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Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/26

[Wayback/Archive] Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Aan- en uittrekhulp voor steunkousen (alle typen elastische kousen), de Doff N’ Donner ook wel Donner genoemd. De Donner is een uniek hulpmiddel om alle typen compressiekousen van alle drukklassen in alle maten snel en comfortabel aan en uit te trekken.

Video’s:

Deze kan zonder handschoenen gebruikt worden.

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Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”

This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”

or in list form, differentiate between:

  • one-on-one
  • big team
  • office hours
  • default (for events added by others)

–jeroen

Posted in Google, GoogleCalendar, LifeHacker, Office, Outlook, Power User | Leave a Comment »

SIEMENS – HB86P575 – Compacte bakoven met magnetron

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/19

Voor mijn ling archief wanneer er link root gaat plaatsvinden: [Wayback/Archive] SIEMENS – HB86P575 – Compacte bakoven met magnetron

Handleidingen:

Bekende problemen onder:

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@BritisAirwaySup: a parody account on Webcare teams always wanting to directly move to private DM conversation and sharing full privacy details

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/18

Too bad many webcare / social media corporate accounts respond to every question (even ones of importance to the general public) along these lines:

we extremely apologize for the challenge encountered, customer relations haven’t forgotten about you, it wasn’t our intention, kindly follow back, share full names, reachable WhatsApp number via DM, so we can assist further

[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @BritisAirwaySup on Thread Reader App

Via a quote tweet of [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @mysk_co on Thread Reader App

When you join a Wi-Fi network that shows a captive portal on the iPhone, iOS opens the captive portal in a Safari web view regardless of which default browser you’ve chosen.

This little experiment implements a captive portal that detects the browser. Brave was the default browser, but iOS opened the captive portal in Safari. The second screenshot shows what this sample website displays if opened with Brave.

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When you need USB 3 downstream ports on your monitor, be wary of LG monitors

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/15

After researching the below tweet, I found out that many LG monitors have this limitation on downstream ports, depending on how the upstream USB-C port is connected:

Their manuals phrase it like this:

  • When the USB C-C cable is connected between Upstream port of monitor and Host PC, the Downstream port of
    monitor support USB 2.0 device.
  • When the USB C-A cable is connected between Upstream port of monitor and Host PC, the Downstream port of
    monitor support USB 3.0 device.
    However, Host PC must support USB 3.0 function.

This means that in USB C-C land (for which Apple was basically a driving force, but nowadays many laptops only have USB-C connections) your monitor downstream ports are limited to USB 2.0.

If I read the various comments correctly, the additional limitation is that in the USB C-C case, the downstream ports are non-powered.

Which means I will avoid LG monitors at all cost.

Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] anna (arar) meow 𓃠 on X: “i have this monitor connected to my mac with a single USB C-C cable. why can’t i have USB 3.0 speeds on the downstream ports??? why does it work with the USB C-A cable?? is there a way around it? or is there just not enough bandwith for both video and these silly ports?”

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How Old Are You in CO2?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/15

I’m from 326 CO2.

[Wayback/Archive] How Old Are You in CO2?

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You don’t need an over-engineered IKEA cabinet hack to silence your PC

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11

Lesson learned: buy more silent fans and (if you dare) better water cooling: [Wayback/Archive] This over-engineered IKEA hack got out of hand! – YouTube

--jeroen

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Linkjes rondom Macrogol: die van Ratiopharm verdraag ik het beste.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/08

Eerst eveven een inleiding: waarom gebruik ik Macrogol en waarom deze post juist nu?

De TL;DR: ik heb ontlastingsklachten na veel ingrepen vanwege uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker. Macrogol helpt de ontlasting beter van consistentie te krijgen.

In 2023 testte ik 4 verschillende fabrikanten vanwege een beleidswijziging van de verzekeraar (wat hen veel geld kostte en mij veel tijd), wat achteraf goed was omdat een maand terug ineens het middel van de fabrikant die mijn lichaam het beste verdraagt niet leverbaar was.

Gelukkig heb ik van eerdere problemen met medcijnlevering (hallo allopurinol en hallo crisis in 2023 [Wayback/Archive] Dit is waarom we in Nederland zoveel medicijnen tekortkomen – EenVandaag!)

Een stukje geschiedenis

Na alle behandelingen van eind 2019 tot en met halverwege 2022 rondom mijn uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker blijf ik met LAR-syndroom, wat kort is voor low anterior resection syndrome. De Low Anterior Resection was bij mij onderdeel was van een Total Mesorectal Excision: een methode waarbij relatief veel omliggend weefsel rond de endeldarm wordt weggenomen om zo de kans op relatief lokale uitzaaiingen te verminderen.

Dit was het alternatief voor een permanent colostoma: een stoma van de dikke darm. Bij dit alternatief hoort een – vooraf door mij geaccepteerd risico – op TME post operatieve klachten. De operatie is een forse ingreep laag in het kleine bekken waar weinig ruimte is en bij vrouwen meer doorheen loopt (vagina en baarmoeder) dan bij mannen (prostaat), naast uiteraard blaas, plasbuis en de endeldarm.

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HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/05

To make sure my spare light bulb set is complete, the list from [Wayback/Archive] HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums (same for E61):

details for the E60 are

Dipped/Low Beam: H7 (499)
Main/High Beam: H7 (499)
Side/Parking Lamp: W5W (501) “THESE ARE YOUR ANGEL EYES”
Front Fog Lamp: HB4 9006
Front Indicator: PY21W
Tail Lamp: P21W
Rear Fog Lamp: P21W
Reversing Lamp: W16W
Rear Indicator: PY21W
Stop/Tail Lamp: P21W

Note to self: the indicator lamps (PY21W and W5W) are all orange.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] bmw e60 signal lights side bulb type – Google Search

--jeroen

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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build – Michael Stapelberg (forget MikroTik for this)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/05

Two interesting posts on fast network routing:

–jeroen

Posted in Ethernet, Hardware, LifeHacker, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers | Leave a Comment »