Kankuro

I used floss as indicated in ifixit comments, but the glue did not saw easily (I'm not dexterous).

At some point, only charging worked (and for one usb-c cable only on one side, which is weird given connecter is symmetrical), data and usb-audio stopped working. With my previous Samsung phone contact became very unreliable after 3 years. A new connector costs only a few euros, but I cannot do the soldering by myself and it cost me around 40€.

I recently changed the battery of my Switch 1, if for most of the process it was easy, and I really struggled on two points. 1) the plastic part into which the screws are screwed broke, and it is tough to remove them. 2) ungluing the battery with isopropyl alcohol without breaking anything was very long for me. I recently changed the USB port of my Fairphone 4 and it was just unscrewing and screwing. So for me it is a great change from Nintendo.

France is the 2nd largest market for manga after Japan (or it was a few years ago). That's surprising because there are almost 7 times more inhabitants in the US. Those who were a kid in the 80s and 90s in France saw a lot of Japanese anime on TV during this period, so that's part of the explanation.

I think you are mentioning a viral but incorrect story: a station was scheduled to close at a given date, a student mentioned in an interview that it will close after her graduation, but then some news sites claimed that the date of the closing was related to the graduation. The station was also used by a few residents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%AB-Shirataki_Station#In_...

I guess it would end up like usual: "They are fake news. They are created with AI. Everybody can do it. My dog can do it. They just hate America. Bad people. They want to hurt our great country[…]" And his radicalized voters will follow him, like it did not end Berlusconi career after the "bunga-bunga" scandal

I also subscribed to Deezer, and the fact that it is still not profitable makes me wonder why. Is it because they pay more artists? Or because the labels get a larger share of the revenues? Or because they have a smaller market share (so larger fixed costs in percentage of their revenues)? Or they are less efficient than Spotify?

According to this article musicians get $0.022 from Qobuz per stream when Deezer pays $0.0064 ($0.00437 for Spotify).

https://www.lalal.ai/blog/how-much-streaming-services-pay-ar...

Convincing more people that your approach is necessary and that technology will not evolve quickly enough to we (western people) continue to live like we used to? (until now, I brilliantly failed around me)

If find "let [people] go" much worse euphemism. I was shocked the first time I heard it, like if it was just the fate and the people deciding were not involved in this situation. In France, the local euphemism is to say that someone has been thanked ("remercié").

One must be careful when hiking with OpenStreetMap (and OsmAnd) as reference. Several times I could barely find the path (maybe it was added by someone but not really official and maintained) and I had to follow the positioning to try to follow the virtual path in the high grass. (but I still rely a lot on OsmAnd).

Between Passau (Germany-Austria border) and Vienna, you have asphalt for most of it, with some unpaved/compacted parts (it may have improved since 2015). You need to cross the river by small boats (for a fee) a few times. For bicycle touring, checking the type of surface on OpenStreetMap beforehand can be quite useful. Travelling on unpaved paths is not at all as fast as on asphalt is you have an hybrid bike (my case).

I stopped using my own domain (managed by an association) for sending to outlook.com and yahoo because I know it's a fight that will be a net loss for me. Senders will change provider (because it's critical) before these major actor starts planning a fix. And in an organisation, if a business person asks the IT to fix the issue, the only way to do it in a timely manner is to changer provider. The requester will not care if it's Microsoft fault, sending mail works at home and in other companies, not here, do something, business comes first, bla bla bla.

Or he was just trapped in the sunk cost fallacy ("I spent so much time that I cannot stop now even if it is not worth")

In France, some post offices have such self-service printers. I chose to go to the a self-service printer shop when I need it every few months. It minimizes resources, it limits feeding this toxic industry and it saves space on my desk.

The vote for Macron was predominant among the elderly. Number 3 Mélenchon (radical left) got the votes from the 35- (and he was one of the 2 candidates actually proposing something against climate change). Le Pen (#2, far right) was in first place in-between. It does not mean that everything is explained by age though.

US authorities don't investigate about MS (hopefully they will), but they use the extraterritoriality of US laws to sue foreign companies who corrupted in a foreign country. The French company Alstom (rolling stock and gas/nuke turbines manufacturer) was prosecuted for corruption… in Indonesia [1]. I'm all for fighting against corruption everywhere, but here it looks like the case was allegedly used to force to sell the power division to General Electric. These turbines are used by the nuclear plants in France, so they are quite critical and could have been used by the US authorities to negotiate something with France. I would have preferred if those guys were sued in France in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom#Judicial_troubles

About 10 years ago, I used the translations of KDE texts to estimate how much space texts in a given language could take when translated into another language (we had an internal web page editor that only allowed putting texts and widgets at fixed x-y coordinates, so allocating extra-space for translation was a sad work-around). http://fabsk.eu/i18n/#en;fr

And following a great national tradition of low proficiency in English, former French president Sarkozy once welcomed Angela Merkel with "sorry for the time".

