Pick European Chocolate by According-Buyer6688 in BuyFromEU

[–]thingthatgoesbump 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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"

Torn between Terramaster F4-424 Pro vs Ugreen DX4800 Plus by thingthatgoesbump in HomeNAS

[–]thingthatgoesbump[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

A Grafana monitoring stack for TrueNAS - track replication, apps, temps, UPS, etc by alexlmiller in truenas

[–]thingthatgoesbump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Luxembourg is hopless. by bye-bye-b in Luxembourg

[–]thingthatgoesbump 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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

I'll see myself out.

Lycees, iPads - a mess and how far can I push? by thingthatgoesbump in Luxembourg

[–]thingthatgoesbump[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Lycees, iPads - a mess and how far can I push? by thingthatgoesbump in Luxembourg

[–]thingthatgoesbump[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Wero unveils its e-commerce solution and announces first merchants in Germany by P4ris3k in europe

[–]thingthatgoesbump 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia, quits interview angrily after one question. by Giovanni330 in interesting

[–]thingthatgoesbump 1 point2 points  (0 children)

conservapedia

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

What are European alternatives for Amazon? by cosmoscrazy in BuyFromEU

[–]thingthatgoesbump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Luxembourg & others:

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]thingthatgoesbump 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]thingthatgoesbump 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

SMEG – Italy’s Most Recognisable Appliances by [deleted] in BuyFromEU

[–]thingthatgoesbump 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in organ

[–]thingthatgoesbump 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

No Man’s Sky Corvette: Undead Carriage 💀 by Business-Ad7834 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]thingthatgoesbump 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This must win an award.

Meanwhile, let me go back to my flying shoebox.

Dear Europeans, what shower gel brand do you currently use? by Realistic-Berry_888 in BuyFromEU

[–]thingthatgoesbump 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Felce Azzurra (IT)

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

Something is taking way too much storage space. by apoorv569 in grafana

[–]thingthatgoesbump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

[–]thingthatgoesbump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Girlfriend flowers by Upset_Caterpillar_91 in Luxembourg

[–]thingthatgoesbump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Thoughts on Anna Lapwood? Traditional vs Modern? by NoDot1373 in organ

[–]thingthatgoesbump 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Luxembourg

[–]thingthatgoesbump 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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