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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.

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

I always post a cat from it whenever I need to specify a response code in an issue ;)

you can type "thisisunsafe" on HSTS error page to bypass

there is the e164.arpa domain, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping

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

No, it's just one layer deeper.

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.

keep in mind, for dedicated servers, traffic is free and unlimited - see the page you've linked

already did https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko

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...)

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.

Nynäshamn - Gdańsk. I've also did shorter routes like Ystad - Świnoujście and Helsinki - Tallinn

I see no issue with that as long as you can override and drive manually.

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)

Ryanair's seats don't recline, period.

Most important part:

Device-level parental controls have existed for years, and can actually block a million sites. But politicians can’t take credit for them.

Quoting from proposed text:

When executing the detection order, providers should take all available safeguard measures to ensure that the technologies employed by them cannot be used by them or their employees for purposes other than compliance with this Regulation, nor by third parties, and thus to avoid undermining the security and confidentiality of the communications of users.

EU demands impossible.

Are you sure they weren't just trying to redirect you too a capture portal?

Or IP over Avian Carriers or HTCPCP

Yes. There are solutions to that though, that are cheap and work worldwide wherever there is a cellular range (e.g. Hologram, SimBase). They only lost cellular when I was at a really weird place (Faroe Islands), and only one of them. Trackers use very little data (depends on the tracker and config I guess, I use branded ones i.e. Teltonika)

I self-hosted it for a while now. Works well. I track all devices I have and additionally hardwired a GPS in my car, connected to it. It supports a almost infinite list of GPS devices and protocols, so definitely you can find something on their list.

Very configurable, when I added a Bluetooth temperature beacon to the GPS in my car I was able to write specific computed attributes in it so that it converts raw value and saves temperature together with each check-in.