Here in Denmark (maybe all EU, not sure) a dashcam has to be turned on manually. If it were to turn on automatically with the car, it’d be illegal. I’m guessing laws across the world could be stopping such a rollout.

I guess it depends on how far North you live. I’m a Swede too, and cars in summer with no A/C would be unbearable.

To be fair, most boys aren’t as sophisticated as bots.

You can use FF’s or Chrome’s cookie files: http://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html#load-cookies

I would recommend Aria2. It can download several chunks of a file in parallel, resume downloads automatically with a set number of retries, it supports mirrors (maybe not an option for Google Takeout, but for other cases), and it can dpwnload over many different protocols.

People who like it hot can buy peppers, and they’re pretty easy to grow too. However, not everyone likes it spicy. A lack of peppers doesn’t make it any less of a taco.

I wouldn’t even call what they’re eating in Europe “tacos”.

Well we would. Stop gatekeeping!

Exactly. The US isn’t even close to the top. Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-consumption-by-country

I got Elder Scrolls: Online last summer when it was free on Epic. I love it! After playing for six months, I knew I wanted more and was willing to pay, so I got the latest chapter bundle (which includes all older chapters) for €19.79 on Steam. Absolutely worth it. I’ve since received two other DLCs for free just for playing the game. The lore of TES is just so good, and the environments in ESO look beautiful. There’s so much story in the quests too, so even if it’s an MMO, I can play it exclusively as a single player game that just happens to have other people in it.

Edit: The game is 10 years old this year, and there is more free stuff because of the anniversary.

I was equally confused about what people meant with hide the desktop. I assume they meant show the desktop.

Correcting myself here. AntennaPod does have silence trimming, but it’s neither a player button nor in settings, but in a …-menu at the top of the player, which made it a bit hard to find (Same can be said about some settings in Pocket Casts.) and there’s no graduation, so it’s mad max only, from how it sounds.

I would think podcasts without RSS is a tiny minority, and I wouldn’t take them seriously. And I’ve never even heard of ivoox.

You made me check. Since August 2018, I’ve cut about 1d using variable speed, and 1.5d using silence trimming. I’m only using mild at the moment, and have used medium before, but mad max was too much for my taste. But since I’ve listened for 83d, silence trimming is a <2% saving for me, so it might not mean much.

Edit: I do use it extensively specifically when catching up on the backlog of a podcast. So it probably accounts for way more during those times.

Ooh. Nice! I hadn’t heard of AntennaPod before. It seems to have everything that I use in Pocket Casts except for trim silence. I will try it out for a while and see if I miss that. I do use it and it saves a lot of time. Still though, OSS is a big draw.

Edit: It also doesn’t open the queue or start playing automatically in Android Auto.

Consuming podcadts through Spotify is a wild concept.

Coming from. Sweden where all tax records are public, it seems insane to get 5 years for revealing taxes.

If that’s the case, I agree that it’s a bit strange.

But isn’t that exactly why it’s called loan words? In Swedish we’ve borrowed words like radio and nylon and we initially pronounced them as in English. But eventually we started to pronounce them as the spelling would dictate in Swedish (the English pronunciations would’ve been spelled rejdio and najlon). For toilet it’s the opposite. We borrowed toilette from French, but eventually altered the spelling to match the pronunciation: toalett.

I’ll grant you that once we have adapted and incorporated the words, we are no longer borrowing them. Maybe we should stop calling them loanwords at that point. But while they’re still new and don’t yet fit in, I would say that borrowing sounds about right.

On another note, I can’t understand why a people wouldn’t want to make every word work in their language. You completely lose the flow of speech when you have to pronounce something that doesn’t fit naturally into it, and you either come off as a pretentious douche or a stupid person.

Okay. Phew. I was hoping no one just ate everything without a rinse. But soap? Really?

You didn’t wash fruits and vegetables until Covid came?