German here. I learned tú (informal), usted (formal), vosotros (informal) and ustedes (formal). Teacher was from Spain.

As a German, I spent several weeks in Switzerland hiking in the mountains with a backpack and a tent. You can absolutely travel on a budget there if you’re fine with that simple lifestyle and you bring your own equipment. I don’t think my daily budget was more than 20 CHF per person a day. If you shop minimalistic (lentils, couscous, pasta etc.) I’m sure you can go even below 5 CHF.

Even if you didn’t pay them at all, a restaurant should be more expensive than cooking yourself. A restaurant still has plenty of other costs (rent, insurance, furniture, kitchen supplies etc.) and usually ingredients aren’t that much cheaper in wholesale to make up for the difference.

Some are even hard to understand for native German speakers. ich_iel has lots of jokes in so-called ‘pliers german’ which is a mix of German and word-by-word translated English terms. It’s not really understood by an average German you’d ask on the streets.

I usually don’t write it down, so I hope I remember it correctly:

Yesterday I had:

• Gnocchi with leek, soy chunks (“minced meat”) and basil
• Smashed cucumber salad with roasted sesame and black onion seeds
• A salad with pasta made from pea flour with beluga lentils (ingredients were left over)
• Lentil waffels (crispy flat bread similar to rice cake, not sure if you can buy these outside Europe) with hummous
• Muesli with lupine yoghurt and walnuts
• Chocolate

The day before I had

• Pasta made from pea flour with a bolognese out of eggplant beluga lentil and nutritional yeast
• Bake-off bread with bean puree
• Caesar salad from sugar loaf (?) with blended almonds and hazelnuts
• Two bars from caramalized peanuts (“Mr Tom”)
• Vegan gummy bears

Another day before:

• Grilled veggies (zucchini, corn, mushrooms, green peppers)
• Grilled seitan steaks
• Chick pea waffels (similar to lentil waffels) with soy cottage cheese
• Pop corn

Yet another day before:

• Rice with green flageolet beans, smoked tofu, coconut milk and roasted peanuts
• Raw veggies (carrots, green peppers, cherry tomatoes) with cashew dip
• Baguette
• Nuts mix with raisins and cranberries
• Sugar-coated peanuts (vegan alternative to M&Ms)

I’m on a vegan diet and I would say that I eat quite a big variety of food. Many vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, rice, quinoa, chick peas, pasta variations, also some meat alternatives, soy yoghurt etc. I rarely eat exactly the same meal twice, but improvise a lot.

Yes, usually I eat ~1800-3000 kcal for dinner.

I only eat once a day for years now. Not really for weight loss, but rather because it saves a lot of time and allows me to spend more time on preparing one really satisfying and healthy meal instead of just snacks and fast food. I still eat sweets and stuff if I feel like, but it’s easier to control and keep track of nutrients etc.

I completely stopped buying from Amazon ~1.5 years ago, but I also still use it from time to get an overview on prices and available products. If I find something interesting there, I’ll search & buy it elsewhere.

You should give it another try I guess. I use it quite regularly and love it. A lot of improvements were added over the last couple of years.

You can check out Deltahedra on YouTube to get some impressions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JweHyvE_m8

As far as I know the FreeCAD user interface is written in Python.

+1 for FreeCAD Awesome tool!

Babies don’t know guns in general.

Thanks, but this seems to be rather an unofficial hack, no? If Microsoft decides to block this approach, the setup may cause trouble out of a sudden which I’d like to avoid as my relatives live quite far away.

what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that

Probably crazy enough to demand that the PC repair shop has to bear all the costs he caused by his genius idea.

That sounds like an interesting fallback and better than Windows 11. Do you need a new licence for that or can you just change from Windows 10 Pro to IOT LTSC?

give them a fair and informed choice.

I think to make an informed choice you need a certain understanding of what an operating system is at all and what might be differences etc. I’m talking about people who are afraid that their emails disappear from the webmailer if they buy a new laptop.

From my experience it’s important that, after booting the PC, they immediately find the 1-x icons on the desktop to open the browser etc. Within the browser they need bookmarks to find webmail, banking etc.

They won’t try to install new software, enter commands in the terminal or tweak around with the settings.

But to calm you down a bit: if they really don’t like it, they can stick with Windows. ;)

Thanks for your post.

IMHO Windows is getting harder to use with every update. Context and start menus are changing, you get annoyed by One Drive, asked to use a Microsoft account for everything, suddenly stuff like Notepad has Copilot integration, suddenly links open in Edge instead of your default browser and you’re confused that your bookmarks are gone etc. Apart from that, hacks to install Windows 11 on non-supported hardware might work fine today, but may break with every next update.

I moved my mum to Linux Mint one year ago and so far didn’t have issues or complaints. In fact she’s super happy with the Solitaire game as it does have way more play modes while not having any annoying advertisements. She’s using Firefox and LibreOffice which she already had on Windows before. It was less of a deal for her than a new Android major release on her phone.

But my mom is living much closer to me. In worst case I can fix any issue in person. Unlike these other relatives. There I need some kind of support access for troubleshooting.

Thank you very much, that GUI looks very similar to Teamviewer which they already know.

if you don’t want to use their servers, you can even host your own

I didn’t download and try it yet. Do you know if you can indeed use their servers as well without self-hosting? I went to their website and scrolled through the GitHub FAQ and at first sight I can only see the self-hosted option. They even advertise it as ‘non SaaS’.

If the groups are based on gender as written by OP, I wouldn’t see any issue for trans people to participate in these groups.