Yes I figured as much from the “for 3 years ago”, which is totally Danglish, “3 years ago” is enough.
Sorry, I just found it funny, that I figured a Dane wrote that from the first 3 words.😀
And yes professionals are really expensive, USD 100k to replace an entire roof doesn’t even sound expensive, if it includes materials, it’s sounds dirt cheap.
Edit I just checked prices, and apparently you can get a new roof for a 100m2 house approximately 1000 ft2, for about USD 10000.
I think I specified USD = US dollar, but that is cheap, our neighbor got an offer of USD 160000 for a house of about 180m2. That was with ceramic tiles, but afaik it’s not that much cheaper even if you chose cheaper materials, I think the cheapest was about USD 120000.
Edit
I have been misinformed, I looked up prices and you can get a new roof for a 100m2 house approximately 1000 ft2, for about USD 10000.
I have a 55" IPS TV with absolutely zero smart functions, and we use it as a dummy monitor, Audio is not even connected, all is hooked up to a Linux computer that serves all the content. Zero bullshit, Zero advertising and we have full control of everything, and it was dirt cheap.
We use a tiny wireless keyboard with a track pad, it’s bigger than a remote, and we still have remote for Amplifier and to turn on the TV, but it works very well for us. Some phones have IR, so we could have just the keyboard, but we have went back to using the remotes.
Motorola is basically just stock Android with an app to control special Motorola features like the Karate LED.
One Plus is without bloatware too, but they have their own OS, which some like some don’t.
The current lineup looks very sweet IMO. Nord 3 Lite is crazy value, Nord 3 is a very well rounded 85% flagship at half the price. One Plus 11 takes the final step IMO to flagship performance but 25-33% cheaper.
Of course the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is a tad better than the One Plus 11, but that’s also twice the price.
I’m currently looking for an excuse to buy Either the Nord 3 or the One Plus 11. Although my current phone (Motorola) works great. 😋
Edit- Android 14 is still in beta so that’s a very poor example.
It’s also possible your phone is simply defect, do you have confirmation others have similar problems?
Is that an official update from One Plus? Because that’s more than 3 years old model, and usually they only give 2-3 updates, meaning it should end with Android 12 or 13.
Edit: It can’t be official since the phone is 3+ years old, and Android 14 is in beta.
The Russian military intends to recruit 420,000 contract personnel by the end of 2023. On 3 September 2023, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dimitry Medvedev stated that so far 280,000 personnel had been recruited. These numbers cannot be independently verified. Russia’s conscription continues to have negative effects...
We have heard of these workforce shortages many times since already a couple of months into the war.
The Russian economy is kind if overheating due to huge public investments in the war effort.
At the same time Russia is losing workers because people are fleeing Russia and continued conscription to the military.
The difference is they now say the shortage is 42% whatever that means? But it sounds very high if true.
Ironically the Russian economy is in a recession at the same time it’s overheating. Meaning that when the card-house collapses, it will probably collapse hard. This will probably happen when the war chest Putin built is empty, and they’ve used more than half already.
If reports such as these are correct, I doubt Russia can keep this up for another year.
The Russians are massively misinformed, still I find it hard to feel sorry for them. I think they want the propaganda to be true, so they choose to believe it.
There was no overhanging threat from NATO, they were not under attack anywhere, they 100% exclusively themselves chose to start this war. And the ridiculous laws and regulations around not making any criticism of Putin, the war or the military, should tell everybody something isn’t right.
I also saw an influencer claim this was the hardest time for Russia ever, because they don’t have any friends. There are many things that should show the Russians that this is wrong, yet most of them continue to support Putin! And the calls for using nukes on London and Ukraine and cheering all sorts of atrocities is sickening.
Russia will need an awakening like Germany had after WW2, but I suspect they’ll never get it, because Russia will not be conquered, and they will continue to play victim, despite having zero basis for it. To me it seems Russia will be lost to extremism for many decades, even after this is over.
Try to sort the servers by Total users, Lemmy.world is on top, but the next 7 try to look at the row of numbers, you will see servers with many “total users” have almost zero activity posts and comments, compared to the number of claimed Total users.
I’m guessing those users are all fake. Why people generate fake users IDK, but there is clearly attempts to sabotage the Lemmy network.
Trying to penetrate the noise, and figure out more real numbers, I’m sure Lemmy remains quite healthy and is growing in real numbers, if you filter servers that are actively and properly maintained.
According to a report published by popular research companies,
Yeah I smell bullshit. I suspect it’s going pretty badly for the thing formerly known as Twitter, but this article doesn’t show anything, but merely makes a bunch of claims. There is no documented data, and no sources stated.
