I left NZ a few years ago and one of my main reasons were the lower incomes and high cost of housing. It all came down to the fact that I couldn’t even afford to rent a flat by my self, whereas right across the Tasman I could earn twice the salary and have a comparable if not lower cost of living.

Eventually I’ve ended up in Europe and I’m earning almost 4 times of what I was earning back home. I’ve considered coming back, bit the prospect of maybe never being able to own a home keeps me away.

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I bought a laptop that came with a broken charger, I could easily test it myself as a friend also had an HP laptop with the same brick (this was before the days of USB C).

I tried to make a warranty claim and they wanted me to send the laptop too and wipe the HDD, the RMA process would take weeks on top of that.

I ended up buying a 3rd party charger, I’m sure their RMA process is overly long and convoluted to deter people from making warranty claims

There’s a museum of the incident with a reconstruction of the plane crash in Italy. Absolutely worth a visit. https://www.inbologna.it/the-museum-for-memory-of-ustica-in-bologna.html

It was known for a long time that the plane was downed by a missile, with the French being suspects.

afaik, tyres and brakes are proprietary too

edit: nonstandard would be a better term

Drink wine! unbeknownst to many, Austrian wine is quite good!

and also during non-holiday season

You can do a lot more with a rice cooker. Soup, pasta, sauces, even steam vegetables if you put a tray on it.

The phrases will appear by the filter, including warnings about harming children, damaging organs and causing impotence and leukaemia.

Right there in the article. Putting a piece or printed paper in your mouth does not damage your organs, cause impotence nor leukemia.

You don’t smoke the filter bit

The original Moto G did this as well, then I replaced it with the latest G5 which did not and learn that the hard way

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that’s exactly how I figured it out. then asked for some friends and family with account in the same bank to validate

Mine truncated the first 8 characters, when I discovered that I sent them a request to their cyber security department and they told me.of was by design.

I closed my account over that bs

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and it works on Mac and Windows too !

There are plenty of alternatives to the NUC. MinisForum, StarLabs and System76 out of the top of my head

I have two MinisForum miniPCs and I absolutely love them, I’ve had them on for months at the time without any issues. Before I got them I was looking into the Intel NUCs and they were way too expensive for the specs. Sure, their top of the line NUCs are absolute beasts in a tiny form factor, but their basic entry level stuff is for burning money