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In Germany you have something close to „drug stores in the US“ but minus the pharmacy. For example: dm, Müller, Rossmann. The bigger ones (especially dm) actually always have shopping carts. It‘s very common for people to buy large things in these stores, like toilet paper, baby diapers etc. which can easily fill a shopping cart.

I was a bit shocked reading all these comments, because many reflect exactly the issues I had with microwaves and I always thought I'm alone with that. When we moved in 2019 I had to buy a new one, living in Germany, you would usually go with BOSCH or SIEMENS, but at that time, all their models below 100 EUR looked almost identical! And of course had a loud beeping that you couldn't disable and generally looked low-quality. It took me quite a bit to find a decent microwave for around 100 EUR. It's a Samsung! A brand that in Germany is not used for kitchen appliances at all. Just TVs/phones etc. The exact model: Samsung MS23K3515AW/EG (not available on amazon.de anymore) There is a bit of a hit: The beeping returns on power loss. And you have to press 2 buttons for 3sec to disable it again, took me a while to remember them, since we have power loss only like once a year. I guess you could do a small sticker with the instructions. I count the "beeping off" not as a "great feature" - it's just common sense to me. But there is a great feature: the "endless wheel dial" to precisely set the timer in 10sec intervals! That thing is awesome. It's very smooth to turn, but has small clicks for each 10sec interval AND you can use it WHILE the microwave is already running, for example when your wife tells you "but the food has been out of the fridge since 30min" - so you go 10-20sec less. Pressing the START button immidiatly starts the microwave with a 30sec runtime. Press it again and you add 30sec or just use the "wheel dial".

Wanna heat up a cup of milk from the fridge? 70sec. Only half a cup? 40sec. Wife wants the milk extra hot? 80sec. Milk wasn't in the fridge? Minus 10-20sec - and so on. For families it's really useful.

It's 4 years old now and used 10 times a days, and runs still fine. It's a bit loud and the glass is very dark so you can't peek inside (probably the biggest disadvantage).

Many people steal bicycles and are not in handcuffs or even prosecuted. Doesn‘t mean it‘s legal, right?

Is CO2 considered as pollution?

You could also customize the notification sound for incoming messages in whatsapp and mute (or just use a short plop sound for) anyone else for grandma. Now grandma can focus on learning to use only one app for all her grand children and will find all the pictures from all her relatives in one place and will more likely be able to even forward pictures to other people on her whatsapp. Assuming Grandmas in their 80s.

I have the same problem every day. 20 years ago I used to have some tiny shareware tool for this but I lost it. Hope someone is able to recommend one!

Great feedback. Thanks alot

Here is the link with pictures https://www.okpunktstrich.de/

Not too exciting. They also have chocolate and strawberry drinks :-)

Is someone aware of how popular tools do video trimming (also JPEG cropping).

I have been looking for lossless (reencode-less) trimming of videos since the end of 90s and always just found huge video editing tools that never had these features. And then ypu were stuck with some CLI tools where you need to count the number of frames or milliseconds or something like that. Like if a WYSIWYG tool isn‘t what most people would want to use.

How does the native iOS photo editing tool handle video trimming? And photo cropping? iMovie? And what about google android tools? Or popular Windows tools?

I used to crop my photos with XnView, which supports lossless cropping. And I‘m always puzzled this hasn‘t really take off in other popular tools.

Lossless crop of photos and lossless trim of videos should always be included as a feature.

Reencoding sucks.

any source for this? especially how the success rate is in Italy? How many people received it etc.?

Just de-boarded and re-boarded an aircraft going to Europe from NY because of this „small“ missing „detail“ in the initial announcement. 4h delay and the people who de-boarded the plane initially, are not re-boarding because they probably left the airport by now, not knowing they had wrong information. Ouch.

I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers. It‘s been like this for almost 2 decades.

That‘s about the time I switched to laser printers. Currently I equipped myself and my family with a Brother HL 3152CDW. I got it for around 160-180€. The included toners print 1-2k pages. A new toner does 2-2,5k and costs around 60€ per color (genuine Brother) or around 50-60€ for a 4-color-toner set from noname brands. We have the printer since maybe 3-4 years and had to buy 1 black toner. I think I got a noname cartridge for around 25€.

If you want a smaller device and save a little money, get a b/w laser printer for less than 100€.

