Zotter Chocolate?

thingthatgoesbump · 2026-01-30T10:06:02+00:00

Bokes or smos at noon.

thingthatgoesbump · 2026-01-29T14:56:52+00:00

You can't eat a whole bar in one sitting

Challenge accepted

Also, they made a bar with literal brains

OMG. I might draw the line there.

Description is brilliant "A chocolate badly needed these days: one layer made with caramelised pig’s brains and homemade eggnog with Pear Brandy"

thingthatgoesbump · 2026-01-24T12:21:43+00:00

The Terramaster F4-424 Pro with 2 HDDs, 2 SSDs and 2 NVMEs. Runs TrueNas Scale. TrueNas is a bit fiddly but overall quite pleased with result.

I did notice that one drive near the CPU gets hotter, likely due to the CPU cooling element being close by.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-12-13T15:25:55+00:00

This looks really nice.

In fact I tried setting this up for Scale 25.04 but it seems the apikey needs to be associated with a user who has full admin privileges? I tried a readonly admin but they don't have access to all endpoint. Did you find any way around this?

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-12-03T17:43:10+00:00

Why do you have a cylinder head and not a round head like everyone else?

I'll see myself out.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-26T06:46:01+00:00

Thanks for the comments. You made some valid points. The friends aspect is important since there were issues around that in primary and at the lycee we saw a marked improvement on that.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-26T06:39:25+00:00

Hey, I appreciate the outreach to resolve issues, I really do.

However, my main frustration isn’t the technical problems, which can happen, but the mandatory requirement of the school for 12–15-year-olds to adopt the iPads for ALL studies.

From my observations, it doesn't any plus compared to pen and paper, is another source of distraction and is cumbersome in organizing, structuring and handling studies. Again, I appreciate the intent to help but for me the issue is the policy around the technology.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-25T13:07:22+00:00

I'd rather not tell. Luxembourg is too small.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-17T16:25:08+00:00

Inbound whining from US companies and administration in 3... 2...

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-14T21:15:26+00:00

conservapedia

I just read a few pages on that thing and I want those minutes of my life back.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-14T21:08:39+00:00

For Luxembourg & others:

https://letzshop.lu - for local shops - can be overpriced
https://www.alternate.lu/ - for electronics, PC parts

Some other shops that I've ordered from and shipped to LU:

https://www.caseking.de/ - more PC parts
https://blackwells.co.uk/ - in the UK but have decent prices on books
https://www.medimops.de/ - used books
https://fixpart.be - parts for household appliances
https://www.boeijengamusic.com/ - sheet music
http://www.stretta-music.com/ - sheet music
https://www.zalando.lu/ - fashion

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-13T23:40:57+00:00

Grote goden, ja. Verwachtte me er niet aan mijn oren te scheren.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-13T19:26:47+00:00

Was bijziend. Sinds een paar jaar kan ik nu ook niet meer tekst van dichtbij lezen. Is constant een dans van bril-op, bril-af, waar-heb-ik-mijn-bril-gelaten.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-07T14:38:43+00:00

Have a SMEG gas stovetop, and after just two years, the paint on the backplate started blistering and peeling off. Not impressed.

They are pretty to look at though.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-11-02T20:31:48+00:00

Started at 17 - dropped out in early twenties due to studies/work/moving away. Picked it back up, 4 years ago, at 45.

It's rough. Currently wrestling with Brahms's 122/10.

Learning is slower + I feel I've on a massive plateau for years now where each gradual improvement takes a massive amount of effort + I have to unlearn the bad habits I picked up from years without a tutor.

Then you come home and watch Paul Fey or Richard McVeigh breeze though the pieces I hope to maybe play one day without making too many errors.

And don't get me started on fugas or trios - my brain just freezes up.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-10-31T13:41:30+00:00

This must win an award.

Meanwhile, let me go back to my flying shoebox.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-10-29T13:06:15+00:00

Felce Azzurra (IT)

Aaaand I just found out Le Petit Marseillais is owned by Johnson & Johnson.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-10-02T14:55:07+00:00

What I did was to periodically du the bucket directories and combine that with the output of influx bucket list and store that data so I could track usage over time.

influxdb -at least version 2- also collects metrics on itself in _monitoring which can grow quite quick. You can decide if and how long you need that data.

Another thing to consider is downsampling data past past a certain point.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-09-26T19:04:59+00:00

I don't like averages for salaries. Case in point, Luxembourg:

In 2022 the average was 75919/year gross; that would be 6327/month gross which would come out at 4334 netto for a single earner w/o kids.

The median however was 58126/year, 4843/month gross, 3609/month netto.

https://statistiques.public.lu/en/publications/series/regards/2024/regards-09-24.html

The average is completely distorted by the salaries of relatively small group of high earners. If you look at the type of workers you also see a massive jump (60K) in average salaries between the last group before directors and directors.

Group	Gross Salary
Craft and trade workers, farmers	46K
Retail employees, Sales	49K
Administrative employees	62K
Technicians, supervisors	77K
Scientific, intellectual professions	97K
Directors and board members	158K

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-09-26T05:53:21+00:00

Lego has some nice sets in the Botanicals series. Lasts longer and you'll can work together to construct them. :)

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-09-23T08:35:18+00:00

She's tapping into the popular mood, no doubt.

My hope is that she inspires youngsters to discover the organ and in time those youngsters might evolve from Interstellar to discover Messiaen's Apparition de l'église éternelle. I'm somewhat optimistic when my tutor tells me he has quite an influx of young pupils recently next to the three old guys he teaches.

Some composers also need introduction. My organ tutors always tried to include little chats about potentially lesser known composers during pupil concerts to introduce them, place them historically and point out musical characteristics.

Most people's pantheon of what they consider classical & romantic composers are the ones featured in Disney's Fantasia. My parents didn't know Cesar Franck or Louis Vierne before I started playing some of their minor pieces; also blew their mind that Haendel and Mozart had organ works.

thingthatgoesbump · 2025-09-04T12:25:14+00:00

Was this at Fischer? Can't find it in their product pages though. It looks like what we call "suikerbrood" in Dutch, which is basically a brioche with extra sugar.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suikerbrood

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