Honest question: what is the benefit of such a specialized service compared to just an encrypted file with all your passwords that you share via some common file sharing service (hosted or self-hosted)

A few years ago I switched from KeePass, with the database stored in Dropbox, to a SaaS password manager. My primary reasons where:

- No more sync conflicts when using multiple devices

- Backups are taken care off

- It's harder to steal the database

- Slightly better browser and mobile extensions for auto-filling passwords

I can only advertise our route optimization solution GraphHopper :)

But it comes without an Excel adapter. However, as we provide a well documented API (with OpenAPI spec) you could let claude/chatGPT do some coding to read and write to Excel. (But to our knowledge they already know our API without that you have to provide them the spec)

Thanks for the information!

The problem with thermal solar panels is that you can use its heated water only if it gets warmer than the water in your system, which is not always the case, especially in winter.

Compared to nearly 100% usable energy from normal solar panels.

Furthermore if you have a heatpump you can convert this electric energy into heat energy with a factor of >3 (COP).

Yeah but if you're in a northern climate your solar panels are only generating like 10% of their summer capacity in the winter anyway due to sun hours/angles... winter is just tough for capturing solar energy in general.

I think this can work and instead of that the heatpump pumps the heat into your house (when "solar is plenty") it would pump it into the storage. (I have a similar setup, but heat the water but of course this is rather limited)

unrelated: a simple technical solution to your window problem would be home assistant and a few sensors to notify you when the windows are open too long or open when too cold inside.

It’s more about predictive modeling: At what time + temperature do you close windows, given predicted cloud cover and overnight temperatures/wind?

Come to think of it, if we had a big salt slurry that transitioned at 72F in the floors, that would probably do the right thing. It’d create a step function making it hard to heat above 72, or cool below it.

I wonder how much density changes as these things transition. Would a static pool (mixed by freezing) work, or would it need a pump?

Why not?

Isn't the salary difference more about differences between Silicon Valley (or Big tech in US) and Europe?

One competitive advantage of the US is probably that often equity is involved (although this can be a disadvantage too if it replaces money and doesn't come on top).

Also don't forget that in Europe you often have a better safety net (especially if you loose a job) and lower rent.

Nice tool. You might consider adjusting the headline to make it clearer what it’s about. For example:

English: "How Berlin Uses Your Wage Tax"

German: "So wird deine Lohnsteuer in Berlin verwendet"

The printer also was my reason I picked Ubuntu over Arch / Endeavour OS :)

I don't want to tweak hours and Ubuntu was so far always a no brainer. At some point, probably 5 years ago after they switched to GNOME Shell, I even stopped switching the desktop manager and kept using the default one.

If only I could use recent Apple hardware with Linux :)

A year ago I was about to switch from Linux to Mac for that reason after 25 years using Linux (although I really don't like MacOS). But then Apple released their Glassy OS and so I just bought a used Lenovo for 300€ with 1 year warranty ...

But why the effort if a description (like OpenAPI spec) of your existing API is completely sufficient for using the API? A new and separate MCP service will introduce new and separate issues where the OpenAPI spec helps you strengthening your existing API.