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I, too, have been running my phone on DND as of late and it’s been pretty great. My wife disagrees :). I’m pretty sure iOS focus modes would allow me to configure notifications from my wife to come through while silencing the others but I’ll wait til she tells me :).

AFAIK, an app can’t influence notifications from other apps. At least on iOS. Less sure about Android. This is something that has to come from the OS level.

That would be the point where I take a hammer to the phone.

Telegram is not E2EE by default. Red flag.

When E2EE is enabled they rolled their own crypto. Another red flag.

Telegram is owned by Russian nationals living in United Arab Emirates. Another red flag.

Don’t recommend Telegram.

A 10ksf studio doesn’t sound very affordable, though. How many residential tenants can afford that kind of space? Is there really a big market for that?

Gotta love when you’re eating at a restaurant in Chile and when it’s time to pay they ask if you want it billed on your card in 6 monthly installments. Even as an American, it always makes me laugh a bit at the absurdity of doing that for your meals.

I, too, like dark mode. But, I've found several instances that required the site to make modifications to support dark mode. Most recent example was a QR code rendered as <svg> with a transparent background. The parent container had a white background. Samsung made the parent background black but didn't invert the QR code color. So as a result the QR code was unusable.

An interesting take. I’m not a Samsung user, but these days I get enough bug reports about issues specific to Samsung browser that I had to buy a device just to reproduce the random weird stuff that happens. The latest one had to do with Samsung browsers’ dark mode which has some strange algorithm to make every website dark.

I’ve been running pihole with my own resolver for >5 years and don’t have this issue. I run into it much more frequently when behind CGNAT.

The vast majority of businesses in Costa Rica are required by law to accept cards, Amex included.

Yes, of course there can be QCI stuff happening. We don't go to big events where you'd typically run into de-prioritization, but of course, YMMV.

($9 x 2 lines) + ($2 x 1GB) = $20 + $sales_tax = ~$21

To be clear, the minimum increment one can purchase is 1 GB.

We're in a bit of a weird situation where we aren't in the US the majority of the time, so most months we don't use any data off our US plan.

If we do end up in the US then that bit of code keeps buying us more data 1GB at a time as needed.

Another cool thing is that our USMobile eSIM uses the 4G data from our local eSIM so that we can still make/receive calls/SMS on our US line from anywhere. It treats the local 4G like WiFi Calling. Pretty dope.

We switched to US Mobile prepaid data pools a few months ago. $9/line + $2/GB per month.

I found some code online [0] that runs every hour and purchases an additional GB if my remaining amount falls below a threshold. It’s been working great for us.

We dropped our bill for 2 lines from ~$100/mo to $21/mo.

[0] https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main

I remember a few years ago when the address autocomplete API went from free to thousands of dollars. That was a surprise bill I won’t be forgetting anytime soon.

I feel like Aurora might be a bad example for anti-lock-in. Perhaps vanilla RDS Postgres would be a better one?

Aurora does add bells and whistles on top of vanilla Postgres that you’d be hard-pressed to find from other DBaaS vendors.

Sure, you can pg_dump and pg_restore to another provider but you lose all the goodies that made you choose Aurora in the first place.

For clarity, I’m a long-time happy user of Aurora and spend $super_big_money on it. Worth every penny IMHO.

Same here. In my formative years I was led to believe you had to use a “real” RDBMS for everything- MySQL or Postgres. Anything else was just a toy not suitable for use in the real world.

I succumbed to the SQLite hype train in 2020 when every other post on HN was about it. I started building things with it. First, small things. Then bigger things.

Now I’m at the point where I default to starting most things with SQLite unless there’s a really good reason. It’s incredible how far SQLite can take you. It feels almost like a cheat code. Wish I had jumped on the train years ago.

Wow, as someone from the US I always thought the $1 notes were far superior to the equivalent coins in other countries. I dislike having coins in my pocket, but already have a note or 2. Adding a couple more adds negligent space.

> that the owner saturated everything with water prior to evacuating.

Used to live in rural Colorado and have had our house threatened by wildfires multiple times. We did the same thing and set up large volume pivot sprinklers that formed both a perimeter and kept the roof+deck wet when the fires got within a mile of us. Glad to hear it worked for this person. Wildfires are scary.

No, I don’t think it’s blackmail in this particular situation. Though that definitely does exist here in other spots. This is just an old guy who tries to quell the riff-raff of the youth of the neighborhood. He’s really sweet actually. And if you bring him a cold beer, he’ll do a quick cleaning of your windows to boot!

Where I currently live, tin roofs are the norm. And yes, it can be extremely loud in the rainy reason. My wife & I quite like it actually, like a white noise generator. Also, I can easily get out of phone/video calls I don’t want to be on.

There’s a popular swimming around here that’s near a rough neighborhood. One elderly gentleman from that neighborhood guards the cars at the swimming hole. He even got himself a shirt that says “security”. You pay $2 and he makes sure nobody busts the windows out of your car.

Are you saying these passports can’t be used for travel? If they weren’t, then why would anyone bother going to get one?

> Anyway, and sadly, the sanctions affect "regular" people like me the most. The ruling elite? Not at all.

This confirms my secondhand knowledge of financial sanctions. It seems to universally be this way and makes me wonder why we still tout them as if they were effective. They sure don’t seem to be.

Depends on if you’re paying cash or not. If you’re using credit to buy the car, expect to show ID.

They could do that because Kazakhstan doesn’t make them much, if any, money. This amounted to cheap good will marketing.

If this were the EU or US, and Google risked losing access to that market, they would comply. Way too much money on the table.

Isn't VOA (and BBC for that matter) government owned & funded? That's enough right there for me to doubt their "reliably factual" reporting. It's hardly a political opinion- the owners of these services expect to get some return on their investment. Because they're not in it for the money (they can just create more money basically at will), then why are they in it? Likely to help craft a narrative that suits them.

At least they’re honest about it :). Normally they’d let you badger an agent to escalate the issue to nowhere.

But why do they care so much about this? Is it only for DRM on media playback?

Costa Rica. Pura vida!

Yes, at least for me it is. My pre-paid plan (~$14/mo) gets me 4GB data but only 50 SMS. I also get 3GB of free WhatsApp data. There is no prepaid plan with unlimited SMS.