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by Markoff 7mo ago
yup, these customs rules are clearly targeted against end users while benefiting middlemen who order more pieces they just want to make consumers to pay more and give more profits to useless middlemen, I was just placing yesterday probably
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EU Council gives final green light to new 3 EUR customs fee for small parcels(consilium.europa.eu)
7 points by Markoff 7mo ago|7 comments
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by Markoff 7mo ago
you can buy Chinese phones/cars in EU, so we don't fall behind though in 3.5 months they are gonna ban EU consumers from buying cheap things directly from AliExpress and groom July 1st you will have to pay 3EUR for each ordered it
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by Markoff 7mo ago
yes, you can, if you think running something else other than Android/iOS
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by Markoff 7mo ago
if you have problem with this vote with your wallet and don't support HW companies doing this or talk to your MEP or other representative to change the current legislation, I'm just telling what's the current status quo, don&
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by Markoff 7mo ago
this was already discussed, so no point for dupe, but there is no wait period for ADB install and AFAIK this also affects only unverified developers, though hard to imagine why would someone install app from verified dev outside the play st
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by Markoff 7mo ago
you buy your hardware, you don't buy the software, you buy the license to use the software according license terms
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by Markoff 7mo ago
I love my (now third) Amazfit Bip watch with MIP display I wear since 2018 when my new phone lost LED notification indicator. I charge it ONCE A MONTH, it has perfectly readable display in sunlight (more sun the better, opposite of AMOLED),
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by Markoff 7mo ago
few seconds a day is literally a minute per month or 12 minutes per year, that's a lot, even cheap Casio clone from skmei I bought for daughter has much higher accuracy like 15 seconds per 2-3 months which seems fine considering I set
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by Markoff 7mo ago
Leaving where though?
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by Markoff 7mo ago
Was this in EU/US? This sure has to break some disability act to discriminate visually imparied in such way.
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by Markoff 7mo ago
"Stockholm syndrome" is completely useless term invented by guy who never spoke with the actual hostages. What the histages did was logical conclusion for their safety, where police was endangering their lives more than their capt
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China: Transition to electric vehicles softens the effect of the Iran war [video](youtube.com)
14 points by Markoff 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Markoff 7mo ago
I find it funny this clearly low budget brand cares about saving few dollars on physical controls. Prospective buyers should treat it same way, after all you can buy much cheaper family car Xiaomi EV which performs better than this so calle
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Ferrari Boss: Touch Buttons Cost Half as Much as Physical Controls(motor1.com)
4 points by Markoff 7mo ago|3 comments
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by Markoff 7mo ago
It's extremely difficult even to get NEV license plate, trust me I talked with many of those taxi drivers who drove me every single day during those 3 weeks about how much they paid for car, how long it took to register it. The benefit
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by Markoff 7mo ago
TIL majority of people (ITT) call touchpad a trackpad I thought you use it to distinguish between external trackpad vs laptop touchpad, but seems many people still use it even for laptop touchpad, so can someone enlighten me what's the
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by Markoff 7mo ago
it's definitely not underestimate for Beijing where I stayed for 3 weeks this summer, maybe you count PHEV as EVs, many of those cars which look like EVs are actually hybrids, only in late 2025 China reached 50% newly registered BEV+PH
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by Markoff 7mo ago
many things: indoor smoking ban actually working you don't need passport and prior booking to visit every single tourist sight car registration process, good luck in Chinese major cities, even EV won't help you anymore those come
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by Markoff 7mo ago
Counterpoint - I returned to China (Beijing) last summer after 9 years and was honestly surprised how LITTLE it has changed over those 9 years, I was expecting big changes reading this tales about Shenzhen, but the reality is maybe only 1&#
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by Markoff 7mo ago
TBH it was also expected trade - you will take care of elderly parents in exchange for their help with kids participation, so since boomer parents don't help they also can't expect help my (divorced) parents (5+ and 2.5+ hours awa
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by Markoff 7mo ago
What's wrong with LibreOffice? What benefits this has?
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Why everyone hates Lego now [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Markoff 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Markoff 7mo ago
not my experience with sleeper buses in Asia, in Vietnam they have these semi reclining "seats"[1] which can't be completely flat plus they are too short for European, so actually it's more uncomfortable experience than
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by Markoff 7mo ago
Lego reminds me of Wikipedia, they lost the focus on their main goal Wikimedia will claim they need more money to finance Wikipedia, but the reality is they use only minority of their income to actually run same manage the website everyone
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by Markoff 7mo ago
it worked with p(l)andemics, why it wouldn't with online verification? they always come with some noble reason how to force something down the population throat and majority still falls for it heck I don't see everyone boycotting
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by Markoff 7mo ago
It's not really a Moon mission if it doesn't land on the Moon, is it? But imagine mankind would finally put man on the Moon... I was just thinking yesterday - wouldn't be nice if first man in the space was Russian, first man
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by Markoff 7mo ago
All 6, they just could not admit it at once.
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by Markoff 7mo ago
ignore parent, outsource parenting to gov verification authority TBH many parents done exactly that by giving phones/tablet already to kids in strollers
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by Markoff 7mo ago
I see my comment triggered grammar Nazis, so much for posting non-AI generated comments...

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