greenhorn

If i recall correctly, hydrogen peroxide is mildly bleaching. I would try using vinegar to clean them. It would also help to dry them with paper towel after using them so that mold cannot grow on them.

I would recommend going to a hardware store and asking for a mold testing kit. You can take a sample from that chalk-like powder from the wall and use that to find out whether that's really mold (it will also tell you what kind of mold it is). Some very cheap types of paint have lots of chalk added to them to cut cost, so maybe that's what you are seeing on the wall. If that stuff on the walls turns out to be mold, it sounds like the affected area is very, very large. In that case, it is possible that removing it yourself is not feasible. In any case, it sounds like the building's quality is not that great. If some of your neighbors from the same building have similar problems, that's likely the case. That kind of issue then is something that your landlord would have to deal with, not you. Talk to your neighbors and if they have the same problems, approach the landlord together if possible.

Everything I had to say about the thermostat topic has already been said. As far as the LAN room is concerned, maybe doubling up the floor to create a very small space to run cables through would be nice. You could then make the cables pop out of the floor exactly where you need them, which would allow for very clean setups regardless of the room's layout. Whether that solution makes sense in your case obviously depends on things like ceiling height, how the current floor is built and whether you could live with having a small step at the room's entrance.

I can also confirm that our plugs don't have fuses, I have only seen that in UK type plugs. Use an extension cable with sufficient wire gauge and you're fine. Keep in mind though that for extension cords that are on a drum, that cord has to be unrolled for it to properly handle the specified current (might overheat otherwise). If you want additional protection, you can try to find a RCBO adapter (RCD with overcurrent protection) that is properly rated, but normally you shoudn't need that.

I like the "kurz & bündig" (in a nutshell) on the French grammer guide. Even though my native language is German, I attended a French school that followed the French curriculum, meaning that all the subjects were taught in French. That's when I leaned that French grammar is quite complex (but I still like the French language a lot).

I am not a legal expert, but that is somehow along the line of how I would proceed: Write a letter to your landlord listing all the problems and your concerns related to that. Send that as a registered letter in order to have proof the landlord has received it and when that happened. If you still don't get any satisfactory answer within a certain time (e.g. two weeks), the next step would be to contact the relevant authorities. Check beforehand who is responsible for that in your city/country. Usually, the entity that issues building permits is the right one to contact. A legal expert familiar with the situation in your country can give you better advice on this. My city for example offers free legal advice once a month to every citizen, so if there is something similar where you live, consider using that. In some countries, a landlord has to address those concerns properly after receiving such a notice, e.g. he/she has to either demonstrate that the building's state is ok or have the damage repaired. That whole thing can become quite tedious for both you and your landlord. The specific regulations that apply in your country can make a huge difference, it is important for you to find out how the situation looks like from a legal point of view.

To me that amount of shaking you are describing (e.g. seeing furniture shaking when someone walks somewhere in the house) seems to be excessive. In my city, there are many buildings that old or even older, none of those that I have seen have vibrations that are this severe. How large (wide) are the cracks in the wall? Are they still growing with time? I would talk to the landlord and have a qualified engineer check the building. Engineers can install devices onto the crack that can show how much the crack is expanding in a certain amount of time, which can be used an an indicator of how bad and how urgent the situation is.

High power together with high efficiency can do "wonders" I still like electric kettles, they are still useful. Steel pots on the other hand also have the advantage that they can be used on any type of stove (and even outdoors on a camp fire).

Alternatively, you can use the ultimate water boiling system for utterly reckless people: Just use a pair of razor blades, a couple of matches and a cable with a plug on one end and live and neutral wires on the other. It can be quite stunning (literally)... Obviously, I don't condone doing that at all, it is very unsafe.

That's a real bummer. It reminds me of the "Swiss cheese model" often used in a security/safety context, where sometimes the holes of multiple layers can overlap such that incidents/accidents happen despite several lines of defense being in place. If the student was actually an employee of that university,. he/she should have been able to get that software through the university without having to pay anything him/herself. This should just be a matter of having to explain why you need the software and that there is no suitable free/less expensive alternative. If the student was not an employee, he/she should be able to get at least most of the software at a very large discount through some software deal offered by the university. If that particular software is not included in that, then the project's supervisor should still make sure his/her students get access to it at a reasonable cost. The network admins very likely messed up too. At my university, only verified devices of employees were authorised to access the intranet, guests had their own network (which was heavily restricted). It also seems that their backup policy could use some improvement.

