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  I know I'm repeating myself, but creating a connector that wears down quickly and where the plug then keeps falling out was a mistake only exceeded by making that same connector the default for charging... Well, everything.

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  Man findet tausende Aktenvernichter, die mit automatischem Einzelblatteinzug Dokumente in einzelne Atome zerlegen, aber keinen einzigen, bei dem ersichtlich ist, dass man damit zuverlässig größere Mengen Karton in höchstens Handflächengroße Stücke zerlegen kann. Bin ich der einzige Mensch auf dieser Welt, der regelmäßig Kartons in gemeinsam genutzten Tonnen entsorgen muss?

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  (Ehemalige) Studenten langweilen dich mit Geschichten über Spaghetti aus der Kaffeemaschine? Servier ihnen ein Glas Tomatensuppe* aus dem Milchaufschäumer! * Getestet mit "Heiße Tasse" Instant-Tomatensuppe. Ergebnis kann je nach Produkt (und Milchaufschäumer) variieren. Der Autor übernimmt keine Haftung für Sachschäden oder Verletzungen... Oder irgendetwas Anderes.

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  Two important lessons you learn as a programmer: 1. Decisions grow on trees, and if you ignore any branch, somebody is almost guaranteed to end up regretting it. 2. Customers, project managers etc. are completely ignorant of the fact that decisions grow on trees.

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  A friend has bought a house and needs to do some electricity planning - the old wires weren't worth saving, so he already removed them. Does anybody have a recommendation for software to plan this kind of thing - hopefully something beginner friendly, since he'll only be doing this once? Boosts are welcome.

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  There are some really strange moments in video games. Like the moment you realize that the only beds in the entire town are the ones in the inn you're staying at. Or the moment you realize that there are, at least as far as I can remember, exactly two places with toilets in the entirety of the Final Fantasy 7 world. I mean, it's obviously not like all those other game worlds where people don't need toilets at all, so... Why so few?

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  "Mister God, This Is Anna" might just be the strangest book I know. For one thing, I've read it at least once a year since I first found a copy in my school library when I was fifteen or sixteen. It was the first book I deliberately bought in English, by the way, since I tried reading the German translation once, and I find written German dialects to be atrocious. A horrible crime against every single letter in the alphabet.

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  Could somebody please tell me why, in 2026, the "accepted" answer to "why the heck doesn't the ssh agent just start automatically" is still "just add this dodgy eval snippet to your bash profile"???

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  So... I'm using Duolingo to learn Japanese. Dubious life choices aside, those of you who use it probably know it has pronunciation lessons with dodgy voice recognition. I currently have a slight cold, and my voice sounds about half an octave higher and rather nasal. My "accuracy" in those exercises is about 25% higher than usual. Not sure whether I should report this as discrimination against myself or against the Japanese.

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  This might be a subjective thing, but living in a village makes looking out for each other not only easier, but feel more natural. The old woman two houses over, whose doorbell you rang at least once a week as a small kid because you or your sister accidentally kicked a ball into her garden, falls and struggles to get up? Of course you want to help! And luckily, while her daughter (across the street) isn't there, her granddaughter (another house further) is.