dkarbayev · HackerTrans

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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%.

dkarbayev

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

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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 It's outdated, it doesn't cash anything at all - you have to have internet connection to see anything.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I've read a lot of complaints about Polar's Flow app - it is also outdated and the data is grouped so counterintuitively, it takes forever to find.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!

dkarbayev

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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

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

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

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Huh, left Cmd button on my MBP 2018 has the same issue. Also double t’s. Also sometimes not working left Shift unless you press it harder. Also partially not working Touch Bar (about an inch of it has turned black and doesn’t display anything).

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