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Comment · 23 days ago
I’d say they really like this situation:

- They don’t have to support European languages. Historically, they were horrible in this area, supporting only major languages and ignoring others for years. It’s almost impossible to ask Siri to play a song whose title is in one of these languages. Contact names are pronounced badly, and it’s sometimes tricky to ask Siri to call a person with a non-English name. This way, even though LLMs support these languages quite well, Apple doesn’t have to invest in development and testing.

- They announce the product with US features and keep the EU price the same, but disable features that cost them money, such as those requiring server-side compute.

- Satellite features only work in some EU countries, and there seems to be absolutely no progress in many markets. These markets are simply too small for Apple to care about. Yet the price is the same.

- They blame the EU for this.

Comment · 7 months ago
It would be great if you could get correct invoice and pay price without VAT in EU as a VAT registered business. It is incredible they can get around without providing such a basic thing for so long.
Comment · 8 months ago
It would be so nice to have such info as part of golf simulator software for practicing decision-making on the course. Very nice work.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Having a list of allowed recurring payments for your card is not an impossible requirement. Ability to cancel approval on your side would not be too complicated for the bank and would be very useful even without integration with other side to really cancel the subscription.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Because composition would be bad on both.
Comment · 3 years ago
In EU we typically have separate waste bin for food leftovers that I expect would go to this garbage disposal in kitchen sink. So if you put the food leftovers to separate garbage bin, there's pretty much nothing that will end up in drain filter to be cleared. It's just different routine. I think you also misread the response about the fatty foods. I don't feel it was related to fatty food in USA, it was more in a sense that if you shred fat leftovers, it will eventually clog some pipe down the line.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, they do. I have Fujinon 16mm f/1.4 that allows you to switch to manual focus mode on lens and have depth of field for apertures and distance markers, so you can pre-focus in advance.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree it is not easy to use correct local version, but that is why gradle wrapper is there. In case you do no trust it, you have workaround for it. For projects from company repository, this should not be issue. For random project from github, it may be worth to go the safe way.
Comment · 3 years ago
You do not need to use the gradle wrapper - you can use your own trusted version. Wrapper is there just for convenience. I understand your concerns, but it is not the only way and you are not forced to use it.
Comment · 3 years ago
If he lives in typical block of flats in Slovakia, he pays part of the heat of the neighbors. Typically, part of the heat cost is based on your consumption and part is based on total consumption of the whole block divided between flats.
Comment · 3 years ago
On the device you do not want them to connect to automatically go to Bluetooth settings, find your AirPods, click on (i) and change "Connect to this iPhone" from "Automatically" to "When Last Connected to This iPhone".
Comment · 3 years ago
This is not possible in most of EU markets, KYC is mandatory and even prepaid SIM cards must be registered and verified with ID before SIM is used for data or calls. Old SIMs without registration were blocked until they would be registered. Some exceptions may exist, but this will be harder and harder in future.

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