Ein gutes politisches demokratisches System pendelt nunmal hin und her. Ob man jetzt die linke Seite oder rechte Seite besser findet, ist egal.

Ist aber lustig - ich habe mich früher eher mit rechts identifiziert, obwohl ich mit der SVP an sich nichts anfangen konnte - aber heutzutage habe ich oft mehr linke Anschauungen, auch wenn ich mit den linken Parteien auch nichts anfangen kann.

Yup. The mentality is great. ‘you get a line - a 1 or 10gbit line costs us the same once it’s set up, so you pay the same price’

Thing is, yes. Yallo or wingo or all those providers are “cheaper”. But - for example in the case of yallo, you get double-natted - which means you could not really set up a home server accessible from the outside world even if you wanted to. Then, there’s also the support of wingo and yallo and so on which is… Terrible. I actually ordered yallo Internet at first because I got sold on it over the phone - the next day, before anything got shipped or anything, I wanted to annul my contract because, well, I found out about their shitty stuff. I was redirected like 8 Times across 8 levels of ‘support’ until I got it through.

I went for init7. Day it was supposed to go up, it didn’t. Phone support was competent, said everything looked ok from their end. If I was sure the problem wasn’t on my end (router, settings, fiber), they could send a technician along the next day - but if the problem would end up being on my side, I’d have to pay for it. As I was sure about what I was doing, the next morning I had a competent technician in my apartment who within 20 minutes total identified the issue and fixed it (broken fiber in the distribution center). That is good support.

I am willing to pay more to support init7, because they’re doing great work.

But yes, we have lots of low cost options. For example, I pay 23 bucks a month with yallo for unlimited 5g data, calls and SMS across the whole of Europe.

I mean, I can get symmetrical 25gbit/s for 777 bucks a year IN Switzerland. No limits, big ipv6 subnet, great provider. Init7.

Care to enlighten us?

I use vscode because I do a lot of embedded.

Used to be that you had to jump through some hoops to make it work - make your own makefiles and stuff. Now, all the major vendors of MCUs are starting to develop vscode plugins as their “IDE” instead of those horrible ultramodified eclipse installs.

Aus gutem gewissen musst du das auch nicht. Wenn du denkst, dass da in der Wohnung des Nachbars was brennt, du die Feuerwehr rufst, und es doch nur der Nachbar war der sein Essen verbrennt hat, musst du nicht zahlen. Wenn du aber extra den Nachbarn nerven willst und einfach mal sagst dass sein ganzes Haus lichterloh am brennen sei, wirst du dafür belangt.

For me it’s stfu

… I’m sorry to say that was a joke, because well, capacitors like to go boom (MLCCs as in here not so much, but still).

What I do know though is that these MLCCs often dramatically change their actual capacitance with temperature, so maybe this is a sort of “temperature isolation” to keep the capacitor more stable? Honestly, no idea though.

That’s an airburst capacitor!

You know. I’m Swiss, so a lot of this inflation is very evident to me.

In 2022, 1 CHF was around 0.8GBP. Now, in 2023, 1 CHF is around 0.9GBP.

Guess what, that 8% pay rise was lower than inflation. 8% on top of 0.8 is only 0.864.

Without any more pay in Switzerland, I got an effective raise higher than these ‘great’ 8% in GB

You can even get 25gbps symmetrical - for the same price. They just charge 333 chf to set up instead of 111 for 10gbps, because the optics are more expensive.

I love their policy. ‘providing you with 25gbps or 10gbps or 1gbps costs us the same. So we’ll provide the max that we can, as long as you pay for the optics’ - all for a single price. No stupid speed tiering. They also have open peering - my ping is phenomenally low to most things.

I get 10gbit/s symmetrical dedicated for 777 chf / year through init7. It’s an absolutely terrific option in Switzerland by an absolutely terrific provider.

Your phone can play music just like an mp3 player can.

Your phone doesn’t have an e-ink screen.

That’s the whole reason.

Meh, for ‘normies’, if you want to put it that way, maybe. But a lot of people that used twitter before used it exactly because it allowed you to use an ‘online only’ persona. A nickname, nothing else.