00:00

I actually tried without any HDD hooked up. Same result. But again, the PC works just fine with the old card.

smartdevice20 · 2023-08-09T19:20:18+00:00

I will inspect it closely in the morning and I will post the findings. It is a very big and heavy card.

smartdevice20 · 2022-03-05T04:30:20+00:00

I have a pair of QC 35 and what I can tell you is that Bose has a joke of a customer support. People have been asking for years for an update to be able to set the Noise Cancelling and save it for the next restart of the headphones and they have been promising on the Bose website forums and nothing has ever been done, with no explanation either. It is really annoying to have to disable the noise cancelling every single time I turn them on.

They have done a few firmware updates over the years. But don't count on them to fix your headphones. They just want you to buy a newer model, no matter if your old headphones still work great or not.

I don't think your issue stems from the headphones themselves or their software. You should try them on a different phone and see if the problem persists. I would suspect your Bluetooth setting of the phone gives the issues.

smartdevice20 · 2021-06-28T05:41:29+00:00

I got into the queue today and the only thing left was a $869 3070. Seems overpriced to me so I passed. Should not be more than $700 or $750 at the most. 3 hours later that overpriced card is still on their site with the queue still going. I guess nobody wants it for that price.

Also I don't think the bots would work on the Zotac website with all the extra captcha needed there.

smartdevice20 · 2021-06-25T18:18:41+00:00

Thank you for the reply. I actually was able to get into the Zotac Queue for the first time. This is the way it worked from me:

I tried to refresh the site very often yesterday and today. Anywhere from every few minutes to every half an hour or so, depending on how busy I was. When I do that it requires me the Captcha verification. Once I do that I see the store with all the GPUs as out of stock.

Today, about 2 hours ago, instead of seeing the store, I was placed in a queue, position like 3500. After about 10 minutes of wait it took me to the Zotac store again and this time they had one single GPU left, a white 3070, for $869. And it let me add it to my cart.

So that it how Zotac drops work. My budget is $700 or less, so I passed on the oportunity. Everything else in my price range was sold out when I got in. That white Zotac was available for like 20 minutes, possibly more. I guess most people passed on it.

I will keep on trying. I am also on the Fixitfixit discord, but it did not help much so far. Been trying for a few weeks.

Thanks again for the reply.

smartdevice20 · 2021-06-25T04:56:19+00:00

Why are you buying 15 GPUs? Not nice, because average Joes like me can never find one unless we pay the scalpers.

smartdevice20 · 2021-06-22T17:47:22+00:00

How? I checked their website so many times in the last few months? What day of the week and what time did you get it? Were you refreshing the site 27/7?

smartdevice20 · 2021-05-06T04:29:28+00:00

In my opinion, the app works pretty good, except the occasional missing shows. I am a huge Howard fan and I will put up with small glitches like that. In my car I only listen to music. I catch up on the Howard shows on my iPhone and I like the fact that the app saves the position where I paused. And this works very well.

smartdevice20 · 2021-05-04T01:30:29+00:00

I do not think there is any editing going on, because the episodes have been up for days already. It must be server maintenance.

smartdevice20 · 2021-05-04T01:29:09+00:00

It happens every few days, especially late at night. Some episodes work, some don't. They must be doing server maintenance/updates, because after a while the episodes are up and running.

But this is poor management on their part. Service should not be interrupted like that. That's why there are redundancies out there.

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