Uh-oh—I shouldn’t have typed that!
Of course, there are no longer any blown fuses here. It’s just old slang.
Now there are only circuit breakers.
Then we also have the residual current circuit breaker (RCCB).
Funny, Boris jumps in to rehash things.
And Bonte, you can still blow fuses today. It depends on where you live and how old your home is…
Its getting rare to find old fuse boxes but the are still around.
And you can blow circuit breakers.
There is a lot to power that is outside of your control.
And its not just surges but also brown outs.
For my rack, I have a battery backup , power conditioner on a 20 amp circuit to a 5-20 socket. This will give me 10min of power which is time to either wait to see if the power loss is temporary, or to shut down the servers in a controlled manner.
In terms of audio… the advantage to ‘audio grade’ components is that they run quiet. The commercial gear have cheaper fans so you can hear the fan on your switch, power conditioner. Something you don’t want to hear. The good news is that you can get PS Audio gear second hand.
Yup, that’s right. But that’s just how things work here: if you renovate an old house, immediate requirements are imposed to bring the electrical system up to VDE standards—exactly like in my own renovated older building. For that matter, an insurance company alone wouldn’t even provide you with coverage. They just want to collect your monthly premiums; they certainly don’t want to be paying out for damages caused by cable fires or similar incidents year after year.
And as I mentioned earlier:
It also depends heavily on the infrastructure of the specific country in question.
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And Bonte
In the US it depends on what you’re renovating.
Which is why certain things get done and other things do not.
Today in Chicago, there are many neighborhoods that still have lead water pipes feeding into buildings. This is allowed because there are chemicals which stop the lead from impacting the water and the water in the buildings have tested as safe.
Yet we all know that it would be better to replace those lines… Over time they are getting replaced and hopefully sometime this century that would happen.
Of course in Germany… your cost of electricity has gone up. Even as you bring coal plants online to make up for the loss of your nuclear plants…
Oh God, Mikey… is the tap water even safe to drink?
That would really be something—having running water right in my house, yet still having to drive out to a well just to get potentially clean, drinkable spring water. 
Mostly.
I’m sure that there may be some neighborhoods where there are higher levels of lead, but still within safety margin.
The issue though is that the city relies on a chemical additive to treat the existing lead pipes because of the time and cost it would take to replace them.
The point is that infrastructures around the world are different. YMMV.
And this is just one city in the US.
And those chemicals are surely great for the population! 
Well, I don’t know about that… and in a country that is supposedly the most advanced on the planet, no less.
There we go again with the infrastructure in the States. Absolutely abysmal! 
We are the most advanced and least advanced, both at the same time. We are good at weaponry and medicine but drive on third world country roads. We have the best universities and the worst public education. Better not to get me started here.
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True words.
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People just don’t realize how big the country is and the problems it creates.
You’ve been paying a telcom tax to subsidize telco infrastructure in rural areas… and yet they are still decades behind what you can get in urban cities.
And then you have old cities that waste their budgets so that they can’t afford to do upgrades to infrastructure unless they have to. Roads, Bridges, Sewers, etc …
And that really shows…
And what you get in the cities is decades behind what you get in a village in some post-Soviet republic, at 1/10th the price.
Boris, you wouldn’t know unless you dwell under ground or are a ditch digger.
The city doesn’t really know what’s down there unless they recently replaced it.
Clearly you must want to go back to mother Russia.
Mikey, you must really get off on demonstrating your cluelessness!
Not something humans would understand, but whatever makes you hsappy…
Boris, you pipe in w useless information and you yet again don’t know what you’re talking about.
You gonna know what buried pipes are where?
Unless you’re a ditch digger or a mole man, you won’t.
The city doesn’t have all of the records as to what is where unless they redid the water pipes recently… like in the last 20yrs. or so.
Clearly you don’t live in Chicago or have talked w the civil engineering firm that contracts with the city for these types of projects. I have. Way back when… one of my neighbors was an SVP for the largest firm doing business w the city.
Since you mentioned your love of Soviet bloc cities… my suggestion was that you can go live there .
I have several friends who would beg to differ and would rather live in Chicago.
Just because you could not comprehend what I write does not mean that grown-ups here don’t know what they are talking about. Just that you don’t. And can’t.
I did, long enough.
As soon as I need some advice from the feeble-minded, I will notify you in writing. Of course you don’t understand it correctly then either.
Well, I don’t know, Boris!
Do you think that in US cities, there is less infrastructure—or that the infrastructure is poorer—than it was during the Soviet era (the “post-Soviet space”)?
Well, it’s quite possible.
Hello, hello…what’s going on here again???
I was just ripped a CD, and here I am—discovering funny stuff again, all while listening to some great music… Awesome! Keep it up. 
Well, it’s better (somewhat) than what it was in Soviet times. But at least talking specifically about electricity and internet… it’s better than some village in Siberia where they had only seen indoor plumbing in the movies. Compared to e.g. the Baltics it is quite shameful.
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Since the sanctions against Russia, I have been looking at Russia a lot and have also seen reports from Germans who have emigrated there.
In one such report, an emigrant filmed a rather large village. He did this because the elites wanted to push their brainwashing narrative to the extreme by claiming that our sanctions were actually having an effect. They alleged that Russia was scouring the globe to buy up countless washing machines—specifically to strip the microchips out of them in order to equip their defense systems. 
He showed just how beautiful this village (or small town) actually was. No foreigners, everything was clean, and the infrastructure—well, we don’t even have anything like that here in Germany.
They have traffic lights and crosswalks that remain visible even during a snowfall. That is to say, even if the crosswalk is covered in snow, you can still see it because it is projected onto the ground (Snow).
Conclusion: It is a very modern village—or small town.
And as for food, they have plenty. The shops were fully stocked; the emigrant filmed it all.