Yes, it definitely grows on you. As far as TNG is concerned, I can recommend watching the "honest trailer" on it on youtube, it is quite hilarious and talks about different aspects of the show. I liked the Klingon and Romulan story arcs and the Borg episodes in TNG, the Xindi arc in Enterprise, the Borg episodes and many other ones in Voyager, the Dominion war episodes in DS9. After watching all those shows a couple of times, I have seen several scenes being reused, e.g. some battle scenes in DS9 appear in several episodes in different contexts. The mirror universe episodes in the different series were also favourites of mine. I also liked that Discovery featured the mirror universe.

All of these shows have a lot of episodes and among those are weaker ones and more exciting ones. I cannot really say which of the three series I prefer, I could rather come up with a bunch of individual episodes.

AS you said the specified voltage should not be exceeded, staying below that is fine. The only thing I would keep in mind is that the new capacitors should have a similar series resistance to the old ones. You might get away with having a different value in some cases, it depends on how the circuit is designed. As to the old capacitor: Yes, old capacitors can degrade, 44 years is a long time. Did you measure its capacitance and looks whether that value is still with the tolerance? Electrolytic capacitors can dry up, dielectrics can become damaged etc.

I prefer Star Trek, but I must admit I didn't watch anything from Star Wars until a few years ago. My favourite aspects of Star Trek are the more believable technologies along with a (mostly) consistent technobabble, including a few nice technologies like the "Heisenberg compensator". It just shows that the makers of the shows hired real scientists to make the show a bit more "realistic". I also like the fact that some stories in Star Trek tackle deep issues in a sophisticated way. On top of that, I really like most actors on the shows, my favourite ones being Sir Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner who both have done some excellent performances.

I used to be a "keyboard for everything" person (played a lot of racing games as well), but then I got MS Flight Simulator 2020 where the keyboard is just a pain to use to steer eg. an Airbus A320, so I bought a controller, which is much better.

I guess the question is what you want to use the room for and what types of furniture do you want to be there/what kind of stuff do you want to store there. I have seen rooms where the windows and doors are annoyingly positioned, which reduces the room's potential. I would suggest trying to partition the room using low-height furniture that doesn't block too much light, e.g. couch or a sideboard maybe. Putting some smaller rugs on the floor can also partition the room. If you prefer a more minimalist, clean-looking approach, then you could look into getting furniture with hidden storage space, which could help reducing the total amount of furniture needed. As far as the TV is concerned, there is not much choice because of daylight reflection issues, so I guess you would have to leave it where it is unless you want to have to close curtains every time you want to watch TV. Maybe wall-mounting it could be an option to make the TV space look cleaner.

From my experience, light distribution has a huge effect. If some parts of the room are not getting enough daylight, you can consider placing mirrors or furniture with glass doors. The second part of this involves artificial lighting. I for example found that indirect light can make a room feel more comfortable. Remote controlled switches can be useful if you want to comfortably control a larger number of light sources. The space in the middle of that room looks a little bit empty, at least on that drawing. Depending on the size of your TV, the viewing distance could be a bit large (but that is very subjective of course). Did you try moving the couch off of the wall so that it effectively partitions the room, creating a sitting area? This works best if the couch is not too large. I have changed things in my room many times during the last years, it is an ongoing iterative process that hopefully converges at some point.

How is the house oriented, e.g. where is the north? I am asking because this affects the direction daylight is coming from during different times of the day.

On my girlfriend's phone, I regularly see the infinity symbol where the number of firefox tabs goes, so she has more than 99 open tabs at a time.I guess the tabs' contents are not active in the RAM at the same time, otherwise those 3GB could easily be full.

That's also consistent with what I have seen. There are other "official" French tech terms like "informatique en nuages" (cloud computing) and "mot dièse" (hashtag) which have been invented, but I have never ever heard any French person using them (and it is hard for me to imagine that anyone would use them, because they just sound silly imho).