Which other social media services do you mean?

Does your instance have a bio? Maybe you could use that? On my instance, the character limit for the bio is 300 chars, that should probably be plenty :o

edit: Another option might be to get a hexbear account? I know they’re pretty good with the built-in pronoun selection, but they are defederated from many places so that might affect your user experience

Doesn’t it kinda depend on what the doctor writes on the prescription? I’ve had both doctors who just put the brand name on there but also doctors who insist on writing down the generic version.
Either way, I don’t really see any point in arguing with them about whichever one they prefer? The medicines generally do work the same.

And we support and encourage him for that!

I’m not very knowledgeable on Inverters, they don’t come up much in the legal material I juggle around at work lol

Balcony Units have them built in as far as I know. The only big regulation when it comes to wiring is that anyone who has solar needs their Electricity Counter replaced with a bidirectional “Smart Meter”, because classical Counters can’t really count down when you feed into the Grid. I’m guessing that the Smart Meters themselves would have some sort of safety mechanism to prevent wildly miswired connections.

I think there was some sort of requirement to at least have an electrician check the solar setup before it gets connected too, but German law in most parts is “If you decide not to hire a licensed professional, then anything that happens is your own fault”.

Very cool in theory, hard to do without stumbling into Eugenics 😬

Solar panels that cannot be connected to the grid don’t have to be declared, but it is based on ability, not intention. So a solar panel so far away from civilization that you physically couldn’t connect it is fine, but if it’s at your house and you could connect it, then you have to register it. (Registration is a 5min online form though, it’s very hassle-free for a system that the German Government came up with lol)

Yup, the reason is that undocumented solar panels plugged into the Grid could cause seriously dangerous power spikes and throw off calculations on how much Suppliers need to feed into the Grid. So the only panels that don’t have to be declared and registered with MaStR are ones on top of cars and ones that are so remote that you couldn’t plug them in in any case (but Germany has basically no places remote enough to meet that criteria)

Yess, the new regulations are awesome! Especially the recent simplification of the MaStR (Marktstammdatenregister) System has made everything easier for anyone involved.
But… just a heads up, if you don’t register your balcony panel, we can and do find you using satellite pictures 🔫🙂

My brain always hurts when playing never have I ever, something about the wording just inherently confuses me every time. The upvote/downvote addition makes it worse haha

Never have I ever been to a wedding! Looks like my own one will be the first I attend :o

Yeey!!

Is that cheddar?

Honestly, anything over 30k wouldn’t really be worth it. Way easier to get a nice vacation and some therapy sessions for the same money instead of being that mad at someone.

Yooo me too! Moths freak me out more, but butterflies are pretty close. I usually just hide under a big blanket whenever a moth makes it into my apartment and let my husband handle it, but he recently moved out for work. I only cry a little bit when I have to confront them myself 😎

I also can’t stand Jellyfish to such a degree that I refuse to go into any open water. Even stuff like lakes and Rivers, which probably don’t have Jellyfish, but the idea just freaks me out too much.

The only memory I have of my 3DS is being really into a game and playing for so long that I was really really hungry. Then I turned on the 3D slider to get motion sick and not hungry anymore to continue playing the game. Perfect problem solving skills here.

But is it OSHA approved?

Another soul lost

Whoever actually posts to Linkedin is already lost in the sauce I’m afraid

We have so many Roman Ruins here in Aachen (Germany) cause this used to be a hotspot for Thermal baths back in the day. I don’t think there are full roman buildings still hanging on though, just a few arches and columns.

I held a basic digital security course for the 6th-8th graders when I was in 12th. My favorite topic from that was Phishing and Password theft.

I only had the time and resources for some PowerPoint slides of emails, where students could point out what exactly is suspicious but that wasn’t very engaging.

If I had the time though, I would have set up some trackable links for the students and told them to try Phishing School staff and their friends/parents. It would have been some free pen-testing for the school, plus students would have been way more willing to internalize information that allows them to do something “naughty”. The main point is that most digital risks don’t come from some high-concept hacking, but from social engineering and a moment of inattention. Everyone can fall for it, no matter how smart they think they are. I think that’s an important lesson to learn.