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A comparison to eat would be interesting - as it does not have external dependencies I generally use that, but there are a few things where it reaches its limits.

I missed that she had that with her - that makes things even worse. Either he's a weapons grade moron, or he planned that trip to kill her.

Helicopter rescue is a few thousand euros - and unless you have an insurance for that you have to pay that by yourself.

No idea if that was the case here - but it'd not be the first time that somebody refused rescue because of the cost.

Don't go into the alps without experience - and make sure you have proper insurance. If you're a member of the Alpenverein (as I am) you'd be covered - but probably also gained enough experience to not get stuck in such an entirely avoidable situation anyway.

This is a quite important discussion - the last years have seen an increase of cases where people needed to be rescued from situations they should not have gotten themselves in.

That includes school groups where teachers didn't bother to prepare, and people without experience following influencers route suggestions. I guess next step would be checking liability for those as well.

Properly equipped with a bivy bag that situation might have been survivable.

My emacs installs Arch linux. Sometimes.

Unfortunately some of the humour got lost in translation. For "been brought down to size" the police used the phrase "zur Schnecke gemacht", which literally would translate to "made a slug".

It depends a bit on your needs. I've upgraded mine mainly due to space concerns - it is quite a bit smaller than the mk4s with enclosure. As a positive side effect I can now print large PC models without warping - something that never worked properly even in an enclosed mk4s, probably due to the larger enclosure volume.

Crazy part is that Mercedes makes pretty good EVs - unlike some of the other German manufacturers which struggled a bit, and even though they seem to have the main platform worked out by now still have shitty software. Mercedes software is usable and rock solid - which I didn't expect when we were buying one last year.

In the area I'm living in here in Finland EV Mercedes seems to be the most popular choice currently - the number of EVs is rising very fast, with pretty much all brands present, but a clear majority is Mercedes.

Yes, but: Brake dust is significantly more likely to become airborne than tire dust, and is significantly more toxic than tire dust - and might be the most toxic thing your car is spreading.

Like always in 3D printing you need to understand if something is worth printing. There are enough toys that work as 3D print, and enough stuff that either will not survive the load, or not be played with (like those figurines). For those categories (especially the figurines) commercial ones might have the same fate, though, so just printing one to shut the child up may have smaller footprint/costs.

A small list of toys that work very well 3D printed:

This propeller pull toy last longer than the commercial ones with pull string.

This stomp rocket also works great, and if the kids listen to instructions will last ages.

This kind of logic game has similar durability than commercial ones.

This kind of balloon toy also is pretty nice - we used to build those from wood when I was small, but 3D-printing here offers quite a bit more options for experimentation together with the kids. (The author has different models in his profile)

From that there's pretty much a direct line to 3D printed RC models, where the main problem is that many are in the classic model builder mindset where you have to live with the parts you can buy, and due to that end up with a BOM containing dozens of different screw types. This one is an easy to build example not making that mistake, and there are some others as well.

It's the legal situation in the US - and the reason why people familiar with the topic have been upset about the EU data sharing exemptions and similar stuff for over a decade now. It's also really frustrating to keep explaining customers that the way they're planning to use cloud stuff violates local data protection laws (even before GDPR), only for them to ignore it and do it anyway. We need way better education for people in charge of that kind of projects - and way higher penalties for violations, including the ability to fine organizations before they lose data when they store protected data in a way US government can get access to.

The only way a Microsoft cloud (or any cloud service from a US company) in the EU can work is if that company doesn't have access to the European systems - both on hardware level and system level.

Microsoft attempted to do just that by having a German cloud managed by T-Systems - but gave up on that already years ago

Not really a new thing - searching for and playing with security cameras has been light entertainment for about two decades now.

For an equally long period it has been clear that if you connect an IP camera or similar device you're a pretty big moron if you don't isolate it from both your internal network and the internet, and only provide controlled access - no matter the manufacturer, non-Chinese ones are not really better in how horrible their software is. Unfortunately most large IT systems are run by absolute morons.