Interesting maybe try a fresh contact import on your macs? I know about 20+ people who use IMacs iPhones and MacBooks with fastmail and have no syncing issues.
Elsewhere the ride to the airport is a quick cheap train. Electronic boarding so no need to checkin. But even if you do you’ve got a dedicated counter with someone waiting for you. Controls are under 2 minutes. Less than that if you have status you essentially walk through. (Fuck the American tsa those incompetent fools). And lounges overseas at a decent airline are like high end spas or better.
Checkout cathays first class lounge in hk. Or Singapore’s lounge for pps.
Then again, status at airlines that are not American come with some pretty excellent perks that are not found in America.
I’d take a long haul to retain status. The routes I fly and the frequency makes it a necessity. Taking a hot shower the minute you step off a plane before you meet a client is worth every dollar.
Cloud engineer. Network engineer. Software engineer.... I’ve never heard of medstudents calling themselves doctors, why do cs students/grads get a pass?
Up next chefs will be food engineers, tailors will be clothing engineers, and because I changed the oil in my Toyota once, I’m now a Toyota engineer; specializing in fluids.
Words mean literally nothing anymore (ha). Titles in tech are hilarious at almost every level, especially from the outside looking in.
To be fair to life labs, at least they don’t dox you aloud to an entire waiting room.
I witnessed that happen to a few prominent financiers in Toronto while I was getting some bloodwork done. It was terrifying within about 5 minutes I had all the personal information I’d need to do some seriously nefarious things.
This happens on most every occasion I visit a clinic in Canada. Nurses and secretaries do not care.
This is literally how most electricity is charged. I’ve been in probably 30+ non European countries and it is frequently billed this way. Potable water is usually the same. Residential users rarely exceed the standard allowance so they never come across tiered pricing.
In fact most larger cities not only have tier pricing but also peak pricing inside tier levels.
Commercial and industrial is its own game, they have tiers and on/off peak charges along with load shedding requirements. Often it’s billed not just kWh but also peak amperage draw.
Edit: by load shedding I mean commercial/industrial end users often have to be able to accept incoming excess power from the grid that residential use isn’t consuming due to weather/events grid failures etc. Power grids are immensely complex and very interesting beasts.
The us has half iPhones of China alone [0]. And America only contains 16% of the worlds iphones. So yes, America is not a big player when it comes to iPhone usage.
It should be noted the fumes are from the cast in place pipe liner (cipp) which is a Fiberglas style sock that is pulled through the existing pipe and then filled with compressed steam.
This has quite a few voc’s that really give your stomach a churn if you are in close proximity.
Remember windows before the precision drivers? Linux touchpad stuff today is where windows was a decade ago. This is a fundamental portable use issue that has to be tweaked with each distro and machine.
Hand a Linux machine with a clean install to any non tech person and they will ask if your trackpad is broken. It is.
POP OS seems to be trying to fix the problems every Linux user spends the first hour fixing on a fresh install.
On some Lenovo hardware it’s usable, but still so far off of power management and suspend resume of both macOS and windows that it’s not an option for someone who spends a lot of time travelling with a machine.
I have the exact same service providers and quite frankly, I love them. Haven’t had any issues, setup and payment is a piece of cake. And their app is a proper professional email app.
It sure is interesting sitting back watching your average consumers purchase chromebooks and nexus phones only to have their subsidies be pulled.
Chrome books with the baked in eol, and cloud storage cut in half was a pretty evil moment. Curious to see what the future has for the customers who have become the product.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eunYrrcxXfw
And then we get into hardware design...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY