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I've been exclusively on Garmin watches since my interest in fitness started, my current Watch is a Forerunner 255s that I bought around 3 years ago. Thing is, it's been slowly starting to decline in battery life (one charge maybe lasts 5-7 days) and my height sensor started to really drift around, giving me that "You climbed 10 stories!" achievement like 7 times every day.

I was going to get a new Garmin when this one completely bit the dust, but due to a weird bundle deal at the Google Store, it was 300€ cheaper to buy a Pixel 9 and a Fitbit Charge 6 than it was to just buy the phone.

I can't sell the Fitbit for at least two years, since I bought the bundle as a "work expense" without paying taxes. So my options are to either use it myself or to give it to someone who I could quickly get it back from if the Tax Agency comes to check on whether I'm not reselling.

Sooo... does anyone here use Fitbit and could share their opinion on how it holds up? I'm especially interested in hearing how long the battery lasts and whether it works well with ANT+ devices (I use a Polar HR Strap and occasionally a bike cadence sensor)

Also, how annoying is it to listen to music on it? I bought the Music variant of the Garmin just to find out that it only really works with Spotify Premium... which I'm way too cheap to get. And manually transferring MP3s to it is really annoying haha

Despite all the other compromises with the FF6, I still was ready to buy it until I noticed the USB-C 2.0. Which means no Android Desktop and significantly slower data transfer than the USB-C 3.0 in FF5. The linked Discussion thread from the Fairphone forum has some interesting additional points.

Is this a dealbreaker for you? (It is for me, I'm ordering a different phone today..)

Now that I'm in an age and income bracket that can afford it, I've been trying to be more liberal with donating to causes that seem worthwhile. Yesterday my partner and I were walking around a large cultural event thing in Kiel (Germany) - thousands of people, lots of overpriced food trucks, lots of local bands and artists.

One artist had a workshop in a little glass cube and was making wooden sculptures all day. Huge crowd all around watching him. He had a sign up front explaining that he had been struggling financially because art is a luxury and one of the first things people stop buying when the cost of living goes up. The sign also had a QR link to his Gofundme, so I tossed him 5 bucks with no second thought. Kind of assumed that he'd be getting plenty of little donations like that, just because there were so many people and the event overall was very "12€ avocado toast" coded.

But once I got home I checked the donation history and it turns out I was the only one who donated at all that day:

Ngl, I was kinda upset about that and even checked the Url from different devices to make sure it wasn't a website caching thing. I definitely will be upping my donation once I get home tonight, but in the meantime I'd be curious to learn about the average consensus on donations - How much and under which conditions do you donate (or would donate if you could afford it)? Do you do rare but big donations or small ones spread over lots of causes?

They've started posting a link to ask them anonymous questions a few weeks ago and answering the questions on their whatsapp status. And those questions were getting weird to a point where my partner and I had a betting pool on whether they're shitposts or bullying.

Today I noticed that "sent with ♥️ by team ngl" text at the bottom and downloaded that app to check. And yup, they're just random default questions:

It seems like no one has ever sent a real question. I need to share this to distribute my bewilderment

Hat wer ne Idee warum Bitburger da extra Vitamine mit reinwerfen würde? Das alkoholfreie Naturradler von Gösser hat z.B. keine, und schmeckt soweit ich mich erinnere identisch?

Heyhey!

My fiance has been struggling with lack of space in his current email, plus his current provider (web.de) doesn't have the most professional name, which is bothering him because he's currently applying for jobs.

So I was looking to get him a nice clean email for Valentine's, that has a simple name and enough space for a while.

Problem is - I'm kinda dumb and have very little idea of how web hosting and email work (despite working as a Software Engineer...). So I could use some input on what steps I should be taking to get what I'm looking for while avoiding the pitfalls and hidden costs that some service providers have.

So far, I've found a nice {hisLastname}.cc domain on namecheap for 50€/10 years. Namecheap also offers a basic email service for 14€ per year, altough I'm not sure whether 5GB is enough space. The next higher email would be 40€ per year for 30GB of space. That seems more like what I'd be looking for, but also seems a bit expensive?

Does anyone have tips on where else I might want to look? How expensive would it be to just run my own email server? Getting a little homeserver rack has been a goal in our hosehold anyways, we just haven't had the time to look into what exactly to get.

What would I do once the domain (and maybe email service) is bought? Like, what does the migration from existing services look like? Would I have to set up specific software anywhere just to access the mails?

Edit: Thank you everyone, I got it figured out! I went ahead and bought the domain at Namecheap, but didn't buy their email service. I set the email up with a trial account on Purelymail instead, if that works without too many downtimes I'll be going ahead and getting their 10$/year plan - seems like the value on that is just too good :o

It's my turn to bring cake to work tomorrow, I found this recipe .
I added some instant coffee but my jar slipped and I probably added too much... now I'm contemplating whether the buttercream might cover it up or whether I'm just baking a second cake and freezing this one for myself

edit: Yeah, I definitely fucked up with the instant coffee haha
Still edible (especially with the buttercream, it's still a 6/10 cake), but I don't want to bring it to other people. Made a new one instead, which this one I actually took the time to sift the baking powder and instant coffee so that it doesn't stay in random bitter chunks

i will not elaborate