UK/EU has had contactless payments via our bank cards for about 2 decades now. America caught up eventually some years later

When phones got the ability to act as our bank cards, it made sense for them to use something compatible with the same technology that was already deployed

Funnily enough, America (and I guess also Korea, given the companies) dragging their heels on standard contactless is one of the main reasons why Samsung/LG briefly put out a couple of generations of phones that had a magnetic stripe mimicking payment feature in addition to standard NFC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_secure_transmission)

Jazz FM for the morning coffee, BBC 6 music when making dinner

I’ve gotta be honest I somehow missed the entire context added to the body, but OP gave a good answer anyway

Neither is a problem, leftover cheese will just get eaten as a snack if it’s not enough to keep until I go to the shop next (I usually go every other day for something since it’s a 2 min walk)

Leftover bread just becomes a piece of toast with some butter (I basically always have it in, and get the replacement before I totally run out). Tbh with a coffee that’s just my normal breakfast some days anyway

You had me wondering so I looked it up

I dropped a zero, it’s 500MB (and may be a bit bigger now perhaps)

https://venturebeat.com/media/how-googles-pixel-2-now-playing-song-identification-works

Google pixel phones have automatic offline music recognition where the database is something like 50MB IIRC and it’s pretty good unless I’m listening to something particularly niche

I assume you could build a similar database if you had the source material to do so.

You’re potentially gonna have an issue with games that have dynamic soundtracks that aren’t exactly the same every time (think in an action game how the music changes based on if fighting or something)

Lmao what a toxic piece of shit

Privacy is something everyone deserves, not something only criminals want

Yes, that’s why it’s in Office

Hitler is a pretty obvious answer

I’m 99% sure trump is against wind because Scotland built some near his golf course and he, once again, decided to be an absolute toddler about it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo

Honestly if he wasn’t such an all-round, existential threat to humanity, you’d almost have to be impressed with how far he has managed to get powered by pure spite.

Mullvad is based in Sweden and is the main interest of its seemingly decent, also Swedish, parent company

Enjoy some related vaporwave:

Sunday Television | 猫 シ Corp. https://catsystemcorp.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-television-2

Edit: typo

Most people seem to go for either codeberg or gitlab as alternatives

The engineers and managers at NASA are not stupid, and they are not cavalier with astronaut’s lives. They’ve read the Rogers Commission and CAIB reports, and many of them remember Challenger and Columbia firsthand. But they exist in a context.

That context is a moon program that has spent close to $100 billion and 25 years with nothing to show for itself, at an agency that has just experienced mass firings and been through a near-death experience with its science budget. The charismatic new Administrator has staked his reputation on increasing launch cadence, and set an explicit goal of landing astronauts on the Moon before President Trump’s term expires in January of 2029.

I really don’t think it’s a stretch to say the first thing isn’t really a factor at all in why this is being rushed, this is 100% down to Trump wanting either a distraction or to be able to say “well I put someone on the moon”

Depends on the item

Anything with a print or similar (e.g. football shirts with numbers) should definitely be inside out

Socks definitely out…side…out(?), don’t ask why, they just are

Things with buttons or zips that might catch on other things get turned inside out too (unless that would exacerbate the issue)

I think unless I’m forgetting something everything else is que sera, sera

Oil and odour, etc won’t really be affected by inside out or not, that’s more down to the detergents/temperature you’re using. Though caveat, a lot of modern clothing is designed to be washed at 30°C so it’s pretty much all about the detergents you use these days. And on that note, if you’re having issues with stuff not coming out feeling/smelling completely fresh at lower temps, look into ditching the fabric softener for soda crystals and/or a laundry sanitiser additive (Dettol make one that’s good). Both were game changers for this guy who has a tendency to get pretty sweaty in summer.

Wait we’re two days early

Sorry yes, I meant that separate from the first point

I feel like BSDs being more over in the corpo-lib corner would make more sense just from a licensing perspective

If you’re memeing, hard to omit Red Star OS

see people […] spent $25…$45…$30 on gas

I spend $7 ~ $13 […] three times a month

3 x 13 = $39

it’s not nearly as close as what I’ve seen other people spend.

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Oh no, don’t get me wrong, I work from home just fine.

If I’m working from a cafe, restaurant or bar, I’m spending the whole time there distracted

Which I guess is indeed a personal issue, so far play