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Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:05PM (#50135121)
I'm pretty sure this is more data than what's required for security clearance.
Re:StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:41AM (#49920866)
you can revert immediately in bottom left corner of StreetComplete, click on little revert arrow
Re:Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:52PM (#49369854)
My favorite thing when travelling across Europe is visiting local Lidl and comparing it to my own home Lidl. There is always something slightly different, but the base is most often the same.

For example in Belgrade they didn't have kaiser rolls in Lidl. That's a first for me.

my experience with border control in Gibraltar (foreign car, 2023):

entering: Spanish side: passport scan, UK side: 5 second look

exiting: waving through

I have a Samsung Galaxy from 2022 that has exactly that and it's still supported by manufacturer. Unfortunately it's a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro.
Re:Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:48AM (#47714440)
They say:

> We might modify your laptop to remove or power down the battery

Who says anything about e-mail? Government could legislate specific government electronic inboxes, with e-mail and SMS notifications of delivery, as has been happening in several, if not all EU countries.

I haven't got a snail mail from my government for years at this point, nor did I needed to send one that way.

in question

> How much do AI tools improve your productivity at work?

there is no 0-10% range

Re:HTTP Cats on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:56AM (#46834162)
I always post a cat from it whenever I need to specify a response code in an issue ;)
Re:HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @06:38AM (#46443326)
you can type "thisisunsafe" on HSTS error page to bypass
Re:I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:26PM (#46425911)
Re:What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:04AM (#46262479)
Random passers by towed me out of a ditch in Norway, once in summer, once in winter.
I highly recommend this deep dive, with some entertainment value: Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response [1]. It shows how absurd those claims are

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc

Re:A down detector for down detector's down detector on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:05AM (#45978166)
No, it's just one layer deeper.
Re:Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:48AM (#45924248)
Sometimes while traveling I just watch movies on my laptop, I don't even bother to connect to Wi-Fi as there is simply no need. I wonder how Windows 11 would even work without internet, and probably it's not a bad assumption that it will refuse after a while.

Anyway, just wiped W10 out of this laptop and installed KDE (underlying distro doesn't matter that much), it works amazing.

Re:We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner on Thursday November 13, 2025 @06:18PM (#45922011)
keep in mind, for dedicated servers, traffic is free and unlimited - see the page you've linked
Re:I Am Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:56AM (#45864387)
> and you're a working adult, then you wouldn't be home anyway

As of 2024, 36% of Australians work from home (https://www.ceda.com.au/research-and-policy/research/economy...)

Re:Addiction Markets on Saturday November 01, 2025 @12:28AM (#45779246)
I guess it depends on the person. I gamble away exactly ~$3 every month, never felt the need to increase that. I call it "randomness fund"
And on the other hand, you enter Montenegro by car outside of touristy season and no petrol stations carry sim card then, and you have to find some kiosk in city center that does, wasting so much time in the process, relying on offline maps or spotty wi-fi.

You enter Serbia or Faroe Islands, and to get a SIM you have to find the operator booth, hope it's not in city center where parking is close to impossible, wait in a queue, they don't accept card, go find an ATM, pay extra for foreign withdrawal, pay extra ATM fees...

e-SIM just solves that, you simply buy it online before. And if you forget, I have a bit more expensive "any country" e-SIM that will allow me to do so.

Before e-SIM was a thing mobile roaming outside of EU was on the extreme expensive end. Now, I don't even get to use my e-SIM capabilities, as my network operators have pretty cheap package rates to just roam outside of EU. I wonder if widespread of e-SIM has anything to do with that.

I've had to answer a urgent phone call on a bus once (on headphones) and I felt bad about that.

I don't understand how can you even think this is ever acceptable.

However, same as the 54% mentioned in the article I won't ask them, but for a different reason: noise canceling headphones means unless someone is playing a concert, it won't bother me.

Re:The last European train that travels by sea on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:59AM (#45729868)
Nynäshamn - Gdańsk. I've also did shorter routes like Ystad - Świnoujście and Helsinki - Tallinn
Re:Creating an all-weather driver on Monday October 27, 2025 @10:27PM (#45728662)
I see no issue with that as long as you can override and drive manually.
Re:The last European train that travels by sea on Monday October 27, 2025 @08:18PM (#45727946)
Yeah, if you actually walk around outside of your cabin. I took this ferry last summer, pretty much didn't leave the cabin (except to look at Shetland Islands), only just before arriving. Having plenty of food, movies and games with me... yeah

If you take this ferry, make sure to do the stop in Faroe Islands, it's absolutely amazing.

I plan to sail this route again next year.

Side note: was it just me or this ferry or route is particularly rough? I crossed Baltic like 20 times by ferry (18h crossing), never got sea sick, until this one.

I've used that trick as far as Windows XP, playing videos inside 3D models in programs like SketchUp
Given it's Ryanair I doubt we will see it, still hope so (Peter works for them)
Re:Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat on Sunday October 05, 2025 @12:27PM (#45482873)
Ryanair's seats don't recline, period.

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