Äh, das ist der Nulleiter. Phase ist links.

Kein Artikel über Klempner erwähnt, dass die fast immer Blaumann tragen. Ich mein, Burschenschaft, rechts, das ist doch synonym.

Und kaum 60 Jahre später sollen die Leute schon wieder umdenken, das ist ja schon auch viel an Herausforderung.

The point is: With OnShape, I'm able to wing it. Scan something, load the STL, define a few planes throughout the whole thing, freehand a few lines, extrude, offset here and there for clearance, print, forget. With FreeCAD I need to do it correctly and, as I just need a physical thing, I just don't have the patience to find out what correctly would mean.

In my experience I have two possible decision paths: Do something using a commercial solution, OnShape in my case or try to do something using FreeCAD, get nowhere, look up tutorials, get somewhere but nowhere near what I need, give up, everything collects dust in the corner.

I get the free software idea and spirit, but I'd rather actually be able to just draw and print things I need. Between work, having a house, friends, voluntary firefighting, building automation for tasks in our little village and everything else the day only has about 24 hours and I can't just cut sleep anymore as I did in my twenties.

Netflix enshittified their service over time for Linux users. So they reduced their service while increasing prices and thus I enshittified my payments by stopping them.

Yes. If it were just that, I'd be fine with it. But on top of paying them, every streaming service has their own app, website, whatever structure and I lose the priviledge of having my own digital library with my own search function integrated into my home automation and if we see that as a luxury, alright, then they're giving me 720p maximum because my computer doesn't match whatever they want me to buy and use for consuming their offers.

Piracy is a convenience problem, not a money problem.

Nix macht Geldwäsche einfacher als Kunst.

Primary source: https://www.cinia.fi/en/news/a-fault-in-the-cinia-c-lion1-submarine-cable-between-finland-and-germany

(does anyone feel like those AI generated cover images are physically unpleasant? I've got a mild form of ADHS and I read texts and articles by jumping around a lot, recognizing patterns and forming an idea what the whole thing is about. These nonsencical drawings break that and it feels, well, that, unpleasant)

Ein großer Magnet kann helfen

Macht Sinn, wenn die Leute nicht mehr vom Parkplatz fahren können müssen sie ja wohl oder übel Zeit da verbringen.

Don't confuse honest technical motivations with "technical motivations" here. Starting new projects to grab EU funding is a lot more profitable for the individual companies that get to take part in them. Especially when failure is an option in the end.

I'm not saying that's the case, but I have experienced one or two EU funded project here and there that didn't really make efforts to make the jump into a market viable product in the end.

THERE IS NO GODDAMN PETROL ENGINE BAN.

There is a ban on engines though that can't run without creating additional CO2 emissions from 2035 though. Tough luck for fossil engines in their current configurations, but not unsolvable for the very special applications where they'll still be needed.