@MattSpeller https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Hamburg/Wacken/@53.7206389,9.030247,8.75z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x47b161837e1813b9:0x4263df27bd63aa0!2m2!1d9.9936818!2d53.5510846!1m5!1m1!1s0x47b3ea7e0a920bb1:0x4248963c6586900!2m2!1d9.3799516!2d54.0226106?hl=en
Hamburg is where I live.
@MattSpeller said in 6/6/16 International Metal Day:
@thwr said in 6/6/16 International Metal Day:
@RojoLoco said in 6/6/16 International Metal Day:
We should do a "Monday Metal Meltdown" every week!
We should probably arrange a ML meeting here: http://www.wacken.com/en/
damn there's some awesome bands playing in that
Wacken is freaking awesome. Never been there myself yet, but it's on my todo list. Wacken is in the middle of nowhere, a very small village in northern Germany.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacken_Open_Air:
Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a summer open-air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of roughly 86,000 attendees in 2011,[2] it attracts various kinds of metal and hard rock music fans.
@JaredBusch Good job 
Is that walnut or oak? A bit hard to see on the picture.
@RojoLoco said in 6/6/16 International Metal Day:
We should do a "Monday Metal Meltdown" every week!
We should probably arrange a ML meeting here: http://www.wacken.com/en/
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr Is that really a 16 port swtich, 4port + wan router, and a Pi in one case? Nice!
Aye
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr Wow those are nice!!! Good find!
Thanks, but damn expensive (at least in numbers)
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr I like the new LED's, are they some kind of grommet you put over top of the LED?
Aye, this one: https://www.conrad.de/de/led-fassung-metall-passend-fuer-led-5-mm-schraubbefestigung-signal-construct-smq1089-185949.html but a version for 3mm LEDs
@Dashrender That's quite new. They constantly reduced costs for roaming and eventually dropped them completely. EU would have forced that anyway by mid of 2017 AFAIK.
Working on FrankenSwitch again. Fans robbed from a dead 1U server, new 5V AC/DC converter, internal power distribution, little optical improvement on the front LEDs...
Just bought a Sony Xperia Z3 a bit ago. Great device.
@Dashrender said in T-Mobile Service in Canada:
@scottalanmiller said in T-Mobile Service in Canada:
@Dashrender said in T-Mobile Service in Canada:
Yeah - I hadn't considered that most users in Europe would have already solved this problem because as you mention the likeliness of needing international contact is so much higher there.
That also explains why What's App adoption is SOO much higher in Europe than the US.
It's not just the international connections, it's the constant changing of SIMs so that no one has a steady phone number. Anyone who travels without T-Mobile, more or less, either goes without service or has to get a temporary number when travelling which breaks nearly everything. It's common in much of the world to flip SIMs constantly to get the best rates or coverage. In the Philippines they do this even on the islands all just to get better deals for different usage.
The SIM changing thing has effectively destroyed the usefulness of the traditional phone number and with it, phone calls and texting for regular contact in these areas.
Hasn't this been a problem for cell phones in Europe and places where people have to move between vendors/countries since the beginning? So really the nice thing now, you can easily move away from this problem with data and a hosted PBX solution (assuming you need voice), otherwise messaging through any number of apps solves that problem.
Sure you still have to deal with the hassle of the changing SIMs to get data at a good price, but the number part can go away.
It's not that much of a problem in the EU (remember: EU != Europe) anymore because we finally got free roaming within all member states.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulations
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/27/europe-abolishes-mobile-phone-roaming-charges