If I need to print photos, I go to a store with instant printing kiosks. It takes a few minutes to print dozens of photos and it‘s cheap, around 0,20-0,30€ per print (10x15cm).

I hope laser printers will never become such a scam product like inkjet...

Just checked. The default passcode on my iPhone 8 is a 6 digit numeric code, not 4. although you can switch to 4 it seems.

Even 4 digits could be enough, given that iOS enforces (very long) delays after a few failed attempts.

Messing up your decoding for weird unicode characters in your text message app is an accident, but this one wasn't an accident.

I have a question since many years that I am afraid to ask so straight. There is the AF447 and those 2 Boeing MAX that I remember where people will always talk about redundancy of the sensors, or their maintenance.

But really, I want to know why the software and hardware of the aircraft fails to understand that whatever actions it has performed automatically or inputs/actions by the pilots, or any other important event, are making the damn aircraft loose altitude really really fast. In the case of these Boeings, how can your software keep pointing the nose of the aircraft down WHILE it is CONSISTENTLY loosing altitude? How is this not a huge design flaw? I understand that for stall recovery you actually have to loose some altitude to regain speed/lift and recover from the stall. But if you STILL KEEP loosing altitude and there is no turning point, then damnit, whatever caused the loosing altitude should be stopped at least at 500m AGL, no? Switch on a huge yellow light to the pilots „you are 100% on your own now, the computer is out of luck and is shutting down“ and the pilot jumps on the gas pedal, 200% power to the engines, and starts to figure out how to gain altitude. Both Boeing flights were in daylight, no? Pilots should be able to see the ground/water and be able to pull the thing back up just by visibility without any sensors? It‘s a bit of a different case with the AF447, though.

How did the AoA sensors and MCAS won the authority here over the only important data: altitude change. Who cares if the AoA shows 30 degrees or -271 degrees, as long as the plane is climbing we are good! No need to point the nose down or do any other stall protection stuff? And that seems to be really what happened with these 2 Boeings. They were climbing but some stupid AoA sensor failed and some even more stupid MCAS decided to dive. And they kept diving until they reached the ocean and MCAS was still confident it was a good idea to dive?

In some planes my iPhone is able to get the GPS reading and some free app I got 5 years ago will actually show me ground speed and altitude. Which I always find very exciting. It usually matches with what the entertainment system is showing on the pax screens. Give or take <1%. So reliable altitude reading is solved, no? You have 300 phones on your plane (though only the window seats have a chance for it to work, but still...). Not sure if the GPS is gonna work if the plane is rolling and spinning like crazy, which I dont think happened in any of these cases.

I hope I don‘t make it sound stupid or even i-know-it-better, but I really just want to understand.

Haven‘t been mentioned here yet I believe, but the „new“ iPhone SE also comes with 128GB!

This was the major reason for me to switch to an iPhone 8, because 64GB just wasn‘t enough.

But I still dislike the larger form factor and especially the stupid glass back which is super slippery, it will slide down a chair if the chair is slightly round. But yay, we finally got wireless charging who absolutely NOBODY is using. I havent heard of a single person since it has been released 1,5 years ago.

I‘m in love with the USB-C charging of the iPhone 8 though - which hardly gets mentioned. In my car I have a powerful Anker USB-C charger and if I get in the car with just 50% battery, a 20min ride will easy get me to 80%.

Hoping to see an iPhone SE2 in the future...

Care to tell how it went? Did he have an expanation why the process was so crappy? Did hebmaybe even knew about your bug report but was unable tonfonsomething sbout it because of some beaurocracy?

Yes!! I loved Jasc Paint Shop Pro too. Until this day I have a PSP7 copy from like 2002 with me. Corel completly ruined it.

I use Google Voice For the same reason!

It‘s even better: it has a free US phone number. So my insurance could call me on that number while I‘m in Japan.

As a passanger, I‘m expecting a ride to my destination. There are chances the driver will run into an accident, speed, drive recklessly etc. The car could be dirty or smelly, broken or old. As a passanger, I do not expect to be a victim of fraud or any other criminal act committed by the driver towards me.

As a driver, my expectation from the passanger is that he will get in the car, do some small talk and get out of the car as soon as we arrive. There are chances that the passanger is sick, dirty, smelly, unpolite, unfriendly, noisy, drunk. With that comes the risk that he might mess up your car, especially if he is sick or drunk.

So I think, both, the driver and the passanger know exactly what they are getting into. No need for a „oh the poor taxi drivers!!“