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[taffernicus]

5 hours ago, revelator said:

Last great winter here was in 1979 were denmark got hit by -30 " and wild snowstorms that literally covered most of where i lived at the time in several meter thick layers of snow and ice. It got known as the winter war and you could literally walk from denmark to germany via the gedser / rødby route. Thats about 45 km's of ice from rødby where i live now to puttgarden in germany (longer from gedser). I still have pictures from it where me and my sister is standing 15 km's from denmark on what used to be open water at the time. It was one of the last times we had to use icebreakers for our boats and even they had trouble breaking it cause the ice was so damn thick.

We still had sorta normal winters up to about 2007 but after 2010 the snow we usually got in winter times turned into rain or at best mush. We do still get snow from time to time but far less frequent and a good deal shorter than back then and it usually newer hits -10 or lower which was still pretty common back in the 80's. Instead a hard winter is now -5.

So a rather extreme variance from -30 in winter times which albeit uncommon (-20 was not) to -5 or even positive temperatures (before the 80's that newer happened).

 

 

 

I wish i had winter here 

The effects of climate change are indeed gradual.

I have a special focus on arctic cold air outbreak or polar vortex 

The closest places I can visit are Japan and New Zealand which have winters

 

Here, I can only enjoy the mountainous areas with their fairly thick fog. 

 

Edited July 2 by taffernicus

[taffernicus]

On 11/16/2025 at 1:13 PM, taffernicus said:

a lot of good points. checking the hardware IDs is useful, thank you for reminding me for hardware ID.

how could i have forgotten to take bluray player availability into account for the next 20-30 years? it will become scarce in the future ofc

i mostly found verbatim brands here. Other than verbatim there is ASUS turbodrive

i have been having a rocky road to find a quad layer bluray disc. Dual layer & single layer are ubiquituous. but DL and single layer are small in terms of data density. it's best to buy them in bulk 

i found some LG bluray burners put there but they were pre-owned. i didn't outrightly believe the condition just by looking at the photos sent by seller because it's still not convincing to me 

 

I remember posting this before, but the context was different.

In current affair, I don’t like Sony’s decision to remove the disc drive from the next-gen PS, and I can’t believe Microsoft’s Xbox is following suit.

this is a satirical remark from gamesir and dominos pizza:

Domino's mocks Sony's digital-only PlayStation shift with viral post

 

Edited July 3 by taffernicus