Kankuro

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by Kankuro 2mo ago
I used floss as indicated in ifixit comments, but the glue did not saw easily (I'm not dexterous).
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by Kankuro 2mo ago
At some point, only charging worked (and for one usb-c cable only on one side, which is weird given connecter is symmetrical), data and usb-audio stopped working. With my previous Samsung phone contact became very unreliable after 3 years.
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by Kankuro 2mo ago
I recently changed the battery of my Switch 1, if for most of the process it was easy, and I really struggled on two points. 1) the plastic part into which the screws are screwed broke, and it is tough to remove them. 2) ungluing the batter
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by Kankuro 6mo ago
France is the 2nd largest market for manga after Japan (or it was a few years ago). That's surprising because there are almost 7 times more inhabitants in the US. Those who were a kid in the 80s and 90s in France saw a lot of Japanese
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by Kankuro 9mo ago
I think you are mentioning a viral but incorrect story: a station was scheduled to close at a given date, a student mentioned in an interview that it will close after her graduation, but then some news sites claimed that the date of the clo
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by Kankuro 2y ago
I guess it would end up like usual: "They are fake news. They are created with AI. Everybody can do it. My dog can do it. They just hate America. Bad people. They want to hurt our great country[…]" And his radicalized voters will
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by Kankuro 2y ago
I also subscribed to Deezer, and the fact that it is still not profitable makes me wonder why. Is it because they pay more artists? Or because the labels get a larger share of the revenues? Or because they have a smaller market share (so la
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by Kankuro 3y ago
Convincing more people that your approach is necessary and that technology will not evolve quickly enough to we (western people) continue to live like we used to? (until now, I brilliantly failed around me)
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by Kankuro 4y ago
If find "let [people] go" much worse euphemism. I was shocked the first time I heard it, like if it was just the fate and the people deciding were not involved in this situation. In France, the local euphemism is to say that someo
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by Kankuro 4y ago
One must be careful when hiking with OpenStreetMap (and OsmAnd) as reference. Several times I could barely find the path (maybe it was added by someone but not really official and maintained) and I had to follow the positioning to try to fo
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by Kankuro 4y ago
Between Passau (Germany-Austria border) and Vienna, you have asphalt for most of it, with some unpaved/compacted parts (it may have improved since 2015). You need to cross the river by small boats (for a fee) a few times. For bicycle t
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by Kankuro 4y ago
I stopped using my own domain (managed by an association) for sending to outlook.com and yahoo because I know it's a fight that will be a net loss for me. Senders will change provider (because it's critical) before these major act
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by Kankuro 4y ago
Or he was just trapped in the sunk cost fallacy ("I spent so much time that I cannot stop now even if it is not worth")
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by Kankuro 4y ago
In France, some post offices have such self-service printers. I chose to go to the a self-service printer shop when I need it every few months. It minimizes resources, it limits feeding this toxic industry and it saves space on my desk.
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by Kankuro 4y ago
The vote for Macron was predominant among the elderly. Number 3 Mélenchon (radical left) got the votes from the 35- (and he was one of the 2 candidates actually proposing something against climate change). Le Pen (#2, far right) was in firs
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by Kankuro 4y ago
US authorities don't investigate about MS (hopefully they will), but they use the extraterritoriality of US laws to sue foreign companies who corrupted in a foreign country. The French company Alstom (rolling stock and gas/nuke tu
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by Kankuro 5y ago
About 10 years ago, I used the translations of KDE texts to estimate how much space texts in a given language could take when translated into another language (we had an internal web page editor that only allowed putting texts and widgets a
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by Kankuro 5y ago
And following a great national tradition of low proficiency in English, former French president Sarkozy once welcomed Angela Merkel with "sorry for the time".
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by Kankuro 5y ago
In France, most of the places where dams could be placed are already taken. It also means that pumped hydroelectric energy storage can only be set up marginally.
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by Kankuro 5y ago
In France, contractors cannot work in the same way than the regular employees. They have to be hired for a well-defined mission (on-site or on the staffing firm site) and take orders from their hierarchy, not from people of the customer com
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by Kankuro 5y ago
You may not want to take the risk to get injured. Three years ago, there was in France massive protests from the "yellow vests" that started because of the increase of the tax on diesel (which was lower than gas, and so the most p
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by Kankuro 6y ago
If you are an employee in France, your salary is pre-populated in the website of the fiscal administration. My gains from my savings are pre-filed by my bank. During the year, I record my charity donations in a spreadsheet so I don't f
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by Kankuro 6y ago
I thought I could do that (in France) because I'm living on the cheap. But I guess you somehow needsf to pay the social security to get the benefits. I don't know how to do that when not having a salary (the social security "
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by Kankuro 6y ago
I used to take one in France, but I could not sleep well (like when taking an overnight flight) and arrived tired. It was a alternative to spending 5.5 hours in the train during the day, or flying. (then this service stopped) One thing that
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by Kankuro 6y ago
The temperuture of the coffee will drop quickly, so I wonder if it would not resist to water consistently heaten for 2 hours or if it will fall apart after 2 hours if it contained hot water (that would be bad if you forgot your coffee on yo
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by Kankuro 6y ago
* Their home page boasts to be "The only search engine that respects your privacy.". DDG has been there for much longer. I could not trust them after such obviously false claims. * They promised (to the public and their investors,
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by Kankuro 6y ago
In France in 2012, there was also Numergy and Cloudwatt, funded by state money and associated to existing large groups (Orange, the largest telco, Thales, military, SFR, other large telco, Bull, a prehistoric computer company). Now there ar
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by Kankuro 8y ago
Ok, so there should be reciprocal European law: any company operating in the EU must provide access to the EU authorities (all countries) any data managed by it and stored in any country in the world (so including US data stored in the US),
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by Kankuro 8y ago
I wanted to subscribed to Mediapart, one of the very very few independent news site in France. Everything is online (subscription, article) but the unsubscription with requires register mail! That's crazy, they are financed only by sub
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by Kankuro 8y ago
Things I did not know, from France Info radio: - before the alliance, Renault and Nissan had about the same size. Now Nissan is twice as big in number of cars. - Nissan maybe in position to merge with/control Renault (and French govern

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