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I quit cold turkey about two years ago. It wasn't enjoyable at all, as I felt dizzy and very unproductive for weeks. I was also suffering from prolonged headaches and slept two hou…

OP mentions they are a coffee drinker, and use caffeine a lot to fight tiredness and brainfog. While the suggested methods to refocus are great, maybe there is some improvement pot…

Most congested stretches of highway in Switzerland use dynamic speed limits based on traffic for that reason. https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/de/home/themen/nationalstra...

If everyone who has been holding bitcoin for years cashed in their balance today, the price would rapidly approach zero. Emperors, clothes, and all.

This has all the devices and dates: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366

The fallacy is that organizations as a whole can only do so many different things efficiently. Capital allocation becomes less efficient if a single hierarchically structured entit…

It might be convenient, but it is also more complex than just being able to read file systems. External disks or partitions containing data in particular will / should always be fu…

Not really? Here is a listing in Germany for 1246 EUR (including VAT), which is not cheap but substantially lower than 1500 EUR: https://www.galaxus.de/de/s1/product/apple-macbook-…

It sounds like these problems are related to their end-user backup solution - can't comment on that as I've never used it. However, when referring to Backblaze, I think most people…

I generally agree with you. I believe it is all about the culture and by extension the systems which have evolved over time to govern the political process. I took objection howeve…

The Swiss are not smarter than others. We just have a system that keeps the misinformation by all parties in a relative equilibrium.

Swiss here. This is true. Buy an expensive watch and want to pay with credit card? We'll need to verify name and address, apologies Sir! Have a bag of cash? No questions asked, hav…

Looks like https://pybricks.com/ is a usable alternative firmware for the Robot Inventor hub.

Use the --no-folding flag to prevent stow from linking directories.

I don't think this is true. There were massive investments into the Ticino regional rail network over the last 10-20 years, partially driven by the NEAT extension, which shortened …

> second class citizen As far as I know, investments in particular in local and regional trains is heavily driven by cantonal investments. For example ZVV (Zürcher Verkehrsverbund)…

That's all correct. In addition, you can get almost the same convencience without purchasing an expensive GA by using the EasyRide feature [1]. No more worrying about buying and ch…

Storagebox is a nice service, but what I really love with Hetzner is their auction of used dedicated servers ("Serverbörse") at https://www.hetzner.com/sb .

My home server runs Nixos, which is an amazing server operating system: every service is configured in code and fully versioned. I also use this server for development (via SSH), b…

Not in Switzerland. Bank accounts and salary information are not accessible to either level of government (communal, cantonal, federal), due to strong privacy legislation and a tra…

There are ways to implement such a scheme in a way that does not increase the overall tax quota, by either reducing other taxes (VAT, income tax) or directly giving back to the peo…

Young people were more likely to vote against the CO2 law than older people [1]. They also are more likely to be affected by increased costs of living and traveling that were propo…

Our last parliamentary election in Fall 2019 led to a sweeping victory of green parties [1], as the summer 2019 was extremely dry and hot. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sw…

I deliberately bought quite a limited but good sounding 4W tube amp for bedroom practice (Vox AC4). Having only a handful of easily understood knobs allow me to focus on my playing…