It depends. Names for people and locations get reused all the time, both in real life and in fiction and of course it's fine to do so. At this point, it's probably impossible to be 100% original all the time with the amount of books, games etc that are out there. However there are some names that are so iconic that people will immediately connect them with a certain work. For example I wouldn't write a fantasy novel and name a city "Minas Tirith", as everyone will just think of LOTR. But calling a city, say, "Dragonstone" is just fine IMO, even though it's a place in ASOIAF (and probably more than a few older fantasy books).

This might vary between markets but at least here in Germany, their pricing is very competitive. You can currently get a base ID3 for 29,760€. There are very few if any similar sized EVs for that price. Software is okay, not the sleekest you can get for sure, but it does its job. They're the second most successful EV brand after Tesla here. I assume if you've never thought of them as something you'd want to buy, you've also never driven one?

What makes you say that? I've driven (but not owned) an ID3 for the last 3 years and it's pretty great. Only major criticism I have is that the controls are too heavily touch-based with a lack of physical buttons. But the actual driving is wonderful.

Die Bahn hat ja mehr als genug Probleme, aber die Bahnhöfe sind wie ich finde vollkommen in Ordnung. Ähnlich sauber bis sauberer als in anderen europäischen Ländern und besonders unsicher habe ich mich auch nie gefühlt. Die Zugangskontrollen die es in manchen anderen Ländern gibt habe ich als eher nervig empfunden. Vor allem wenn es dann so läuft wie z.b. in Großbritannien, wo man als Interrail-Nutzer nicht einfach sein Ticket scannen kann sondern es immer einem Mitarbeiter zeigen muss um durchgelassen zu werden. Das jetzt wieder bei uns einzuführen wäre meiner Meinung nach absolut rausgeschmissenes Geld das die Bahn an anderen Stellen bitter nötig hat.

No music, no images... two things that have defined Human culture for millennia. The Taliban must really love leading a miserable existence.

I have a perfectly capable gaming PC but more often than not, I choose to play on the Steam Deck instead. I already sit at my desk for work most of the day, so it's nice having a dedicated gaming device that I can take with me and sit in the garden or on my sofa. And of course I can take it with me when travelling.

I mean that there were no longer scheduled train services to and from the station. Just the occassional promotional ones for the bazar.

I think it's exactly those stories that give people a false impression when they come here. It's not that they are false, most of the time you'll certainly find people who can speak decent English. A tourist probably won't need any German, but when it comes to living here long-term, dealing with bureaucracy, finding a job or making friends, knowing German is pretty essential.

So is Irish, but the point was that English is an official and widely spoken language in both countries.

Time to learn a new language, unless you're moving to Ireland or Malta I guess. Tons of people come to Germany and are shocked when not everyone speaks English.

Anyway, I think you'll get better answers if you specify a country. The EU is quite diverse, so I don't think there's a ton of advice that'll be true everywhere in the EU.

Trump dictatorship sure is a change in the status quo, but how exactly will it help marginalized groups?

Germany was against the tariffs while France supported them, so it does make sense.

I was wondering that as well. I guess they had a head start into the market. But at this point I wouldn't even consider a Tesla TBH.

That won't do much. Each of the spam accounts I've seen is on a different instance.

Celebrate my 18th birthday

...unless the Buddhists are right

It's not shielded properly, so the surrounding electronics cause crackles, buzzing and similar noise. AFAIK this was the case for all OLED models on launch. Might be fixed for newer ones, I'm not sure. Apparently it can be fixed by opening the Deck and sticking on some eletric insulation tape.

I mostly use the built-in speakers. Sometimes my IEMs, using a USB-C dongle as my OLED's headphone jack is pretty noisy (I know it's easy to fix, but I haven't gotten around to it yet).

Das schon. Ich hoffe auch dass sich die vernünftige Userbase mehr auf andere Instanzen verlagert.

Schau dir andere, radikalere Post von ihm an (Beispiel) und du wirst sehen dass er auch ziemlich viel Gegenwind bekommt.

Naja, mit Sicherheit eine fragwürdige Quelle, die aber in dem Fall nur eine Aussage von Macron wiedergibt. Finde es jetzt nicht super radikal, dem Präsidenten Frankreichs zuzustimmen.

World News ist aber definitiv eine der schlimmsten Communities auf .ml und der User den du verlinkt hast ist auch einer von denen die meiner Meinung nach gebannt werden sollten. Gibt aber eben auch sehr viele Communities auf der Instanz die eigentlich in Ordnung sind.