You have already applied as much reason as the entire article, and also given as much hard data and sources. In fact, reading your comment is probably worth more than the article.
F stands for Flaffenfeit, and is a deprecated measurement system the world doesn’t use anymore, except some backwards parts of the world. 110F is equal to about 2.85 feet or 7.13 ounces if I remember correctly. For sure It’s a very clever system invented by an ancient master jokester, where nothing relates to anything in any sensible way.
Ah yes, if you use the Freedom Units revised version the feet and ounces are smaller. I think those were measured after a new president to make him look more impressive on paper.
Any usefulness of Fahrenheit is purely accidental, how is water freezing at 32F useful? I’ll grant that the finer resolution can be seen as a positive, I don’t see how Fahrenheit is better for human comfort, my personal optimal comfort zone is 22-24C°, and I have no need for decimals for that. 73F is pretty close to 23C, I don’t see much difference regarding comfort in either.
The huge problem with Fahrenheit, is that it is impractical in many situations, it has basically no merit to justify its existence, and only a minority of countries continue to use it.
Of course Americans can do whatever they want, but they are looking stupider for each year they keep using “Freedom Units”.
Of course Americans switch to metric for mostly anything scientific, for example NASA use Metric.
All that may be true, but doesn’t account for the way metric allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.
Freedom units are not even consistent within one system, weights are all over the place, with ounces pounds stones, length is just as bad, with inches, feet and miles. Where none of it makes any sense.
Metric is quite simply a way superior system to freedom units, that work as well as if it was made completely random. No actually it’s probably worth, because NOTHING works in freedom units, if they were random, there might actually have been a case or two where they did by accident.
I’m just pointing it out, in a way I hope people get. Metric is way superior and allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.
Freedom units are not even consistent within one system, weights are all over the place, with ounces pounds stones, length is just as bad, with inches, feet and miles. There is not even some kind of internal consistency.
What I guess I wish for a start, is that articles stop using Imperial exclusively. Then over time transition away from Imperial will be easier.
I’m sorry if some people choose to be offended, there is no way any individual person is responsible for this, so it is quite illogical to be offended about it.
Ah yes, except it’s made more complicated than it has to be. The thing is to get salt. Sodium is a basic element not a salt. Also you don’t have to drink it, usually it’s easier and cheaper to find in foods.
Once in a while, probably because it’s easy, I think if I was using imperial I wouldn’t because it’s impossible without tools.
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No now that I think about it, I do it all the time in the kitchen, where volume to weight is extremely common when I cook, because often things are measured in volume, but I prefer to use the weight.
½ a liter water or milk or almost any fluid without extra dish-washing? Easy you just put it on the weight, select tara, and pour 500 grams. Voila you just saved both kitchen space and extra work. because 1g = 1ml with water and most fluids.
I guess if you are used to Freedom units, this may sound like science fiction, but this has been reality in many countries for a long time already.
Weight to volume is extremely common when I cook, because often things are measured in volume, but I prefer to use the weight.
½ a liter water or milk or almost any fluid without extra dish-washing? Easy you just put it on the weight, select tara, and pour 500 grams. Voila you just saved both kitchen space and extra work. because 1g = 1ml with water and most fluids.
It’s equally easy if the number given isn’t in liter, ml or milliliter of course converts directly to grams, and dl or deciliter = 100 g. 1 liter of course being 1000 ml and in water 1000 g or 1 kg. It’s consistent all the way through.
I guess if you are used to Freedom units, this may sound like science fiction, but this has been reality in many countries for a long time already.
True, but Kelvin is based on Celsius, only difference is that zero is moved from freezing water to absolute zero. Celsius however is more practical for everyday life.
Denmark has a very close-minded and ignorant culture.
Denmark is generally pretty progressive, and we were among the first countries to allow same sex partnerships to be registered equal to marriage. We are a very open society, where you may believe and have what political or sexual orientation you want. That’s the exact opposite of close minded.
Danes still blindly worship and defend ridiculous socialism
Denmark does not defend socialism. Socialism is about workers taking control of production. Denmark is capitalist and we have democracy, we are what you may call a caring capitalist state, and that is what we defend.
money-wasting policies in the name of environmentalism or the likes. I have no idea what you mean. In the 70’s we began to invest like many other countries in alternative energy, mainly wind-turbines, today wind-turbines are one of the cheapest energy sources that exist. Generally Denmark spend money pretty sensibly, in part because several political parties need to agree.
