Why would a teenager need a house anyway ?

It’s two variants of the European socket (type E and type F), nowadays most plugs are compatible with both versions so you can buy either one. Just check your plugs before.

Here is an illustration of both sockets:

Type E

Type F

It’s great that school are surveiling kids.

Does it means that school will finally get an appointed psychologist that meets the kids regularly to check on their mental health ? This way if there is any sign of depression they can easily get some free counseling sessions ?

What do you mean “This is not how we do things here !” ?

It’s Barbados, more than 95% of the population is black.

So not having a black person in the photo would have been weird.

• Tron by Draft Punk
• Lord of the Ring
• Interstellar
• The Graduate

I would imagine they use the microphone, accelerometer, some processing power and internet connectivity (WiFi or mobile).

Trying to set up a dedicated hardware with ask that would cost way more than just buying a bunch of pixel phone.

Same for the software, on a smartphone you can just create an app that will record and process all the information vs creating a custom firmware on a custom hardware.

I guess there is also the availability of the technicians.

Finding someone to develop and maintain an android app is much easier than finding someone to maintain a custom hardware/firmware.

Cook some bacon pieces in a pan, add some chopped onions to it and then add the peas in it.

Serve that with rice.

Quick, easy, tasty healthy meal

It’s great for your daughter and you as well, she can help you to learn the language.

“A country with experience in fab construction can build one faster and cheaper than a country with no experience”

Yeah, not really surprising

I believe you can flash klipper on the Prusa printers, they even have an official page on how to flash custom firmware and it does not break their warranty.

https://cdn.help.prusa3d.com/article/flashing-custom-firmware-mk4-s-mk3-9-s-mk3-5-s_814967

As others have said, there is no right answer but here are my thoughts based on my experience.

Mortgage

The apartment is under your name so I would expect you to pay the mortgage.

One thing you could do is that your girlfriend puts a share of the mortgage cost into a savings account under her name. It could be the equivalent of what she’s paying now for her rent of the equivalent of your mortgage minus 30%.

This way if you stay together and decide to buy a new home you can both contribute to it with a nice down payment and if you split up you both get your marbles back.

It also levels your salaries and you are contributing equally to the housing cost so there is no resentment being built on your side.

Utilities and groceries

What I did with my girlfriend (now wife) is that we were doing a pro rata monthly contribution to a bank account that was used for everyday life. In your case you are earning 30% more then you can contribute 30% more to this account. Then everything like electricity, groceries, restaurants together … Was deducted from this account.

It’s quite easy to get a free bank account with two cards so we used that (we used N26 at the time but there are plenty of options, the bank account was technically a single person account with two cards but it did not really matter since we were not keeping a lot of money in it). We started by keeping track of all our expenses on an app like Tricount and regularly balancing our contribution, it’s easy to set up but it requires to keep track of all our expenses and was quite annoying to do on the long term.

I’m replacing an oil boiler with a masonry stove. There is something about having a fire in a home that makes it so much more comfortable compared to a central heating system.

For CAD I would recommend Onshape rather than Fusion, it’s browser based so it works on Linux and I prefer it target than Fusion.

The main limitation of the free tiers is that all the design you do are public.

I see you did not include Scotland.

The biggest difference between the 90s and now is that in the 90s we had the feeling that things were being better and that it would continue in this direction.

We might have less problems now but unlike the 90s now it’s really hard to look forward and think things will get better.

I’m adding https://www.survivorlibrary.com/ to the list

An elephant ?

You don’t understand, tariff is promoting the emergence of American made alternative, by next week you will find American grown coffee and bananas in the supermarket.

Canada is avoiding Trump’s tariffs by not becoming a state.

They are not paying the tariffs, american people do. So by joining the US they would start paying all the tariffs that Trump is putting on China’s products, European products …

I sometimes feel the same thing at different spots of my body.

Like if someone pinches the skin on my back I could feel the pain of the pinch on my shoulder as well.