IT dingus from Germany, in Australia
I just go with the Oral-B Pro line, never had any problems. I had one for I think 20 years and it still works fine but I just bought a new one for myself after moving away.
One thing though: watch which brush heads you’re getting. I bought a bundle with the toothbrush and 4 heads and those heads suuuck; way to few bristles, leaves you feeling like you’re brushing your teeth with a rock.
I like the name Norbert. Old Germanic name meaning “bright north”; really not that common any more unfortunately.
I was always led to believe that rotary engines were unreliable, and that’s why people did engine swaps on RX7s… I have no idea honestly, but as far as I understand they’re just heavy on maintenance
Thank you, that’s very kind of you.
I guess I just don’t have that much of support around me, and now with all the added stress from waiting for my visa I’m just searching for easy options.
This might be controversial to those who downvoted my original comment for some reason, but I don’t really care that much; especially not when I’m depressed and need someone or something to talk to.
I just like talking to Gemini once in a while to sort out all the thoughts in my head and keep me from indulging in lingering depression spikes.
Edit: Well, fuck me I guess
Funnily enough I only relapsed because someone brought me some soda… But I only like a couple of brands that are specific to the German market so I hope it’ll be easier to cut down on sugar permanently once I live in Australia.
I wouldn’t call myself obese either. I prefer cuddly.
I have this issue as well, I drank a lot of soda since I was a kid and when I’m not drinking soda, I drink carbonated water… Managed to take a little break recently but I feel it’s coming back.
My teeth are ok, nothing major. I’m slightly overweight, but that’s more due to the anti-depressant I’m taking.
I think I’d get a Keychron or a Unicomp if I didn’t have my Model M.
The last chapter of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Echoes by Pink Floyd fit together very well, too.
What about all the other flags that use those same colours?
Superbowl is pretty delightful
Hello Games’ new Co-Op game Light No fire and Big Walk by House House.
It seems that Light No Fire is in development hell, unfortunately.
I guess GTA VI, too, but not really.
Wiesmann, or any other small-scale German sports car manufacturer for that matter. It seems like all sports car brands are owned by big conglomerates nowadays, and nearly all of them are pretty boring and generic as a result.
I know that Wiesmann is still around but they’re nothing but a shell of what they once were.
Shoutouts to Roland Gumpert.
100% this.
Another thing that disappeared with Holden and Ford Australia are normal sized utes, nowadays it’s just all gigantic pick-up trucks.
GNU/Linux is an OS Kernel on which many many different operating systems (called distributions) are built.
It’s quite a bit easier to think of Linux as a family of operating systems, though. Are you thinking of getting into using Linux? I would recommend checking out Linux Mint as a beginner friendly distro with a familiar interface.
I’ve bought a Hiby R3 Pro II a while back and it’s amazing. The build quality is top notch, the battery lasts for 20+ hours and it has basically everything one could need; USB-C, Bluetooth with Apt-X and LDAC, a good screen and a balanced output with plenty of power.
Even rudimentary support for Tidal and Qobuz. The only downside is that there’s no storage built-in, but you can use microSD cards up to 2TB.
A dedicated portable audio player with support for high-res files (that’s NOT running Android).
You can’t just doom scroll all day, no one can call you, you won’t get any spam texts or emails on it. It’s just you and your music.
I’d love to try working at a radio station or a record store, just to do something related to music
If it’s a convertible it has its uses I guess considering you can turn it into essentially a big tablet, although I don’t like the keyboard being exposed on the bottom…
If it’s an ordinary laptop I really don’t see the point; among other issues it just feels awful to try and make more or less precise inputs when the screen hinge is actively fighting you by moving the screen back with every touch.
Then there are the smudges. I watch a lot of videos and stuff on my laptop and just can’t stand when the screen is all gunged up, it’s disgusting.