People that have opinions that differ from the norm are labeled as “weird”
I can’t speak to your personal experience, but yes sometimes people don’t understand things outside the norm, but it seems to me you are the one to be judgemental here.
The most immediate, and annoying character trait I noticed was the habitual need Danes have to tell other people how wonderful Denmark is,
Yeah Britts do exactly the same, so 👉👈 lol
Danish people are by nature in awe of authority
This is simply not true. For instance US intelligence complain about our lack of it, together with lack of strong ideology which makes hiring agents in Denmark harder.
IMO this can be roughly translated to it’s hard to find truly fanatic Danes. The “loose living” part is also contrary to your original claim that we are intolerant.
The food variety and quality was nothing like as good as in the UK.
Oh my god, 🤣🤣🤣 that’s just insane coming from a Brit. Yes you can get decent food in UK, but that’s all from foreign kitchens. You can keep your Marmite. For Christ sake man???
The public infrastructure was inadequate, and oh so slow.
My god, what is this clown on?? Denmark has one of the most developed infrastructures of the world, We have 4 independent forms of public transportation. We have world class public IT, where almost everything to do with public services can be done online. What is he babbling about?
Monopoly was the name of the game in business. No competition whatsoever. Danish produce and Danish produce only was the rule of things.
Name just 1 example where that’s the case. Denmark is a capitalist country like the rest of Europe. Almost all kinds of produce can be had as either danish or foreign, in UK they may have higher overweight of foreign produce, because the country isn’t able to feed itself like Denmark can. But the foreign options are clearly here if you want them. Incidentally UK used to be the greatest importer of Danish produce for decades by far. But the declining UK economy may have changed that.
The sheer cost of living in the place was/is at least 2-3 times that of the UK,
Another lie, yes it’s more expensive, but not nearly as much as claimed, and by the stats the higher wages more than compensates, so we have the equivalent of USD 10000 better purchasing power on an average wage. This guy is just completely lost.
everyone was asking me so proudly if I felt lucky to be living in Denmark.
That sounds weird, I’ve never heard that from any of my foreign friends. I’ve never heard it anywhere else for that matter. It would be more normal to ask whether he likes it here. Maybe if he plans staying, those I’ve heard. I generally just say I hope they like it here. Then they don’t have to answer, but can if they feel like. I think most people in most countries want foreigners to like their country.
Then there is the much vaunted Danish Medical System. Again according to Danes the best in the world.
Yeah that’s shit, and yes quality is declining steadily and has for years. In fact not unlike the UK unfortunately. I still think ours is a bit better, there have been horrendous stories from UK after COVID.
costs of prescription medicine and Dental care, even on the back of this public health service are out of control.
Yes medicine is expensive to start up, the public contribution increases if you need medicine over longer periods of time. This system sucks, and the politicians lied about it, when they made it. Dental care is even worse, it’s insanely expensive, many people go to Sweden, Germany or Poland to have their teeth done. So yes on these 2 points we can definitely do better. There have been some slight improvements for young people after school where they have free dentist. I guess it’s for the young, because it 's cheap, but of course they say it’s to give them a good start. This is certainly micro steps, where nothing has been done for 30 years.
and was appalled and shocked at the levels of Marxist/Feminist views being foisted on the young people.
Oh boy 😜 they must be pretty bad at it, because I don’t see that Marxist feminist society he seems to be so scared of. My guess is he’s a conservative religious nut, that believes he will benefit once the conservatives have given everything to the 1%
The history of their country prior to the end of WWII is just not taught at all,
This is taught in public school, but not in a nationalistic way they often do in other more authoritarian countries.
Almost all the teachers were female (of a sort)
Yeah I’m beginning to see where this is going. It’s probably true most teachers are women, so what? Most nurses are too.
Almost every lecture I attended was weighted heavily towards a European future, and very few were not heavily biased in that direction.
Yeah, I think public opinion is pro EU in UK too now. After Brexit one of our strongest anti EU parties have actually changed their policies, and now want Denmark to stay. Brexit was mostly in the interest of the Russians, who were a strong influence in the Brexit election, but the British government very conveniently refused to even investigate it. It’s funny how NOT cooperating with your neighbors fail to yield any benefits?
OK I think I’ll stop here, the guy is clearly not very smart, and basically wrong about 90% of what he is saying.
He complains that Danes claim Denmark is one of the best countries to live in. By most measurements it is, and by most measurements Denmark beats UK. But anyone is of course free to prefer whatever country they want. If you are happy about and prefer the country you live in that’s great.
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