I love how your first example was AUR.

I use arch BTW.

Every country in the EU has some system for direct debit payments.

Italy has Bancomat, Germany has EC/Giro, France has Carte Bleue, Belgium has Bancontact/Mister Cash (still have not figured out whether they’re supposed to be different or just different names in Flanders and Wallonia), and so on and so forth.

Does the Netherlands not have such a system?

It used to be that people would use these within their own country, but there would be Maestro for payments around Europe.

MasterCard decided to discontinue Maestro for MasterCard Prepaid which has higher fees.

The Germans whined about it a little and said that Europe should have come up with its own payment systems, but nothing came of it.

By now we are also supposed to have SEPA Instant, that should offer Europe-wide bank transfers. I still have not quite understood why a debit card system can’t leverage that directly.

That also depends a lot. Often (e.g. on Fairphone) the stock ROM may lag behind way worse than e/OS.

So if a user has reasons to avoid a Pixel, or just wants to improve their privacy without replacing their device, e/OS may be a marked improvement even on security.

Not quite, it requires Play integrity.

Safteynet seems to mostly work.

Whether you knew better or not, I mostly wanted to provide slightly more accurate information for whoever might have been reading the thread.

Actually, no. e/OS includes MicroG, so even most app requiring Google services work just fine. What really doesnt’t work is Casting videos to a Chromecast, and anything requiting Play Integrity certification like Revolut.

Not sure what you’re talking about.

I was just saying that rounding is a normal thing to do and not lying.

Also Jesus was born in like 4 BC.

But more importantly, who cares?

I lived in my previous city for 9years 9m. I usually tell people I lived there 10 years, I don’t expect they’ll fell very betrayed when they learn the truth.

Give Piquadro a look. They are originally from near Bologna (Italy) though they’ve gotten so big I can’t imagine that they still produce everything there.

Wallets: https://www.piquadro.com/en-de/collections/wallets

And card holders: https://www.piquadro.com/en-de/collections/card-holders

Plenty of options with some style variations.

My last wallet was one of their “blue line” card holders in orange leather. The leather that was great and aged great for 10 years. I replaced it after 10 years of abuse because the pockets were getting a little stretched and the cards were occasionally falling.

Bought another one from them, more wallet-like this time. Let’s see if this one beats the 10 years mark. I still have the well-loved old one around if you want pictures.

mp4 is not really a video format. Depending on how recent they are they’ll play a broader or narrower range of MP4 files, depending on codec selection.

Time and convenience and… local shops were and are largely very disappointing for many types of purchases.

My first online buy (in 2003, at the age of 17) was a decent wired optical gaming mouse, a Logitech M510, in 2003. The first optical mouse I ever used that wouldn’t skip.

The selection at local computer stores was lacking to say the least, and they also could not give much good advice anyway.

I swear to you, my first thought was “an Apple peeler? Why would Apple make peelers? Do they have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi?”

Was using CUDA a problem?

Does someone want to convince me that the whole AI industry is training their models on windows machines?

But by that standard, Windows isn’t ready either…

There is a lot to dislike about this building, but the amount of total architectural nonsense in that thread is painful.

Looking at the Team, they’re obviously in Milan. It’s mostly Italians, but there’s hardly any other place in the country where you can even attract a team that diverse.

What you read is true, and also total nonsense.

There is not too much point in discussing privacy and security without a threat model.

So once you put your threat model into focus, you can discuss how to mitigate those threats and pick the right browser for you.

There is surely a tradeoff at some point…

But noone says you can’t lose both!

Fair.

Last time I had a PC with an optical drive, I used the built-in features of Dolphin, and using a different software for metadata. If you use KDE, it’s hard to find a good reason to do otherwise. It will usually get metadata from CDDB, but on the other hand for metadata It’s really hard to beat Picard or Beets.

Beets will also scrape the lyrics and add them to the metadata, beside acousticbrainz goodness, multiple genres from Last.fm, and more. Picard will do most of this as well.