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I was extorted 15% tips in Paris in a restaurant with shitty food not too far away from the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately, I didn't have roaming package at the time so I couldn't check that place's rating on Google Maps before ordering food. Turns out, there were lots of complaints about their service. In retrospective, I should have probably called police when they were actively insisting that 20% tips are mandatory and after like 5 minutes of arguing they "kindly" agreed to lower it to 15%.

So, most of the banking or other financial apps, government ID apps (like AGOV in Switzerland) probably won't work on that phone?

Garmin Connect app is terrible. It's outdated, it doesn't cash anything at all - you have to have internet connection to see anything. They are pushing for Connect+ subscription. And their watches are getting more expensive without any real innovations in harware (most of new features you get, say, from Forerunner 570 or 970 probably could have been easily enabled on Forerunner 265 or 965 with software updates).

Coros has a nice app. A lot of elite athletes are seemingly switching to Coros wearables (especially the HR bicep band). Alas, it's slightly behind Garmin in terms of accuracy and functionality.

Suunto is similar to Coros - nice app, lower accuracy and less functions.

I've read a lot of complaints about Polar's Flow app - it is also outdated and the data is grouped so counterintuitively, it takes forever to find.

There's also Amazfit (AFAIK it's a subsidiary of Xiaomi?). I used their watch (GTR) a while ago and it was unremarkable, but I also weren't doing any sports back then so I can't judge it from the standpoint of activity tracking. They are Chinese company (as is Coros btw), which makes it slightly uncomfortable for me to share my health data with them.

In other words, if you find an ideal sports watch, please let me know!

It's fairly common at least in the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland too. In Switzerland they also place street parking spots on alternating sides on narrow streets, which also makes you more attentive and lower your speed.

Offtopic: Oh boy, I recently had a "joy" to watch a cable TV. 5-minute ad breaks every 10 minutes or event more often – it is even much worse than Youtube with ads.

Eh? Just checked in SBB Mobile, Zurich<->Lugano is 68 CHF roundtrip (with Halb-Tax, of course, but if you live in Switzerland, it doesn't make sense to not have it unless you have a GA travelcard) with 2nd class.

Most of the internet users are passive content consumers, and it’s been the case since a long time ago. There's a post about it from 2019:

https://bewilderbeast.org/2019/08/16/most-of-what-you-read-o...

On iOS you can do that using DeviceActivity framework, iirc.

I've learned English by scrolling endless memes on Imgur (back when it used to be an image storage for Reddit), and watching a lot of Youtube videos on the topics that interested me (tech and car reviews - like LTT and Doug DeMuro). But that only developed my passive vocabulary (reading and listening). I only really learned speaking English once I started working remotely for an australian company, and further improved the fluency after moving abroad (to the Netherlands).

I'm currently doing German lessons on Duolingo, and what I dislike the most is that it keeps shoving "useless" words into my face (the words that are irrelevant for me and that I'll most likely never use) - I wish there was an option to choose the topics that I find interesting so that it'd mix the words that more relevant with the everyday use words to better taylor the vocab for me. Another shortcoming is that it never actually explains the grammar rules, you can only try to analyze the examples yourself, trying to notice any patterns. Some are good in that, others are bad - so why don't they spare us that mental gymnastics and provide at least minimal explanation?

I use it often to discuss a few topics that I'm interested in (sports, hobbies, a bit of coding). I've never used the autocompletion feature even once, and I mostly don't even notice it (similar to how our brain learns to ignore context ads).

Sounds like a solid candidate for Ig Nobel Prize award.

I had a Macbook Pro 2018 that a friend of mine bought for me in Moscow because it was much cheaper there (due to grey import, I think). I didn't have Apple Care or anything. When its touchbar stopped working in 2020, I brought it to Apple Store in Amsterdam and complained about it and also about faulty butterfly keys (one keycap fell off, "t" and "e" key were registering double presses each time). So the guys at Apple Store simply took it and replaced the whole top case so I've got a new keyboard, new touchbar, and - the best part - a new battery.

Do you actually have to wipe the screen with the included special cloth? The screen on all of the macbooks that I've had usually get oily patches because of the contact with keycaps, so I have to wipe the screen regularly.

Was there any "productionization" of the "cure" for baldness & gray hair, after it was discovered 7 years ago? I reckon, there's a huge market for that cure.

Perhaps Dodge vs. Ford Motor Company [1] is relevant here?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

I don’t think it’ll work anyway. BMW has been stubborn on CarPay integration by not supporting it or asking a hefty price for “CarPlay preparation” (which is, as far as I’m concerned, mostly installing a WiFi antenna on the head unit), all because it would have cannibalized their revenue from map updates and other remote services (e.g. real-time traffic information). But in the end, BMW gave up and CarPlay is included in all models by default starting 2022 or 2023, don’t remember exactly.

Tried “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” and it highlighted every word. Tried “James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher” and it had no issues with it.

The average Windows user is far from being tech-savvy (I’m not going to call them stupid).

LTT tried to launch their own video hosting platform called Floatplane, doesn’t seem to have taken off so far.

I gave my old iPad 2 some years ago to my mom, and somehow she’s still using it to these days (although apps are dropping support for iOS 9.3.5 one after another).

I've read that one of the positive sides of it is hygiene.

But next year the commission rate will be 30% and if the earnings that year are below $1m the business will be only eligible for the reduced commission year after that.

My 2 cents: I used to use dark themes for a couple of years only to realize that I had to increase the font in my IDE to almost twice as big as I have it now, after I switched back to light theme. Reading dark text on light background is so much easier to me. However, I also adjust white balance of my display to very warm end of spectrum using “night shift” on Mac even during the day.

Why iPad though? I’ve seen a specialized electronic music sheet (seemingly based on e-ink) in some videos, I guess pages are flipped using a pedal since I didn’t notice any visible interaction with it to do so, e.g. https://youtu.be/oB-gF2Ncphg

9 years of experience, used LeetCode for preparation for two months (solved around 200 mostly medium problems) and got an offer from FAANG. Coding challenges at FB and G are not that hard nowadays.

This one is one of the most solid points. Remember Tim Apple saying "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI."?

That’s completely different, because it’s based on your personal opinion/attitude towards certain people. On the other hand, calling scammers who they are is not subjective (unless you’re falsely accusing someone).

One of my previous employers reached out to me on StackOverflow, telling me that my profile got them interested in me. I went through their interview process and accepted their offer. The project turned out to be quite interesting and working for them was one of the most positive experiences I had.

Now imagine how many more videos and complaints would he have if he was repairing laptops from any other brand.

As someone who’s interested in living in Amsterdam, I wonder what are options to commute other than by walking, cycling or taking a public transport? As far as I know, electric scooters are illegal in the Netherlands. I fancy motorcycles but I’m not sure if they’ll be banned right after cars (at least those that use ICE).