And how do they update that IP list? Manually? If you set up your own overseas server, it’s gonna be ok for a few days for sure. But they update the block list automatically so people had to e.g. use CloudFlare websocket as a jump host to avoid switching providers every other month. Of cos CF is mostly blocked these days too so it’s probably just easier to offload the work to those VPN operators you mentioned.

Universities are a different matter. They use Edu network and there used to be no censorship at all in Edu IPv6. Nowadays it’s still relatively easy for them to get exemptions for their labs and whatnot.

Oh I never felt so alive!

If they are truly ‘identical’ down to every atom, unless we are talking about spiritual things, they are simply all the same?

Most conventional VPNs, e.g. OpenVPN, WireGuard, AnyConnect, PPTP/L2TP, IKEv2/IPsec, etc., actually don’t work in China. Technology-wise GFW is quite sophisticated and conventional VPNs are not designed for censorship circumvention anyway.

You’ll have to use things like Shadowsocks or V2Ray, which is out of the reach of most people.

wireless electronic price tags

I’d rather not… They already use these to implement dynamic pricing based on stock levels, best before dates, etc. Only a matter of time before they feed surveillance camera data to the system to take the appearances of nearby customers into account. (I wonder if it’s already a thing in those no-register stores in the States? They can probably also pull in your shopping history, search history, etc?)

JCB?

Needs more pixels. You use Kitty, try something like https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa to render a proper picture?

Perhaps it’s just marketing talks but dishwasher-safe was literally one of their selling points (Phillips). I hope it holds up to their reputation. The pot is quite tricky to hand wash.

I did lose one or two cheap fry pans to dishwashers. But two or three years ago I got a decent Tefal. It’s ‘dishwasher-safe but hand wash if you can’. I only hand wash if it needs a good scrub though. Still going strong, and that’s good enough for me.

It’s (Traditional) Chinese.

It can be Taiwan, though lots of Japanese shops put up signs in foreign languages to attract tourists.

I’ve got a Bosch (Serie 6) too and I’m happy with it overall.

Just one problem: It doesn’t dry my airfryer pot very well. I only got my first airfryer recently so I’m not sure if all dishwashers struggle with large non-stick coated pots.

Also here in the down under they’ve got a different product line and there are no models that can pop open their doors. IIRC it was Miele that started doing this first so I always suspected if they got into any legal trouble (didn’t do any digging, just a wild guess). Considered Miele, just way too expensive here.

Edit: Ours have touch panels tho, so fewer features are locked behind apps. IIRC in the US Bosch has more traditional control panels so e.g. you can’t adjust timers down to minutes without their app?

Japanese people: oh not again

China doesn’t even claim that much as the American propaganda does.

I’d rather have the bird or the people

Unless OP is in a management position, where politics and such BS may as well be in the PD, what on earth is the need to judge your co-workers’ personalities?

I’ve dealt with a lot of different people at work, vastly different people. But as long as we can get the work done, let it be introverted or antisocial, it just doesn’t matter? Hell, even if it gets in the way of my job, there are professional ways to move forward. I’m here to get shit done and collect my paychecks, not to have ‘emotional experiences’ every day with everyone. There are some 4000 people in my company, I can’t socialise with everyone, I don’t want to socialise with everyone, and I certainly don’t care if someone refuses to socialise. 99% of them are not too different from random online strangers to me. Communications usually just go ‘Can we do this?’ ‘Sure.’ Then fast forward 3 months they may not even still work here. I socialise with a handful of people I like, and I’ve made some good friends. Others I absolutely don’t care. I expect communications to be productive, not ‘emotional’. I’m just an IC, not the company’s counsellor.

I’m just waiting for either Tidal or Qobuz to offer good non-English (Japanese) support sike… I tested both. Apps were solid themselves but I’d appreciate it if I don’t have to try English, Japanese, romaji (Japanese phonetics) every time I search for something

Man I won’t feel lonely this Valentine’s Day cos Jamie boy fucked me pretty well with his fried rice.

WHAT?!

HDMI 2.1 with AMD for example.

you get 1-2 Gbps down but only something tiny like 50 Mbps up

That’s exactly what you get in Australia, even if you have FTTP, 95% of ISPs only offer up to 1000/50Mbps, and that’s if you live in the big cities. Mine costs ~US$70/mo btw. And they have a ‘typical evening speed’ that drops to 860/42Mbps (I’ve never heard of such a concept outside Australia. Yeah, totally not a scam).

A handful ISPs offer 1000/400Mbps and you’ll be looking at ~US$125/mo. Anything faster you’ll be handed with astronomical commercial bills.

any other country

Hey hey, don’t forget about China lol. ‘Oh you’re Chinese? You must be brainwashed AF. Lemme teach you a few things about 4 June 1989.’