We were in the mood for a chill day, so it was nice to just chill in a park and walk through some random old neighborhoods until we stumbled across a restaurant. There’s nothing chill about Milan, though, at least not where a clueless tourist would find it.
As a European from elsewhere in Europe, I’m never going back to Milan. Maybe it’s fine if you’re into fashion, but if you’re not there’s not much to look at except a cathedral which resembles every other cathedral, and it’s impossible to get a photo of it without also having a friendship bracelet scammer in the frame, actively harassing you.
All tourist locations in Italy and France have people trying to scam you (and some non-scammers just trying to sell you cheap toys), but Milan is the only place I’ve been to where they’re straight up harassing you non-stop. Go to Pisa instead, it’s super relaxing there and you can marvel at their past mistakes in structural engineering. A far better deal.
I went to a top university in Norway. My tuition was about $80 per year. All in all various student discounts on everything from haircuts to car repairs to housing, my tuition was effectively negative. I spent a good chunk on books, but rarely used them, and honestly could have saved the money. Considering everyone gets a scholarship from the government for the first 7 years (would have been converted to a loan if I didn’t pass enough credits worth of classes), I effectively got paid to study. I still had student loans, because they were interest free while I was a student and cheaper than a mortgage after. I spent some on food and housing, and saved the rest. Like most Norwegians I was not in a hurry to pay it down. Student debt is generally low priority for Norwegians to pay down due to the cheap interest.
YubiKeys have almost every imaginable form factor these days. Here’s the USB-C version without NFC:
They’re talking about operationally. They don’t want to configure and distribute a bajillion dongles to users.
Sounds like you need to give it something to connect to. Buy a cheap analog-to Bluetooth transmitter, charge it from the car and just never turn it off. You’d need to do some research to find one which doesn’t go to sleep. If you need to use your phone in the car, just turn the transmitter off.
Gone in 60 Seconds is fantastic, except that one tiny scene in the final fight where he’s hanging from his fingertips and the bad guy stands around almost stepping on them without noticing. I’m willing to suspend my disbelief to some extent, but that scene is an insult, and so close to the end that the sour aftertaste lingers past the credits. I should really just rip the Blu-ray and edit it out.
I don’t usually care about cars, but for 6 months after every time I see that movie, I kinda do.
I got it on Blu-Ray, because fuck “buying” things on streaming platforms. I’ll rent stuff there, but let’s not pretend “buying” is anything but an undefined extension on your rental.
I honestly can’t tell how this comic is supposed to be funny.
That’s a fair point. I’ve started having income since then, though, so now I just send my car to scheduled maintenance.
That’s obviously false. Tons of stuff is both lower stakes and easier than brakes. Changing simple stuff like lights, fuses, battery, wiper blades, wheels or oil, tons of other stuff. The only way brakes is the easiest part to work on is by arbitrarily excluding lots of other stuff from counting as “working on your car”.
Definitely requires some research to find a good one. I’m not suggesting getting your brakes done at Jiffy Lube.
Oh, I’ve done plenty of work on cars, I just don’t fuck with the brakes.
Well, I used to, when I had an 80s Toyota. Modern cars are too hard to work on, and honestly don’t need that much work either.
Call me a pussy, but I don’t DIY things which can kill me if it malfunctions. A gentle maiming is all I’m willing to risk.
The quality of AAC depends a lot on the encoder. The iPhone does it pretty well, Android not so much.
That’s what the audio nerds say, at least. Personally I can’t really hear a difference except when using the headphones with the microphone, when it reverts to some ancient codec with more noise than signal.
Love you too 😘
Everyone reading this thread already knows you’re an asshole, dude. No need to expand upon it.
It’s also a volume thing. By the time I reach a reddit comment thread what I wanted to say has already been said, and if I say it again my comment will drown in a sea of heavily upvoted comments. On lemmy you can be several days late to the party and still get both upvotes and responses.
We may have just gotten lucky. I also had a great time in Venice once by wandering off randomly and ending up somewhere I can only assume tourists don’t normally go. We bought some fruit off a boat which was both delicious and very affordable, so I assume the target demographic was not tourists. I’m pretty sure that’s not the universal experience of Venice either.