Sounds like it is designed to make it difficult and cumbersome… which is the opposite of what you’d hope for a wide adoption of practice.

I always wonder why there are no pan-Europe deposit systems in place, or at least some sort of recognition across the countries.

Imagine you travel from one country to another, you grab a bottle of water for your trip, and then you are supposed to return that bottle only in the country where you originally got it.

Or you not only miss your deposit—sometimes you can’t even throw plastic bottles to recycling collection points just because the plastic bottle you got doesn’t have their local sign/icon printed on the packaging.

Any key at the corner. Usually arrow right. It doesn’t mess up my password during the time it is waking up where I’m unsure if it is missing one or two characters. Sometimes also [ or control or fn or even backspace depending which keyboard I’m using.

But then Android Auto and NFC payment like Wallet/Pay won’t work…

Des pizzas vendues dans toute la France rappelées…

Là où je regarde.

Could be a series of villain criminal superhero vampire romance stories.

I really had to think hard and I guess I seldom use it. I touch-type but somehow my body has learnt to use only the left hand for almost all the modifier keys no matter how many keys I have to press there. It’s actually a good idea that I only realise now that I should map that right shift for something else.

All the lingo and acronyms.

I tried their email out for some time and was contemplating fully switching over. But somewhat in their email has always felt broken to me. Some days it was the text editor. Other days it was the reader and account thumbnails. Their support was responsive but their engineering really gave the feeling that they didn’t care in the past few months.

I guess that’s why. I just wish something in tech isn’t just working towards an MVP and then once it is out or sold, goodbye.

Alternative to Google, they said. It didn’t seem so alternative by its way of hitting the graveyard.

I actually prefer it that way. With tabbed Ribbons (Is it how they’re called?), I constantly have to look over and over again which tab the thing I need is located, ending up in question why X is put here but not there.

I despise the fact that most Android phones start with a 6-inch screen. I was resolute to switch to an iPhone mini next time when I’ll change phones but then they also killed that product line. 🫠

I really miss the time I can do everything with one hand using only one thumb.

Make ceramics. It’s really meditative. Time passes so quickly as I focus on the spinning clay on the wheel.

There were subjects which I hated, either because I found them boring, the teachers were not inviting, or I just needed sleep. For instance, chemistry and national history are examples of them.

Many years later, I found myself in situations where I started to develop curiosity around those subjects, where I would wish to have properly learnt or attended those topics again.

And he said

I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.

By not having unions, he exactly creates the lords-and-peasants kind of thing.

I read somewhere that they prioritised cargo trains over passenger trains anyway when it comes to delays and service reliability.

Besides, what else? There is only one railway network and you gotta use it anyway no matter how trashy it gets.

They don’t even need to compete for passengers.

Germany is prone to dogmatism. There is a culture of putting things in boxes of right or wrong and then signaling it. Besides, skipping to judgement is easier than trying to unravel complications and risking being questioned in a hot seat. Spirit of being risk-averse.

If you are searched on a private property, at least (and in theory) the law enforcement unit needs to get some sort of warrant before they could search you.

I don’t see why we are opening access to our private digital sphere to them to do whatever and whenever they like, and most likely without us knowing what is going on.

Universal basic income, I guess.

That was a bit hidden. Thanks for pointing it out!

Quite happy user of Pixel 6a. The only few annoying things are:

• Under-the-screen fingerprint sensor works less than half of the time. At night and in bed, it blinds me.
• Battery, despite adaptive battery, still feels surprisingly draining fast from time to time. The battery merely just hold for the day whereas I don’t even have that much screen time or background running apps.