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  • This question baffles me because it seems like a total non-issue to me as a European. How do Americans get stuff for their house around? Do you not have delivery or truck/van/trailer rental services, and are all your appliances (and not just fridges/freezers which are apparently hilariously big in the US) so American-sized that you can't fit them in an average family hatchback/crossover/SUV? Or do you regularly move all of your stuff from one house to another?

  • US proposes January start for Trump election trial
  • Make it happen anyway, just so Trump and his lawyers have to deal with unpleasant shit on a Saturday.

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  • Laughs in European

    I've never had to pay extra for hotspot usage even though all of the phones I've had were bought directly from the service provider.

  • People who back into parking spots: Why?
  • It's easier. You need enough room for the nose to swing around because the front wheels follow a wider trajectory than the rear wheels. The access road is usually much wider than the parking spots, so backing into the spot gives you much more room to maneuver.

    You also have much better visibility overall. If you go in nose first, you can't see the front corners of your car, and you also have terrible visibility when backing out of the spot. If you back in, the mirrors show you exactly how close you are to the cars around you, and you have an unobstructed view when you leave.

  • What is an item below 100 bucks that everyone should own?
  • Wireless charging pad. Yes, it's less efficient than wired charging, but it's just so convenient.

  • A story of MATLAB piracy
  • If paying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

  • One dead after ship carrying 3,000 cars catches fire off Dutch coast
  • Strange how they only refer to it as "a ship" or "the ship" and never mention its name. It's called Fremantle Highway.

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    A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve
  • Damn, that's nuts. I hope this guy and his allies get the justice they deserve.

  • Youtube added shorts to the subscriptions page, pushing the subscriptions almost entirely off the page...
  • And before that, they were in a separate section like they are now, but it had a thing you could click to hide that section entirely for 30 days.

    Just because it's less bad than the previous thing doesn't mean it's good.

  • Survival of the Fittest
  • Wooden spatulas are supposed to look rough though. It somehow feels wrong to cook with a spatula that has no battle scars.

  • What do you do personally to find happiness in your everyday life?
  • Taking naps with our dog and hearing and feeling her peaceful breathing as she sleeps on my pillow with her snoot snuzzled against my face or ear.

  • Are steam key sites legit/worth it?
  • I didn't say it was legit, I said it has always worked for me.

  • Are steam key sites legit/worth it?
  • I've bought a ton of stuff (both games and DLC) from G2A and never had any issues.

  • What is your weird obsession?
  • I have to smell the black pepper shaker any time I use it. Not because I'm worried that there's something wrong with it, but because black pepper smells good.

  • (Linux users !) What was the first Linux distro that you used ?
  • It's all a blur because I was maybe like 6 or 7 at the time, but I'm fairly certain it was Red Hat. The original, not RHEL.

    I have vivid memories of playing a game that involved collecting gems and avoiding falling rocks in a maze, similar to Boulder Dash or Emerald Mine. I have no idea what it was, but I know it wasn't Rocks'n'Diamonds because I played that a lot and the graphics were different.

  • Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone?
  • So I had a Z1 and Z2, and the Galaxy was an S8+. To be honest, I don't remember much about them, but overall I think I'd rate the Xperias higher than the Galaxy simply because I don't remember ever being annoyed with them. They were just reasonable, good phones that didn't try to do anything crazy.

    My two major gripes with the Galaxy were:

    • There was a HUGE physical button that would activate the Bixby voice assistant thingy so I'd often press it by accident. The button could only disabled in the Bixby app... which required a Samsung account. So I had to create an account just so I could go into the settings and flip a switch to disable that stupid button, and then never use the app or account again.

    • The fingerprint reader was totally useless. It was so small that it wouldn't work unless I hit it just right, and it was placed on the back of the phone right next to the camera so it was basically impossible to hit reliably, and chances are I'd accidentally get fingerprints on the camera instead. It was even worse with a protective case on because the reader was recessed inside the hole for the camera.

    The one thing I really liked about the Galaxy was the always on display. It was nice being able to check the time in the dark without lighting up the entire screen and blinding myself. For my next phone, I'll probably get something that has that feature.

  • What's an old meme that you miss?
  • Rage comics.

  • Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone?
  • For fun. My last iPhone was a 4S, and after that I had a couple Sony Xperias and a Samsung Galaxy. When it was time to upgrade, I decided to get an iPhone 11 for a change, for no other reason than to see what they're like nowadays.

    I've been really happy with it, it does everything I need it to do, and I don't miss the Galaxy at all.

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