In France, most of the places where dams could be placed are already taken. It also means that pumped hydroelectric energy storage can only be set up marginally.

In France, contractors cannot work in the same way than the regular employees. They have to be hired for a well-defined mission (on-site or on the staffing firm site) and take orders from their hierarchy, not from people of the customer company (otherwise it's called "délit de marchandage"). It has been abused a lot (to get staff that can be fired quickly and legally).

You may not want to take the risk to get injured. Three years ago, there was in France massive protests from the "yellow vests" that started because of the increase of the tax on diesel (which was lower than gas, and so the most popular type of vehicle), a problem for the poor-middle class. A number of people lost an eye or an hand because of blast balls or gaz grenades that were not launched properly. A few died. Some were beaten by the police in situations not requiring "legal violence". The government and the police used to say it was the fault of the protesters. But now we have smartphones to film, so in these cases there are… investigations that lead nowhere, the culprit from the police is never identified. It can be seen as a tactic to instill fear and reduce the protests. Also, take a burner phone because it can be taken by French police as it could have been a tool to organise an unlawful activity (and you may not see it anytime soon even if you are not guilty and released).

If you are an employee in France, your salary is pre-populated in the website of the fiscal administration. My gains from my savings are pre-filed by my bank. During the year, I record my charity donations in a spreadsheet so I don't forget them, and I double-check with the declaration of the previous year to be sure I don't forget anything. Sometimes some categories are changed, but it's not that often. It's more complicated if you are a landlord.

I thought I could do that (in France) because I'm living on the cheap. But I guess you somehow needsf to pay the social security to get the benefits. I don't know how to do that when not having a salary (the social security "premium" is hidden and deferred salary) or are not searching for a job, or a kid/retirie. Otherwise it would mean being a freeloader.

I used to take one in France, but I could not sleep well (like when taking an overnight flight) and arrived tired. It was a alternative to spending 5.5 hours in the train during the day, or flying. (then this service stopped) One thing that is missing is the possibility to take a shower before leaving. I don't think there is any public shower in train stations in France any more. Same problem with night coaches: after having walked in a city the whole day, I don't want to make the experience bad for the other travellers.

The temperuture of the coffee will drop quickly, so I wonder if it would not resist to water consistently heaten for 2 hours or if it will fall apart after 2 hours if it contained hot water (that would be bad if you forgot your coffee on your desk).

* Their home page boasts to be "The only search engine that respects your privacy.". DDG has been there for much longer. I could not trust them after such obviously false claims.

* They promised (to the public and their investors, which includes the state funds) that if they used Bing, they were improving they own engine which was handling more and more queries. Studied showed it was not the case, that many searches showed outdated results and repeating entries (to make think they have many search results).

* Their previous boss was a tyrannic Jobs wannabe. He wanted Qwant to become as trendy as Google so he kept launching half-baked products (Qwant maps! Qwant mail! etc). Constant chance of priorities and new projects were devastating for developers (especially when the search engine was still very weak). He was finally pushed out of the company.

In France in 2012, there was also Numergy and Cloudwatt, funded by state money and associated to existing large groups (Orange, the largest telco, Thales, military, SFR, other large telco, Bull, a prehistoric computer company). Now there are dead. Such projects were weird because back then OVH was already the largest European hosting company. Maybe the owner was not a good friend of the politicians or he wanted to keep full control…

Ok, so there should be reciprocal European law: any company operating in the EU must provide access to the EU authorities (all countries) any data managed by it and stored in any country in the world (so including US data stored in the US), otherwise it would get big fines or interdiction to operate in the EU. (PS: I don't want that, it should work like extradition but with real reciprocity)

I wanted to subscribed to Mediapart, one of the very very few independent news site in France. Everything is online (subscription, article) but the unsubscription with requires register mail! That's crazy, they are financed only by subscriptions (paywall, no ads) and not backed by any major media group/tycoon/the state, but they still rely on this dishonest practice. I read that you can unsubscribe by email, but if it's not written in the terms and conditions I'm not going to trust them on that. What a pity.

Things I did not know, from France Info radio: - before the alliance, Renault and Nissan had about the same size. Now Nissan is twice as big in number of cars. - Nissan maybe in position to merge with/control Renault (and French government is not really pleased)