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One small note - Czech Republic still allows for anonymous SIM cards. You can walk into any tobacco shop, pay around 4€ and get a pre-paid SIM which can be charged in cash.

Summer and Technical students (or basically anyone with a CERN account) already have access to much more detailed maps, if they care to search around CERN's GIS portal a bit.

Additionally, those who know the right people can get a paper version of the galleries map with all the interesting spots (unlocked entrances, light switches and spots like "zombie cages" or "connor's death") marked.

I also use reMarkable as a (pretty good) EPUB reader, but it is really slow when opening the book for the first time or changing the rendering settings (font size, margins, etc.).

It can sometimes take a minute or two and sometimes it just hangs completely and you have to close the book and re-open it. I assume it's because it has to somehow render the whole book, to support the handwritten annotations and put them in correct places.

As far as I remember some articles that came out around the time of this change, that's because Uber is not an official taxi service. So they need to operate as "contract rides" which must have their prices specified in advance.

elinks actually kind of supports touch input in Termux. I tend to use it when I'm in a spot with very bad data coverage and need to check something. It's surprisingly usable.

If you press it twice, it will put you at the beginning of the line.

I once needed to replace an expired health insurance card but since I don't live in the same country where my health insurance is registered, I called the company to inquire about whether it's possible to have the card shipped to another country. Of course it is! Just enter your address into a form in their Easy And Convenient Online System. Turns out, their system wouldn't process the request unless it validated the address. It seems the company paid for a version of the database which contained house-level details from my home country but other countries only had cities listed. That meant I could enter the city and then I could use a dropdown to pick one of the zero streets the system knew about. Suffice to say, I didn't get my health insurance card.

Yeah, you can find GTFS feeds for a lot of cities at http://transitfeeds.com/

Thankfully, https://github.com/golang/dep is almost stable now, should be merged into tip by the 1.10 release and after that, a reform of GOPATH is planned so a lot of this nastiness should be gone.

That may also be a result of how Erasmus programs are structured. At least here in Czech Republic, Erasmus students tend to take classes taught in English, not classes taken by local students, so they interact with many other exchange students but not with locals.

+1 for maps.me, I've been using it for more than a year in multiple European countries and it's been rock solid, even if it sometimes takes a while to get a fix (though that's probably more of a problem with my phone than with the app).

3D Touch/Force Touch actually currently works on OS X on the 2015 MacBook Pro and the new MacBook. The touchpad doesn't move, it's just pressure sensitive and provides haptic feedback so you feel like you can depress it even more after clicking. OS X provides a dictionary/lookup popover when using it in Safari and some other apps.

Not really, the university may have paid it and then get the money from the student.

What's your experience with Lollipop? Mine had pretty large problems with 3G and Wi-Fi signals after upgrading.

Well, if you're in Europe, find some info about VAT and customs duty rates and limits for imported goods and how individual customers pay them. Here in Slovakia, for example, if I buy anything over 20€ from China, it will be held by the post office until I come and pay 20% VAT on it and if it's more than around 140€ (I don't remember the exact amount), I have to pay duty too.

Well... This seems pretty similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k . Are there any fundamental differences or is this essentialy the same idea, just more modern?