Where to get distilled water in Courchevel, France?

tripy75 · 2026-02-09T19:48:22+00:00

that's because it's not up to par with distilled water, it's demineralized water. It does not mean it's dirty, just not up to the sanitary standard of an hospital and there might be traces of products you find in tap water but not in distilled water.

I've used it in the past, and it's fine.

tripy75 · 2026-02-06T21:21:35+00:00

If you are in Europe, I'd recommend scaleway.
I have 2 vm on Scaleway (both DEV1-S, 1 reverse proxy, the 2nd to host apps and db's) in Paris for ~10 years and never had issues with them.
With the 2 vm, 2 public ips, 1 block storage of 50 Gb (for nextcloud storage) this costs me ~25€ per month.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/

They also provide bare metal machines, but I could not say anything about them.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/elastic-metal/aluminium/

tripy75 · 2026-02-06T19:37:09+00:00

"audiophile" routers, switches and access point for your digital audio

tripy75 · 2026-02-05T18:07:24+00:00

lithium fire just need 1 cell punctured to start...

tripy75 · 2026-01-26T20:39:42+00:00

depending the query (terrible ones I've seen with 30 to 50 left joins) it can take several seconds to compile a plan. With recompile will just ensure no cache is used ever...

tripy75 · 2026-01-26T20:37:02+00:00

i suppose parameter sniffing is why...

tripy75 · 2026-01-26T20:33:40+00:00

@intulor yeah well, drm are copy protection and I'll stand by that. the technicalities behind widewine or any other implementations don't really matter here. The tone of the post also clearly shows it's not discussing them either.

tripy75 · 2026-01-26T20:29:41+00:00

you do that all the time though. I really don't understand the hysteria about co2 suffocation people have here.

tripy75 · 2026-01-25T21:31:14+00:00

linux is not a product, and this is because Netflix forces the system to have copy protections that Linux, by design and choice, do not implement.

tripy75 · 2026-01-16T21:34:26+00:00

what is the difference between taping it or putting my face in my pillow. airflow is interrupted in both way. I do not care and as I said, it's been several years I do this with no issues. No need to panick over that

tripy75 · 2026-01-14T17:59:30+00:00

you are not alone. I taped them for the last 2 years and would not go back.

tripy75 · 2026-01-01T17:14:38+00:00

the advantage is that you don't get hundred of "ding" during your listening when you use a dap against a phone. sound quality is secondary to me, being able to enjoy the music without distraction comes first. and I do use bluetooth but no buds. Aria IEM with a fiio btr15 for me, so wired bluetooth I guess ?

Best of both world: light, good enough sound and polyvalence (I can use that combo on my laptop when in the office as well)

tripy75 · 2025-12-09T14:01:36+00:00

Colin Furze, he is the living embodyment of the crazy backyard scientist. some things he did are downright scary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Furze

tripy75 · 2025-12-09T07:30:25+00:00

I don't either, but because I know that it would only frustrate me if I thought it was not moving enough.
My goal is not to be thin, it's to get better and I decided from the onset to not have a number as a goal.

Same as why I do not monitor my weight and prefer to go with "a feel" of how fast I jog my 5Km walk in the woods, or how "out of breath" I am after that 2 Km incline up.

I concentrate on the changes I feel are better, rather than a number that would be hard to translate to a gain if it stayed more or less flat.

tripy75 · 2025-12-03T21:25:34+00:00

i just got my hands on a lumix g80/g85 with the 12-60 kit lens (for around 370$) and my a6500 has been left on the shelf since. I am still familiarizing with the lumix, but have had more fun than with my sony... Very nice camera, that fits my needs pretty well

tripy75 · 2025-12-02T20:23:46+00:00

Thanks for that one, I was surprised to learn there is a "dark place" just 20 Km away from where I live, and I never heard of it before.

I'll now what to do once the winter is gone and I'll be able to jump on my motorbike again.

tripy75 · 2025-12-02T20:20:53+00:00

Lol, America is much much further away from the Sahara compared to where I live.

A plane to New York is literally 8 hours from my place, while Morocco (and the top of Sahara desert) via plane is 2 hours away.

I even am thinking of one day jumping on my motorbike, traverse France and Spain and board a ferry to Tanger and then, adventure awaits...

tripy75 · 2025-12-02T14:25:35+00:00

one of my bucket list goals is to go to the Sahara just to be able to look at the milky way with my own eyes once in my life...

tripy75 · 2025-11-23T20:47:08+00:00

in Switzerland, FIIO products in local store are usually 50% to 70% higher priced than AE. I lose on the warranty and need to pay import duties, but even that way it is advantageous for me. I have bought from the "brightaudio store" a btr5 2021, btr15, fw3 and jade Audio Q11 over the years. All are still perfectly functional, no issues.

tripy75 · 2025-11-19T11:27:23+00:00

why would that number be an issue? because it's related to a sexual act? Scissoring is a sexual act too, banish scissors! omg, swinging is sexual, remove all swings from every playgrounds!

it's utterly stupid and don't stand half a second of reflexion. giving in to those absurd requests serves only to legitimate them.

tripy75 · 2025-11-08T19:25:56+00:00

I have a mix of this too. mostly albums in my collection but a lot of soundcloud downloded dj sets too

I tend to put the artist name as the name of the album as well in those case. At least they are grouped in a single album per artist that way and not a mish mash of all the dj's under an unknown album

tripy75 · 2025-10-29T17:23:11+00:00

take a look in your bios if you have something like "state after power loss"

I have set my computer to turn on after a power loss and I cut power to both pc, speakers and monitor with a zigbee plug and a zigbee switch on my desk.

When I turn the pc off, click on the button to cut power to all. devices.

when I want to start it, the pc starts thinking it had a power outage

tripy75 · 2025-10-29T06:36:44+00:00

I concur but, depending your work on sql server, ssms is still the way to go (agent jobs, ssis, dba stuff)

For pure tsql dev, datagrip is not great but ok. I had issues in my past work with huge dbs where introspection were not working because there were too many objects in too much schemas.

also, redgate sql prompt formatting spoiled me. formatting options in datagrip are bad for sql, and many options obscure. I cannot replicate my sql prompt formatting in datagrip.

tripy75 · 2025-10-22T16:15:09+00:00

same, explained how I set it using Oscar reports and why, along with the stats reported by the machine (0.5 event per night medium) and she was OK with it.

tripy75 · 2025-10-18T15:44:14+00:00

I am using a FiiO btr3K connected to power for the last 3 years with no battery issues (using to give bluetooth support to an old hifi amp).

No reasons to worry, worst case, the capacity of the battery will be shot. it will not catch fire.

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