You’ve got the right idea for the European system though. “Tourist tax”. It’s usually low enough that it’s not a big deal, but I was shocked when I checked in at a hotel in Greece and the receptionist wanted 5€/night from me.

One weird thing you missed is the “length of credit” though. Let’s say you get your first credit card somewhere as a kid, and now you’re 40 and haven’t had anything else. Suddenly, that bank wants you to pay a monthly fee to keep your account open. If you get a new credit card somewhere else, and cancel your kid-card, your score is going to get hit quite a bit, no?

If you did it “correct”, you’d have 10+ different cards lying in a drawer at home to tons of different credit agencies.

It’s all an insane game that you have to play, despite the fact that it can usually be played “for free”.

Yeah, I would consider that somewhat “acceptable” usage though. It’d be irresponsible to approve a large loan to someone who’s already extremely overindebted, for example.

Sweden’s system doesn’t have a specific number like the US, but mostly just shows economical health. How many active loans you have, income over the last few years, and if you’ve had loans go to the enforcement agency. But we have the same sickness as America: if you have had something go to the enforcement agency within the last 3+ years, it’ll be basically impossible for you to rent an apartment (as if it wasn’t difficult in the first place).

I thought one of the selling points of Raspberry Pi was its small form factor…?

Having even more propaganda control is the true problem.

In late 2026 we’re going to have ETIAS as well, becoming more and more like USA.

They put a backdoor in the software to disable it, but the underlying P2P network (gnutella) should technically still work. But you shouldn’t even try, there’s much more active alternatives.

Now, most people use, or at least are recommended to use, SSR/RSC these days.

Why though?

Yeah, the card issuers are already making bank from the interchange/issuer/processing fees, as well as interest if the customer eventually isn’t able to pay their full balance in time.

But if you’re a perfect person and always pay your full balance every month, there’s literally no negatives with a credit card as a normal consumer. It’s usually even a better alternative, as if something goes wrong, a credit chargeback is much quicker and easier than a debit chargeback.

A legally required age verification will be introduced. We want this to take effect as soon as possible to prevent minors from using BNPL.

Wait, it’s legal to put minors into debt in the Netherlands? In Sweden, a minor wouldn’t be liable to pay any such invoice, as minors can’t sign any legally-binding agreements without their guardian’s consent.

PARKTRONIC has existed on Mercedes for like 20+ years… how is it an unreasonable assumption that you would have such a feature if reversing impacts your stereo volume?

Isn’t that due to parking assist beeps? Turn that off and see what happens.

It’s called snus.

Hot take: for-profit orgs should be buying TLS certificates from the CA cartel instead of using Let’s Encrypt. Unless you’re donating to LE, and in that case it’s cool.

He’s still the same self-serving prick, just that he’s trying to buy himself some karma whilst channeling his riches through his own foundations.

Have you tried bluffing even harder? Say that you got some good introductory offer for a satellite provider, or that you’re going to use your cellphone’s data as your primary internet connection for example?

Wrangler still makes cheap, basic jeans out of thicker denim

Used to be decent, anyways. Now the price has more than doubled in the last year, and it broke after a couple months for me. I then ordered a second pair and the same thing happened. Maybe there’s a specific variant, or they sell different qualities to different markets?

Do with squash just in case

It’s cooler to use 172.16.0.0/12 because everyone just sees “192” and thinks it’s part of 192.168.0.0/16.

Selenium toxicity can give symptoms like hair loss and fatigue. But he’s taking finasterid and minoxidil, as well as a large dose of caffeine, so the problem is solved!