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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • From Austria, but Germany has quite similar laws.

    You’ll get 96% Ethanol with bitterants (so that you do not trink it) in every bigger supermarket as well as hardware stores, it’s either called Ethanol or Brennspirtus.

    For non-denaturized Ethanol you have to go to the pharmacy. Expect higher prices as every (theorethically) drinkable alcohol is subject to a tax.



  • If you are from Europe, especially German-speaking countries: So called Buntbartschlüssel (literal translation: colorful beard keys) are very popular for older buildings and garden sheds as well as for interior doors in residential buildings.

    There are around 70 different types with you being able to spot which one is need by just looking inside the keyhole, there are handy charts for this purpose.


  • I vaguelly remember around this time some low end computers were shipped with FreeDOS instead of Windows, in order to save on licencing fees. AFAIK this was the case because legislation in some european countries restricted the sale of new computers to ones which had an OS preinstalled.

    Maybe XP was installed after the purchases however a partition with FreeDOS/whatever remained as the default boot option. Hence your parents had to select the other boot option (Windows XP) manually. Granted you could change your primary boot partition permanently, but maybe your parents didn’t know this.