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Summer and Technical students (or basically anyone with a CERN account) already have access to much more detailed maps, if they care to search around CERN's GIS portal a bit.

Additionally, those who know the right people can get a paper version of the galleries map with all the interesting spots (unlocked entrances, light switches and spots like "zombie cages" or "connor's death") marked.

I also use reMarkable as a (pretty good) EPUB reader, but it is really slow when opening the book for the first time or changing the rendering settings (font size, margins, etc.).

It can sometimes take a minute or two and sometimes it just hangs completely and you have to close the book and re-open it. I assume it's because it has to somehow render the whole book, to support the handwritten annotations and put them in correct places.

Dumber phone 8 years ago

elinks actually kind of supports touch input in Termux. I tend to use it when I'm in a spot with very bad data coverage and need to check something. It's surprisingly usable.

I once needed to replace an expired health insurance card but since I don't live in the same country where my health insurance is registered, I called the company to inquire about whether it's possible to have the card shipped to another country. Of course it is! Just enter your address into a form in their Easy And Convenient Online System. Turns out, their system wouldn't process the request unless it validated the address. It seems the company paid for a version of the database which contained house-level details from my home country but other countries only had cities listed. That meant I could enter the city and then I could use a dropdown to pick one of the zero streets the system knew about. Suffice to say, I didn't get my health insurance card.

3D Touch/Force Touch actually currently works on OS X on the 2015 MacBook Pro and the new MacBook. The touchpad doesn't move, it's just pressure sensitive and provides haptic feedback so you feel like you can depress it even more after clicking. OS X provides a dictionary/lookup popover when using it in Safari and some other apps.

Well, if you're in Europe, find some info about VAT and customs duty rates and limits for imported goods and how individual customers pay them. Here in Slovakia, for example, if I buy anything over 20€ from China, it will be held by the post office until I come and pay 20% VAT on it and if it's more than around 140€ (I don't remember the exact amount), I have to pay duty too.