JustEnoughDucks

I did 16km each way (32km) per day for a few years. Decent low-intensity exercise with an electric bike, but losing 1h40 per day in addition to work was not as nice.

Fietsvergoeding is awesome though.

I live in Belgium. We have that system. For some reason, VRT didn’t think it was “important enough” to say, but I guess it is pretty ubiquitous here. This + electric bikes are the real reason so many bike to work.

We do get paid per km for biking to work. Tax-free to a maximum of something like 0.37€/km or so. 3690€ per year. Some people live an hour away from work and will buy one of those 8-10k€ strömer 45km/hr speed bikes and can hit that max if they live farther from work. Often you can also lease a bike or speedpedelec tax-free through your work.

15€/day biking every day to hit that max is biking 41km/day, or around a half hour each way at an average of 40km/hr.

I only live 5km from work (we get 0.26/km I think, so around 2.60€/day) so I bike to work every day on my normal electric bike. I used to live 16km from work and that was less doable if it was pouring rain or icy.

Cheese and cold cuts (maybe besides chicken/turkey cuts, but especially anything salami or sausage related) I would argue are not healthy. Better than the worst of the worst like ice cream, desserts, and candy, but it is just saturated fan + saturated fat + a small amount of protein, zero fiber, and not many vitamins or minerals.

Very tasty, and fine to snack on in small amounts, but literally any edible plant, nut, fruit, yogurt, legume, or even things like granola or protein bars have much more nutritional content.

Republicans have literally fought tooth and nail to be able to refuse service to anyone (in their case, LGBTQ people, disabled people, and black people) which absolutely can and should be used to the fullest extent against them.

I have tried it multiple times for embedded coding and it has never once produced valid code. It is like tutorials giving pseudo-code (but saying it is real code). So vibe-coding seems to not work with it.

It can produce an idea that you can follow, so it is useful for exploring different methods for solving a problem, but that is its limit for me.

That said, embedded code generally has quite specific libraries, but even directing it right to the library, right to the file, I was unable to coax it into using functions or APIs that exist.

https://simplex.chat/vouchers/

I guess in this case it might be an OK block chain usecase, but still, NFTs and crypto is always to be looked at suspiciously at first, with its long long history of rampant scams

We need to have a pinned post about nothing on this community.

Nothing is a Chinese company with American investors, using the UK marketing office as a tax haven, there is nothing European about it.

All of the electronics are designed and produced in China, all of the firmware is designed and written in China, most or all of the software is written in China. All of the electronics & technical job postings from then since inception have been for their Chinese office. (Disclaimer, the past year they had 1-2 software engineering jobs posted at their london office, so maybe sometime in the future, they will start writing a bit of the software in europe)

All of their smart watches and their whole CMF line is ODM’ed (white labeled) by fully Chinese companies, that is why they are all completely generic dime-a-dozen base designs.

Their CEO has had a history of misleading and/or lying with his other Chinese company he started, and has worked in the Chinese smartphone industry for 15 years in China. Sure he grew up in Sweden, but that is literally the only EU-related affiliation the company has, and he didn’t put the headquarters marketing office in Sweden because he is dodging taxation.

Didn’t simplex start with a nrf/crypto scam now?

Also the problematic right wing political affiliations of the founder.

The software with encryption disabled by default, no security audits, and rampant spam is better?

On the bright side, this change has been around for 9 months at least because they had already changed it when I was doing IT stuff at my last job and it was impossible to find where to actually download the office suite.

But in actual reality, a good quality USB dongle (like apple’s for example) there is little to no hearable or measurable difference. Hell, over on reddit, someone just did a casual blind test again with a few audiophile friends and they all failed.

Every blind test done in the past decade has proven this over and over and over again.

Audio is extremely easy with modern ICs. You can get DAC ICs for 2-3€ that sounds the same as DACs products for 200€. We are reaching terahertz DACs now. Gigahertz DACs are established. <100kHz can be perfectly recreated now cheaply and in a tiny footprint.

Volume, sure, they won’t necessarily drive 600Ohm headphones loud enough, but that is an AMP problem, not a DAC problem.

(Though this is even more reason that an on-board phone DAC is ridiculously easy and there is no need for removing the headphone jack)

Yep, also. That is the more “business/financial” term I think.

Yes. It is a Chinese company with american investors with non-technical jobs in the UK to be able to claim “UK company” for marketing.

Their electronics are designed only in China, the devices are programmed only in China, their software is developed in China their technical job postings are all in China for years, their CEO ran a previous Chinese owned brand (lying/misleading about the company back then too) and has worked in the Chinese phone industry for 15 years.

Their CMF line and wearables lines are all ODM’ed through various Chinese companies (for those not aware, OEM is where something is designed by a company and manufactured by another where ODM is where everything is designed by another company and the branded company just gives requirements and some input, I worked previously for an ODM kind of company) and are generic widely-available hardware marked up for brand name recognition.

Their marketing is in the UK, that’s about it.

Lol a UK company with 0% of their product made in the UK, it is literally just a marketing office.

Or Hikvision for very similar cameras at an actually affordable price (but you HAVE to block then from the internet and/or put them on an isolated VLAN because they send everything back home).

Reolink also makes gold budget cameras, especially their doorbell camera.

Just an entire coincidence that SD card support unilaterally got removed when streaming became popular and the phone makers started selling cloud subscriptions.

Yes, but for driving (by a gigantic margin used way more than hiking, biking, and walking) organic maps/comaps is quite shit. In Belgium, I absolutely cannot trust it to get me to a destination I am unfamiliar with because of the policy of openstreetmaps of updating extremely infrequently and encouraging contributors not to report any road closures that last less than 6 months or whatever.

Not to mention that it doesn’t take reported road condition into account when routing so it will send you on tiny cobblestone roads where you have to drive 30 instead of 50 to save 10 seconds theoretically by going to a main road and continually route you via u-turns back to that tiny shitty road instead of choosing a better route when you pass it.

Even without any traffic data (so you never know approximately when you will arrive), it very often just not get you where you need to go. It is like using a GPS from 2005.

Most “privacy guides” like that literally just shift trust from one party to another.

Banks are starting to have temporary credit card numbers themselves for a purchase. It depends if you want “privacy” or “anonymity” as it seems like the person in the video wants the second.

Nowadays there are precious few actually private or anonymous email providers themselves. Maybe Posteo or Tuta? But I don’t know their audit history with leaking metadata or handing over logs and information when asked.

Honestly I have accepted that if I have to buy online, there is always a paper trail. Buy in-store in cash when possible, use second hand websites in your area. It is better for the environment too. Anything digital will have a paper trail that can always be de-anonymized with enough effort.

All my electronics hobby stuff I have to buy online and I just do this with my normal credit card, especially since they have export controls in many distributors and if you get caught using fake credentials they will likely blanket blacklist you as someone trying to bypass export controls and use medical/consumer sensors and devices for weapons, against the companies’ restrictions.

Since 1981 the large decline began. Like 80% of bad policies and shitting on the working class in america can be traced back to the 80s… I wonder what happened then.

Kamala would just have been a party line corporate puppet like Obama 2.0. But undoubtedly 100x better than trump.

At this point it is a bit more than signals. It is very blatant.

Why would “license plate” cameras be pointed at childrens’ playgrounds https://san.com/cc/flock-camera-captured-kids-on-a-playground-a-security-failure-exposed-them-online/