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Thinking more about it, rather than getting something like a suorin edge, you'd be better off just getting a backup pod system of whatever type you already have/enjoy.

Pod devices are essentially just a battery in a hard case as it is. To go a more hot-swappable method than they already are would involve compromises you might not have considered.

Suorin have some user-replacable battery models

Who do you think is buying the carbon credits? ICE manufacturers.

They do so to be in compliance with offset programs in states like CA without actually changing what cars they make. Because that's cheaper.

That's exactly what happened when it was first started on GoFundMe, now it's on something called GiveSendGo. I imagine they're using it like an ad for their platform instead

Also refers to a time management method, although only as a marketing vehicle to sell tomato-shaped timers

Having had some experience working in logistics in that time, I've realised that there are a huge amount of potential factors. It doesn't have as much to do with the origin/destination countries so much as where the origin/destination addresses are in relation to the respective points of entry/exit, as well as other circumstances that may be specific to that point of entry/exit.

Online shopping now represents the majority of retail trade so this will have a general impact, planes are costlier to fly than they used to be and the scheduling has never really recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

It also varies a lot by service. DHL for example flies their own planes, Mainfreight leases space on DHL flights (which DHL can decide to deprioritise at any time).

Auspost was corporatised in 1989 and we are still experiencing new flow-on impacts from that, e.g they mostly just fill up empty space on passenger flights to save money. With that comes high variance of actual shipment capacity compared to what was planned, and it's very normal for things to be delayed.

If you're a retailer sending high volume and it's important that your goods are received quickly, the shipping companies will work closely with you to establish fast lanes (e.g NZ to Perth in 1-2 biz days). Often the retailer will often subsidise their shipping options to be competitive. But the list of shippers that can afford this (and do the volume where it's warranted) is short.

You could probably ring the company and find out more details about the lane you're shipping on and strategies to reduce transit time, but if you're not sending big volume it'll most likely come down to shipping on a particular day of the week etc.

All that said, I remember ordering US to Australia 10 years ago and paying out the ass for economy shipping, it would take an actual month and was completely untracked.

Tl;dr it really just depends

I want a Derek

Garage Project were at most local liquor stores as I recall before I left NZ in 2021. I grabbed a pack of them last weekend in regional Western Australia. The local offerings are no less expensive these days.

Yes, for a loading method which takes time to complete the conversion rate will generally be locked in from the time the transfer was initiated. You can always preview the received converted amount. Although the transfer method may vary depending on availability in the recipient account country, the various timeframes and fees (where applicable) have always been previewed accurately.

For myself I have set up MFA for payments via the app, so I will routinely be required to use the app to authenticate a payment. However other MFA methods are available. I can't think of any other function the website itself doesn't do.

Given there is no additional fee for converting at a foreign point of sale, I just load up in my home currency as there are free/instant methods available and convert to whichever destination currency at point of sale, ensuring to select not to have the balances converted by visa/master at terminals which have that function.

Hope you enjoy your time in Japan!

I'd recommend searching about their fees this because it's going to vary a bit based on your local currency. Their documentation on the topic is easy to read and answers your first two questions better than I could put it.

I've rarely had to interact with support so I couldn't give a useful response about that in earnest. They do have local support in the two major countries in which I've interacted with them and it's been fine.

The KYC process is standard for a digital money account AFAIK. I signed up in 2017 originally to handle a one-off transfer between local bank accounts in different countries, so I'd not have bothered investing much time in it if it was a hassle. I haven't had to re-identify myself or think about it since, despite migrating across several countries, starting to use the physical card etc. I imagine I gave them my government ID though.

Definitely noise cancelling has improved significantly within the last decade, and it's been super handy for me. I love being able to just turn off the noise when I'm on a plane, or the loud person on the bus or train.

Mics on the same headphones seem much better too; in all the cases where i'd previously need to check on the phone "can you hear me!?", now they just always can.

That's a good approach, I just don't have the patience for it & won't have time to binge anytime soon. Have you watched S1 recently? I'd highly recommend it; the 3-year gap + immediate continuity had me forgetting some important stuff.

Based off your personal Netflix streaming data? There's no API for recommendations available externally. You would need to input that data into another platform. Trakt isn't the most open, but it's probably the most compatible with pirate services. Tbh I find that browsing 'top trending' on whatever add-on isn't much different specifically for targeting results from Netflix though

I've used wise.com for this sort of thing for many years (since they used to be called transferwise). Can spin up as many virtual visa cards as you need (I think it's max 10 active at once). I also have a physical debit card with them which will do conversions at foreign points of sale from my local currency using the mid market rate and fees much lower than visa/master. Never had an issue with them, though this is more a sort of obfuscation rather than privacy

Severance. The intrigue is unmatched.

Yet when the lame duck admin was at its lamest, it voiced what is apparently now bipartisan opposition to the ban.

Anyway, that isn't to do with Bytedance's response. It isn't a mask-off moment for them to lament those who have materially damaged their interests in favour of those apparently saving them. The flip-flop is on the part of the politicians. Presumably if Bytedance existed under MLism, they would still desire to exist.

Installing a downloaded app by dragging the .dmg into your Applications folder.

Just why? What is the case where I download an app installer, execute the installer, but don't want the app installed?

Or maybe Bytedance are pissed at the party that shut them down without in-principle justification?

How were the trackers added to these torrents? Assuming either a) you added them manually, or b) the tracker you downloaded the torrent files from bundled them into the torrent file?

If b), if you downloaded the torrent file again now that one of its trackers is defunct, would it still be bundled?

If no, or if a), you could remove the torrents without touching the downloaded data, then locate your "snatch list" on the private tracker (a list of all torrents you've downloaded), batch download them all and add them to qbt, assuming same output folder they will detect the downloaded files and go to 100% without downloading anything.

If yes, there isnt a way I can think of to remove the trackers as a batch, but aside from tidiness of your client there shouldn't be any actual problem resulting from them being there.

Shrinking. For whatever reason I forgot about the whole cast other than Ford/Segel by the time S2 came around, but I remembered how much I enjoyed S1 as soon as I threw it on. Finished the season within a couple of days. A+