If the scale would not be consistent, the results is actual worse. The whole political spectrum is moving towards the right. Traditional left wing parties here in Germany doing right wing stuff is getting normal.

And I don’t see any left party in the U.K. or U.S. parliaments.

I am with you regarding the big ones. But what about smaller media outlets and journalists to try to make a living on their own ? We need them. More then the big ones. Then the solution is to just ignore all the big ones and read the smaller ones. With ads or paying for it.

I was talking about paywall removers not adblockers in that sentence

We didn’t care. We were the hosting provider nor the news outlets. But we had close contact to our customers. And a lot of the smaller customers had a hard time to even survive. The primary source of income was print until paywals came around. Some customers never had print and had to close down with the surge of ad blockers

That is true and false. Adblock plus takes money for the acceptable afs program, yes. But there are clear guidelines about the ads. Containing criteria for privacy, size in relation to content and more.

I work in IT for 20 years now. Half this time my salary was paid for by ads:

My company hosted big german news outlets. All money they made online was from ads.

More adblockers meant less income so their required more ads just to come out without losing money.

ABP tried to break this cycle.

Now we are having paywals, and paywal breakers. And at this point this is outright stealing.

If adblockers would allow ads that adhere to the acceptable ads criteria, the world would be a better place. Less paywals, less ads and maybe some companies would pay their employees a little bit more.

You have to unlock the box with the company charging card. And all charging costs are paid by the employer. So only the company car is allowed. The whole behavior of the payment partner is just bullshit at this point.

Yeap, still wrong … i will fix this later if i have some time to do it on PC …

In theory yes. We are lacking the wallbox for now. We moved just a few month back, and while there is a solution to get the energy paid if I charge at home, I would have to buy a wallbox for way to much money from the payment provider we use for charging. There I would pay around 5k€ for a 22kW wallbox. And this box can not be used for other cars.

But: My gf ordered her Cubra Born some weeks back. And a wallbox for ~1000 with it.

I can see the prices my employer pays for my charging. On the most expensive chargers, the costs would be roughly the same as for a Diesel. On some reasonable priced chargers it gets way cheaper.

But keep in mind that we have extremely high gas prices compared to the US. We tax our diesel and gasoline with a “steering tax”, as the lawmakers want citizens to save on gas, and reduce CO2 emissions.

If I would charge at home, we could get a second contract with our electricity company, with about half the usual price per kWh for charging only.

That’s perfectly fine. My employer has a form to fill out, and that is only required for insurance. It is common here that your spouse may drive your company car (at least in my field of work)

Damn, I indeed fucked that one ip. kWh/km is the correct unit and I somehow did this error constantly:(

EDIT: Of course, kWh/100km

Both. I am in IT. While I have to travel some times in my position, I am allowed to use the car for personal matters, including all benefits like free charging everywhere.

I got an i5 by my employer. And BMW has their horses together. The car is well designed, the features are impressive, and while not matketed as an autopilot, the driving assistant is far more robust then Tesla can deliver.

And their are buttons! Not just an oversized tablet strapped with some ducktape into the car.

The biggest difference for me is: while BMW made sure that you are not distracted while driving (head up display, voice assistant, gesture control for entertainment,…) Tesla does not care if you have to navigate deep inside a touchscreen menu to change the speed of your fucking front shield wipers…

We are using relativ old Hardware, old thinkpads. They would not be able to run Windows 10 or 11 bare metal ;)

This does not help with Ruida Controllers and fiber Lasers. Both things I have at my company and we don’t have any Windows System.

That is such a shame. And since we need to talk over usb, wine will not work either 😞

If you are by any chance some day near Zweibrücken/Landstuhl/Pirmasens give us a message and maybe we will grant you some time with our machines and stuff ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That is fine. We are as a matter of fact polyamorous and both bi. So, feelings free to join

I was a DBA for over 10 years. Postgresql is superior to mssql in most ways. Especially replication.

But that does not mean that mssql is bad. MySQL is, oracle is.

And this is on purpose. The manufacturers pushing those huge trucks and SUV, because the required security and safety standards are lower.

Glad I am not living in the USA

I get your point. But to be fair: for landlords where massive subventions in place. This program ended amd was not renewed because of lack of interest.

But at least for new buildings, a policy to force charging stations at every parking lot would be a good idea

I totally forgot one essential fact: the reason for DNS over HTTPS itself was perfectly valid: ISP’s in the US are using DNS lookups of their customers for advertising. The idea is to prevent this kind of privacy breach. And it is very effective against it.

Just rye ideological driven implementation was bs