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by kiwijamo 10mo ago
Wise cards are still issued in your home country however. My NZ-issued Wise card still triggers the DCC prompt so it's more or less the same as a NZ-issued card from any other provider. A common misconception but understandable given h
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by kiwijamo 11mo ago
Genuine questions: Do you ever apply kernel patches? I also run FreeBSD and reboot for any kernel patches and never can get my uptimes to 1,000 days before that. Do you just run versions that don't get security patches? Security suppor
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by kiwijamo 11mo ago
They limit the buffer to around 30secs or so like all other streaming services but otherwise 95%+ of the time it just plays smoothing with no buffering at all from start to end. YouTube is generally in the top 3 of the video streaming servi
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by kiwijamo 11mo ago
That's never happened for me and I normally watch 5-10+ YouTube videos daily. Firefox.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Interesting, here in New Zealand every supermarket has at least one brand of powder. Normally Finish is one and competing brands includes locally made and/or eco-friendly ones. Hopefully that practice doesn't reach here!
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
The video explains that dishwashers sold in 110V countries often has a hot water connection as it's too slow heating water off a 110V/10A circuit so it is more efficent to utilise the hot water pipes. However we live in NZ, a 230V
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
It depends on the cycle for some. Mine one doesn't do a prewash for the 45mins QUICK cycle. But the ECO cycle does follow the normal prewash-then-wash process as described in the video. Hence I normally use the ECO cycle and put the co
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
That has not been my experience with pods. When we switched back to powder the difference was night and day. Even my husband who used to swear by pods eventually gave in and agreed powder is much better. It is a bit fiddly yes but powder ge
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Maybe it hasn't been rolled out to me yet. Or it might be because I'm not logged into a Firefox profile? It is only availiable to those logged in?
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Same as AWS. I've added quite a few AWS ip ranges to my firewall.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Loaded instantly for me. :)
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
All the Lenvo laptops I've bought for personal use and the HPs my work gets have fully functional sleep under windows. The Lenovos also sleeps just fine under Linux. Wonder if its really specific brands that don't put the effort i
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
I switched to Android in 2021 after almost a decade using iPhone and I was surprised to find modern Android is actually very good. I remember the early days of Android being a trash fire but since around ~2020 it seems to have gotten a lot
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
No video streams out there uses over 100mbits so makes sense.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
My experience is that even Apple has its issues. The most reliable laptop I've had is my current Lenovo and Sleep works flawlessly in either Windows or Debian. Even my work HP is fine, Windows does sleep/wake flawlessly every tim
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Taking photos and videos does kill the battery quite quickly if you take a lot through. So does depend on what you use your phone for during your trip.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Lenovos in my experience are pretty flawless in both Windows and Linux -- my current laptop is a Lenovo and sleep/wake has worked flawlessly in Debian and Windows 11. My work laptop is a HP and sleep/wake also works fine in Window
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Strange I have a S21 and I can't tell the diff between photos taken with the S21 and those shared to me from owners of other phones. I find generally modern high end phones all take good photos. YMMV of course.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
I guess this is very geographic dependent. I live in a country where only maybe 80% of merchants accept Visa/Mastercard (and thus only those can accept Google/Apple Pay) so I need to either carry a card for our domestic payment ca
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
On Windows 11 I can see a startup screen briefly before it loads the calculator buttons -- takes maybe 2 seconds all up -- seems to be 1 seconds to start up screen then another second to populate the buttons. But can understand why people f
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
I can access it ok on Firefox on Android FWIW.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
It's tricky tho cos Emirates B777 in Economy is not great so does depend on whether the route you're flying is guaranteed to have a A380. Flew them recently where one leg was A380 and the other B777, and could not be A380 for both
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
That's not switched on by default unless you use a filesytsem like ZFS.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Never seen or heard this in New Zealand from native speakers.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
I assume there's a reason Intel didn't make that particular setting the default in their x11 drivers. While it certainly fixed the screen tearing issue, I presume there was some tradeoff which made some other feature worse off. Wa
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
I used to see it all the time on X11. I'd see it on YouTube/Firefox. I'd see it on VLC. I'd see it on MPV. Any video player, playing any fast paced video you'll see X11 struggle to keep up with drawing full frames t
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Even that is slowly dying out. Lenovo sells many expensive business grade laptops with soldered on RAM for example.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
There's still plenty of phones out there still running the older kernels. My S21 is probably one of them unfortunately.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
Firefox on Android mobile displays it fine. Probably an OS level font issue.
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by kiwijamo 1y ago
They are always available next to tablets in supermarkets here in New Zealand. Interesting to see this regional variation. Normally powders are in bottles. We get both the global Finnish brand here as well as local brands.

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