I lived in a couple of countries on Europe and the daily and bi-daily shopping is only really for people who live in big cities and commute by public transport and will pass by a small grocery shop on their way home from work.

As far as I can tell most people do a single weekly shopping generally by driving to a supermarket or even hypermarket either on the weekend or at the end of a working day, hence the popularity of such large surfaces.

Even in places like The Netherlands people have side bags on their bicycles and can just cycle to a supermarket once or twice a week if they don't feel like driving there and bring the shopping on the side bags.

From my own experience with my grandparents (farmers in Portugal), rural food planing timeframes are even longer than a week, as people relied (at least 50+ years ago) on preserved meats and longer duration things like dried pulses, certain fruits, and staples like potatoes for months or even a whole year and then add in season fruits and vegetables and even just go outside and pick up whatever was ripe then from a plot next to their home (so, for example, make soup with some salted pork bellies and chipeas from their food stores and some spinach and carrots picked up from from a farming plot near the house).

Anyways, even in Europe doing a weekly shopping is generally more convenient.

Mind you, it's great when you live inside a big enough city and you can just hop out of the tram a stop or two early on your way home and go by a mini-market to buy, say, some milk and fresh vegetables, but that's not how it generally works for most people, mainly because even in a big city, unless you live right by the store it's more time efficient to do one big grocery shopping a week were you can go to bigger places with more selection.

Sadly most of his "brothers in arms" feel nothing but joy when they "wipe out the vermin".

The tendency for Authoritarianism and Racism never really left Germany: remember, Nazism was stopped by outsiders, not Germans, so mostly they changed the symbols and stopped outright saying certain things even whilst still thinking and practicing them - doing what it takes to make it seem like they changed, not actually changing.

So it's no surprise that on a racially charged subject involving a Genocide were tens of thousands of children have been murdered for their ethnicity, the German Authorities not only in quite an extremely Racist way sided with the Genociders very overtly because of their ethnicity, but also moved back some more in the exercise of the power of the state towards doing things like in the "good" old days.

The mindset of Racism and Macht macht Recht never actually went away.

I some discussion about Nvidia somebody what complaining how they were used to 200 fps at 4K but some graphics cards couldn't do it with raytracing on without using DLSS.

As somebody else in that thread said, it's masturbatory fps numbers.

Reminds me of the London A to Z before the era of smartphones with map apps.

Still have one in some box somewhere.

Well, been * ahem * told that a friend of a friend didn't found any videos there were "Your friendly neighborhood geek goes into the house of a hot milf to upgrade her Windows 10 machine to Arch and she shows them how hot she found their Linux install skills and how thankful she is", so that seems unlikely.

So what you're saying is that there are more wankers on Linux nowadays!???

Personally when I lived in The Netherlands I was quite partial towards lots of mayo on my patates (chunky chips, only far more than merely just larger) rather than pindakaas saus, but patates are a hole different class than English-style chips (which is the same style as in most of Europe) which do gain from drizzling them with vinegar to offset the absorbed fat.

I'm current stuck in a long term cycle of mainly Project Zomboid, Factorio, Valheim, Oxygen Not Included, The Lone Dark and Rimworld, were when I'm fed up of playing the last of them, it's been long enough since I played the first one that it's once interesting to play it.

Even when I manage to be fed up with playing all of them at any one point, I still have other progression games with complex emergent gameplay (often but not always games which have algorithmically generated game areas) like Kenshi. 7 Days to Die or OpenTTD that pull me in and if that fails, I can always pick up one of the old open world roleplay jewels such as Skyrim and play that.

I've barelly tried anything else in the last couple of years and of those only Oxygen Not Include was the only one with any lasting power and I picked that one years ago.

It's not even because I can't afford it (though out of principl I refuse to pay more than €20 for a game) - whenever I try an AAA game nowadays (always games that came out years ago) it's almost invariably an inferior experience that either feels too constrained or doesn't have enough gameplay variety and complexity to be fun for long.

Whilst I have no idea what this is, the British practice of putting vinager on one's chips yields surprisingly good results.

More seriously, if you order it from an Electronics supplier, you can get a 6.2 Ohm resistor with a mere 1% tolerance (in some cases, even 0.5%).

That said an EE, except in very specific cases such as reference resistors, would generally use a 10 or 5 Ohm one with 10% tolerance for any circuit that was supposed to be mass produced since it's far cheaper and much more easy to source in the size you require.

This is EXACTLY how it went for me when I moved from a Physics to an Electronics Engineering degree at University.

Also, the trying to understand how the various circuits worked from the point of view of "electrons moving" was a hard to overcome early tendency (even simple things like LC circuits, for example, are only really understandable as ressonant stable states and for complex circuits you really have to go higher levels than "electrons" to be able to understand then in any reasonable amount of time).

On the upside when we got to things like how tunnel effect diodes worked, the whole thing was just obvious because of having had an introduction to Quantum Mechanics in the Physics degree. Also the general stuff about how semiconductor junctions work is a lot more easy to get if you come from Physics.

(In summary: Physics really helps in understanding HOW the various components in Electronics work, but doesn't at all help in understanding how to use them to assemble a complex structure to achieve a given objective. Curiously this also applies to Mathematics and Software Development)