Sad news 
There isnāt a good way to go but a dementia related death isnāt the best.
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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I was a real football fan in the era of Beckenbauer, Netzer, MĆ¼ller, Breitner.
Those were real stars.
Not like those Multimillionaires of our days.
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Yes Franz. Back in the day players played football because they were good and wanted to play the game.
Today, like most things, itās all about the money.
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Iām halfway through moving house this weekend. As to the fact of global warming, I am not in a valley nor by a river, Iām opposite side of country from the direction heat usually comes from, Iāve got a downstairs north facing room can sleep in, less than a mile from the sea.
My only issue is Iām 11m above sea level, but I didnāt put myself in a natural funnel so should be ok for a few decades.
My advice is
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I have never lived at the sea (except on vacations)
What I would not like is fog an moisture in winter.
All kind of āclammyā (clothes, books)
But you may be used to.
I am more used to dry coldness, which I can stand much better.
(Born in the alps)
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I hope everyone had a nice weekend I had a wedding to go to that was really nice the bride and groom were so happy. It was a nice small wedding nothing to crazy at all. Then I got to visit my grandpa for his birthday we brought him ice cream cake it was really good
So it depends on which ocean. I lived next to San Francisco for years and I found if I kept close behind a high range of mountains they took the fog and dried the air out as ārainā in the redwoods and I was dry.
You need to be just downwind of a high area to get the rain shadow. If you canāt then not be near the upwind side of the hills as basically rain is force to be stronger as the air is forced up a hill.
In England thereās a mountain range in Wales which dries the air for places like Shropshire, but to be downwind of them you must be in the center of England with no sea breeze benefits. The best place is east Yorkshire as itās sheltered by the Pennines. Places like York.
Finished moving house now, in the empty old house fixing things for tenants. Knackered.
āKnackeredā great word to learn. 
Relax and listen, you will like! 
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Hope everyoneās week is going well. Mine is a little crazy getting stuff ready to move back into my dorm. The other night I finally got to set up the raspberry pi I got for my birthday to get to start playing around with it and playing with it so Iām excited about that. Hope all is well with everyone else
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Raspberry!
Great!
A funny little thing you can do such a lot with.
Much better than a lot of desktops! 
Meanwhile there are many different OS available.
Donāt forget the LINUX based!
Itās a Ubuntu derivate as far I remember.
Iām getting old, out of the computer things meanwhile!
But I donāt care and I hope you all here my friends also donāt.
But its not Alzheimer!
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It comes with a Linux based (Debian) operating system and then you can install and play around with other ones. This is why I got it to try to learn more about Linux and then maybe get a few others and cluster them together. Seems like it will be a great tool to play around with and learn a lot from
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And last not least its a complete computer also to use.
You should use the Debian distribution to learn more about LINUX.
Knowledge of this OS is more than helpful (eg server architecture)
All at the beach, Charlie, Debs and Paul?
Kaitlyn playing around with the Raspberry?
And @professor got his ācable and power bank suitcaseā moved?
Made some nice findings at the flea market today.
Will publish photos tomorrow,
best wished from MĆ¼nchen
Franz
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Hey Franz @Chiquinho
Glad you has success at the flea market, and hope you saw some friends.
No beach but close to water.
Today we went for a walk and stopped at a pub at Horning on the Norfolk Broads.
Have a great weekend everyone.
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Today is getting all my stuff together for moving back into my dorm room. Itās been a little crazy but hopefully shouldnāt be too bad. Just trying to make sure I donāt forget anything important that I would really need. Hope everyone is having a great week canāt wait to see what @Chiquinho found at the flea market
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Not been around flea market for ages, all the good ones near to me closed years ago (before Covid and downturns) no doubt @chiquinho keen eye has found something interesting.
First week back at work after two weeks off for holidays, was hoping for a quiet one but am now scratching my head trying to fix my parents Motion+ speaker with a nice hole where the charging port used to be 
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Isnāt there any video how to open it?
Suppose the mesh can be removed to get inside.
I was right! 
Didnāt check, just started with prying the grill and went from there 
Easy to take apart but there is is so much waterproofing compound on the area where the USB-C connector is soldered that repair is unlikely to be successful once it has been removed. Will take a stab at it as there is nothing left to lose I guess.
Weirdest part is that the plastic mount for the USB-C pins just came out with the charger, no intentional damage (from what Iāve been told).
When watching that fellow āworkingā I am really wondering how he will ever find all the screws.
How do you recognize an amateur watchmaker?
He has worn through trousers at the knees.
Seeking lost screws on the floor.
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Here we are.
The figure is from the Rosenthal manufacture about 1920
Its a little bit āsweetā, but decorative.
Perfect condition.
So I will keep it for a āwhileā.
More interesting is this tea caddy.
Very fine hand painted.
I suppose its about 1850.
Perfect condition, even the gold is not rubbed off.
I wrote an email to a buddy who is a specialist for such early pieces.
He will find out the manufacture.
I call that āwork distributionā 
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