Is it an authentic aeropress, not a cheap knockoff? There are a bunch that sell under the same name but aren’t in fact manufactured by aeropress ltd., and those can taste off since the cheap plastic is not certified for use with boiling water, and might not even be bpa free.
So sorry for your loss!
As for my motivation, I did a year of work & travel in Norway after finishing my bachelor’s and picked up enough to be conversational. Actually I tried staying afterwards but could only score student jobs and temporary stuff, so decided to build my CV a bit more before going back.
Life took a few unexpected turns and instead of returning after a couple years, I ended up working all over Africa and then Asia for 15+ years, but I still kept going, thinking I would one day return.
Now that the time might have come in the near future (= next 2-ish years), I was looking more and more into the requirements and figured out that the wealth tax would break me - I’m by no means filthy rich, but they tax you on assets above ~160k USD, and since I don’t qualify for any government pensions due to my erratic work, I’ve set aside a good chunk of investments for my retirement that’d effectively be crippled in its growth potential. The only thing exempt are a primary residence there (considered to 25% of its value) and local government pension accounts.
That pretty much killed Norway for me, so I’m now looking at Sweden instead, where there’s no such thing, and cost of living are also lower. So I decided to switch over to learning Swedish instead, it’s not far off. I was there last year and was able to have a pretty normal conversation with a real estate agent where I spoke Norwegian and he Swedish, and we understood each other just fine.
For visiting only, English is just fine. But if you plan to work and socialise long term, it’s absolutely essential to integrate.
Learning Swedish now, since I already speak passable Norwegian, it’s not the hardest endeavor.
Are people really actively using tablets? I thought that was more of a hype and is now something that lies around and gets occasional use on the couch, but not really productive.
Sounds like it’s only affecting TCP and TLS, so VPN over UDP would be a quick fix.
Works just fine if you put your phone in desktop mode.
Facebook works perfectly fine in browser, there’s literally no need for that shit app.
Sounds like the attack scenario is very sophisticated and targeted, and only works within the range of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) connectivity, so 10-15 meters under best circumstances. At that point they might as well eavesdrop on my calls in person.
GDPR. First time opening a European website? German ones like this are particularly transparent (by law, not choice).
About 7-8 days, my water boiler broke in mid winter, and I just couldn’t do cold showers at below freezing temperatures. Ended up boiling water and washed at the sink, went pretty alright tbh.
Lemmy is the only text-based social media I use, other than PieFed (which is practically the same, and fully compatible). If there was a PieFed client with a nice UI, I’d switch fully in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the only client seems to be Interstellar, which is functional but lacking (and ugly).
I do still use Instagram, but more so as a photo backup solution than active social media. PixFed or whatever it was called didn’t work for me since nobody can guarantee that the server I chose will actively be maintained long term.
Selling a product is a good business model if the product has a shelf life or naturally degrades over time, but served you so well that you’ll replace it in kind or with an upgrade.
A product that does something exactly once and done doesn’t scale long term, so once the hype was over, that was that.
Bought back by the one person who already had prior access, and bought by her own research non-profit. As far as privacy concerns go, that’s the best case scenario.
Yeah Linux is great, no doubt. I’ve been using Xubuntu since forever, never really touched Arch, but fundamentally if you know your way around one system, you’ll manage another.
Still, there are a bunch of applications that I must run under Windows, so it’s good to have the no frills version available for that.
Lol, did whoever set to the shop configure it in Australian dollars? 100 AUD are just about 65 USD. Given the currency fluctuation, that could just about work out.
Install the IoT version, that comes without any of the bloat and works just fine. Not even the Microsoft store is bundled in.
Nah, I really like em on the skinny side.
Thick butts. No thank you. A little bump is nice, but most of what’s out there is gross, and with a surface resembling asteroid impact craters.
Very strange, I’m using water straight from the kettle just after bringing it to a full boil, and don’t taste anything plastic.